Conversion Therapy

About this episode

Rachel interviews her uncle about his experience with conversion therapy, followed by a discussion on harmful pseudoscientific practices aimed at changing sexual orientation.

This one's a little different: First, Rachel talks to her uncle, John Monroe, who was subjected to conversion therapy in the 1970s. Then Rachel & Ash discuss a few of the harmful pseudoscientists who have tried (and failed) to use psychology to turn queer people straight over the years. SOURCES: -Arana, G. (2012.) My So-Called Ex-Gay Life. American Prospect. Retrieved from https://prospect.org/civil-rights/so-called-ex-gay-life/ -Roughgarden, J. (2004). Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People. University of California Press. -Waidzunas, T. (2015.) The Straight Line; How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality. University of Minnesota Press. -Yoshino, K. (2002). Covering. Yale Law Journal, 111(4), 769–939. Retrieved from https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/covering Bad Therapist's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/badtherapistpod Produced by Zoe Kurland. Music by Flock of Dimes.

People in this episode

Hosts: Rachel Monroe, Ash Compton

Guest: John Monroe

Topics covered

• conversion therapy
• queer rights
• pseudoscience
• psychology
• mental health

Keywords

• conversion therapy
• queer
• pseudoscience
• psychology
• mental health
• 1970s
• interview

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: My So-Called Ex-Gay Life, Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People, The Straight Line; How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality, Covering

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