I Live in Colorado. Conversion Therapy Destroyed My Life. By Sami Tacher At 12 years old, upon returning home from school, I saw my dad sitting in the living room. I immediately knew something was wrong. “Come here,” he said, with my computer in his lap. He proceeded to show me the pictures of [...]
In 2014, a homophobic sermon at my mother’s church caused me to have an emotional breakdown and eventually led to my coming out that same day. My mother took me to two different counselors in Oklahoma at two different Christian counseling institutions. In the meantime, she began to seek comfort through her preacher, who [...]
Lucas Wilson’s Shame-Sex Attraction stands out as an essential and deeply moving work on several levels. For anyone seeking to understand the reality of ex-gay/reparative therapy or LGBTQ conversion “therapy,” this book is a time-saving alternative to scouring thousands of survivor stories online or purchasing countless individual memoirs. Wilson’s compilation offers a profound and [...]
"Continually chasing ‘healing’ is the only way forward many LGTBQ Christians can see, with practices that subtly brainwash individuals into believing their core identity is sinful. I’ve attended multiple conferences where speakers urge people to come to the stage for “freedom” from the “sin of homosexuality and sexual perversion”. Often hundreds of people run to [...]
Jeremy, as a gay teen, experienced a dangerous mix of Opus Dei, a committed Roman Catholic family and school, a Catholic suppression/celibacy organisation and misguided priests and therapists. I knew I was gay from 13 years old, and came out to my friends and family a few years later. I grew up in the conservative [...]
My life is over. Somehow I’m born this way. I cannot change. I’m totally unacceptable to God and the “church” and destined for hell because of who I am. Before 1990, I was a youth leader in a few different NSW church youth groups. I asked the senior leadership about homosexuality. They made it VERY [...]
I am now 41 years old and a married gay man, but my journey has been fraught with turmoil, pain, and confusion, primarily due to my upbringing in a very religious household that rejected my sexual orientation. In 2007, after ending my first serious gay relationship of 18 months. I reached out to an organization [...]
I never went through a conversion “therapy” program but… I was 20 years old, and a Christian when I first met Sy Rogers. I knew my Assemblies of God church was against homosexuality. I was in the closet and severely troubled. I was invited to a small private meeting in an upstairs’ room in Hindley St, [...]
I knew from a young age that I was different, and it was very apparent when puberty started, that I was not at all attracted to girls and was interested in guys instead. During the late 1960s and 70s, I struggled to understand and navigate life in a time and culture that was not accepting [...]