In 1948, James Peterson was lobotomized for being gay. His parents committed him after discovering his love for another man. The asylum labeled it "sexual perversion" and "treated" him with a transorbital lobotomy-ice picks hammered above his eye sockets into his frontal lobe. It took just 15 minutes, but it erased his vibrant, artistic spirit forever. The doctor assured his parents: "Your son's perversion is corrected." What returned was an empty shell. no desires, no passions, not even for life. Entry wounds above his eyes, a vacant stare where intelligence once shone.
The doctor notes: "Patient calm, no deviant interests. Success." But that "calm" was brain damage; the "success" was personality murder. James never painted, laughed, or loved again. He lived 46 more years in a group home, a hollow routine without preferences or joy, dying in 1994 at 74. His parents visited once, saw the void they'd created, and never came back. To them, a son who was nothing beat one who was gay. This event wasn't isolated. Churches offered their own brutal
"treatments" to "fix" homosexuality. In the 1970's, Brigham Young University (BYU), tied to the Mormon Church, subjected gay students to electroshock aversion therapy—zapping them while showing same-sex images, conditioning pain with desire.
Other faiths pushed exorcisms to cast out "demons," or intense prayer sessions claiming to pray away the gay, often leading to self-harm or suicide. These weren't cures; they were trauma disguised as salvation.
We've come far-conversion therapy is banned in many places, and love is increasingly celebrated. But remember James and countless others: their stories fuel our fight for dignity. No one should be "treated" for being themselves.
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tell me ur stupid without telling me ur stupid: many of the 3rd class passengers on the titanic were immigrants from poor countries who sold essentially everything they had to get that ticket and get a better life, in ireland it was common to send one adult to america to work++
Why is the killer’s face blurred, & the victims face on display? Why is the killers’ excuse always in the headline. I will always call out the ways in which the media uses language & imaging to illicit justification or empathy for the perpetrators, and how they protect them.
the memeification of Epstein has worked to obscure the horror of his extensive crimes. This man raped and trafficked CHILDREN. He destroyed countless lives and escaped accountability for years due to his powerful network of friends, associates, and co conspirators
she was a teenager who grew up in an environment that indoctrinated her and told her that was what was right- she has since unlearned that and shown consistent support for palestine and called for a ceasefire. maybe the qrts should channel this energy onto an actual zionist!
twitter activists want people to educate themselves but when they actually do that and change for the better, y'all still complain & hold it against them. just say you don't really care about the matter & just use it as a gotcha moment in stupid fanwars & to “justify” your hatred