Conversion therapy is happening underground in Iowa, LGBT advocates say. Some lawmakers are trying

Conversion therapy is happening underground in Iowa, LGBT advocates say. Some lawmakers are trying to stop it.


When Peter Nunn was 14 years old, his parents found a men’s workout magazine he owned and came to their own conclusions about his sexual orientation.

His father decided to take him on a trip away from their home near Atlanta, but declined to tell him where they were going until their layover in St. Louis.

It was then he revealed that on the advice of a religious organization, they were going to Sioux City where he told his son he was going to get counseling to help, “whatever weird sexual s— I had going on,” Nunn said.

For two weeks, Nunn attended a counseling center that didn’t advertise a conversion therapy service, but as a place that specialized in “spiritual warfare.”

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