Huffington Magazine Issue 57 | Page 59

HUFFINGTON 07.14.13 STRAIGHT TALK he said, forcing him to accept once and for all that conversion therapy was harmful, especially for minors. Sitting side by side, the two men reviewed the darkest chapter of their work together — their failure to break away from the overbearing authority of Mathew’s father. John said he didn’t collude with Mathew’s father, but admitted that he knew of his plans to end the relationship with Jacob. “To know that you had known killed me inside,” Mathew told him. He’d been waiting months to say that. He’d first reached out to John half a year before, and he’d called him