Survivors tell their horror stories of ex-gay therapy treatments in Australia

(Rohan Smith, 19 May 2015, news.com.au)

SOME were starved and forced into exorcisms, others were banned from masturbating and brainwashed into believing they could “pray the gay away”

...Independent member for Sydney Alex Greenwich introduced a motion in 2013 declaring therapies attempting to turn gay people straight do not work, stigmatise gay men and lesbians and are fundamentally damaging to mental health.....