Conversion therapy for LGBTQ kids might be on its way out in North Carolina. Here's why.
DURHAM — When Garrard Conley’s father found out his son was gay, he began to look for a cure.Conley met with a therapist one on one for six months, who tried to condition him to be ashamed of his attraction to men. When this didn’t work, Conley, now a New York Times best-selling memoirist, was sent to a camp where his sexual orientation was treated like a mental illness.When Sam Brinton, who uses they/them pronouns, went to “conversion therapy,” Brinton was told the government […]
