The University of Birmingham has apologised for gay conversion therapy carried out on its campus as late as the 1980s, describing the practice as “degrading, unethical and harmful”.
The apology follows the publication of a report by Birmingham researchers that found historical sexual reorientation research and practice took place on its Edgbaston campus between 1966 and 1983.
Research into the episode was commissioned following the testimony of an individual who came forward in 2020 to the BBC to report that he had experienced sexual reorientation techniques in the mid-1970s at the university.
