The Long War Against a Gay “Cure”

Jan 10, 2019

With one of the three traditional condemnations of homosexuality—sickness—obviated by the medical establishment in 1973, the destructive effort to make gay people straight was then smuggled in under the rubric of another: sin.

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James Kirchick

James Kirchick is a columnist for Tablet magazine and author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington and The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age. He has reported from over 40 countries and his writing has appeared in many publications including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.

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