The organization told gay and bi men to strip naked, call each other anti-gay slurs, and cuddle with older men to receive “Golden Father Energy.” The jury said that’s not therapy. An appeals court in ...

An examination of how a practice rooted in 19th-century psychiatric theory survived clinical repudiation, evolved through religious institutions, and became the subject of sweeping legislative action ...

As states across the country consider legislation that would protect LGBTQ youth from conversion therapy, the ineffective and dangerous practice that seeks to turn LGBTQ people straight or alter their ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Conversion therapy aimed at sexual orientation or gender identity increased symptoms of suicidality and PTSD.

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Transgender people who undergo the widely discredited practice of gender conversion therapy are more likely to attempt ...

While acceptance of LGBTQ individuals has been growing rapidly in the last decade, there are still subsets of people who abhor any orientation other than heterosexual. Coming out is never an easy ...

People identifying as LGBTQ+ who have undergone conversion practice – commonly known as conversion therapy – are more likely to experience poor mental health, according to a study published in The ...

Analysis of questionnaires completed by 4,426 LGBTQ+ people in the USA suggests undergoing conversion practice targeting gender identity or sexual orientation is linked with symptoms of depression, ...

"I was a perfect, golden, super Christian ideal man," said 29-year-old Adam Trimmer. And inside? "Inside, I was scared, broken. Afraid. I knew it wasn't real. I cried myself to sleep so many nights ...

The founders of a Jersey City-based gay conversion therapy firm reneged on a 2015 settlement agreement to never again engage in the discredited practices and must pay $3.5 million, a New Jersey ...