Sentences with phrase «gay conversion therapy»

We do not believe in or support gay conversion therapy.

New York State Legislator Burke's not - so - subtle reference to the vice president - elect would ban gay conversion therapy for minors within Erie County.

The New York State Assembly has passed a ban on gay conversion therapy for minors, the AP reports: On Monday the Democratic - led Assembly passed the ban 86 to 28.

The debate continues over a proposed ban on gay conversion therapy in Erie County.

Chloe Grace Moretz stars in the film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, about a teenage girl forced into gay conversion therapy by her guardians.

A bill that would ban the controversial practice of gay conversion therapy by licensed mental health therapists in New York has picked up its first GOP co-sponsor.

Out September 28, the film casts Lucas Hedges as Jared, a Southern teen who is sent to gay conversion therapy by his religious mom and dad (Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe).

Shurka was one of nine speakers who attended a hearing before the Erie County Legislature Thursday, to urge legislators to support a proposed local law that would make gay conversion therapy programs illegal.

Erie County legislators Thursday banned a controversial technique called gay conversion therapy.

But Mr. Burke, who helped pass measures like a ban on gay conversion therapy in Erie County, is skeptical.

The Grand Jury Prizes went to Desiree Akhavan's gay conversion therapy drama The Miseducation of Cameron Post (U.S. Dramatic), Derek Doneen's harrowing child slave rescue documentary Kailash (U.S. Documentary), Tolga Karaçelik's family - centric drama Butterflies (World Cinema Dramatic), and Talal Derki's two - year portrait of the pressures facing children growing up in a radical Islamist family, titled Of Fathers and Sons (World Cinema Documentary).

A bill that would punish some practitioners of harmful gay conversion therapy with jail sentences is advancing through Ireland's legislature.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz signed a law making gay conversion therapy illegal.

In New York, Gov. Cuomo has signed an order prohibiting health insurance companies from covering gay conversion therapy.

The Erie County Legislature unanimously passed a law banning utilizing gay conversion therapy practices on minors in Erie County.

Burke recently introduced the Prevention of Emotional Neglect and Childhood Endangerment — PENCE, for short — to combat Vice President - Elect Mike Pence's proposed gay conversion therapy.

When he ran for Congress in 2000, Pence proposed transferring any HIV - AIDS prevention funding toward gay conversion therapy.

«Every mental health organization in the country disapproves of conversion therapy,» said Shurka, 29, a New York City resident who travels the country to lobby for efforts to ban gay conversion therapy as part of the #BornPerfect campaign.

Languishing in the Senate are bills to ban toxic chemicals in children's toys and outlaw gay conversion therapy for minors.

Also in the prestige category of films we haven't seen yet but have Oscar bait written all over them: Boy Erased, the drama about a young Christian man who goes through gay conversion therapy.

Fans of «Appropriate Behavior» won't be disappointed in Desiree Akhavan's sweet, compassionate yet brutally honest film about surviving gay conversion therapy.

Still, his father gives him an ultimatum: attend gay conversion therapy, or move out.

In February, the Metro - Detroit Political Action Network organized a protest outside Metro City Church in Riverview, Michigan where the pastor was accused of administering gay conversion therapy.

Growing up in Arkansas, Conley was outed at age 19 and was threatened with being disowned unless he entered into gay conversion therapy.

Kennedy was endorsed by the Stonewall Democrats of Western New York, who cited in a statement his support for the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act and for outlawing so - called gay conversion therapy.

Maryland's House yesterday passed a ban on gay conversion therapy for minors 95 - 27 which had already passed the Senate.

On Feb. 16, 2016, Cuomo issued a set of regulations banning public and private insurers from covering gay conversion therapy.

Vice President Mike Pence is a strong supporter of gay conversion therapy.

The government today rejected calls for a ban on gay conversion therapy, claiming that any regulation of psychotherapists would be too expensive.

The New York Senate has blocked two bills passed by the Assembly last week — one banning gay conversion therapy for minors, as well as the Gender Expression Nondiscrimination Act (GENDA).

«You mean Mike Pence, the same Mike Pence that funded gay conversion therapy?»

The governing body was accused by a number of clergy earlier this week of failing to uphold the teaching of the Bible after it voted to bring about liturgies for welcoming transgender people and to ban gay conversion therapy.

And now, today, he has «reluctantly» signed a bill forbidding so - called «gay conversion therapy» in his state.

Gay conversion therapy is proven to be false.

While we were so busy with Prop 8, Chick Fil A, DOMA, and Rick Perry's strange idea of sniffing feces for gay conversion therapy we let the hate and ignorance spewed by politicans and some religious groups become our definition in the debate and therefore we are accountable for the evils which have been done to them.

The Erie County Legislature held a hearing on a local law banning gay conversion therapy.

He chose PENCE because of Vice President Mike Pence's perceived position in support of federal funding for gay conversion therapy.

The lobbying strategy for this bill has employed constituents in lawmakers» districts who have personal — and often rather harrowing — experiences with gay conversion therapy.

In an email message, Richard Azzopardi, a Cuomo spokesman, told Gay City News, «Gay conversion therapy is a discredited and outrageous practice that has no place in New York.»

The group pointed to Lasher's work in the attorney general's office as well as the legislative affairs director for Bloomberg in their endorsement announcement, saying he's worked on key issues for the LGBT community, such as a bill that would ban so - called gay conversion therapy.

Gay conversion therapy is the latest high - profile legislation that Christie has addressed in recent days, the others dealing with medical marijuana and his veto of a bill that would ban certain guns.

Burke chose PENCE because of Vice President Mike Pence's perceived position in support of federal funding for gay conversion therapy.

The New York City Council approved a gay conversion therapy ban, which is currently awaiting the mayor's signature.

Since the equality vote Hoylman, Assemblywoman Deborah Glick (D - Manhattan) and a host of other Democratic legislators have tried to pass GENDA, a bill guaranteeing protections for non-gender-conforming individuals, and a bill to ban gay conversion therapy — a debunked process by which therapists use talk therapy, apply shock treatment or treat the individual as though they suffer an addiction akin to alcohol or drug dependence.

«Every member of the Independent Democratic Conference supports GENDA and the ban on gay conversion therapy.

«The Supreme Court's decision today to decline to hear a challenge to California's law prohibiting so - called «gay conversion therapy» for minors is a milestone in our fight to outlaw this harmful and widely - discredited practice by licensed mental health providers,» he said in a written statement.

A young piano prodigy returns to his family farm, after a long stay in a gay conversion therapy, and is torn between the expectations of his emotionally distant father and the memory of a past, loving relationship he's tried to bury.

A young girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center.