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Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction: Stories of Repentance and Defiance

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Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction: Stories of Repentance and Defiance

James E. Bennett, "Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction: Stories of Repentance and Defiance "
English | ISBN: 1350289833 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 17 MB

For over half a century, organizations and individuals promoting ex-gay, conversion and/ or reparative therapy have pushed the tenet that a person may be able to, and should, alter their sexual orientation. Their so-called treatments or therapies have taken various forms over the decades, ranging from medical (including psychiatric or psychological) rehabilitation approaches, to counselling, and religious healing.

Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction provides an in-depth exploration of the disturbing phenomenon of gay conversion 'therapy' and its fictional and autobiographical representations across a broad range of films and books such as But I'm a Cheerleader! (1999), This is What Love in Action Looks Like
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