BOOK TALK WITH DR. LUCAS WILSON

Please join Rocky Mountain Equality in welcoming Dr. Lucas Wilson, editor of “Shame Sex Attraction,” for a discussion about conversion therapy grounded in research and lived experience.

Shame Sex Attraction (2025) is an edited collection of survivors’ stories, with contributions from Gregory Elsasser-Chavez, Chaim Levin, Lexie Bean, Syre Klenke, among others across the LGBTQ+ spectrum, as an effort to expose conversion practices for what they are and ensure that what happened cannot, and will not, happen to future generations.

About Dr. Wilson

Dr. Lucas Wilson is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto Mississauga and was formerly the Justice, Equity, and Transformation Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Calgary. He is the editor of Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy. His public-facing writing has appeared in The Advocate, Queerty, LGBTQ Nation, and Religion Dispatches, among other venues.

He is currently working on two new anthologies: one about queer and trans experiences at Christian colleges, universities, and seminaries, and the other about LGBTQ+ religious trauma.