When watching political and religious groups tear each other apart in circular firing squads, it is tempting to write it off as simple vanity or personal selfishness. We see this same pattern inside the modern conversion therapy subculture—especially in groups…
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Why do people sometimes become more entrenched when confronted with better evidence? And if direct argument doesn’t work, is there anything friends, family members, critics or churches can do? There is no technique for making another person self-reflective. Some people…
For decades, the ex-gay movement has produced a striking number of former leaders who eventually repudiated some or all of what they once taught. John Paulk did. John Smid did. McKrae Game did. Randy Thomas did. Yvette Cantu Schneider did….
Patrick Fitzgerald, who wrote for Ex-Gay Watch from 2009 to 2013, died May 11, 2026, in Naples, Florida. He was 57. Patrick’s obituary describes a man whose interests ranged well beyond the subjects he covered here. He was a gardener,…
Christopher Yuan is important to the history of the ex-gay movement partly because his ministry illustrates how that movement has changed. Yuan participated in the community and mindset of Exodus International, and built a prominent evangelical ministry around his story…
I have always found Milo Yiannopoulos difficult to categorize: He’s an openly gay British man who became a minor celebrity in a right-wing American political movement that opposes homosexuality. A man who celebrated interracial relationships while associating with white nationalists…
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The Law & Crime Network has produced a video about Alan Chambers’ arrest, along with a brief, if somewhat flawed, summary of his history. Most of it seems reasonably even-handed considering the seriousness and nature of the charges. They do,…
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Peterson Toscano on Alan Chambers Sex Sting
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According to WFTV in Orlando, former Exodus International president Alan Chambers has been arrested in Florida following an undercover investigation in which detectives posed as a 14-year-old boy online. Authorities allege Chambers engaged in sexually explicit communication and discussed meeting…
In his recent essay for the Advocate, Peterson Toscano returns to familiar yet urgent terrain: the performance of identity under pressure. Titled simply Camouflage, the piece is equal parts memoir, cultural critique, and call to conscience. Toscano, a longtime chronicler of queer…
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