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House of Commons faces huge backlash after asking whether “Gay Cure” should be made illegal
The House of Common’s official Twitter account has been blasted by users after asking if conversion therapy or “gay cures” as it is more commonly known should be made illegal in the UK, despite the government already admitting that the practice was “wrong”. As it stands gay cure therapy or conversion therapy is still legal […]
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One in 10 people in the UK think that gay people can be cured
Startling findings reveal that 10 per cent of the UK’s population think that gay cures could work on LGBT+ people. Despite many people understanding that LGBT+ are born that way, around 1 in 10 people in the UK, still think that homosexuality or being transgender can be cured according to findings recorded by Galop, the […]
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FILM REVIEW | Boy Erased
In 2004, at the age of 19, American Garrard Conley was sent by his parents to a conversion therapy program to rid him of his homosexual feelings. This true story is now a film called Boy Erased.
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COMMENT | Banning “Gay Cure” therapy could drive it underground, so what can Government do to stop it?
Can the government create a robust enough system of ‘prevention’ which is better than the ‘cure’?
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Washington to ban ‘Gay Conversion’ therapy for minors
A bill outlawing performing so-called “gay conversion” therapy on minors has been passed in Washington state. House amendments to Bill 5722 were approved by the state’s Senate Saturday, and the legislation will now make its way to the office of Governor Jay Inslee for its final approval, the Associated Press reported.
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The Government has refused to make “gay cures” illegal
Making gay cures a criminal offence is not the forward – apparently The British Government has affirmed its position on “gay cures” or conversion therapy. It condemns it, but won’t make the practice of it illegal. In responding to a petition, created earlier in 2017, which attracted 11,000 signatories, the Government said that although it […]
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Brazil just ruled that being gay is a disease
A court in Brazil has ruled that gay cure therapy is legal Despite having one of the largest LGBT+ prides in the world, a court in Brazil’s capital, Brasilia, has ruled that homosexuality is a disease and that so-called “gay cure” therapy is legal. Judge Waldemar Claudio de Carvalho ruled that homosexuality can be treated as […]
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This doctor thinks he can “cure” homosexuality
Meet Doctor Davidson, he thinks he can cure us… Right people, we’re calling in sick, because this doctor clearly believes that we can be cured. Gay conversion therapy: @piersmorgan and @susannareid100 challenge Dr Michael Davidson’s views on homosexuality pic.twitter.com/qZxmLMgZRz — Good Morning Britain (@GMB) September 5, 2017 Speaking on Good Morning Britain this (formerly gay) […]
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Stephen Crabb: Gay cure support “complete fabrication”
PM hopeful Stephen Crabb has said that any suggestion of him being homophobic or that he supports so-called gay cures is “complete fabrication”. Embed from Getty Images MP Stephen Crabb has said that any suggestion that he supports so-called gay cures or that he is homophobic is a “complete fabrication”. He also called the idea […]
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UK Government Refuses To Ban “Gay Cure” Treatments
The UK’s Conservative Government is refusing to get rid of treatments which aim to “cure” patients of their homosexuality, despite being “firmly opposed” to the controversial treatments.
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WATCH | The Fight Against Gay Cures In China
A documentary by AJ+, the Al Jazeera digital video channel has uncovered China’s widespread practice of conversion therapy, or “gay cure”. The 8-minute documentary follows a gay man, Yanzi Peng, who launches a lawsuit against a clinic after he experienced their conversion therapy. The clinic claimed that they could make gay people heterosexual with the […]