What It Was Like To Watch My Conversion Therapy Story on the Big Screen
Author Garrard Conley opens up about creating Boy Erased and why we need to focus on survivors. If I tell you how many we number, will you listen to our stories? If I tell you that before we possessed this figure, before we learned that there are 700,000 conversion therapy survivors…
Denver Lawmakers Unanimously Pass Ban on Gay Cure Therapy
Denver City Council has unanimously passed a ban on gay cure therapy. The city-wide ban in Denver, Colorado, is the latest in a wave of bills across the US seeking to tackle the discredited practice of attempting to “change” sexual orientation or gender identity. Denver City Council members unanimously voted for a…
D.C. May Soon Have America’s Toughest Conversion Therapy Ban
The D.C. Council approved two pro-LGBTQ bills and one “Sense of the Council” resolution yesterday. The first bill – the Conversion Therapy for Consumers Under a Conservatorship or Guardianship Amendment Act of 2018 – bans licensed mental health professionals from providing conversion therapy for “a consumer for whom a conservator or guardian…
Troye Sivan Brings On The Heartbreak With ‘Boy Erased’ Song ‘Revelation’
The “Bloom” singer dropped a lyric video for the track, which is a collaboration with Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi. Troye Sivan plays a “gay conversion” camp attendee in “Boy Erased,” but he didn’t have to abandon his musical sensibilities entirely for the role. The pop singer, whose hits include “My My…
4 States Could Soon Ban Conversion Therapy, Thanks to Newly Elected Democrats
Currently, 14 U.S. states have legal bans against so-called ex-gay or conversion therapy, but the “blue wave” of Democratic wins during the mid-term elections could increase that number by four or more. According to Into More, Colorado, New York, Maine and Massachusetts could all enact bans within the next year, as Democrats will fully…
Delaware Becomes 15th US State to Ban Conversion Therapy
The bill’s sponsor calls conversion therapy ‘pseudoscience and child endangerment, plain and simple’ Delaware yesterday enacted SB 65: legislation that bans the damaging practice of conversion therapy on minors. Delaware Governor John Carney signed the bill into law. In doing so, it becomes the 15th US state (in addition…
‘Gay Cure’ Conversion Therapy Still Legal in Most Countries
UK needs to convince other nations to ban practice The UK government’s plan to ban ‘gay cure’, conversion therapy practices have been welcomed, but it now also needs to convince other nations to follow suit. ‘It is of course welcome that the Government are looking to ban dangerous and…
A Landmark Bill Could Ban Gay Conversion Therapy For Adults AND Kids
“We don’t let convenience stores sell fake lottery tickets. We shouldn’t let a handful of sham therapists tell Californians that they can change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.” California may soon become the first state to ban conversion therapy for people of all ages. On April 19, lawmakers…
I Was Tortured in Gay Conversion Therapy. And It’s Still Legal in 41 States
In the early 2000s, when I was a middle schooler in Florida, I was subjected to a trauma that was meant to erase my existence as a newly out bisexual. My parents were Southern Baptist missionaries who believed the dangerous and discredited practice of conversion therapy could “cure” my sexuality.…