Prop 8 trial: Conversion therapy doesn't work, GLBT people experience violence, and the Kinsey scale
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Davina Kotulski
January 22, 2010 2:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/01/prop_8_trial_conversion_therapy_doesnt_work_glbt_p.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2010/01/prop_8_trial_conversion_therapy_doesnt_work_glbt_p.php)
While I was doing this and admiring the historic photos of San Francisco on the 19th floor in the federal building, I struck up a conversation with the other person in the hallway. It turned out that I was talking to Brian Woodford from the California Family Research Council. We talked about how we could find our commonalities and exchanged business cards.
I then found that the trial was already in full swing with psychologist Dr. Gregory Herek from the University of California at Davis. As a psychologist myself, I've been following Dr. Herek's work for decades and even had the opportunity back in 2005 to be on a panel for marriage equality with him.
Dr. Herek has an impressive record of publications on sexual orientation and hate crimes.
He discusses the American Psychiatric Association's removal of homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) in 1973.