Why prison officials believe their inmates are ‘turning gay’.

CRAMPED INMATES AT TANJUNG GUSTA PRISON, MEDAN, AFTER A 2013 RIOT. (PHOTO: RONI BINTANG/REUTERS)

In 1973, the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry Federal Council reported that homosexuality is not a mental disorder. Nearly fifty years after that monumental declaration, some Indonesian officials are still hell-bent on “curing” LGBTQ individuals…