'Treatments' as torture: gay conversion therapy's deep roots in Australia
- Written by Marguerite Johnson, Professor of Classics, University of Newcastle
Gay conversion therapy is often carried out in the name of religion. Shutterstock, CC BY-NC-SA
Less than six months after Australia voted to legalise same-sex marriage, the topic of gay conversion “therapy” reared its head in Victoria. A proposal to debate the so-called treatment at the Liberal Party’s State Council was quashed by...
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