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The Aversion Project was a medical torture programme in South Africa led by Aubrey Levin [1] during apartheid.The project identified gay soldiers and conscripts who used drugs in the South African Defence Forces (SADF).
In a project headed by Aubrey Levin during the 1970s to 1980s, the South African Defence Force forced lesbian and gay military personnel to undergo "sex-change" operations. This was part of a secret program to purge homosexuality in the army.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Levin subjected many homosexual men and women to electroshock or chemical castration, and over 900 conscripts were forced to undergo involuntary sexual reassignment surgery. In 1995 Levin moved to Canada and acquired a license to practice medicine. He became professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of ...
July – The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project launches a case in the Witwatersrand Local Division challenging the constitutionality of the provisions of the Marriage Act that limit marriage to opposite-sex couples. 30 November – A five-judge panel of the Supreme Court of Appeal hands down a judgment in the Fourie case. The majority of four ...
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A famous loss-aversion experiment is to offer a subject two options: They can either either receive something like $30 in guaranteed money — or a coin flip where they can receive either $100 or ...
Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, it was a common LDS Church practice to excommunicate individuals who identified as gay, without distinguishing between attraction and behavior. A book by former LDS Church president Spencer W. Kimball , The Miracle of Forgiveness , counseled individuals with "same-sex attraction" that they could overcome ...