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Bowen Yang Reveals Painful Past with Conversion Therapy

4/14/2025

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Bowen Yang bravely opened up about his harrowing experience with conversion therapy as a teenager, revealing the painful ultimatum from his parents: attend therapy or forfeit his dream of studying at NYU. He highlighted the lasting damage of such practices while compassionately acknowledging his parents' limited understanding of his sexuality.

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Bowen Yang bravely opened up about his harrowing experience with conversion therapy as a teenager, revealing the painful ultimatum from his parents: attend therapy or forfeit his dream of studying at NYU. He highlighted the lasting damage of such practices while compassionately acknowledging his parents' limited understanding of his sexuality.