Watch: The ‘conversion therapy’ trend started in the 1970s, but it wasn’t therapy and it didn’t convert anyone

It’s now recognized as a form of torture

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1 min readMar 7, 2017

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Desperate parents sent their gay kids off to “camps” for treatment, hoping they’d come home straight. Thousands of people wanted “conversion therapy” to work, but it is now recognized as a damaging combination of pseudo-psychology and religious conviction.

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