Watch This: The Miseducation of Cameron Post and Conversion Therapy
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There’s a must-see movie called The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018, Desiree Akhavan) which stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Jennifer Ehle, Sasha Lane, and Quinn Shephard to name a few. It was adapted from Emily Danforth’s novel released in 2012 titled Cameron Post which was set in 1993. Said novel gives its readers a glimpse about the life in a gay conversion therapy camp at that time.
Anyway, the film The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows the story of a teenage girl named, well, Cameron Post (played by Moretz) who was caught in a compromising position with another girl, their school’s prom queen. Because of the incident, Cameron’s conservative aunt and uncle—her legal guardians—sent her into a gay conversion therapy center.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post received the Grand Jury Prize for US Dramatic movie in the recently concluded 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
I love Chloë Grace Moretz! She’s a huge advocate for LGBT rights (she has two gay brothers) and I thought she is a pretty kick-ass both as a person and as an actress. I watched her in Kick Ass 1 & 2, Hugo, Carrie, Fifth Wave, The Equalizer, and If I Stay.
More importantly, gay conversion therapy remains relevant in this day and age. In the United States, nine states have imposed a ban on gay conversion therapy namely New Jersey, California, Oregon, Vermont, Illinois, New Mexico, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, and Washington DC. On the other hand, there are pertinent bills pending in 16 states banning the practice of gay conversion therapy on children but that according to PinkNews, “the remaining 25 states do not have any rules in place to stop it.”
In a recent study conducted by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles, California, over “75,000 teens aged 13 to 17 in the United States will face conversion therapy before adulthood.” Moreover, around 20,000 of the LGBTI youth will “receive the controversial treatment from health care professionals. Another 57,000 will receive the treatment from religious or spiritual leaders.”
The study added that as of today, around “698,000 LGBTI adults already received conversion therapy. 350,000 of them received it as youth.”
Read the study Conversion Therapy and LGBT Youth in full here.
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Ha! What the WORLD REALLY NEEDS, is conversion therapy for fucking white supremacists-racists, try that, since no one, is born that way. Can you imagine, mostly no more war-mostly. No angry black-people or angry white people, or reservations full of marginalized indigenous folk-suffering with alcoholism, bad health in poverty and such. A lot more peace in a more, “truly,” civilized world, people getting along better, not despising each other so. Moving forward as a race in general, solving our problems that will sooner or later catch up with us all, no matter how wealthy/white or hetero you happen to be, yeah, man, try that! But that’s too intelligent-idealistic, isn’t it, to forward thinking, isn’t it, yeah. I mean there’s just to much fucked-up ass pathology, of the worst kind, isn’t there? I’m probably wrong, ’cause I’m “one of those.”
What the F^[email protected] is “gay conversion therapy” and why do we have it in 2018??
I don’t know, because of uneducated religious bigoted folks like our vice president Pence?!
It’s a new version of the 20th century “lobotomy” in which they victimized women, whom were largely, forward-thinking intelligent women that were tired of not being able to exercise their human rights, not mention their intelligence. A drastic measure of control.