'The Sissy Boy Experiment' on AC360
'The Sissy Boy Experiment' on AC360
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#1'The Sissy Boy Experiment' on AC360
Posted: 6/9/11 at 12:45am
"In 1970, a five-year-old boy named Kirk Murphy was subjected to an ex-gay experiment. Under the care of Dr Ivor Lovaas and George Rekers, then a doctoral student, of UCLA, he underwent therapy to eliminate supposed effeminate behaviors. In 1974, Lovaas and Rekers jointly published a paper about the boy they renamed "Kraig," heralding his treatment for "childhood cross-gender problems" a success and claiming he had been transformed from a gender-confused homosexual-in-waiting to a healthy, heterosexual young man. On the back of this study, Rekers built a career as an anti-gay activist and a supposed expert in childhood sexual development. He co-founded the Family Research Council and championed reparative therapy to turn gay men straight. In 2003, Kirk, aged 38 years old and gay, committed suicide."
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#2'The Sissy Boy Experiment' on AC360
Posted: 6/9/11 at 2:38amI posted this on my facebook page, painful to watch!
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#2'The Sissy Boy Experiment' on AC360
Posted: 6/9/11 at 10:49amThat breaks my heart. I can't imagine what the hell his parents were thinking. As a mom, I could never have done that. I realize it was 40 years ago, but still.
#3'The Sissy Boy Experiment' on AC360
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:04am
Devastating. I did find this comment under the video interesting -
"Just in case anyone's unaware, George Rekers, who conducted this "research" is the same George Rekers who was caught not to long ago with a rent boy half his age whilst? vacationing whom he claimed had been hired to "help him with his luggage."
I wasn't aware they were the same person.
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