This article was originally published in Third Way magazine, June 2006 I ONLY had to say three syllables, and yet the simplest words turned out to be the hardest. Mom. I’m. Gay. They were difficult words because I had grown…
Rhetoric And Reality of the Ex-gay Movement
Eve Tushnet makes an interesting observation in her recent article in the National Review: During the entire nine hours of the conference, none of the speakers I heard discussed how to live chastely while experiencing same-sex attractions. The focus was…
Who Are the Real Successors of Hitler?
So Wayne Besen has been likened to Adolf Hitler by a notoriously extreme ex-gay proponent for whom the extra attention of mentioning his name would be undeserved. (And so I won’t.) By no means is every ex-gay or every person…
Group A is a conservative Christian “ex-gay” ministry. It does not encourage people to expect a change of orientation, and is critical of groups that do. It promotes celibacy rather than a change of orientation. Group B is us. Gays…
Ex-gay in the UK
The main difference between the ex-gay movement in the UK and the US is that, well, that there isn’t really much of an ex-gay movement as such in the UK. In the US, the movement tends to be focused and…
DL Foster, Lesbians And Logic
According to DL Foster, this statement – From what I know I believe there’s 80% of women, between 80 and 85% of women that are struggling with homosexuality were either raped by someone they knew or somebody outside of that…
About Dave Rattigan
Glad to be here as a contributor to a blog of which I’ve been an avid reader for over a year. I am British-Canadian, and living in Liverpool, England. It’s hard to describe what I do for a living, since…
Chrysler’s Silly Little Fairy
Unlike most of my friends, I’m not a car guy. When they tell me about the newest hottest BMW, or whatever, my eyes glaze over. I can’t tell a Mercedes from a Mazda. And that’s why I like Chrysler. I…