In a book review written last month, writer Jesse Monteagudo compared two gay activists: famous conservative Andrew Sullivan and not-so-famous liberal Wayne Besen, who is a longtime critic of the exgay movement. Monteagudo asked why Sullivan is famous while Besen…
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Activist Alvin McEwen has published an excerpt from his upcoming book, Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Exposing the Lies of the Anti-Gay Industry. In the excerpt, McEwen recalls an encounter with Robert Knight, director of the antigay office at the…
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At the 2007 NewFest: The 19th Annual New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, the closing film will be the New York City premiere of Robert Cary’s drama Save Me, which stars Chad Allen, Robert Gant, and Judith…
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Updated: Exodus President Alan Chambers responds. Amid recent warnings about the integrity of data used by antigay activists, Exodus International continues to air the distorted statistics and false health claims of antigay activists Paul and Kirk Cameron — laundered through…
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Christine Bakke, co-founder of Beyond Exgay and recently featured in Glamour Magazine, is scheduled to appear live on ABC-TV’s Good Morning America. Good Morning America airs from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. EDT. Hat tip: Peterson Toscano Update: For those…
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Open Forum: (B.S.O.D.) Blue Screen of Death
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Open Forums are where authors and commenters can talk about anything. Nothing is off-topic, but standard rules of civility and decorum still apply. Twice every day, my Windows Vista for Business computer suffers a Blue Screen of Death. It’s a…
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Ann Phillips, who is a former Exodus local group leader and former women’s program director at the Exodus flagship live-in program Love In Action, will speak at the gay-friendly Evangelicals Concerned women’s retreat July 25-27, 2007 in Orange, Calif. For 10…
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Change Is Possible — for Exodus Exiles
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The national leadership of ex-gay umbrella network Exodus International promises and fails to deliver heterosexual attraction to its Christian followers, even as it uses those followers in various campaigns of antigay political warfare. While Exodus’ national leaders focus on partisan…
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Ex-Gay John Paulk Undergoes Personal Makeover
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Before After Ex-Gay Watch congratulates John Paulk on his new look, which we trust matches his good cooking. We don’t know whether he learned to project long-haired, diet-conscious, post-metrosexual masculinity from Kyan and Carson or from Ex-Gay Eye for the…
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When she turned the Atlanta-area black gay and lesbian magazine Venus into an ex-gay publication, Charlene Cothran offended loyal subscribers and advertisers with antigay and antiwhite rhetoric that was written with the help of spiritual mentor, Venus blog editor, and…