Kansas City officials are working on a new way to ban so-called “conversion therapy.” The move comes just weeks after the Kansas City Council repealed a prior ban on the discredited practice.

Bowen Yang Reveals Wild Plot Twist That Took Him From Conversion Therapy to NYU #bowenyang #ComingOut #ConversionTherapy #NewYork #NYU

The Kansas City Council is bringing back its efforts to ban conversion therapy after it repealed a 2019 ordinance last month. Council member Jonathan Duncan discusses how the new proposal restricting "dangerous therapies" is intended to comply with a recent Supreme Court ruling.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a law allowing conversion therapy survivors to sue practitioners for malpractice with no statute of limitations.

🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ Bills Weekly Digest Week of Jun 5, 2026 Quiet stretch — no notable floor or executive action to flag from the past month. Still tracking LGBTQ rights bills in WI, CO, KS, MA, MO, ND, NY, AR, CA, NE, NJ, PA, RI, VT, WA. A landscape check-in 🧵

⚖️ KS HB2267 — Prohibiting certain licensed individuals from using conversion therapy on minors. Kansas prohibits licensed healthcare professionals from using conversion therapy on minors. April 10, 2026: Died in Committee. 🔗 Read the full bill

For book related reasons, this is where I need to come out as a lesbian woman. I'm a victim of conversion therapy. The reason why we, queer people, talk about mental health so much, is because that trauma is for life. If we were only allowed to be ourselves growing up, we wouldn't have problems.

Keep resisting, keep fighting, don't give in, don't give up. Colorado Gov. Polis Signs New Conversion Therapy Ban, Defying Supreme Court open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

We would really like to know who was Bowen Yang's conversion therapist in Colorado.

The decision clears a path for licensed professionals to perform conversion therapy on minors in Kansas City for the first time since 2019.

For the first time, the church included testimony from a couple of gay Catholics on their experiences with religious homophobia, and their relationships in its latest Synod report. It included references to the catechism that condemned gay relationships alongside it, but that wasn't good enough for

"Traditionalists,' who were outraged that queer people were treated as anything other than objects of the church's baseless speculation and condemnation. We're supposed to be talked at and about, never listened to. That's what they claim loving us as themselves is in practice.

Anyway, Courage, the ministry I was referring to, was outraged because the gay catholics told the truth that it's a form of conversion therapy, and that they routinely refer lgbt Catholics to other conversion therapy programs like People Can Change (Brother's Road now; conversion therapy programs

The Catholic ex gay ministry I participated in when I was young not only referred me to "People Can Change," their doctrinal leader was accused of sexually assaulting a teen boy, and the church settled with the accuser and kept him in the ministry.

Religions have too many rights.

a lot of people are FAR to comfortable with the catholic church and as catholocism as a political identity. endless talking about Doris Day and liberation theology, nothing on the centuries long campaign of the church against bodily autonomy.

We talk a lot about stopping sexual abuse among church leaders. But what about the "ex-gay" SOGICE ministries that sidestep all safeguarding by calling themselves "not therapy"?

"Purity culture and religious authoritarian parenting methods—both of which were central to Dobson’s teachings—enable pedophiles."

This is often not about suppression of orientation. Lacking empathy, white male-led evangelical churches either express or suppress their innate impulse to *abuse people*. By design, these churches elevate abusers and predators, shame women, silence youths and dissidents, and blame their victims.

Alan Chambers could almost as easily have abused a 14-year-old girl. And if he had, these churches that defend child marriage and marital rape would look the other way.

We don't know how widespread sexual abuse from "ex-gay" or "conversion therapy" counselors is, because there is no oversight, accountability, or group for victims to report to. Ministries and counseling practices have every incentive to blame victims and bury allegations.

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers is refusing to rescind his state’s ban on conversion therapy, even after the U.S. Supreme Court said a similar ban in Colorado suppresses speech — prompting a conservative law firm to sue

Alan Chambers was arrested Tuesday for soliciting sex from a minor. He’s also been like a brother to me for 31 years. I wrote about what it’s like to hold those two things at the same time. randyscobey.com

People say that sexual abuse in conservative churches results from self-suppression, but is that consistently the case? 🧵1/8

Colorado Democrats recently passed legislation that will empower victims of conversion therapy to hold misleading therapists accountable.

“Alan Chambers is accused of trying to meet a 14 year old boy for sex. He once was the head of Exodus International. For 4 decades the church said it helped ‘cure’ gays and lesbians across the country.”

Conversion therapy is still covertly practiced and integrated into troubled teen programs FYI. Even the ones that claim to not be religiously affiliated. There's no telling how many LGBTQ youth have lost their lives to suicide because of the trauma put into them by this industry. #LGBTQ

Depends on what your definition of success is. It’s pretty clear that a lot of the conversion therapy programs work extremely well for adult predators looking to rape & exploit children who are gay. For them it “works” well. Craven rat bastards aided & abetted by our US SCOTUS & the GOP writ large.

😱 Blast from the past! Alan Chambers — ex-gay POS we covered on PHB on a regular basis...shock — a pedo! Chambers is the fmr leader of Exodus Intl, an Orlando-based so-called gay conversion therapy org. He was busted trying to lure a 14-year-old boy to molest in a sting. 📺 youtu.be/OcXnwQAv1sU?...

NEW: For the first time in the two-thousand-year history of the Catholic Church, an openly gay Catholic has spoken about their experiences in the Church in an official Vatican document. Inside it, the Catholic ministry Courage is accused of “pushing for reparative therapy.“

Let's look more broadly at the environment of sexual abuse of authority that former conversion therapy movement leader Alan Chambers merely exemplifies. 🧵1/5

Conversion therapy ban promised again in the King’s Speech The problem is trust, this is not the first time ministers have pledged action then delayed No more excuses, bring forward a trans inclusive ban now

My Crossover Ministries phone counsilor tried to drive all the way from Lexington Kentucky to meet with me 1:1 when I was 16. I knew what he wanted, but at the time I was kind of excited about it. However amid strong guilt, I didn't show up to our meeting spot that evening, and that was my break.

It's a really common story. Most guys I've known who got placed in conversion therapy were aggressively groomed by their counselors ahead of a planned 1:1. I've dated other men with the same story.

I'm not voting for someone who agrees with the GOP that little girls in school sports should have their genitals inspected. I'm not voting for anyone who agrees with the GOP that trans kids should be put through conversion therapy. Fight at our side or die without us.

Alan Chambers renounced his beliefs that anyone could be "cured" of their sexuality in 2012 and later went on to speak at Pride events.

BREAKING: Alan Chambers, former Exodus International leader, charged with soliciting minor. religionnews.com/2026/05/19/a...

Sadly this is not the first time Alan Chambers pursued child abuse. youtube.com/shorts/x1wpK...

Alan Chambers, the former president of the ex-gay ministry Exodus International, was arrested in Florida after investigators say he exchanged sexual messages with someone he believed was a 14-year-old boy. roysreport.com/alan-chamber...

Former Exodus International leader Alan Chambers—the face of the “pray away the gay” movement—was arrested for trying to solicit a 14-year-old. The same conservatives who used him to demonize LGBTQ people will now pretend this somehow proves their point. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/former-ex-...

(RNS) — Chambers gained national notoriety for promoting the idea that therapy could change someone’s sexual orientation. He later apologized and announced in 2013 that the ex-gay ministry, supported by religious right leaders like James Dobson, would disband.

Former conversion therapy organization leader Alan Chambers has been arrested in Winter Park. Following an undercover internet crimes against children investigation, the 54-year-old faces multiple charges, including solicitation of a minor.

Alan Chambers is a former pastor who ran an Orlando-based, anti-LGBTQ group until 2013 when he shut it down and apologized for its actions.

Alan Manning Chambers was arrested for soliciting sex from a minor after a police sting connected his accounts to explicit messages.

Alan Chambers—the former leader of Exodus International, once the world’s largest and most notorious “ex-gay” ministry that advocated for and practiced #conversiontherapy for decades—has been accused of trying to meet with a 14-year-old boy. He is now in custody. See link below for more info.

Former Exodus International leader Alan Chambers was arrested today and charged with solicitation of a minor via social media, and transmitting harmful material to a minor. @matthewpaulturner.bsky.social wrote about Chambers in 2015: matthewpaulturner.com/2015/10/01/m...

On Best of Talk on WIDE-LP 99.1 FM at 10 am Sat. 5/9: Conversion Therapy ffrf.libsyn.com/conversion-t...

The Synod of Bishops released a report which included testimonies from Catholics in same-sex marriages. Courage was highlighted as "pushing for" reparative therapy, and in response the ministry accused the Synod of "defamation" and "calumny." My thoughts: chrisdamian.substack.com/p/the-cathol...

Timothy's memoir is deeply personal, but it also arrives at a moment when conversations around conversion therapy, LGBTQ+ rights and faith are at the center of public debate across the country. Read our interview for @windycitytimes.com 👇

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 May Advocate In direct response to SCOTUS ruling allowing "conversion" therapy, " COL Dems pass new law rewriting its statewide ban to conform to Chiles v. Salazar. Gov. Jared Polis, a gay Dem, is expected to sign it. www.advocate.com/politics/sta...