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- Understanding and reducing the impact of HIV and STIs among Asian gay men in NSW
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ConversAsians
ConversAsians is a peer-led discussion group based in Sydney. Our vision is to engage
My So-Called Ex-Gay Life
Early in my freshman year of high school, I came home to find my mom sitting on her bed, crying.
"Are you gay?" she asked. I blurted out that I was.
"I knew it, ever since you were a little boy."
Her resignation didn't last long. My mom is a challenge solver, and the next day she handed me a stack of papers she had printed out from the Internet about reorientation, or "ex-gay," therapy. I threw them away. I said I didn't see how talking about myself in a therapist's office was going to make me stop liking guys. My mother responded by asking whether I wanted a family, then posed a hypothetical: "If there were a pill you could take that would make you linear, would you take it?"
I admitted that life would be easier if such a pill existed. I hadn't thought about how my infatuation with boys would play out over the course of my life. In fact, I had always imagined myself middle-aged, married to a woman, and having a son and daughter-didn't everyone want some version of that?
"The gay lifestyle is very lonely," she said.
She told me about Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, a clinical psychologist in California who was then president of the National Association for
In the summer of 1999, when he was 15, a youth I will refer to by only his first name, Jeffrey, finally admitted to himself that he was male lover. This discovery had been coming on for some time; he had noticed that he felt no attraction to girls and that he became aroused when showering with other boys after physical learning class. But Jeffrey is a devout Southern Baptist, attending church several times each week, where, he says, the pastor seems to make a signal of condemning homosexuality. Jeffrey knew of no homosexuals in his high college or in his little town in the heart of the South. (He asked that I withhold not only his last name but also any other aspects of his life that might disclose his identity.) He prayed that his errant feelings were a phase. But as the truth gradually settled over him, he told me last summer during a phone conversation punctuated by nervous visits to his bedroom door to make sure no family member was listening in, he became suicidal.
“I’m a Christian – I’m like, how could God possibly do this to me?” he said. “My mother’s always saying, ‘It’ll be so wonderful when you meet that attractive Christian g
Sex Ed as a Queer Teen
By Michael Pincus, 15, Contributor Originally Published: October 3, 2018Revised: January 3, 2019
I felt like I didn’t belong. It was like I was listening in on a conversation about everyone else but me. My teacher clicked on a PowerPoint, the guys in the support of the class giggled on cue, and I sank in my seat as I braced for an hour and forty minutes of my instructor describing sex—that is sex between a man and a woman. As a queer teenager, it did not take me drawn-out to realize that sex education is not always inclusive; being in sex education class was a reminder that LGBTQ people are still pushed to the margins.
Since middle institution, sex education has been a brief part of my science curriculum. I have had good and bad encounters with sex ed, but I own always felt like I’m watching through a window.
No Mention of LGBTQ People
In middle school sex ed, I was taught that sex is exclusively oral or vaginal penetration between a man and a woman. While I was first coming to terms with my identity, this made me feel favor my sexual attraction was unnatural and against science. This also prevented me from knowing how to stay safe.
Far too many LGBTQ youth do n
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