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As Colombia Debates "Conversion Therapy" Ban, One Gay Man Shares His Story Of Survival

As Colombia debates banning the abusive practice of "conversion therapy," a Colombian teacher recalls the four years of therapy he undertook as teenager and his path to self-acceptance.

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David Zuluaga

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Mariana Escobar Bernoske

BOGOTÁ — Anguish is the word David Zuluaga, a 26-year-old Colombian, uses to describe his teenage years, when he realized he was attracted to men. Having always heard of homosexuality as a sin, he could barely process his own orientation. And he came to conclude that this was a problem to be fixed.

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On March 19, Colombia's lower legislative chamber began to debate a draft law banning so-called conversion therapies known in Colombia as Efforts to Change Expressions of Sexual Orientation, Identity or Gender (ECOSIEG). The bill, known as Inconvertibles ("Unchangeable"), would prevent all forceful and abusive measures on members of the various gay communities (the LGBTIQ+ collective), with the pretext of curing individuals of their sexual orientation or gender identity.


If approved — after several debates and a vote in the Senate — and promulgated, the law would make Colombia the ninth country in the world to ban such practices.

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