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Man who worked as top 'conversion therapist' comes out as gay

David Matheson affirmed his sexuality after a leaked private conversation was reported by the group Truth Wins Out
‘To the men whose internalized homophobia I colluded with or who went away from therapy feeling that really was kind of hurtful to me, I am so sorry,’ Matheson said. Photograph: Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images

A prominent “conversion therapy” advocate, David Matheson, has come out as gay after spending what he said were decades of his life entrenched in homophobia.

Matheson was a practitioner of the practice also known as , which promotes the false idea that being gay is something that should, and can, be “cured”. These therapies have been denounced

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