Help make history with Brandon West’s (me!) grassroots team and movement leading local efforts to ban a dangerous, harmful, and widely discredited practice called conversion “therapy” by showing up to the FINAL reading on which an ordinance created by Brandon and added to by the legal department to ban the harmful practice will be voted on and hopefully passed!
WHERE? 📍
4th floor of the Cuyahoga County Administrative Headquarters at 2079 East 9th Street, Cleveland, OH 44115. Validation is available for meeting attendees who park in the attached garage. Please park on the 5th level if possible as that is where the sky bridge connects to the 4th floor. If parking on the 5th level is not possible, there are elevators that can take you to the 5th level.
WHEN? ⏱️
4:30 PM to sign up to speak or to show up early to make sure you have a seat. 5:00 PM is when the meeting officially starts.
More information about conversion “therapy” is below. Thank you so much and we hope to see you there!
WHAT IS CONVERSION THERAPY?
Conversion therapy, sometimes called "reparative therapy" or "gay cure therapy," refers to any form of intervention aimed at forcibly changing and suppressing an LGBTQIA+ individual's sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
In simpler terms, it's any practice that attempts to stop or suppress someone from being LGBTQIA+.
THIS STILL HAPPENS?
Yes, at an alarming rate with Ohio ranking 5th in the nation for conversion “therapy” practices. It’s not been banned federally or in the state of Ohio.
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