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SPARTANBURG, SC — (09-03-19) — Founder of Hope for Wholeness Conversion Therapy, admits he is gay in an interview with the Charleston Post and Courier last week. The news sent shock waves in his community as 51-year-old McKrae Game, founder of the largest conversion therapy programs in the nation, comes out as gay. McKrae Game [...]
RALEIGH, NC — (08-03-19) — North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper made history on Friday, when he signed executive order No. 97, banning state-sponsored conversion therapy funding on LGBTQ youths. Governor Cooper directed North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to cease the use of federal and state funds for the harmful and discredited practice [...]
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — (07-18-19) — Israel’s education minister Rafi Peretz, has apologized for his controversial remarks about 'gay conversion therapy” and intermarriage among Diaspora Jews that drew worldwide backlash. Rafi Peretz, leader of a small right wing religious nationalist party, wrote in a letter to the head of the Jewish Agency on Tuesday that his [...]
AUGUSTA, MAINE — (05-30-19) — Maine has banned the barbaric practice of conversion therapy on Wednesday, making it the 17th state along with the District of Columbia, to ban the practice on LGBTQ youth. On Wednesday Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed the conversion ban bill and tweeted...“Today I signed into law a bill banning [...]
New York City — (02-06-19) — New York City is being sued by an anti-LGBT hate group following Governor Cuomo banning conversion therapy for minors statewide on January 26. It seems that after the New York City Council passed legislation outlawing conversion therapy for minors which was followed by Governor Cuomo banning the horrific practice [...]