“I struggled more so trying to deny [my attraction to men] than being able to accept my attractions and say, ‘I am a gay man'.”
McKrae Game, the man who founded one of the largest conversion therapy programs in the country and led the homophobic organization for 20 years, has come out as gay.
“I struggled more so trying to deny [my attraction to men] than being able to accept my attractions and say, ‘I am a gay man,'” he said in a recent interview with the Post and Courier. “I was a hot mess for 26 years and I have more peace now than I ever did.”RELATED: Conversion Therapy Survivor Recalls Surrendering His Life to His Pastor for Two Years
Born and raised in a Southern Baptist home in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Game always felt isolated from other boys his age and found a fascination with his sister’s clothes, according to the Post and Courier. “My brain was telling me, ‘You’re going in the wrong direction,'” he recalled. “But my body was telling me otherwise.”
Beyond those numbers, nearly 700,000 LGBTQ+ members in the U.S. have undergone conversion therapy treatments or counseling, according to a 2018 study by UCLA’s Williams Institute.
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