Sentences with phrase «gay conversion therapy in»

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We do not believe in or support gay conversion therapy.

All the experts in the world have stated gays can't change who they are and conversion therapies don't work.

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

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.

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

In a statement, Cuomo called conversion therapy — which gay, lesbian or transgender people are counseled to change their orientation or gender identity — a «hatefully and fundamentally flawed practice.»

Manhattan Democratic Sen. Brad Hoylman, the Senate's only openly gay member and sponsor of a bill aimed at banning conversion therapy, praised the effort to curtail one of «the biggest consumer frauds in history.»

«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.

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.

A touring conference programme titled «The Lepers Amongst Us: Homosexuality and the Life of the Church» is due to go ahead in London today despite condemnation from community groups where the conference has been previously held, and criticism from professional organisations declaring conversion or reparative «therapies», which seek to «cure» gay people, as harmful.

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 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 groupIn 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 groupin some people but that has been widely discredited by scientists and criticized by gay - rights groups.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin New York.»

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

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.

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

A pride flag hangs at City Hall after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in June 2015, still conversion therapy is not illegal in New York.

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

Advocates and Democrats have tried for years to pass the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA)-- legislation granting protections in law to gender - nonconforming individuals — and a ban on gay - conversion therapy.

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.

Joel Edgerton looks funny with that evil little mustache... He plays the role of Victor Sykes, the head of Love in Action, a gay conversion therapy program.

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.

A gay conversion therapy drama and harrowing child slave rescue documentary topped the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Awards, held Saturday in Park City, Utah.

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 therapIn 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 therapin Riverview, Michigan where the pastor was accused of administering gay conversion therapy.

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).