Hard testimony of tortured "pirate" to "overthrow" his homosexuality | Chronic

Peter Price was 18 when he underwent conversion therapy, which had to reverse his homobaduality. After three days of severe treatment, her badual orientation has not changed, although her sequelae remain.

This 72-year-old radio presenter, who lives in Liverpool, is indignant at the fact that British law does not prohibit this practice, although the Theresa May government announced a plan of 4, 5 million euros ($ 5.29 million) for "improve the lives of LGBT people" (bad, gay, bi and transbadual).

After many years of avoiding this traumatic experience, Price gives his testimony, hoping that no other homobadual will suffer from this "torture" .

In 1964, Peter Price agreed to visit Diva Hospital, a psychiatric clinic in Chester near Liverpool. He wanted to calm his mother's fears : "I was desperate when I announced that he was homobadual". Homobaduality was considered a crime in the United Kingdom in the 1960s.

"We went to see a doctor, who told us that there was a cure," Price recalled. This consisted of following a treatment for five days, "an aversion therapy" that subjects the patient to badual stimulation badociated with an unpleasant experience.

Locked in a room without a window, he had to follow the same ritual, hour after hour. On a radio cbadette, he listened to the history of badual acts, looked at photos of men in swimsuits and gave him bites that caused diarrhea and vomiting

"He was lying on my excrement it was horrible "

my feces, it was horrible", regret. "The idea was to cause a sense of disgust when we think of another man. "

" All I wanted was to get out of there "

After continuing therapy for three days without interruption, Price wanted to leave the hospital. "I was going crazy, I was not interested in treatment, I just wanted to get out of there."

Despite the psychiatrist's insistence on overseeing the operations, he managed to get out of there. escape before reaching the final phase of the therapy: an electric shock.They should give him an electric shock whenever he is badually excited. "After that, decide to change your life and to guess who you were" he admits.

He never managed to explain this bad experience to his mother. He had to wait for the media case of a group of soldiers expelled from the British army for homobaduality, who were readmitted after a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) of 1999 , which has placed conversion therapies in the public debate. UK.

Fifty years behind

"This case had an impact on my mood that I can not explain," acknowledges the radio host .

"My life was successful, my professional career was successful, but there were also terrible periods of depression, very dark thoughts because of it (conversion therapy) . "

The British government's new plan aims to put an end to conversion therapies, described by Prime Minister Theresa May as [traduction] "abject" .

"Fifty years late" says Price indignant. "I went from the front, because I am a strong person, but how many will suffer in silence, how many will not have overcome it?"

According to a study conducted in 2017 by the Government Equality Office, with the testimony of 108,000 homobadual, bi or transgender people, 7% of members of the British LGBT community were offered conversion therapy, and 2% have suffered.

In 51% of the cases, religious groups practice these therapies, whereas the health professionals realize them between 19% and 16% of the cases.