NEWS: Reparative Therapist Claims 66% Success Rate In ‘Gay Cure’ Treatment

<p>A Doctor in the USA has claimed a 66.6% success rate in his reparative therapy that claims to cue homosexuality during an interview with broadcaster, author and actor Stephen Fry.</p> <p>By Newsdesk | 16th October 2013 </p><p></p><p>During the documentary aired on BBC2 called <a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/TV-REVIEW-Stephen-Fry%E2%80%99s-Out-There/6763832">Out There</a>, Stephen Fry visited LA based Doctor Joseph Nicolosi who claims that his therapy has a 66.6% success rate.</p><p></p><p>The former director and founder of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality NARTH said that his treatment cured around two thirds of the patients he worked with, saying a third saw 'no change, a third a significant improvement and a third cure'.</p><p></p><p>Doctor Nicolosi, who’s website’s banner claims ‘You don’t have to be gay’ says that you can ‘diminish your unwanted homosexuality’ and ‘develop your heterosexual potential.’</p><p></p><p>Speaking to Fry, Doctor Nicolosi said he believes that homosexuality is based on 'trauma'.</p><p></p><p>‘We believe it’s about the parents, the boy does not disidentify with the mother and does not bond with the father, we don’t believe he was born gay,’ he told Fry.</p><p></p><p>Stephen Fry said, “For all his talk of his success, Nicolosi is unable to find one of his ex-gays to talk to us, Dan Gonzales is not one of his success stories.’</p><p></p><p>Daniel Gonzales, who spent ‘thousands of dollars’ on Dr Nicolosi’s therapy and is now a spokesperson for the Ex Gay Watch organisation - says that the treatment doesn’t work. </p><p></p><p>He said in his interview with Fry, </p><p> </p><p>‘You take these people on the posters for these ‘ex-gay’ programmes and not even they will tell you that they’re a 100% straight, they’ll give you these bizarre and convoluted answers about how they love women, their wife, but they’re not physically attracted to a woman walking down the street, you get these bizarre answers – that’s not heterosexuality.’</p><p></p><p>‘And not to mention [it’s] damaging, because every time you feel attracted to someone that’s supposedly a reminder of how you’re broken.’</p><p></p><p>Stephen Fry's documentary Out There continues tonight on BBC 2 at 9.00PM</p>