Social-conservative website MichNews.com in mid-July reprinted the boilerplate exgay sales pitch of the Rev. Richard Perozich, who for years has been influential in the U.S. antigay/pro-chastity Catholic network called Courage (no relation to the British ex-exgay Christian group). (Courage historically…
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Mel Sheesholtz, Ph.D, voices skepticism about Destructive Trends in Mental Health (Amazon link), a new book edited by Rogers H. Wright and Nicolas A. Cummings. However, Sheesholtz is much more skeptical of a review written for the National Association for…
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Memphis, Tenn.-area gay-equality activist Morgan Fox and national actvist Wayne Besen react to Zach today in Southern Voice.
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Peterson Toscano Cracks the Zach Code
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Through a process of exacting literary and scientific analysis, the Love In Action survivor, performance artist, and comedian deciphers — once and for all — the one true meaning of Zach’s message.
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Queer Day comments on ABC’s “The View”: On “The View,” the often annoying morning talk show, the women decided to take a closer look at a program to “straighten out gay teens,” speaking with a formerly gay man who had…
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Jim Burroway: ‘Liar Detector’
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Jim Burroway of Looking for Sam crunches some numbers and discovers that Arizona antigay activists are marketing several statistical lies as “facts.” Among the misrepresentations: The myth that homosexual men have on average eight partners per year The myth that…
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Writer Seeks to Talk with Exgay Or Ex-Exgay
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James Hannaham (Google search) is writing a novel in which the main character enters a live-in ex-gay ministry. Hannaham would like to talk with someone who has been through an ex-gay institution, who could explain a typical counseling / “treatment”…
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Gus Cairns: ‘I Fell For An Ex-Gay’
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British psychotherapist and writer Gus Cairns offers advice to a Miami man whose Canadian boyfriend has gone ex-gay on him.
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Zach Speaks Out: Leave the Guy Alone
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Sixteen-year-old Zach’s run-of-the-mill online diary drew unintended global attention several weeks ago when his parents sent him off to several weeks of antigay group counseling at a facility with marginal credentials. Former patients and officials say the facility injures some…
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The Boston Globe ran an excellent story July 31 about religious-right researcher Paul Cameron. According to the article, Cameron and his “Family Research Institute” — identified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — buy space in…