the french american journalist to enroll in one of these conversion therapy centers undercover. the one we chose is one of the best known it has existed for about 20 years and office courses spanning several days to gay men from all over the world. the website highlights fraternal friendship in a well being and masculinity it invites participants to register online when they're up front about the pricing $650.00 for a weekend and to get in are journalist 1st had to complete a long medical and psychological questionnaire all they want. they're asking if i've had a mental illness diagnosed bipolar borderline clinical depression. and a lot they're asking if i have a history of suicide attempts or if i threaten to kill myself when i see the

necessity. as if for addiction treatment he is asked to justify his motivations and sign an 8 page contract with a law making terms and conditions. just one paragraph states i will not have 6 cheering or after the course by the way the organizers all participants knew about. the address where the course will take place is kept secret until the very last moment. equipped with a hidden camera on journalist who calls himself felix has an appointment with one of the course leaders in this hotel parking lot. those in charge of very careful so far 20 american states have banned these therapies from minus and the starting to closely monitor the methods of these organizations.

felix will be taken to the place where the sessions are how. hello i think. 2 hours from philadelphia in the countryside on generalist is welcomed by someone who is in charge of the course don't actually fight for weeks feel like you but if you say i do this really was. a quick. fix. the identity of each participant is meticulously checked because you. can read any electronic in the car i think it. also. makes me feel great. great i think the rules are

strict participants are not allowed to communicate with the outside world for the duration of the course. if you kick and in this room everyone sits in a circle and will have to do a series of exercises for 3 days including the baseball bank a. thank you the course leaders have convinced this participant that he is attracted to men because his father abused him as a child to shoot to work through his anger at his abusive father he has to hit a punching bag and it was. like there was a. school to masculinity is the weekend's key words and notion that trainers say is incompatible with same sex attraction.

one of the key parts of this course is called the hugging exercise the goal to learn tenderness between men without sexual urges the leaders ask the participants to think back to their childhoods will. we go through. the all the little. this course is just one step to be supposedly cured participants have to come back multiple times for years these methods are being denounced by former trainers. about 3500 kilometers from philadelphia is phoenix arizona. a former member of the sara p. group reinvestigated has taken up residence here for 3 years roger was a participant and then a course leader. he too hoped that these courses would save his marriage.

so these are pictures from my old wife this is me and my ex-wife when we got married in 1992. and i was 21 years old. that's a long time ago. from childhood right you grew up in the mormon faith with conservative values he followed a conventional pass. to a woman he barely knew he had 5 children in 12 years. so this. this was christmas of 2000 to a picture of a happy family on the surface my sex life in my 15 year marriage i can actually tell you to moment 2 times in 15 years that was like really great everything else was just very mechanical we have sex to have children i did have suspicions that i was gay i had clearly i started developing feelings i would say when i was in high

school 1617 years old but in my world in the world that i grew up in that wasn't an option we didn't have it wasn't a choice and i live in a very small town where no one was gay the movement which sent him to conversion therapy to combat what they called his desire as we show him the images we filmed with a hidden camera he's familiar with the exercises and even introduced some of them himself. to do this exercise or was specifically to help terry terry man's belief in himself down so that he feels like i have to be fixed because that's why i'm gay because i'm not masculine it and then they go out thinking that they're broken. considers the hugging exercise ineffective and questionable they call it healthy touch. but it's incredibly unhealthy because it leads men to believe that this is going to satisfy their wounds and it's not they need their sexuality satisfied by being with

a man it's like giving an alcoholic of rum here you're not the whole again you're having a sugar a day here take a little sip maybe you'll feel better that's exactly what they do traumatized following the suicide of the depressed participant wrote you realized these conversion attempts were doomed to fail where the guys that are recovered where the guys that are living happily ever after where are they and we would ask their leaders at the meetings we'd ask them to bring one in and let us let us see them they could never show us one because they're not there. today roger is divorced and happy with his new life. so these are pictures of my family now through the ages there's pressure of me and many partners right here this is me and him this is just a few months ago is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me with him like i feel complete as a gay man ok really feel like it was a he was the last nail in the coffin if you will to shut my old life behind it was

like i finally feel like what i found as full and complete and whole as a gay man which i never thought could ever happen. raja's 3 youngest sons know his new companion and instantly accepted him. their father has left the mormon church and he finally feels free from this social and religious pressure. our investigation continues in africa where 32 countries still criminalize him a sexuality we had to. hear gay people can face up to 3 years in prison as in morocco algeria to convict them the state is particularly humiliating methods.

in this hotel in downtown cheapness skandha 21 year old gay man has been hiding from the police for several weeks. he has just been sentenced to 2 years in prison cast out by his own family he has no choice but to hide in this barren room. skandhas life changed 3 years ago when he was 1st publicly denounced and then convicted for being gay 2 more convictions followed he spent 2 months in prison. and is afraid to go back. to. the gods insulted us and hit us because we. scanned there was also the victim of a vicious anal examination that is only carried out in 8 countries it is supposed to provide proof of anal intercourse.

they made us do the test against the will of the police made us enter the room and home coughs and pull the trousers down walk to the time of the examination and i could not escape the doctor the police insulted us shouted at us and ordered us not to move. it was like being a hospital who didn't want to be ours that's acceptable. in a few days an association will try to help him flee the country he said that he can avoid going to prison. the un human rights committee recognizes the anal examination he underwent as an act of torture. dr mons at home doon is the head of the forensic medicine department at the shiny called public hospital in tunis he is one of the only medical examiners who dares to speak of this practice and openly question it back you. feel.

that. it's here in this examination room that he receives gay patients brought in by the police. is a misuse of he gets on the table and we examine him with a learned the anal examination is done in a prone position. what is it meant to find. we're meant to discover abnormal signs in the anal region or fishes. is it 100 percent reliable. do you know it must be said that it's a visual examination it's not 100 percent reliable so a tear is not always from intercourse of opposing to can tear in other ways so we must be careful about the conclusion we draw. for the free from the dog only going to this only focus of movements and if. these troubles medical examiners these

cases disturb us it's a dilemma we handed an official judicial request a court order can be refused but this is a requisition and it's binding. it is an examination that proves nothing and yet sends gay people to prison. in 2018127 were arrested interim isea and many cross the mediterranean to flee the country. scanned he says he has no hope left wants to do just this today he has an appointment with his lawyer well known in tunisia as an ardent defender of the gay community. for years moneer battle has been at war with laws he considers homophobic. it's a disgrace a country that inspects its citizens innes's what's that

a completely backward practice not only humiliating for those accused also diminishes tunisia's image. to keep skandha from going back to prison the lawyer pleaded his case with the french embassy. sentenced by that unity in courts the young man can apply for political refugee status. bravo i'm really relieved the embassy has confirmed that they've granted you a visa to go to france so you'll be an asylum seeker and aren't allowed to come back to tunisia are you sad because uncles let's. listen to snow of peace sign up to come bug. i'm already cut off from all my family here anyway i'm all alone. now you have 4 days until you leave tunisia if you so keep quiet and don't get arrested with this is that you have

a conviction over your head and see i wanted notice can be issued for huge so you have to be careful you don't go out too much. of course and they will be the deal here's your plane ticket your flight is that 2 pm. ok in a few days scanned the flies to leon in the ready and don't forget your passport. before his departure and this boyfriend sabri comes to say good bye. they've been together for 2 years. for you ok yes of them and you have my number one goal me and take care of yourself . yes of course. brees family does not know he has come his parents a fall most i'm very conservative they don't know he loves another man. a little so

. i can tell my family they might throw me out. i know what they want they want me to get married but i refused to. this for love's ganda it's going to be hard having him so far away from me i want to leave the country to. do. the next day the time has come. for the lawyer minea has come to pick up skandha they need to move fast so he is not spotted by the police. as he is every time he helps young gay people escape or near is where wait until

the last moment he knows and could be arrested. if they ask a customs why you're going to france say you've been invited by an association to attend a meeting there ok. money and will accompany scandal all the way. the young man seems a little lost it's his 1st time on a plane to avoid attracting attention with filming with a cell phone. and. i have given him a bit of money so he can buy a sim card or something to eat. otherwise he has nothing now. as a people we. there are absolutely i mean there's. a hasty farewell embrace . skandha has to go through

customs. just like i'll be relieved when he calls me from inside to tell me he's ordered why you still want to age. there could be a wanted notice for him that i don't know about the. sky and the flies alone to leone hoping not to be arrested before his departure. among the african nations that criminalize same sex acts uganda in east africa is one of the most repressive and. buried in this small cemetery 2 hours from the capital is one of uganda's best known activists david katter a 47 year old gay man was murdered with a hammer in 2011. david's

mother and 3 of his closest friends came to pay their respects. gay activist sam fought for years alongside the late campaigner he too was. not too old homophobic you know in this sense he goes he was good. to these days. isn't. it one of the tab really. back then a proposed law or in uganda called for the denunciation of lesbians and gay men the faces and the names of 100 of them were published in the press it triggered a manhunt there were still a local feel. called the bitch i did so what. in 2014 a ugandan court struck down the country's anti homosexuality act which had gone an international condemnation but gay people are still considered criminals and they

can still face knife in prison. this country of about 44000000 inhabitants has one of the fastest growing economies on the african continent with a growth rate of around 7 percent but behind this image of modernity and ice a deep rooted homophobia. closely affiliated with power. religion is everywhere here all the way to the streets 85 percent of ugandans the christians and 14 percent muslims there are a few dissenting voices most are aligned in their homophobia and their support of the government's homophobic legislation. in the muslim community only the toba movement a radical branch of islam agrees to receive us and discuss the subject of homosexuality. that. the mosques spokesman shaykh

syria has no qualms about making violently homophobic remarks. almost we can't even go to because. this is that is a prevailing there is still. work to countries but you know you start to. show you for no reason then i think you. will lose the show that got to you. and if your son said he was gay how would you react i do know. because i don't want to see my baby talking to me sharing with me and even in this

subdivision that i'll be lending to him. on the outskirts of the capital kampala behind this gate is one of the few n.g.o.s helping them it's name icebreakers. about 10 young. people are housed in this shelter one of very few in uganda. egypt. driven out by their parents victims of daily assaults they know they are safe here. it's very secure here as long as you rick i don't do anything but as long as you are here we can't protect you we know our clients are still were there and this is

the 1st elvis the director of the association fears intrusions and police raids so he had a security system installed. in total there are 6 cameras 2 outside and 4 inside connected to a security p.c. . routes. these and necessary precautions a year ago elvis was the victim of an attempted murder he narrowly avoided the car of a man who tried to run him over. i fear for my life every day when i'm moving when i'm sleeping when i'm going somewhere when i'm in this office when i'm outside baghdad i fear for my life every day in the us some people would find your narrowed to feel a free. and. is that. because we're all going to have police the police walk by the police where dr king live because of my situation by the person who is trained to

kill is good being there for. the people taken in by ice breakers of all suffered violent assaults one time or another shell me 21 was attacked by neighbors with machetes concrete blocks and i guess he now remains cooped up in this shelter unable to live a normal life. didn't. get the jewels. and has to this in the speech. and at school to think. for those who like shami do not dare go to the hospital for fear of discrimination the icebreakers association has opened a small clinic a volunteer doctor comes in to give consultations up until 2014 allure oblige health castoff to denounce gay patients. ok.

under the law say if their health. cheat homosexuals. they are kind of like they should report to police if you don't you know also all kind of like promoting this law has now been abolished that gay people are still discriminated against by many in the medical profession as a result 14 percent of the gay community is a positive compared to 6 percent of the general population. and now we go back to france in the young van song regional director of the association nuclear fusion comes to get scammed the young gay choosey and who fled the country . in the end he managed to evade the police. i think we were happy and proud to welcome you. every year vanstone welcomes dozens of french and foreign gay

people to leo and the association looks off to more than a 1000 young. people across from us already there i don't want to talk to most of it we're going to your flat so you can meet your flatmate he's a really nice guy ok ready. skandhas future apartment is located in the city center. you don't get the measure of security to please turn off the camera we don't want people to see where the laughs are to the bottom of. why and that is key some but also the young people might be at risk is fine because of their family or community and clearly they're at risk if people know where they are. some of their lives have been threatened like scandals new flatmates who doesn't want to be filmed. or getting wet on the bottom of fears or floods that after the mile give you the keys. so secure your flat here thank you

from the homes but i don't let's have a look at the 70 square metre apartment is rented by the association alongside about 10 of those in the city. for no conclusion on the phone for a few days until rome becomes free you'll sleep here ok and it's all set up now. and this was crucial decision i often tell these people remember you're in a country where you have rights gay people have rights homophobia is illegal and i walk see if someone insults you in the street or attacks you and you can file a complaint and they'll get in trouble. when we leave scandal that 90 seems a bit funny no one. ringback ringback ringback 5 months later we check in on him again the young man has regained his

confidence. sure they played after major city sitten me me me me kitty kitty he has been granted refugee status and every week he takes classes to improve his french he's a hard working student so friendship what's friendship in the song a relationship between friends such friendship is it important to you in terms of course if you tell him you have you made any friends in the op does them yes i have some already yeah. that's great scanned our i'm proud of you. thanks. since coming to front skandha has dared to dream again he wants to become a headdress or i will soon start his training. in leon he can walk openly through the streets he's no longer hiding.

and the young are sorry you know or feel free to say. there's no soul i feel very happy. a few days ago scandal learned that his boyfriend was about to leave china zia to escape an arranged marriage every year an estimated 500 gay people flee their homes to find sanctuary in from. to last for eternity and for the people to build churches in berlin and blamed him for. their massive walls are a safe haven for a new generation of worshippers. their doors are open for. new. i sit in only. 30 minutes on d w. one

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