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from now on, if you're anti-gay, you're a self-loathing homosexual until proven otherwise.
It's definitely a trend for those that make it into a cause celebre.
from now on, if you're anti-gay, you're a self-loathing homosexual until proven otherwise.
but Cam would.
why push the boundaries? this show is doing well, we like these gays why have them behave in a way that will make fans feel uncomfortable?
there seems to be more gay people around these days
but they really don't do pdas, how often to you see 2 men kiss in public, or even hold hands?
You think two gay men don't kiss when they are in their home alone?
TV, especially prime time, gives us this 'sanitized' depiction of gay people as 'we' are comfortable receiving them.
But of course, acknowlegement of their physical relationship is a big piece of the puzzle, too, if you want the whole picture of their life.
if i have to put up with the (sometimes funny) baby-in-donna-summer-wigs gags, can't i get a blow job joke or two?
TV, especially prime time, gives us this 'sanitized' depiction of gay people as 'we' are comfortable receiving them.
"Queer as Folk" belongs on premium cable
Before He Hired an Escort, Rekers Tried to Spank the Gay Away
By Penn Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp
Monday, May. 17 2010
What do you do with a little boy who likes cross-dressing and playing with dolls? If you're George Alan Rekers, you "extinguish" the boy's feminine behavior with a sometimes violent Pavlovian regimen while your scientific team observes through a one-way mirror.
That's what the Baptist minister -- who made international headlines when he was exposed by Miami New Times this month for hiring a gay escort -- did in the early 1970s at a clinic he opened at UCLA called the Feminine Boy Project.
In 1974, Rekers, a leading thinker in the so-called ex-gay movement, was presented with a 4-year-old "effeminate boy" named Kraig, whose parents had enrolled him in the program. Rekers put Kraig in a "play-observation room" with his mother, who was equipped with a listening device. When the boy played with girly toys, the doctors instructed her to avert her eyes from the child.
According to a 2001 account in Brain, Child Magazine, "On one such occasion, his distress was such that he began to scream, but his mother just looked away. His anxiety increased, and he did whatever he could to get her to respond to him... Kraig became so hysterical, and his mother so uncomfortable, that one of the clinicians had to enter and take Kraig, screaming, from the room."
Rekers's research team continued the experiment in the family's home. Kraig received red chips for feminine behavior and blue chips for masculine behavior. The blue chips could be cashed in for candy or television time. The red chips earned him a "swat" or spanking from his father. Researchers periodically entered the family's home to ensure proper implementation of the reward-punishment system.
After two years, the boy supposedly manned up. Over the decades, Rekers, who ran countless similar experiments, held Kraig up as "the poster boy for behavioral treatment of boyhood effeminacy."
At age 18, shamed by his childhood diagnosis and treatment, Rekers's poster boy attempted suicide, according to Gender Shock, a book by journalist Phyllis Burke. Rekers, whose early experiments were the first to ostensibly demonstrate a "gay cure," resigned from the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) last week, after it was revealed the gay escort had given him nude sexual massages. NARTH, however, stands by his science.
i could fucking scream.
Primal Scream Therapy has pretty much been discredited as well.
Primal Scream Therapy has pretty much been discredited as well.
It's great that you think that shit is funny.
It's great that you have no clue that Primal Scream Therapy was claimed, around the same time I think (early 70's), to be a cure for homosexuality. Its inventor, Arthur Janov, defined homosexuality as a neurosis.
It's great that you have no clue that Primal Scream Therapy was claimed, around the same time I think (early 70's), to be a cure for homosexuality. Its inventor, Arthur Janov, defined homosexuality as a neurosis.