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Anti ‘Gay Conversion Therapy’ Backers Seek More Regions

Gay rights advocates in San Francisco are regrouping to broaden their fight.  They seek to ban therapy, focused on converting teens with feelings of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender issues to straight feelings, into other regions and States.

California is the first State in the nation to sign this kind of bill into law.  California Governor Jerry Brown has labelled this kind of therapy as “quackery” with “no basis in science or medicine”.

Currently this ban applies only to therapists who are licensed and not to ministers or other lay people.

Some Christian legal groups are planning on fighting this in federal court.

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Syphilis cases hit all-time high in San Francisco

Its a syphilis epidemic, so say officials with public health in San Francisco.

Among gay men in San Francisco, syphilis increased by 25% in 2010 vs last year.  It has reached an all time high in the city.

The facts point to the outbreak being predominantly in gay males, not in women or in heterosexual men.

See Syphilis cases hit all-time high | Andrea Koskey | Local | San Francisco Examiner.