Sentences with phrase «of gay conversion therapy»

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

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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.

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.»

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

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.

«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.

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 federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration released a report calling for an end to the practice of «conversion therapy» for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.

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.

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.

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

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

The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to: The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Director: Desiree Akhavan, Screenwriters: Desiree Akhavan, Cecilia Frugiuele, Producers: Cecilia Frugiuele, Jonathan Montepare, Michael B. Clark, Alex Turtletaub)-- 1993: after being caught having sex with the prom queen, a girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center.

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.

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.

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 Documentaryof 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 Documentaryof the pressures facing children growing up in a radical Islamist family, titled Of Fathers and Sons (World Cinema DocumentaryOf Fathers and Sons (World Cinema Documentary).

The Associated Press reports: Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has signed a bill to prohibit health professionals from practicing «gay conversion therapy» on minors, as a growing number of states and municipalities are banning the practice.