We are in contact again after several months. I wanted to send you by mail this article in which I participated, published on Presentes.org and written by Juli Quintana, Nadia Gómez and Milena Coral. A hug to all, Brune.
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Torture therapies never left Paraguay. They are imbricated in the hegemonic medical, psychiatric and religious discourse. Those who practice it use different names: psychological guidance, spiritual accompaniment, reparative therapy, addiction therapy; and it is presented in different ways, in spaces such as schools, churches and psychological offices.
Brune Comas is an activist, performer and coordinator of Vena Rota. On May 17, 2018, the Paraguayan Prosecutor's Office charged him with alleged “exhibitionist acts” at an LGTBI festival in Asunción, on the occasion of the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. But years before he studied Theology at the university. It was at that time that he realized he was gay. She met a boy at a congress of the Ibero-American Confederation of Christian Mass Media and Communicators (Coicom).
“Christian communicators came from all over the Americas, the Mennonites brought them. We saw each other in a place, we pissed off, and then we went to take a nap on a rug on the third floor. I remember all that tension that there is when you like something so much that they tell you that it is wrong but that it has to happen but they tell you that it is wrong, ”Brune related. When his family found out that he was dating, they kicked him out of the house. For four years there were long periods of silence from his family.
Read the full article, it is published in https://agenciapresentes.org/terapias-de-conversion/paraguay/terapias/