Conversion therapy is the practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation, and is still practiced despite no longer having any real support from the medical community. On this week’s Line One, an Anchorage resident joins us to discuss growing up gay in the 70s and 80s, seeking out conversion therapy, and what happened when he decided to “be straight.”
HOST: Prentiss Pemberton, LCSW
GUESTS:
- Michael King
LINKS:
- GoodTherapy has an overview of the practice of conversion therapy and the controversy surrounding it
- LiveScience has five surprising facts about gay conversion therapy
PARTICIPATE: This episode is prerecorded and will not be accepting calls or emails during broadcast.
ORIGINAL BROADCAST: Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. AKDT
REPEAT BROADCAST: Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at 8:00 p.m. AKDT
LINE ONE’S FAVORITE HEALTH AND SCIENCE LINKS:
- Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic offer extensive health information libraries
- MedlinePlus has a guide to finding reliable health information on the internet
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI)
- Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit and common logical fallacies
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Prentiss Pemberton is a host of Line One: Your Health Connection at Alaska Public Media. Reach him at lineone@alaskapublic.org. Read more about Prentiss here.
