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Spanish Clinic Questioned About "Gay Cure"


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Spanish officials are investigating a Barcelona health clinic for reportedly attempting to "cure" gay people.

They are looking into claims that health professionals at Policlinica Tibidabo clinic are giving "psychiatric treatment" and medicine to change sexual orientation, according to Agence France-Presse.

Gay rights organizations, especially in the Catalonia region, are rallying behind the investigation.

"It is totally unacceptable, in the 21st century, that health professionals are trying to treat homosexuality," said Antonio Guirado, secretary general of the Catalonia Gay and Lesbian Rights Association.

If investigators find health violations at the clinic, Policlincia Tibidabo may face fines or harsher penalties.

Gay marriage has been legal in Spain since 2005, and gay relationships have not been criminalized since the 1970s. Most gay rights activists in Spain consider the current government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, supportive of gay rights initiatives. 

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Reader Comments
  • Name: Alfonso
    Date posted: 6/16/2010 2:09:49 PM
    Hometown: Los Angeles

    Comment:

    This is so insane and ridiculous. We are born gay and will die gay... anyone who claims to be "cured" is only being an idiot. Yes I agree WTF is Jonathan doing here.... he belongs to the breeders LOL But on a serious note, this is so stupid!!!!!!!

  • Name: BobnFred
    Date posted: 6/15/2010 5:42:43 PM
    Hometown: Charlotte, NC

    Comment:

    This reminds me of a joke from the 1950's. Two guys are talking. Guy1: My mother made me a homo. Guy2: If I give her the yarn will she make one for me? Yuk, yuk. The point is that gays always knew how absurd it is to think that gays are "made" or unmade. I'm so glad that we've progressed enough so that most people now realize how stupid it is to say that you can "cure" homosexuals.

  • Name: Matt87
    Date posted: 6/15/2010 5:26:56 PM
    Hometown: Baltimore

    Comment:

    @Daniel - Please don't feed the troll.

  • Name: Daniel
    Date posted: 6/15/2010 5:14:47 PM
    Hometown: Boston

    Comment:

    Jonathan....were you the kid that nobody ever wanted on their team? guess what...you still are.

  • Name: Tom
    Date posted: 6/15/2010 4:56:36 PM
    Hometown: Venice, CA

    Comment:

    Hey Jonathan - You don't sound like the sort of person that should be hanging around reading The Advocate. Something you're not telling your wife?

  • Name: Jonathan
    Date posted: 6/15/2010 4:48:37 PM
    Hometown: United State of America---Nice and White

    Comment:

    Cure them, then put them in prison.

  • Name: Daniel
    Date posted: 6/15/2010 4:32:58 PM
    Hometown: Boston

    Comment:

    Hopefully the Government will speak out against it's own. Sad when a country had made so much progress in a relatively short time, perhaps Iceland can come up with a cure from stupid



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