Abstract
ABSTRACT This study is an attempt to “connect the dots” between the political, cultural, and psychotherapeutic worlds that collide when the issue of “ex-gays” and “reparative therapies and ministries” become part of the public discourse. In May 2001, Robert L. Spitzer, MD, presented a study on sexual orientation which claimed that some highly motivated individuals, employing religious or psychotherapeutic means, could make substantial changes in more than one indicator of sexual orientation. Before the study's findings were presented at the annual gathering of the American Psychiatric Association in New Orleans, the study and its conclusions–although they had not yet been peer reviewed, let alone published–were leaked to the news media. Promoters of so-called “conversion therapies” and organized opponents of gay and lesbian civil rights claimed Spitzer's study validated what they'd been saying all along: that gays and lesbians “choose” homosexuality and that they can be “cured.” Voices from the gay commun...
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