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Bowen Yang opens up about 'healing' after his parents put him in conversion therapy
2025-05-01 11:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Bowen Yang is revisiting a painful part of his adolescent years.In a preview clip for the April 13 episode of Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist, Yang, who is one of a few openlyLGBTQ+ cast membersin the 50-year history of Saturday Night Live, recalled what it was liketo go to gay conversion therapyas a teenager.When Geist asked him how he worked through that difficult time in his life, Yang replied, I didnt really get to work through it.I think I probably wasnt brave enough back then to express that or to package it in a way that they could understand, he said, referring to his parents. Because it felt completely foreign to them and it was completely foreign to them. I came out, quote, unquote, in the sense that my parents just sort of stumbled upon something.In an interview withThe New York Times, Yang explained that he came out to his parents when he was 17 and his parents discovered him having lewd conversations with someone on AOL Instant Messenger.Due to the w... [ more ]
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