California has become the first state to ban the use for minors of disputed therapies to “overcome” homosexuality, a step hailed by gay rights groups across the country that say the therapies have caused dangerous emotional harm to gay and lesbian teenagers.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/us/california-bans-therapies-to-cure-gay-minors.html?hpw