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An origin story for the queer community

  • Written by Daniel Pfau, PhD candidate Department of Neuroscience, Michigan State University
Same sex sexual behavior is common to many species and evolved millions of years ago.oneinchpunch/Shutterstock.com

I came out to a Christian counselor during a therapy session in 2001 when I was 14. He convinced me to engage in conversion therapy, a pseudoscientific practice to change an individual’s sexual orientation based in the...

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