A psychologist and a Catholic priest backed by a US Christian group have been accused of running anti-gay ‘conversion therapy’ sessions telling young LGBTQ people in Guatemala to give up sex.
I learned about their activities while I was working on an openDemocracy investigation into US conservative groups’ activities against LGBTQ people in Central America. Posing as a lesbian Catholic young woman who’d had a one-year relationship with another woman, I went undercover in Guatemala City to meet members of the US Catholic organisation Courage International.
Both the psychologist and the priest told me that there was no “cure” for my “condition” except for a life of “chastity”.
