California was the first state to prohibit conversion therapy, which seeks to change the sexual orientation of minors.
The organization told gay and bi men to strip naked, call each other anti-gay slurs, and cuddle with older men to receive “Golden Father Energy.” The jury said that’s not therapy. An appeals court in ...
The case was brought by a Christian counselor who argued that Colorado’s ban violated her free speech rights.
The scientifically discredited practice of “conversion therapy” is still prevalent in several U.S. states to this day, and a new study found LGBTQ+ people who undergo the practice are more likely to ...
The practice surged in the 1980s and 1990s, before medical groups began warning it was harmful. By Ellen Barry As a teenager, Julie Rodgers attended Tuesday night group therapy sessions in which young ...
This story was originally published in Uncloseted Media, an LGBTQ focused investigative news outlet. This story was produced in partnership with @hankycodemagazine, an LGBTQ+ history publication. The ...
A Michigan church is being protested for hosting what some LGBTQ activists are calling a conversion therapy workshop. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...
Tens of thousands of LGBTQ youth currently between the ages of 13 and 17 will undergo gay "conversion therapy" from a licensed health care professional, religious adviser or spiritual leader before ...
(CNN) — Canada on Wednesday banned conversion therapy, which are treatments that claim to be able to change a person’s sexual orientation or identity. The law makes it a crime to subject a person of ...