In early April I attended a conference in Los Angeles put on by the statewide LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) rights group Equality California with my husband, Keith, and other Gold Coast activists.
Evan Low, the Assembly's LGBT Caucus Chair and the sponsor of Assembly Bill 2943 banning “conversion therapy” quackery, reported that in the Assembly subcommittee on consumer protection, several dozen members of the religious right flooded the room and testified against the bill, with only one person lobbying for AB 2943.
One speaker even tried to beckon Assemblymember Low to heterosexuality – publicly, seriously – which is what so-called “conversion therapy” proposes to do: through counseling and various other practices, to “change” gay and lesbian people into heterosexuals.