
Heartbreaking stuff. Anderson Cooper's show investigates a "gay cure" therapy which had, unsurprisingly, disastrous consequences.
You'll probably hear the name George Rekers here... you may remember him from the "I hired this rentboy to lift my luggage" scandal.
Part two here
Part three
Incidentally, Anderson Cooper is more than welcome to "lift my luggage" any time he likes.
( , Fri 10 Jun 2011, 13:17, Reply)

To quote Martin Prince (from the Simpsons)
"I'm not gay. I'm not anything yet!"
[edit]: I clicked 'I like this', but I don't. It fucking disgusts me.
( , Fri 10 Jun 2011, 13:46, Reply)

I think there's a 3rd part being broadcast this week.
( , Fri 10 Jun 2011, 14:01, Reply)

extremely sad stuff. also, Rekers is a cunt of the highest order. so an excellent post ;)
For those interested in (or unaware of) the Rekers scandal:
www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-05-06/news/christian-right-leader-george-rekers-takes-vacation-with-rent-boy/
Rekers is head of NARTH and he found the guy on Rentboy.com (National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality)
( , Fri 10 Jun 2011, 13:50, Reply)

Although this exact therapy doesn't really happen any more, there are still similar anti-gay treatments that end in pretty much the same way.
Also, it is my personal opinion that George Rekers is an odious self-loather who needs to just COME THE FUCK OUT.
( , Fri 10 Jun 2011, 14:11, Reply)

"To arrive at Lucien's site, Rekers must have accepted Rentboy.com's terms of use, thereby acknowledging he was not offended by graphic sexual material. He then would have been transported to a front page covered with images of naked, tumescent men busily sodomizing each other.
Then Rekers must have performed a search. Did he want a "rentboy," a "sugar daddy," or a "masseur"? In what country? And what city? If Rekers searched for a rent boy in Miami, he would have found approximately 80 likely candidates. He must have scrolled down the first page, past the shirtless bears and desperate ex-models, and on to page 2. There, at last, was Lucien."
( , Fri 10 Jun 2011, 14:17, Reply)

Makes you wonder what other secrets he hides, sick fuck!
( , Fri 10 Jun 2011, 14:22, Reply)

Just finished watching part 3 and am left angry.
( , Fri 10 Jun 2011, 14:09, Reply)

have a bit too much freedom of sexual expression...
( , Fri 10 Jun 2011, 18:02, Reply)

I wish there was a "I don't like this but think people should see it" button.
( , Fri 10 Jun 2011, 15:04, Reply)

same story over and over, yet we just don't ever seem to learn, you can ADD to a sexuality, you can consciously choose not to act upon it, and if you do you can choose how and where within the confines of your local laws, you may even successfully oppose your nature for long periods of time, but you cannot remove what you were born with anymore easily than you can saw off your own limbs and if you try it will eventually destroy your soul from within, and any and all of those proposing otherwise are almost always hiding the fact they have the same leanings and are simply protesting loudly enough to try and hide it from themselves as day by day they die a little inside, the louder and more actively against it they are, the bigger cock hungry queen they are inside!
The drugs council recently admitted that after decades of trying they've come to realise a 'war on drugs' cannot win because it is in our nature as human beings, it's been 2000 fucking years since they wrote the bible (honest) and they're still trying and failing to change people to fit it's ideals.
Just fucking get over it, people, FFS...
( , Fri 10 Jun 2011, 17:10, Reply)