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They've got a text.

That's right, dating royalty returns.

The Love Island All-Stars have got their invites and are heading back to the villa.

Which couple will wear Love's crown?

Tune in to ITV2 and ITVX on Monday 30th of January 9 p.m.

When love will reign supreme.

Hello, everybody, and welcome to Outward Slate's LGBTQ podcast.

I'm Brian Lauder and editor at Slate.

Regular listeners will probably have noticed that we end every show with a little reminder or even exhortation, you might say, to stay gay.

We started doing this early on because we thought it was a cute sign-off, but also because,

as we all know, there are plenty of people and institutions that would very much like for us not

to stay gay or trans, that would like to see us change to straight or cis, or barring that

be erased from the world entirely. But that idea, frankly, sucks, and so we stay gay. On this week's show,

we're going to hear about one of the most insidious forms of anti-gay and trans repression out there,

the ideology and practice of so-called conversion therapy. In the book, Shame, Sex, Attraction,

Survivor Stories of Conversion Therapy, Lucas F.W. Wilson, a scholar of religion, literature,

and history, and a conversion therapy survivor himself, collects the testimonies of those who've

been subjected to various attempts to quash and supplant their queerness. It's a harrowing read,

but an important one now, I think, as we head to a second Trump term, that is already being

marked by increasing anti-queer in transactions, and where, despite

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