Sentences with phrase «gay conversion therapy by»

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).

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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.

An executive order released on Saturday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo blocks insurance companies from covering so - called conversion therapy of gays and lesbians.

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.

Sen. Brad Hoylman is releasing a report on the harm produced by so - called gay «conversion therapy» — a controversial method of «treating» young people in an effort to «cure» them of their preference for members of the same sex.

In advance of receiving an award from the Human Rights Campaign, Cuomo announced a series of measures intended to eliminate so - called conversion therapy, a practice that claims the ability to reverse same - sex attraction in some people but that has been widely discredited by scientists and criticized by gay - rights groups.

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).

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.

Cameron is then forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative aunt and uncle, who are her legal guardians.

Joel Edgerton and Lucas Hedges also appeared for conversion - therapy drama «Boy Erased,» in which Hedges plays a teenager forced by his parents to submit to therapy after he reveals that he's gay.

Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman play his parents who out him and Jared is forced to attend conversion therapy sessions or be shunned by his family and parish for being gay.