Lynn Gazis-Sax attended a portion the Ex-Gay Survivor Conference and offers numerous observations.
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When Mother Berates You With A Bible
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The scene: A birthday dinner for your mother, just you and her, at Olive Garden. The act: Mom … who is divorced … guilt-trips you for not finding a heterosexual fiance for her to approve, tells you that you haven’t…
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Love In Action, the live-in program that became infamous in 2005 for subjecting a then-16-year-old teen-ager named Zach to involuntary live-in indoctrination for nearly two months, has discontinued its “Refuge” youth program. The announcement was made tonight (June 30) at…
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At the morning plenary session of the Ex-Gay Survivor Conference, former ex-gays and people with similar past experiences were presented with a blank white wall of paper. On one side of the wall, participants were invited to share their ex-gay…
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Ex-Gay Survivor Conference Opens
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Peterson Toscano opened the Ex-Gay Survivor Conference tonight (June 29) in Irvine, Calif., with a performance of Toscano’s one-man play, “Doin’ Time in the HomoNomo Halfway House.” The conference was co-organized by BeyondExGay.com, Soulforce, and the LGBT Resource Center at…
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The incomparable Box Turtle Bulletin has recorded exclusive video interviews with the three former ex-gay Exodus leaders who apologized for their past ex-gay/antigay advocacy at a press conference yesterday. The apologies were aired at a press conference and reported by…
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In a June 21 press release, ex-gay network Exodus International claimed that it “welcomes dialogue on homosexuality” when Exodus and a new network of former ex-gays hold rival conferences later this month in southern California. Exodus president Alan Chambers said:…
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Box Turtle Bulletin offers coverage-in-depth of this week’s angry war of words fired by far-right culture warriors Peter LaBarbera and Stephen Bennett against Exodus International and its president, Alan Chambers. Chambers has stated for some time that “change” is slow…
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Peterson Toscano, a survivor of Exodus’ flagship residential ex-gay program called Love In Action, commended Exodus this week for what he perceives to be public gestures toward ethical and spiritual renewal. But in doing so, Toscano accidentally discovered that what’s…
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Christine Bakke and Peterson Toscano are co-founders of Beyond Ex-Gay and co-hosts (with Soulforce) of an ex-gay survivors’ conference scheduled to coincide with the Exodus annual conference at the end of June. Bakke and Toscano have invited the ex-gay leadership…