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Watch This: Drew’s experience with conversion therapy

Jun 4, 2026 | Easy A, LGBTQ+ Rights

Last week, we learned how “conversion therapy” hurts LGBTQ+ kids and teens.

It’s not just that it’s been widely discredited by doctors, educators, and religious leaders. It’s also proven to be abusive and traumatic.

Red Wine & Blue’s Chief of Staff, Drew Amstutz, recently shared his own experience with conversion therapy on RWB’s podcast, How to Not Lose Your Sh!t. At just 15 years old, he was subjected to this harassment and abuse that still affects him more than a decade later.

Earn your Easy A this week by watching this short clip of Drew’s story.

Drew is one of 350,000 LGBTQ+ adults who were subjected to conversion therapy when they were younger. We’re fighting to make sure that more kids aren’t subjected to this trauma in the future, and instead get the community they need to feel loved and supported. Come back next week to take another easy action in that fight!

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