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Mike Pence’s home state seeks to be the next to ban so-called “conversion therapy”
Only one state in the Midwest has the “therapy” outlawed currently. Indiana seeks to become the second.
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Here are just six victories for the LGBTQ community that came in 2020
While 2020 certainly doesn’t feel like a year of wins, the LGBTQ community did in fact experience some victories worth celebrating.
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Trump’s judges just overturned a law that bans fake therapy meant to turn gay kids straight
They said the ban violates conversion therapy practitioners’ freedom of speech.
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Senior Trump advisor tweets support for conversion therapy
She linked an article about the “empirical case” for conversion therapy that claims that childhood trauma makes people LGBTQ. It doesn’t.
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Psychologists ban conversion therapy in Albania without help from the government
Registered therapists are banned from harming LGBTQ kids with conversion therapy.
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Germany just banned ex-gay therapy. Some lawmakers want the new law to go further.
The “therapy” methods include not shaking hands with anyone of the same gender, beating a pillow, cuddling with another man “platonically,” and not listening to music.
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Church cancels “faith healings” due to coronavirus
The church promotes conversion therapy, but it’s taking a science-based approach to coronavirus.
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The American Medical Association announces it will push to ban conversion therapy
Soon-to-be physicians want to advocate for legislation ending conversion therapy, train medical staff on sexual orientation and gender identity, and close the pay gap among other recommendations.
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Pulse survivors held an ex-gay rally near the site of the shooting
Two survivors of the shooting say that they “have chosen identity in Christ above that of LGBTQ.”
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West Virginia’s only pro-LGBT Republican was arrested in a prostitution sting
He was trying to ban conversion therapy in one of the most conservative states and made himself a target of the religious right political machine that dominates the party.