A personal story of gay conversion therapy (video)

Came across this video on YouTube. A very well done recount of this man's struggle in going through conversion therapy.

Australia is rife with the practice, which is done under the radar through religious groups. Australia's LGBT are pushing to have the practice made illegal here.

But when asked to rank priorities they rated as high or very high, banning gay conversion therapy was the top concern. Gay conversion therapy is shorthand for all forms of sexual orientation change efforts, which can be promoted by health practitioners, counsellors or religious groups.

 Chris Csabs, who has started a change.org petition to ban the practice with 42,000 signatures, told Guardian Australia that the problem was broader than just therapies in a medical context and campaigners want to see “a public health campaign against the whole idea” that LGBTI people are “broken”.

 Nathan Despott, the founder of the Brave Network in Melbourne, said the “ex-gay” movement is actually an “ideology, a vilification movement that makes false claims about the LGBTI community and how you become LGBTI”. Despott said the federal government should regulate counselling services and use its control of funding to private schools and the chaplaincy program to ensure religious groups are not promoting ex-gay ideology. The Gaurdian