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Gay Conversion Therapy
December 13, 2013 at 5:27 pm
I just watched the movie, "But I'm a Cheerleader". I had forgotten how much I liked it. Here's a description:
Wikipedia:
Quote:But I'm a Cheerleader is a 1999 satirical romantic comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit and written by Brian Wayne Peterson. Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan Bloomfield, an apparently happy heterosexual high school cheerleader. However, her friends and family are convinced that she is a homosexual and arrange an intervention, sending her to a residential inpatient conversion therapy camp to cure her lesbianism. There Megan soon realizes that she is indeed a lesbian and, despite the therapy, gradually comes to embrace her sexual orientation.
Does anyone here have any experience in or around this type of "therapy"? I can only assume it's dangerous, but I would like to hear an experienced person's take.
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RE: Gay Conversion Therapy
December 13, 2013 at 5:37 pm
(December 13, 2013 at 5:27 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: I just watched the movie, "But I'm a Cheerleader". I had forgotten how much I liked it. Here's a description:
Wikipedia:
Quote:But I'm a Cheerleader is a 1999 satirical romantic comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit and written by Brian Wayne Peterson. Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan Bloomfield, an apparently happy heterosexual high school cheerleader. However, her friends and family are convinced that she is a homosexual and arrange an intervention, sending her to a residential inpatient conversion therapy camp to cure her lesbianism. There Megan soon realizes that she is indeed a lesbian and, despite the therapy, gradually comes to embrace her sexual orientation.
Does anyone here have any experience in or around this type of "therapy"? I can only assume it's dangerous, but I would like to hear an experienced person's take.
Myself, no.
I did however read this yesterday:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/12...gay-voices
Thanks for the movie reference. I'll make sure I watch it.
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RE: Gay Conversion Therapy
December 13, 2013 at 6:09 pm
(December 13, 2013 at 5:37 pm)Beccs Wrote: (December 13, 2013 at 5:27 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: I just watched the movie, "But I'm a Cheerleader". I had forgotten how much I liked it. Here's a description:
Wikipedia:
Does anyone here have any experience in or around this type of "therapy"? I can only assume it's dangerous, but I would like to hear an experienced person's take.
Myself, no.
I did however read this yesterday:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/12...gay-voices
Thanks for the movie reference. I'll make sure I watch it.
Likewise!
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RE: Gay Conversion Therapy
December 13, 2013 at 7:05 pm
I love that movie, as well.
I have no personal experience with it, thank goodness, but I do comprehend what horrible things happen to teenagers who are sent there by ignorant and intolerant parents. There is one writer I am fond of reading, who writes about gay characters and also abhors those types of institutions, and if you want you can check out her works. Robin Reardon.
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RE: Gay Conversion Therapy
December 13, 2013 at 7:07 pm
Cool. Thanks, Kit.
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RE: Gay Conversion Therapy
December 13, 2013 at 11:22 pm
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I love the hypocrisy. The sexual orientation isn't permanent, but we can make you permanently heterosexual. Go on, pull the other one.
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RE: Gay Conversion Therapy
December 13, 2013 at 11:37 pm
This "therapy" should be banned.
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RE: Gay Conversion Therapy
December 14, 2013 at 12:49 am
Who in their right mind wants to 'convert' lesbians? What a sad, pathetic, limited porn collection they must have...
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RE: Gay Conversion Therapy
December 14, 2013 at 1:24 am
(December 14, 2013 at 12:49 am)Captain Colostomy Wrote: Who in their right mind wants to 'convert' lesbians? What a sad, pathetic, limited porn collection they must have...
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RE: Gay Conversion Therapy
December 14, 2013 at 4:17 am
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2013 at 4:18 am by feeling.)
I talked to some gays in my life. Nice people but most were either constantly running into hatred or mockery. Many also felt constant shame and inner conflict because society keeps telling it's bad. I wish they would just be left alone.
As for therapy I talked to one dude who was being locked up in psych ward in soviet union for being gay. It ended up not curing him but making him suicidal instead.
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