Patrick Fitzgerald, who wrote for Ex-Gay Watch from 2009 to 2013, died May 11, 2026, in Naples, Florida. He was 57. Patrick’s obituary describes a man whose interests ranged well beyond the subjects he covered here. He was a gardener,…
Christopher Yuan is important to the history of the ex-gay movement partly because his ministry illustrates how that movement has changed. Yuan participated in the community and mindset of Exodus International, and built a prominent evangelical ministry around his story…
Joseph Nicolosi Jr. contends in a new paper that recent research provides scientific support for psychotherapy that may change unwanted sexual attractions. He points to experiments involving memory, sexual fantasy, arousal, mindfulness and trauma treatment, and proposes neuroscience—particularly memory reconsolidation—as…
I have always found Milo Yiannopoulos difficult to categorize: He’s an openly gay British man who became a minor celebrity in a right-wing American political movement that opposes homosexuality. A man who celebrated interracial relationships while associating with white nationalists…
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The Law & Crime Network has produced a video about Alan Chambers’ arrest, along with a brief, if somewhat flawed, summary of his history. Most of it seems reasonably even-handed considering the seriousness and nature of the charges. They do,…
Where Are the Safeguards at Sexual Orientation Change Ministries? Organizations such as the Restored Hope Network, Changed Movement, Brothers on a Road Less Traveled (also known as Brothers Road), and Portland Fellowship promise transformation to people in deep emotional distress…
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Peterson Toscano on Alan Chambers Sex Sting
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According to WFTV in Orlando, former Exodus International president Alan Chambers has been arrested in Florida following an undercover investigation in which detectives posed as a 14-year-old boy online. Authorities allege Chambers engaged in sexually explicit communication and discussed meeting…
In his recent essay for the Advocate, Peterson Toscano returns to familiar yet urgent terrain: the performance of identity under pressure. Titled simply Camouflage, the piece is equal parts memoir, cultural critique, and call to conscience. Toscano, a longtime chronicler of queer…
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Last year we reported on an interview with Disney actor Matthew Scott Montgomery on Christy Carlson Romano’s podcast Vulnerable. In it he described his experience with reparative therapy under Joseph Nicolosi Jr., son of the late Joseph Nicolosi Sr. The latter…
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