Before and during her time in the camp, she writes down her experiences and her eventual escape. The teenage girl Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy camp to be cured of her homosexuality. Most information is gathered from media and books as in the book The Miseducation of Cameron Post. This is often done with conversion therapy.Ĭonversion therapy is an issue that many people are unaware of but if they do know of it, people are commonly uncertain of what conversion therapy is like. Those tendencies differ in intensity however, a certain number of individuals is feeling threatened by members of the LGBTQ+-community and desire to interfere in personal lives to change the homosexuality of a person. Those negative tendencies can be especially seen in the church and are often validated with religious arguments but naturally, not all tendencies can be noticed from religious institutions. Nowadays an overall accepting and even supporting position for the community can be seen, but certain negative tendencies still exist. Mondimore 4ff.) to presenting homosexuality as a sin in medieval and still modern times.
From accepting homosexuality 1 as normal in ancient Greece (cf.
Throughout history, the opinion regarding members of the LGBTQ+-community has changed drastically. The Effects of God’s Promise on the young adults Cameron right before going to Conversion therapyģ.4. The portrayal of conversion therapy in “The Miseducation of Cameron Post”ģ.1.
Defining Young Adult fiction and its protagonistsģ.0. Methods of therapy and treatment in the 1990s in the USĢ.0. Health care and religious conversion therapyġ.2. Defining an accurate image of conversion therapy in the United States in the 1990sġ.1.
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