The Importance of Spirituality in Conversion Therapy

Yvette was one of the major public figures who told the nation that gay people could renounce their queerness and same sex attraction during the 1990s. At the start, she was seduced by promises from the ex-gay movement to leave her own gay life behind after AIDS ravaged her community. Over time, it became real clear that that wasn't true. The pastor's wife took me aside and said we saw a spirit of homosexuality on you and we need to cast it out. So she and this other woman cast out the spirit of homosexuality and filled me with purity but then told me I was under quarantine.