Illinois lawmakers send Rauner ban on gay conversion therapy for minors. Gay rights advocates scored another victory at the Capitol on Friday after the Illinois Senate sent Gov. Bruce Rauner a measure to ban conversion therapy on minors — a …
FDA Approves Further Study Of Promising Gene Therapy HIV Treatment
Experimental stem cell gene therapy that could act as functional cure for HIV infection has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to move into early human test trials. Unlike other treatments that use healthy stem cells from uninfected …
Virginia Introduces Bill Banning Conversion Therapy For Minors
Conversion therapy has been proven time and again to not only be ineffectual in changing an individual's sexual orientation from gay to straight, a sentiment even endorsed by former "ex-gay" leaders, but is instead likely to be harmful, particularly to …
Illinois Gay Rights Advocates To Push For Conversion Therapy Ban
Equality Illinois has launched a new campaign to officially ban the "ineffectual and dangerous [practice of] conversion therapy," according to the organization. The group's leaders hope get the Illinois General Assembly to pass legislation that would …
LOOK: Dallas Billboard Promotes 'Ex-Gay' Therapy
Pickup.David David Pickup (right), a well-known local practitioner of reparative therapy, confirmed Tuesday afternoon that the billboard, which advertises his business, is up along U.S. Highway 75 near the Royal Lane exit. Pickup is a licensed marriage …
The discredited therapy program behind 'My Husband's Not Gay'
Gay rights activists are protesting new TLC show 'My Husband's Not Gay', claiming the show's stars are actively trying to advertise a discredited therapy program that claims to turn homosexual men straight. The show, which airs tonight, follows four …
NCLR Hosting #BornPerfect Twitter Town Hall On Conversion Therapy
Screen Shot 2015-01-06 at 4.44.43 PM The National Center for Lesbian Rights said it's hosting a Twitter town hall today at 6:30 p.m. ET to discuss the dangers of conversion therapy, the efforts to stop these practices once and for all and what the …
Group Planning Legal Action Against DC for Banning Conversion Therapy for …
Voice of the Voiceless, an organization focused on ex-gay rights and recognition, is in the early stages of planning to bring legal action against the government of the nation's Capital over the recently passed bill. Christopher Doyle, president and co …
DC Latest to Ban Conversion Therapy for Minors
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Gray signs bill banning 'conversion' therapy
Washington Blade: Gay News, Politics, LGBT Rights headlogo. Celebrating 45 Years As America's Gay News Source. December 23, 2014 | by Lou Chibbaro Jr. Gray signs bill banning 'conversion' therapy. Google +. conversion therapy, gay news, …