Are your parents divorced? Do you watch pornography? Use drugs? Listen to rock music? Do yoga and meditation? Believe in horoscopes and tarot? These are some of the questions on a form I’m completing in a small Christian church in central San José, the capital of Costa Rica.
I’m here as an undercover reporter, posing as a young gay man who is struggling to accept his sexual orientation, for a cross-border investigation by openDemocracy in collaboration with Interferencia, a show on Costa Rican radio station Radioemisoras UCR. We are looking into how US Christian Right groups are promoting ‘conversion therapy’ in Central America – to try to change people’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
