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The gay therapy that felt like torture
Before the legalisation of homosexuality in July 1967, gay men in the UK lived in fear of arrest, beatings and blackmail. Some were so afraid of their sexuality that they underwent aversion therapy at psychiatric hospitals in an attempt to "cure" themselves.
Liverpool comedian and radio presenter, Peter Price, recalls an experience he describes as torture.
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