Oppression | spiritualitylgbtq

The Southern Poverty Law Center reports on their current website that they have identified 51 official anti-LGBTQ hate groups. Although most LGBTQ hate groups are religiously based, this number does not include groups that claim that they are anti-gay marriage, or that being a lesbian or gay man is not biblically correct.

According to the site, these hate groups present members of the LGBTQ community as a threat to children, society, and public health. Also, they use damaging pseudoscience to back their claims.

Many publications such as the New York Times (Brinton, 2018) and gay advocacy websites have underscored the fact that lesbians and gay men have suffered tremendously at the hands of others who on moral, religious, or psychological grounds have found them to be socially deviant and unacceptable.

Some of the more heinous efforts to change the behaviors of gay men follow. It is important to be aware that lesbians have also experienced some, more, or all of these methods.

Cold showers.
Brothels and heavy drinking.
Prayer.
Hypnosis.
Mocking and hitting by therapists to encourage change and "manning up."
Estrogen to reduce libido.
Objectifying women.
Stimulating pleasure centers in the brain while being seduced by a female prostitute.
Masturbatory Aversion Therapy.
Hypothalamectomy.
Vomit inducing drugs while viewing homoerotic pictures and medications to reduce sexual urges.
Electric shocks to the genitals and hands.
Listening to degrading and shaming audio tapes in a vile environment (such as having urine served in wine glasses) while viewing homoerotic pictures, followed by listening to tapes praising participants in a beautiful, serene setting while viewing provocative heterosexual photos.
Electric Convulsive Therapy.
Testicle replacement with a testicle of a heterosexual man.
Exorcism.
Ice-pick lobotomies via the eyes.
Aversion and reparative therapy which continues today under the rebranded title of Sexual Fluidity Exploration in Therapy (SAFE-T).

Below are Conversion Therapy Statistics published by the Williams Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, in January 2018. To date, nine states, 32 localities and the District of Colombia have banned healthcare professionals from using conversion therapy on youth.

LGBT adults aged 18-59 who have received conversion therapy in the United States as adolescents: 689,000

LGBT youth aged 13-17 who will receive conversion therapy before the age of 18 from a licensed health care provider in the states that currently do not ban it: 20,000

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Many publications such as the New York Times (Brinton, 2018) and gay advocacy websites have underscored the fact that lesbians and gay men have suffered tremendously at the hands of others who on moral, religious, or psychological grounds have found them to be socially deviant and unacceptable.

Some of the more heinous efforts to change the behaviors of gay men follow. It is important to be aware that lesbians have also experienced some, more, or all of these methods.

Cold showers.

Brothels and heavy drinking.

Prayer.

Hypnosis.

Mocking and hitting by therapists to encourage change and "manning up."

Estrogen to reduce libido.

Objectifying women.

Stimulating pleasure centers in the brain while being seduced by a female prostitute.

Masturbatory Aversion Therapy.

Hypothalamectomy.

Vomit inducing drugs while viewing homoerotic pictures and medications to reduce sexual urges.

Electric shocks to the genitals and hands.

Listening to degrading and shaming audio tapes in a vile environment (such as having urine served in wine glasses) while viewing homoerotic pictures, followed by listening to tapes praising participants in a beautiful, serene setting while viewing provocative heterosexual photos.

Electric Convulsive Therapy.

Testicle replacement with a testicle of a heterosexual man.

Exorcism.

Ice-pick lobotomies via the eyes.

Aversion and reparative therapy which continues today under the rebranded title of Sexual Fluidity Exploration in Therapy (SAFE-T).

Below are Conversion Therapy Statistics published by the Williams Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, in January 2018. To date, nine states, 32 localities and the District of Colombia have banned healthcare professionals from using conversion therapy on youth.

LGBT adults aged 18-59 who have received conversion therapy in the United States as adolescents: 689,000

LGBT youth aged 13-17 who will receive conversion therapy before the age of 18 from a licensed health care provider in the states that currently do not ban it: 20,000

Youth aged 13-17 across all states that will receive conversion therapy for religious or spiritual advisors before they are 18: 57,000