Bowen Yang Reflects on Going to Conversion Therapy: ‘Detrimental’

Bowen Yang Got Real About Undergoing "Painful" Conversion Therapy As A Teenager

"It felt completely foreign to them, and it was completely foreign to them."View Entire Post ›

Bowen Yang Praises John Waters as a ‘Timeless Shocker’ While in the Criterion Closet

As he makes his transition from “Saturday Night Live” into cinema with films like “Wicked” and Andrew Ahn’s upcoming re-imagining of Ang Lee’s “The Wedding Banquet,” Bowen Yang is taking time out to pay homage to the filmmakers who have shaped his tastes. Taking a quick trip to the Criterion Closet, he offered his praise to filmmakers such as Wim Wenders and Whit Stillman, but reserved his highest appreciation for the “pope of trash” himself, Jo…

Bowen Yang Reflects on Going to Conversion Therapy: ‘Detrimental’

Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang is looking back on his relationship with his parents in the wake of his decision to come out as queer. “I didn’t really get to work through it,” Yang, 34, said in a Wednesday, April 9, teaser for his upcoming appearance on Sunday Today With Willie Geist. “I think I probably wasn’t brave enough back then to express that or package it in a way they could understand.” He added, “It felt completely foreign to them…

Bowen Yang Opens Up About Undergoing ‘Detrimental’ Conversion Therapy as a Teenager | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

Bowen Yang discusses his experience undergoing conversion therapy as a teenager. The 34-year-old Saturday Night Live star opened up about how his family reacted to finding about his sexuality when he was a high school student in Colorado. “I ‘came out’ in a sense that my parents just sort of stumbled upon something, and they were like ‘Oh, we didn’t realize this is what we were dealing with.’ I give them a lot of grace for that because they just…

Bowen Yang Recalls 'Painful and Detrimental' Time Spent at Gay Conversion Therapy in His Teens

Yang also addressed the reason he "played along" and "humored" his parents "and myself into seeing what it was"Monica Schipper/Getty Bowen Yang at the 97th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, on March 2, 2025Bowen Yang is recalling a difficult time in his adolescence.The Wicked and Saturday Night Live star, 34, addressed his parents sending him to gay conversion therapy during his teenage years in a recent sit-down with host Willie Geist fo…

Bowen Yang opens up about 'healing' after his parents put him in conversion therapy

Bowen Yang is revisiting a “painful” part of his adolescent years.