Daniel Franzese is finally ready to open up about his unusual experience with conversion therapy. In a conversation with Page Six published Tuesday, the Mean Girls star revealed the surprising truth about his past experiences with the horrific practice at just 21 years old.
For those who don’t know, conversion therapy is the use of emotional and sometimes physical therapy to “cure” queer individuals of their same-sex desires and gender identity expression.
In practice, this often amounts to torturing someone until their mind breaks. There is no evidence to support that this practice actually works, and it is often tied to religious and conservative institutions with the goal of marginalizing and punishing affected individuals, historically with extreme methods. Related: Nicole Serrano Comes Out, Reveals She Was Forced To ‘Pray The Gay Away’ As A Child Daniel’s entry into conversion therapy is one you don’t hear about often — as he wasn’t pushed into it by family or church.
He chose it. He explained to the outlet that he forced himself into the highly controversial therapy with the end goal of “converting” himself from gay to straight, revealing that he “didn’t want to be gay,” and “didn’t know what to do.” Daniel added that while he felt “lovingly tolerated” by his Catholic and Pentecostal Christian family, “the world around” him made him “feel like being gay was not ok.” So sad that our society makes people feel like they can’t be themselves!
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