From PlanetOut: The Lambda Literary Foundation withdrew J. Michael Bailey’s book “The Man Who Would Be Queen” from award consideration. Even the relatively conservative authors at the Independent Gay Forum criticized the book for poor science, stereotypes, and moralizations against…
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The Rapid City Journal reported Mar. 17 on Wayne Besen’s appearance Mar. 21 at the Midwest Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Resource Conference. The article discusses how Besen’s work on the subject began: An ex-gay ad campaign in 1998 prompted…
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From Michael Hamar: 365gay reports that Minnesota state Rep. Arlon Lindner has lost the state GOP’s endorsement to run for another term of office. In recent years, Lindner has reportedly called Jews irreligious, insulted Buddhists, and jointly blamed African-Americans and…
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Find the most recent XGW coverage of Kirk Talley here. March 23, 2004 This page’s original post is below, heavily revised. The links have also been updated.
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Focus on the Family and the Eagle Forum today admitted key objectives motivating their war against gay couples: Preserve secular control over marriage, and its related tax breaks and other privileges; and Preserve the culture wars. James Dobson lists a…
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I am debating gay marriage at David Morrison’s pro-chastity blog, Sed Contra. Addendum: In a May article in Slate, Prof. M.V. Lee Badgett thoroughly refutes Morrison’s hero of the moment, Stanley Kurtz, who had claimed that gay marriage is somehow…
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I’ve been dismayed and discouraged at the Exodus national office’s March 5 defense of antigay bullying in schools, and its condemnation of gay people to Hell. I’ve been too upset, in fact, to write much for the past 10 days….
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E-mail rebel Ace Fumigators started a flamewar in Usenet’s alt.censorship group on March 1 by posting Stephen Bennett’s press release, “Former Homosexual: ‘Gay Marriage is a Counterfeit and Fraud.’” The flamewar begins here. Ace’s own messages consist of references to…
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The Human Rights Campaign makes it easy to contact your state and federal elected officials. Whatever our beliefs about sexuality may be, lawmakers need to hear from you that the “Federal Marriage Amendment” (the Musgrave Amendment) would harm American families…
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Beside the Point: ‘You Don’t Have to Be Gay’
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Posted today to Ex-Gay Watch’s former location at blogs.salon.com: From: Frank Blakely I will get straight to the point. This entire controversy of homosexuality exists solely because of a basic lack of understanding of Man and his basic purposes and…