How Is Barcelona Handling Conversion Therapy Chop Shops? With Federal Investigations
Authorities in Spain’s Catalonia province are launching an investigation into a “gay cure” clinic in Barcelona because, according to the region’s health department, “We do not consider homosexuality as an illness, far from it.” If the investigation finds conversion therapies are indeed being practiced at the clinic, officials could levy fines against it.
This is different from the United States, because in our nation’s capital, the mayor is handing out certificates of appreciation to these organizations, while elsewhere national hotel chains are making bank from these groups.
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barcelona is, after all, the gay capital of europe!
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@PLAYS WILDLY WITH OTHERS: Best man on man action I have ever had in my life was in a phone booth in Barcelona!
¡Viva España!
Oh, the museums are great too………
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Please note, the investigation is being done by the Catalan government, not the national Spanish government. So I don’t know why the article title says “Federal”. And Catalan nationalists would probably be less than thrilled with the Spanish majors and the ¡Viva España! types.
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1. You’re gonna piss off a lot of people by calling Catalonia a “province” :P
2. Spain is technically not a federation, so there is no federal government. They have a system of “autonomous communities” instead. I know, it’s splitting hairs.
3. Ryan: it’s pronounced “T’estimo, Barcelona!” ;)
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We need to import some of these Barcelona politicians to take charge of the anti-reparative therapy movement here in the US!
@mike: Right on! Like you said, many/ most of the people in Barcelona speak Catalàn (maybe I thpelled that wrong?) which is rightly recognized by the EU as an official language.
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Yay Barcelona!