Why do people sometimes become more entrenched when confronted with better evidence? And if direct argument doesn’t work, is there anything friends, family members, critics or churches can do? There is no technique for making another person self-reflective. Some people…
For decades, the ex-gay movement has produced a striking number of former leaders who eventually repudiated some or all of what they once taught. John Paulk did. John Smid did. McKrae Game did. Randy Thomas did. Yvette Cantu Schneider did….
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…
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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Much of the modern ex-gay movement — and a broader rebellion by American religious conservatives against perceived threats to their worldview — are rooted in San Francisco’s Jesus People Movement of the early 1970s. As it happens, my own family…
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Carol Ann Gonzales is an unsung hero in the movement by survivors to end conversion therapy.
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Remembering Yuki Vivienne Choe
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We remember Yuki Vivienne Choe, a conversion therapy survivor and lesbian trans woman who took time to write for Ex-Gay Watch 12 years ago while advocating for LGBTQ rights in her home country of Malaysia.
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