Connell O'Donovan refers to notes from an interview he had with the chair of University Standards at BYU about the "set process" for "homosexual students referred to Standards."
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Connell O’Donovan, "The Abominable and Detestable Crime Against Nature: A Brief History of Homosexuality and Mormonism, 1840-1980," in Multiply and Replenish: Mormon Essays on Sex and Family, ed. Brent Corcoran (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1994), 123-170
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In early 1978, Gerald Dye, the chair of University Standards reported what the “set process” was for “homosexual students referred to Standards” for counseling: Although therapy was required, Dye promised that “no student working through Standards will ever undergo aversion therapy.” Electroshock and vomiting aversion therapies were nonetheless used in special cases.119 (Interview with Gerald Dye, 1 Feb. 1978, copy of notes in my possession.)
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Note that the original interview notes make no mention of "Electroshock and vomiting aversion therapies were nonetheless used in special cases."
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