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Richard Cohen
Founder of the International Healing Foundation
Unlicensed "Therapist"
—Advised beating a pillow and cuddling (or “touch therapy”) as ways to “cure” homosexuality.
—His testimony was used by Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays in an amicus brief filed in defense of Proposition 8.
The GLAAD Accountability Project catalogs anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and discriminatory actions of politicians, commentators, organization heads, religious leaders, and legal figures, who have used their platforms, influence and power to spread misinformation and harm LGBTQ people.
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