The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association on June 2 applauded the publication of an American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement, “Sexual Orientation and Adolescence,” in the June 2004 issue of Pediatrics.
Mel White on Falwell, Bush, And Ex-Gays
Pridesource.com today published an interview with the Rev. Mel White, head of Soulforce, the U.S. network of gay-affirming, faith-based, nonviolent activist organizations. White has much to say about having ghostwritten autobiographies of religious-right leaders; about living as a gay man…
Chad W. Thompson is a rising individual in the ex-gay movement. Formerly a media specialist for the Iowa Family Policy Center, Thompson is the founder of Inqueery.com, an ex-gay advocacy project targeting public schools. His vision for ex-gay inclusion in…
Chicago’s Windy City Times interviewed gay activist Wayne Besen on June 2. Besen’s book about the ex-gay movement, Anything But Straight, was nominated for the Lambda Literary Awards in two categories: LGBT Studies and Spirituality.
Focus/Family Invites Anecdotes on Marriage
James Dobson of Focus on the Family is releasing a new antigay/exgay book, “Marriage Under Fire,” in mid-June.
Robert Knight’s One-Eyed View of Hate Crimes
In a May 29 essay at the WorldNetDaily web site, reprinted four days later at Concerned Women for America, Robert Knight blasts a newly proposed federal hate crimes measure that enjoys bipartisan support.
Ex-gay quote of the day, from Focus on the Family’s daily CitizenLink e-mail, regarding MTV’s new gay cable network: Melissa Fryrear, gender issues analyst at Focus on the Family, said there are several problems with the creation of a gay-themed…
Ex-Gay Watch: A Glance At the News
Democratic Catholic Lawmakers Warn Bishops From The Washington Post: Forty-eight lawmakers, including several who are anti-abortion, warned the bishops not to harm the church by denying Communion based on partisan political biases. [The lawmakers] questioned how the bishops could limit…
Exodus Double-Speak on Gay Marriage
In his early movie, Bananas, Woody Allen’s character Fielding Mellish complains: This trial is a travesty. It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. The vocabulary has…
Exodus International‘s executive director, Alan Chambers, writes a personal blog titled Just Think! Encourage it in others. Demand it of yourself. In an entry yesterday, he blames an undefined “Gay Elite” for: Hijacking “a legitimate civil rights triumph with their…