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do you remember when 24 year old g.s. visits his mother in the suburbs of paris he's always on god. he tries to be as discreet as possible. over the cliff put my hood up those who deny fasten my coat all the way up so nobody recognizes me all the. b.s. is gay he grew up here in general a town of some 47000 residents outside of paris people around here know his face the young sales advisor has become the target of insults since stating on social media that he is gay.

even close you're going to say gave us did to me what did he say. mr shrum used to it. he was in his car. over the course of a year yes just reported $23.00 physical and verbal assaults. he's filmed the assault with his cell phone and kept some of the videos evidence of this daily harassment. that ended in these videos he's barash twist learns of. the 2 kilometers to his mother's house have become treacherous. sparklies i stay off the main road so i only take the side streets to avoid people especially young people i also avoid the rough areas. but today his precautions and not enough. noise oh no some young people among them is one of his abusers sitting

on a railing yes tells us that this man threatened his life and is due to appear in court soon. hit me he slapped me he spat in my face he insults me all the time he's kind of the ringleader of the neighborhood homophobes so i'm not welcome here. turns back using a hidden camera we confront his tormentor. i want to know why did lee s. accuse you of a death threat if you claim and i said mohawk these are mentally ill what do you care if i'm guilty or not we are journalists. ok see you later. a few metres farther on 2 teenagers come to meet us. they know you don't like seeing him in the neighborhood where he can set foot here he can come here he's going to coming here the signing 101 k. you don't like him saying it. it's the he's trying to make us become like him you

become gay you know he can come here and turn this around but. according to one study 39 percent of gay people living in low income areas have been subjected to physical assault but that doesn't mean this that in other parts of from in 2018231 physical assaults were reported that's roughly one attack every 36 hours i don't know $27.00 was beaten with a helmet in the french capital. 40 had his nose broken in central paris. like a virus this hatred is spreading throughout the internet. stop homophobia an association that defends the rights of. people a team of volunteers to track down homophobic comments and videos online.

for which we burn those. what's wrong with that if i'm left alone with the gays all burn them all because you can be gay but you can't pretend it's normal sons of. newly come across 10 to 13000 a year i'll stop homophobia makes a list and then we send it to a lawyer to file complaints that it was a good. place come find you and show you what a real man. mr joe the man at the wheel is about to drive 700 kilometers to assault again man he found on the internet. no one will know but i'll start with you i swear you are the biggest mystery of all of this for for a long time i will have my fun if you. that's it until one of us is going on the pavement. we see him assaulting his victim who following the attack was unable to work for 30 days. he will look it appears he

broke his arm and leg strangled for this unprovoked violence the man was given a 2 year suspended sentence for aggravated assault if you do in fact this kind of video not only spreads hate it encourages it today someone drive 700 kilometers to strangle someone tomorrow it might be someone with a go pro and a gun shooting at people in a gay area that's the truth of the matter. homophobic slurs have been outlawed in france since 2004 and yet homophobia is still very real meanwhile in africa more than half the countries criminalize lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people thinking they love. in uganda they can even face life imprisonment they're known as the hoff dead. to escape from the police some seek refuge in this high security shelter. some people would find your narrowed.

similarly inching musea same sex activity can lead to a prison sentence and the state employs humiliating methods for a conviction. here is examined in this position the examination is claimed to prove anal intercourse but it has no actual scientific value this degrading practice is applied in 8 countries. it was like being right i was forced to do it how it's not acceptable. we also look to the united states where gay pride was born a little over 50 years ago then the supreme court has ruled that same sex marriage is legal in all 50 states but while this might allude to an image of tolerance. bizarre so-called conversion therapies initiated by evangelical movements are still being practiced. there's no scientific evidence that anyone is born yet we

infiltrated one of them. and i'm not scared and to make it 700000 americans have suffered through these kinds of conversion therapy and live with the devastating effects we want to look into the source of this homophobia. about an hour from philadelphia in new jersey we find the small town of viewing. here a woman has made it her mission to quote convert gay people into straight people. to. you. to. know a devout believer has been married for 15 years a graphic designer and a mother to 2 teenagers her life hasn't always been this organized i was in the lifestyle of homosexuality. you know i literally was living in

a bisexual lifestyle i was with men i was with women and i was very angry about what happened so i was very confused i was very annoyed. today chanel has turned her back on a life that she says brought her nothing but pain. in 2015 she costar to a ministry program called love broke the chains to reach out to the l g b t community as she puts it. this morning she is meeting 2 young women. alexis. and tanya. they came all the way from michigan to meet her oh right now you guys very. all right here we go. being both lesbians and believers these 2 women feel in conflict with their faith welcome to my home. now and as

a counselor for them of course i'll let you guys have a seat but you know here's one of the 1st things i wanted to share with you and i always pull this book out and also this image because people see me now but you don't know my story completely. all these pictures that's where i was because i loved i always wanted to model craziness and if i was not married then i probably would be a hot mess using these photos from her past as a bisexual stripper chanel wants to show young women that it is possible to change alexis 21 has been coming here for several months for tonya 43 it's the 1st time i saw tonya so my question for you at this point is as it relates to same sex attraction are you comfortable there was a time when i was dating 7 girls to serve in these little. you know i had a girl for every day and that was. you know so i needed to be broken free

from that you know because that was what was crucial in me was damaging me it was also doing my saw. she can who she is understand her emotions and her feelings give all of that to god and let him guide her to the type of relationship she should have. with the us if you were women both men her 1st of all the birth unnatural act. well as they begin with a literal reading of a biblical text that is more than 2500 years old the goal is to make these women feel guilty but the litany does not stop there. this sunday chanel has invited them to an evangelist stick ceremony company ready to hear the word of the lord. to the media ready to hear the word of the lord. how much you're ready to hear the word of

the hour. which it got so i would be distributed about 50 believe it's meat in this small church in new jersey every week they come to listen to their past december hans. blix nation ask whatever happened when the mission to change the reservation with sexuality. whatever it is that's been trying to take power for your mom came along and over your body you have the courage to. take it because. i need you right now to stretch your legs to attack him and say look take control nicorette gum and i. thank you thank you for galvanized by his words the followers fall into a trance can hear that they can to get him back up to her now hame to live a happy and healthy. i was feeling sick sham.

of his tanya is overcome by this spiritual fervor the pastor promises he will help her cost out what he calls her demons. to help him i have my. neck. all the members of this church belong to the born again movement after repenting best since the believers say they can be reconciled with god. on your wants to believe that this session will help her change her sexuality. isn't. i believe and i believe there will be.

new new theories that even before me the way harmful. like this today tanya and alexis are continuing to follow chanel's program but how long can they ensure this stranglehold that religion has on their sexuality. according to the american psychiatric association the consequences of conversion therapy are devastating depression anxiety suicide. the practices employed are emotionally damaging and even amounts to brainwashing. these organizations authorized in the united states for adults are very secretive. all our requests for filming were denied in philadelphia we asked a 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 web site highlights fraternal friendship you know well being and masculinity it invites participants to register online. 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 they want they're asking if i have a history of suicide attempts or if i threaten to kill myself when i see it in the

. 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 a green 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 howled. hello. how are you doing. 2 hours from philadelphia in the countryside on generalist is welcomed by someone who is in charge of the course and doctors i fully expect you'll see what i think you see is for everyone was. a quick fix to the identity of each participant is meticulously checked previously. any electronic in the car i think it. almost. makes me feel great. they gave me great i think the rules are strict participants are not allowed to communicate with the outside world for the

generation of the course. it was kicked in this room everyone sits in a circle and will have to do a series of exercises for 3 days including the baseball back a. 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 the ocean 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. were to go through. the it. 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 life this is me and my ex-wife when we got married in 1992. when i was 21 years old that's a long time ago. from childhood wrote you grew up in the mormon faith with conservative values he followed a conventional pos. married 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 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 desires we show him the images we filmed with a hidden camera he's familiar with the exercises and even introduced some of them himself. did this exercise it was specifically to help tara tara 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 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 leaves 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 know the whole if you're having a sugary thing here take a little sip maybe you'll feel better that's exactly what they do traumatized following the suicide of the depressed participant rosie realized these conversion attempts were doomed to fail were the guys that are recovered where the guys that are living happily ever after where are they and we would ask where are the 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 like i 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 game in which we never thought could ever happen. roger'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 choose. here 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. and this 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. reason was how 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.

to the test against the will of the police major sent to the room in hong kong trials is what at this time of the examination i could not escape the doctor the police insulted us shouted at us and ordered us not to move. it was like being right. i didn't want. that except. in a few days an association will try to help him flee the country 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 monzer honduran 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 but you. feel.

that. it's here in this examination room that he receives gay patients brought in by the police. is a mystery that 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. this we're meant to discover abnormal signs in the anal region of fishes. is it 100 percent reliable. for 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 people who don't want to. move its energies on these troubles medical examiners these cases disturb us it's

a dilemma we handed an official judicial request by a court order can be refused but this is a requisition and it's binding. this is an examination that proves nothing and yet sends gay people to prison. in 2018127 were arrested in tunisia and many crossed the mediterranean to flee the country. skandha who says he has no hope left wants to do justice 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. homocysteine. 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. to keep scandal from going back to prison the lawyer pleaded his case with the french embassy. sentenced by the tunisian courts the young man can apply for political refugee status. bravo and i'm really relieved the embassy has confirmed that they have granted you a visa to go to france so you'll be an asylum seeker and aren't allowed to come back to 10 asia are you sad because articles that says it isn't peace is not a decent to come but. i'm already cut off from all my family here anyway i'm all alone. now you have 4 days until you leave tunisia a few home so keep quiet and don't get arrested with this if you have a conviction over your head and see

a wanted notice can be issued for usage so you have to be careful please don't go out too much with her she will of course and then be the deal here's your plane ticket your flight is at 2 pm ok in a few days scan the flies to leon record of the planet don't forget your passport. before his departure skandhas boyfriend sabriye comes to say goodbye. they've been together for 2 years. for you a k 12 yes of them if you have my number one call me and take care of yourself. yes of course. subways family does not know he has come his parents to follow muslim very conservative they don't know he loves another man along the lines of

the whole don't know who told you what i can tell my family they might throw me out . of the so i know what they want they want me to get married but i refused to go as far loves ganda as 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 nea is why wait until the

last moment he knows scanned could be arrested. if you. if they ask a customs why you're going to france they say you've been invited by an association to attend a meeting there ok. 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. don't know. i've given him a bit of money so he can buy a sim card or something to eat. otherwise he has nothing now. the people we send there are absolutely penniless. the 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 boarded why you still want to rage. i feel 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. illegal buried in this small cemetery 2 hours from the capital is one of you. ganders best known activists david catto 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 activists fought for years alongside the late campaign it was. i'm not homophobic you know this is just because he was. teased this. is. one of the tabloids. back then a proposed floor 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. still a local feel. in trente 14 a ugandan court struck down the country's anti homosexuality act which had gone and international condemnation but gay people are still considered criminals and they

can still say so nice in prison. in 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 lies 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 toby line movement a radical branch of islam agrees to receive us and discuss the subject of homosexuality. in the mosque spokesman shaykh ahmed do and

assyria has no qualms about making violently homophobic remarks. almost assure you that we're going to dinner tonight because this disease that is a prevailing in the bush still. has stages is what i mean for those who took him for all the world to countries but in this long you start eleanor into our out show you for reason then i think it's big business to work for newsday and so that at least 2 can have a fear any doing. to our kids. and if your son said he was gay how would you react i do know that. and i. associate to them i stop one particular notice because i don't want to see my good talking to me sharing with me and even this obvious and that i'll be limiting it to

him company to the store. on the outskirts of the capital kampala behind this gates is one of the few n.g.o.s helping them it's name icebreakers. about 10 young l.g. b.t.i. people are housed in this shelter one of very few in uganda. kenya. driven out by their parents victims of daily assaults they know they are safe here . if you are here as long as you stick which i don't do anything but as long as you are here we. revere and. elvis the director of the

association fears intrusions and police raids so we had a security system installed. in total there are 6 cameras 2 outside and 4 inside connected to a security p.c. . rads. 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 going somewhere when i'm in the swim i get a feel for my life every day in fact some people who would find your narrowed to want to kill you. there's nothing we can do because we're all going to the police and the police were able to cure me because of my situation by the person who's

trained to kill me is good being there for. the people taken in by ice breakers they've all suffered violent assaults one time or another shell me 21 was attacked by neighbors with machetes concrete blocks and i see now remains cooped up in the shelter unable to live a normal life. beyond this to get the jewels and eyes to this speak to the end of the school it is. 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. to give consultations up until 2014 allure oblige health castoff to denounce gay patients. blood pressure is ok.

under the law say if their health. cheat homosexuals possible they are kind of like. should reported to police if you don't you also kind of like. this law has now been abolished but gay people are still discriminated against by many in the medical profession as a result 14 percent of the gay community is a child of the positive compared to 6 percent of the general population. and now we go back to france in leo vanstone regional director of the association nuclear fusion comes to get scammed the young gay to new zealand who fled the country in the end he managed to evade the police. i think we're 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 director want up to 900 we're going to your flat so you can meet your flatmate he's a really nice guy get ready. gondolas future apartment is located in leone city center. situated please turn off the camera we don't want people to see where the laughs are to the bottom of it why. the young people might be at risk is fine because of their family or community. they're at risk if people know where they are . some of their lives have been threatened like skandhas new flatmates. he doesn't want to be filmed. for going to work from the bottom up here's your flagship after the name i'll give you the heat. so secure your

flattery here thank you for missions but i don't let's have a look the 70 square meter apartment is rented by the association alongside about 10 others in the city. for no conclusion on the phone for a few days until room becomes free you'll sleep here ok and it's all set up now. with your own decision now i often tell these people remember you're in a country where you have rights gay people have rights homophobia is illegal someone insults you in the street or attacks you you can file a complaint and they'll get in trouble and are the problem. when we leave scandal that night he seems a bit full no one. ringback ringback 5 months later we check in on him again the young man has regained his confidence. to know that they've paid after me suited me me me me

key. he has been granted refugee status and every week he takes classes to improve his french he's a hard working student he's just so friendships what's friendship a relationship between friends with sense friendship is it important to you of course to be challenging him have you made any friends in the oh. yes i have some already yeah. that's greats gondar i'm proud of you. thanks. since coming to from scandal has dared to dream again he wants to become a headrest and will soon start his training. in leo he can walk openly through the streets he's no longer hiding. in the

young man's sorrow i 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. harsh beats for animals anjali gobo on she's provided a home to more than 800 creatures. but her dedication actually goes much further and it always has for her entire life. he visits anjali global market and inspirational one and. global 3000. in the midst of g.w. . to only. one or not to well.

what about a should come instead. of. a change in thinking is changing the economy to create something that. the economics magazine maybe green jobs. on t w. i was history when i arrived here i slept with 6 people in a room very similar it was hard it was for. i even got white hairs. learning the german language head me a lot so this gives me a little push to nick. to entrust the slaves you want to know their story. for margaret.

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