'They break you': Colombia debates a ban on conversion therapy

Teona Gherasim

BOGOTA — Juan Viana recalls having a happy childhood in a Christian community in Bogotá but when he came out as gay at age 18, that all changed. “Unfortunately, that community of support became a place of deep repudiation of who I really was,” said Viana, now 48. His family took him to a center for ‘conversion therapy’ — aimed at changing a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity — on the advice of a psychologist. “I was told that homosexuality was a disease, that it was caused by a

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'They break you': Colombia debates a ban on conversion therapy https://www.nbcnews.com - 14.10.2025 15:29