The hearing of a ‘gay cure’ therapist scheduled later this month is to deviate from convention and be held in secret.

A number of complaints have been made to the General Medical Council (GMC) regarding the ‘gay conversion therapy’ techniques practiced by the Belfast-based Dr Paul Miller.

In May 2011, London-based journalist Patrick Strudwick complained to the GMC after receiving what he deemed to be ‘inappropriate’ treatment’ from Miller. 

The leading group representing psychologists and therapists who believe that homosexuality is a treatable condition has lost its tax exempt status after it failed to file the correct paperwork with the US Inland Revenue Service (IRS) for three years running.

The most pro-gay presidential inauguration ceremony in history concluded Monday (21 January) concluded with a benediction from an Episcopalian priest who included gays as among those created in God's image.

The Rev. Luis Leon of St. John's Church, located across the street from the White House, prayed that 'with your blessing, we can see each other created in your image, a unit of God’s grace, unprecedented, irrepeatable and irreplaceable.'

Louie Giglio, the man who had been chosen to give the benediction at US President Barack Obama's second inauguration, has dropped out of the program after a controversy arose over an anti-gay sermon he gave in the mid-90s.

'Due to a message of mine that has surfaced from 15-20 years ago, it is likely that my participation, and the prayer I would offer, will be dwarfed by those seeking to make their agenda the focal point of the inauguration,' Giglio said in a statement Thursday (10 January).

A federal appeals court has put California’s plans to ban ‘gay cure’ therapy for minors on hold.

On Friday (21 December), a three-judge panel of the ninth US circuit court of appeals issued an emergency order putting the law on hold until the court can hear full arguments on the measure’s constitutionality.

Despite the World Health Organization calling it ‘dangerous and abusive’, the court is concerned it will affect the First Amendment rights of psychiatrists and churches who would have been banned from carrying out the practice.

A US federal judge has blocked California's plans to ban 'gay cure’ therapy for minors.

The bill stops psychiatrists and churches from performing so-called reparative therapy on under 18s and any mental health professional who violates the law would be stripped of their license to practice.

It was set to be rolled out across the state in the New Year.

Singer Clay Aiken paid a visit to The Dr. Oz Show Wednesday (28 November) to weigh in on controversial ex-gay reparative therapy who said he was 'heartbroken' that the topic was even being featured on the daytime syndicated show.

'Just by the nature of the name, reparative therapy, you're implying that something needs to be repaired - you're implying that something's wrong in the first place,' Aiken said. 'I think that puts people back 10 steps on their (coming out) journey and my journey took 10 years.'

A group of gay men in the US are suing therapists for fraud, slamming their methods to 'cure' them of homosexuality as a 'sham'.

The lawsuit filed in New Jersey yesterday (28 November) claims Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (JONAH) lied about being able to turn gay people straight.

JONAH claimed to be able to rid the four men of their homosexual desires using scientifically proven methods which, according to the plaintiffs, included stripping naked and beating effigies of their mothers.

A New Jersey Democrat and gay father of two has announced that he will introduce a bill that would ban the use of so-called ‘reparative therapies,’ or ‘sexual conversion therapies’ aimed at changing people’s sexual orientations in those under 18.

Just days after California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law that bans so-called 'conversation' therapy that attempts to turn gay kids straight, a conservative group is suing to keep the law from going into effect.

The Pacific Justice Institute filed a lawsuit late Monday (1 October) in federal court in Sacramento claiming that the law is a violation of free speech rights of therapists and of the privacy rights of patients and their parents.