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Judge grants temporary injunction on California’s ban on reparative therapy
A federal judge in California on Monday issued a temporary injunction on the state’s ban on controverial gay-to-straight “conversion” therapy, but limited the scope of his order to just the three providers who have appealed the ban.
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Storming the ‘Ex-Gay’ Shores
In 1998, 15 religious right organizations launched a huge advertising campaign to promote “pray away the gay” programs. Anti-gay activist Robert Knight called the “Truth in Love” campaign the “Normandy Landing in the larger cultural wars.” Things didn’t quite work out as Knight had hoped…
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Advocacy groups denounce ‘Dr. Oz’ for debating merits of reparative therapy
Three of the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy organizations on Wednesday denounced the syndicated “Dr. Oz” television show for airing an episode debating the merits of so-called reparative therapy, and for positioning a representative of the discredited National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) as an “expert.”
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U.S. Congresswoman calls for end to LGBT ‘conversion quackery’
WASHINGTON – U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) on Wednesday introduced the Stop Harming Our Kids (SHOK) resolution, co-sponsored by Reps. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) and David Cicilline (D-R.I.), aimed a protecting LGBT youth from psychological abuse caused by “gay to-straight” conversion therapy.
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Calif. Congresswoman to introduce resolution targeting reparative therapy
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) has announced that she will introduce a House resolution on Wednesday, Nov. 28, asking the U.S. House of Representatives to encourage states to take steps to prevent minors from being harmed by controversial and discredited gay-to-straight conversion therapy.
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SPLC files groundbreaking lawsuit accusing conversion therapy organization of fraud
The Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit accusing a New Jersey organization of consumer fraud for offering conversion therapy services – a discredited practice that claims to convert people from gay to straight.
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Advocacy groups move to defend California’s ban on reparative therapy
Two LGBT advocacy groups, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and Equality California, filed court papers late Friday seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging the new California law protecting LGBT youth from “gay-to-straight” reparative therapy.
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Philly lawmaker introduces bill to ban reparative therapy for minors
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania State Rep. Babette Josephs (D-Philadelphia) has introduced a bill that would ban mental health providers from offering “gay-to-straight” reparative therapy for minors.
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Canadian ‘gay cure’ doctor to stand trial for sexually assaulting patients
Aubrey Levin, a Canadian psychiatrist and longtime proponent of so-called “ex-gay” therapy, will face charges in Calgary next week that he sexually assaulted male patients. A jury ruled Tuesday that he was fit to stand trial, despite Levin’s claims that he suffers from the early stages of dementia.
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Law, health groups target Illinois ‘ex-gay’ services social worker with complaint
The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health filed a complaint with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Thursday, calling upon the department’s licensing board to investigate the practices of a Chicago-area social worker, who they say practices ”ex-gay” conversion therapy services.