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What Gay Conversion Therapy Did to Me

Raised in a religious family Garrard Conley entered therapy to try and turn him straight

Growing up in a fundamentalist Christian family in America's Bible Belt, Garrard Conley had doubts about his sexuality but had to hide it from his parents, especially his father who was a pastor. When he was at university, Garrard was outed, and his parents sent him to a gay conversion camp in a bid to 'cure' him of homosexuality. (Photo credit: Colin Boyd Shaffer.)

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