NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- Editor-In-Chief of Box Turtle Bulletin Jim Burroway talks with Anderson Cooper about his detailed research into the story of a five-year-old boy named Kirk Murphy, who was subjected to an ex-gay experiment in 1970 by now disgraced psychoanalyst and ex-gay proponent George Rekers.
Murphy, under the care of Dr Ivor Lovaas and George Rekers, then a doctoral student, of UCLA, underwent therapy to eliminate supposed effeminate behaviors. In 1974, Lovaas and Rekers jointly published a paper about the boy they renamed "Kraig," heralding his treatment for "childhood cross-gender problems" a success and claiming he had been transformed from a gender-confused homosexual-in-waiting to a healthy, heterosexual young man.
On the back of this study, Rekers built a career as an anti-gay activist and a supposed expert in childhood sexual development. He co-founded the Family Research Council and championed reparative therapy to turn gay men straight. In 2003, Kirk, aged 38 years old and gay, committed suicide.
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