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Radio 5 Live,2 mins

Gay aversion therapy in 1960s: "Lying in my excrement"

Shelagh Fogarty

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DJ and stand-up comic Peter Price volunteered to undergo aversion therapy on the NHS when he was 18, in the 1960s, after his mother found out he was gay. A new bill that would ban therapists in England and Wales from trying to turn gay people straight is being published on 12th December.

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