10-04-2015 16:12 via thestranger.com

Conversations with My Mom about Gay Conversion Therapy

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Before we go there: I love my mom. My mom is different now than she used to be. And the world is different. Imagine being the parent of a newborn boy in 1980. The year he turns 1, they discover AIDS. Couple years later, they discover what causes it (the French beat us to the discovery by a day). When the White House gets asked about AIDS, they literally laugh. It will be years before anyone figures out how it's transmitted.In 1990,
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