Does Gay Conversion Therapy actually work?

Back in the days when I attended a pentecostal group as a teen, there was a guy who was deemed to have a bit of a problem, he was attracted to other guys. The church leaders kept it all lowkey and “assisted” by engaging the services of a gay conversion specialist. The net effect is that he was officially “cured” and became ex-gay. He later became married, had four kids, and even went off to be a missionary in some…