History Main / CureYourGays

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* ''QueerAsFolk'' tried this on Emmett with a church organization called "See the Light". It culminated in a rather amusing scene in which Emmet and another "cured" lesbian have sex; they both try to envision a perfect, sexy member of the opposite sex, but end up fantasizing about those of their own. Emmett got better, naturally.

* Literally happens to [[spoiler:Mizuki]] in EfAFairyTaleOfTheTwo.

* Hilariously subverted in a recent Justice Society issue. http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2089770.html?
* The XMen focused on this. Being a mutant can be cured. Either it kills them or it turns them into an agent of Apocalypse, depending on the media.

* ''Far From Heaven'' has Dennis Quaid's character seek out a psychologist to cure his homosexuality. It doesn't work, of course.

* ''Save Me'' centres around a drug-addicted gay man who enters an ex-gay program at the request of his Catholic family shortly after an accidental overdose. The ex-gay program itself is shown in a surprisingly positive light, with the two camp runners (a couple whose only gay son committed suicide) being portrayed as genuinely compassionate and understanding, albeit a bit misguided.

* Greg Egan's short story "Coccoon" has the eponymous treatment for pregnant women that inadvertently prevents gay-making hormones from reaching the baby.

* ''Coupling'' poked fun at this in an episode that had a lot of fun with Steve's fascination with lesbian porn. In one of the typical misunderstandings, Patrick mistakes Jane's therapist Jill for a lesbian while she thinks that Patrick is gay. Both are unaware of it, both are surprised how open the other is to being turned by the right man/woman, and both end up in bed together. Final scene of the episode is Patrick sporting a happy "wow, I scored a lesbian" smile.

* ''Too Close For Comfort''. Monroe Ficus (played by Jm. J Bullock) suddenly announced he was cured of his homosexuality, thanks to ExecutiveMeddling and public discomfiture of an openly gay character on television.

* Played horrifically straight in an episode of TheShield. A young girl is raped repeatedly by her father, brother, and others in order to cure her of her homosexuality. [[TearJerker It's implied it works.]]

* In the musical ''Only Heaven Knows'', set in the 1940s and 50s, Alan sings the TearJerker "Where is the Love?" before going to get shock treatments to cure himself of homosexuality.

* ''BloomCounty''. Steve Dallas. "He's BACK!"
** [[spoiler: Subverted when he later came out in ''Opus'', then double-subverted when he was subjected to electroshock therapy]]
** If that's the situation that lasted for most of the strip's later years after he was captured by aliens, he was at most AmbiguouslyGay. He was still into girls aside from the whole "deep kissing = risk of AIDS" thing, and if not girls then at least Lola, and if he ever indicated attraction towards guys (beyond one asexual comment misinterpreted by Opus) it was not reprinted in the collections.
*** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Dallas#Outland_and_Opus Try "Outland"]]

** In theory, he might just be [[IfItsYouItsOkay an exception]].
*** And it never seems to last...

* ''{{Saved}}''. After a devout Christian teenager learns that her boyfriend is gay, she sleeps with him in order to cure him. It doesn't work. Then the boy's parents find out and send him to an institution, where he stays for most of the movie.

* ''Save Me''. centres around a drug-addicted gay man who enters an ex-gay program at the request of his Catholic family shortly after an accidental overdose. The ex-gay program itself is shown in a surprisingly positive light, with the two camp runners (a couple whose only gay son committed suicide) being portrayed as genuinely compassionate and understanding, albeit a bit misguided.

* ''Save Me'' centres around a drug-addicted gay man who enters an ex-gay program at the request of his Catholic family shortly after an accidental overdose. The ex-gay program itself is shown in a surprisingly positive light, with the two camp runners (a couple whose only gay son committed suicide) being portrayed as genuinely compassionate and understanding, albeit a bit misguided.

** If that's the situation that lasted for most of the strip's later years after he was catured by aliens, he was at most AmbiguouslyGay. He was still into girls aside from the whole "deep kissing = risk of AIDS" thing, and if not girls then at least Lola, and if he ever indicated attraction towards guys (beyond one asexual comment misinterpreted by Opus) it was not reprinted in the collections.

* ''TheBlackMagicianTrilogy'': A character has struggled against rumours about being gay [[DeliberateValuesDissonance which have ruined his reputation]] (in his home country at least - others are more open). Eventually, when he is completely out of mana it turns out that he ''was'' gay, but he blocked out the memories and has been reflexively using Healing magic to block ''any'' sexual impulse for years. The gay man he had been travelling with had already figured it out but didn't want to say anything, and they end up becoming a couple.

* In the ''{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Beard", Elaiane tries to make a gay man "change teams". She succeeds, but only temporarily.

** [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome She just needed some deep-dicking.]]
*** Actually, it's more complicated than that. She's actually a bisexual, just that most people [[NoBisexuals doesn't accept that.]] So she identifies as a lesbian instead.

* One episode of ''VeronicaMars'' involved a high school boy who's parents sent him to a camp that was supposed to "de-gay" him.

* ''TheSimpsons''. In the episode ''Homer's Phobia'', Homer panicks that Bart might be gay after contact with kitsch memorabilia seller [[JohnWaters John]]. In order to prevent or cure any possible homosexuality, Homer takes Bart to stare at a billboard of a sexy woman (it just makes him want to smoke, since it's a cigarette ad), to a steel mill to see manly men at work (who all turn out to be gay), deer hunting, and finally just shooting at reindeer in a pen.

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* ''{{Sonichu}}''. One of the more recent plot developments involves Chris-chan donating some of his "pure straight" blood to science so that they can create a [[YouKeepUsingThatWord vaccine]] [[YouFailPharmacologyForever that erases homosexuality]] [[LegoGenetics on a genetic level]], which he uses to turn his arch-nemesis straight and "turned him good" and injects into the water supply with the help of TimeTravel, eventually eradicating homosexuality off the face of the Earth entirely. ([[{{Understatement}} Chris doesn't like gay people]], [[CaptainObvious can you tell]]?) It also cured {{Asexuality}} too. For some reason, they didn't use future Chris. And it raises some questions though: did the distribution of the gay vaccine in the past create a time paradox, or did the gay vaccine simply fail?

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* ''{{Sonichu}}''. One of the more recent plot developments involves Chris-chan donating some of his "pure straight" blood to science so that they can create a [[YouKeepUsingThatWord vaccine]] [[YouFailBiologyForever that erases homosexuality]] [[LegoGenetics on a genetic level]], which he uses to turn his arch-nemesis straight and "turned him good" and injects into the water supply with the help of TimeTravel, eventually eradicating homosexuality off the face of the Earth entirely. ([[{{Understatement}} Chris doesn't like gay people]], [[CaptainObvious can you tell]]?) It also cured {{Asexuality}} too. For some reason, they didn't use future Chris. And it raises some questions though: did the distribution of the gay vaccine in the past create a time paradox, or did the gay vaccine simply fail?

* In E.M. Forster's ''Maurice'', the titular character goes to a hypnotist to try to change. Doesn't work.

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