How One Novelist Is Fighting Gay Conversion Therapy in Ecuador
How One Novelist Is Fighting Gay Conversion Therapy in Ecuador
- In 2013, César L. Baquerizo's novel about the horrors of gay reparative therapy in his native Ecuador, Un Lugar Seguro Contigo ("a safe place with you"), was first published in Spanish. Otherwise known as "conversion therapy," gay reparative therapy is a slate of "psychological treatments" intended to convert patients from homosexual to heterosexual.