How can media be used to promote positive and accurate portrayals of LGBTQ+ individuals?

Feb 11, 2025 ... To this day, these practices are commonly misrepresented in the media as 'gay conversion therapy', however, Australian survivor groups use the ... Apr 5, 2024 ... UKCP has taken the decision to withdraw its signature from the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy in the UK v2 (MoU) and its membership of the ... Anyone who is licensed by the Virginia Department of Health Professions that practices conversion therapy can face disciplinary action. The law also bans the ... Nov 27, 2023 ... How it works: Attempts to change LGBTQ+ individuals' identities by blaming familial relationships and sexual trauma, and reducing sexuality and ... Feb 7, 2025 ... What does it look like in practice? Sometimes, it's dressed up as "counseling" that pathologizes same-sex attraction. Sometimes, it's brutal— ... In 2017, the UK Government's National LGBT Survey estimated that. 2% of respondents had undergone so-called “conversion therapy”. However, through the ... "Conversion therapy" means any practice or treatment administered to a person under eighteen years of age that seeks to change the person's sexual orientation ... "Reparative" or "conversion" therapy is a dangerous practice that targets LGBTQ youth and seeks to change their sexual or gender identities. What is so called, “Conversion Therapy”? Conversion therapy is an abhorrent pseudo-medical or religious practice that seeks to change someone's sexual ... As a leading organization in the field of behavioral health care, the ACA stands against conversion therapy because there is no credible scientific data to ...