Tag: gay cure therapy

Brazil has re-legalised so-called “gay cure therapy” as a judge deemed homosexuality to be a “disease”. Judge Waldemar Claudio de Carvalho overruled a 1999 resolution by the Federal Council of Psychology which prohibited the treatment of homosexuality by psychologists. The federal judge in Brasília ruled in favour of a psychologist whose license was revoked for practising “conversion therapy”. Evangelical Christian Rozangela Justino had her license stripped in 2016 after she advised patients to seek religious guidance to “cure” their homosexuality, which Justino...

In March 2017, Theresa May's government refused to make 'gay cure' therapy illegal A British church is offering to ‘cure’ gay people by starving them, an investigation has discovered. The Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry, with a branch in Anfield, is putting LGBTI people through a three-day starvation, forcing them to be without food or water. An undercover journalist posed as a member of the public questioning their sexuality. The church’s assistant pastor told the Liverpool Echo reporter being gay is ‘biologically...

Malta has made history as the first European country to ban gay conversion therapy. The island nation passed the bill that will mean any medical professional found guilty of prescribing the so-called ‘gay cure’ therapy could be jailed. Politicians voted through the Affirmation of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression Bill, labelling gay cure therapy as “deceptive and harmful”. The new ban will see anyone found guilty fined up to $5,000, or even sent behind bars for up to five years...

This boy, who went to a course intended to turn him into a 'man', died at just 15. This picture shows a skeletal, emaciated figure fighting for his life. Raymond Buys was starved and tortured and even forced to eat his own feces. Severely malnourished, dehydrated, with burns and wounds all over his body, he lay in intensive care for four weeks until he died. He was just 15. Just 10 weeks before, the teen’s parents signed him up in 2011 for the...

All Out, a global LGBT rights organization that fights for equality by connecting supporters at the grass roots level in many countries, has created an online tool that has one purpose; to identify and eradicate the heinous gay “cure” therapies, no matter where they are or what they are. As a non-profit organization, All Out gets its funding for all of its programs from its members.  The logic behind this tool is to give their members and international counterparts a...