Matt met 40 friends through gay conversion ‘therapy’. Only six survived Alexandra Smith and Michael McGowan March 13, 2024 Former Pentecostal preacher Anthony Venn-Brown has spent decades supporting people who were told they were broken and needed fixing. But it was an email from a young gay man called Matt that really reinforced to Venn-Brown how [...]
Tasmania to ban conversion “therapy” * After the release of the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute (TLRI) report, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conversion Practices, Tasmania is following other Australian states that have passed legislation banning what has become known as “conversion therapy”. Religious opponents are attempting to block the legislation by clouding the issues with smokescreens and resurrecting [...]
Anthony Venn-Brown OAM: bridging the gap between religious and LGBTQI identities 1 December 2020 Mike Hitch Features, Queer Anthony Venn-Brown has dedicated his life to walking a thin line between two communities – and has changed countless lives as a result. In June, it was announced that Anthony Venn-Brown had been awarded the Order of Australia Medal [...]
I underwent weekends of exorcisms to pray the gay away The horrifying reality of conversion therapy. I swear I never Bek Day and Nina Young December 4, 2019 - 9:22AM It was the late seventies and everything in Anthony Venn Brown’s life was going according to his plans. He was a successful preacher in the [...]
Inside our Pentecostal PM's church As Australia’s first Pentecostal PM, Scott Morrison will worship this Easter in the fold of a fast-growing Christian movement that’s starkly different to many of its counterparts. By Jacqueline Maley APRIL 20, 2019 The heavens have opened, but Jackson the youth pastor will not let us get wet. It's a [...]
It will take more than policy to ban gay conversion therapy History has taught us that churches have been able to move dramatically on social issues. Eradicating gay conversion therapy will take pressure and a lot of faith. CHARLIE LEWIS FEB 15, 2019 The Andrews’ government announcement that “gay conversion therapy” would be banned was [...]
Banning gay ‘conversion’ isn’t enough February 6, 2019 6:44am Seb Starcevic News Corp Australia Network Over the weekend, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced his government was finally putting an end to gay conversion therapy in Victoria, which he called “bigoted quackery”. “For far too long and for far too many Victorians, an evil practice has been [...]
This Is What It's Like To Have Exorcisms Performed On You Because You Are Gay Anthony Venn-Brown was 20 when he endured his first exorcism. It was the beginning of decades of conversion therapy. Now he tells BuzzFeed News how he's taking on the gay "cure" lobby. Patrick Strudwick BuzzFeed UK LGBT Editor Posted on July [...]
'I am profoundly unsettled': inside the hidden world of gay conversion therapy "Gay conversion" is discredited in Australia yet "fixing" same-sex attraction remains a mission for some groups – often with tragic results. By Farrah Tomazin 9 March 2018 It’s been 25 years since I realised I was gay, and for the first time in [...]