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Debates re-emerge on the myth of a "gay cure."

2001

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The U.S. Surgeon General reports that there is no valid scientific evidence that homosexuality can be changed. Two years later, Robert Spitzer releases a study that attempts to show how some forms of "reparative therapy" support "highly motivated" homosexual individuals to "become" heterosexual.