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On fifth try in five years, Colorado lawmakers move to ban...

Editor's note: House lawmakers on Feb. 19 passed the bill banning sexual orientation conversion therapy for minors by a vote of 42-20. Two Republicans...

Bill to ban LGBTQ conversion therapy dies third year in a...

It took Ericka L. Salerno a lot of courage Wednesday to tell the story of years of abuse, suffered at the hands of those...

Conversion-therapy ban killed again in a divided legislature

  A bill to ban so-called pray-the-gay-away therapy died again under the dome of a divided Capitol for the second year in a row. From The Associated...

Suicide shadows Colorado’s ‘pray the gay away’ debate

  Brad Allen was 31 when he planned to stage his suicide to look like an accident. He wouldn't leave a note. “I would just leave...

#Coleg Notebook: No ‘pray the gay away,’ no teen pregnancy prevention

House bans conversion therapy  The American Psychiatric Association officially began opposing "conversion" or "reparative" therapy, the the psychological practice that tries to turn homosexuals into heterosexuals,...