St. Louis-area gay-equality advocates conducted a peaceful vigil today outside the exgay political road show “Love Won Out,” which is sponsored by Focus on the Family and serves as the primary marketing tool for the exgay umbrella network Exodus International….
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Mike Tidmus: ‘Cash Won Out’
Mike Tidmus has posted a slick infographic to his web site. I agree with Tidmus that John and Anne Paulk were once antigay profiteers — but they seem to have retired from that line of business. Tidmus also has some…
James Dobson: What Goes Around
Focus on the Family is supporting a watered-down reciprocal beneficiaries bill in Colorado that was discussed previously at Ex-Gay Watch. The bill offers little or nothing that Colorado gay couples don’t already have. Nevertheless, antigay activists claim to be angry…
‘Ex-Gay Research’: New Book Due Summer 2006
Ex-Gay Research:Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics and Culture By Jack Drescher and Kenneth J. Zucker
Nominated As Best Single-Issue Blog
Ex-Gay Watch has been nominated for the 2005 Koufax Awards in the category of Best Single Issue Blog. Daniel Gonzales and Timothy Kincaid deserve most of the credit for this accomplishment; they have greatly expanded the site’s activities in the…
Open Forum: The ‘Me’ Generation
At someone else’s suggestion, I thought that after 3 1/2 years at the helm, I’d take a moment to say just a little about myself. Not enough for readers to stereotype me, I hope, but something more than a blank…
Exodus, Proclaiming Freedom To The Straights
After posting my recent open letter to Alan Chambers I was privately contacted by an Exodus staffer regarding my seemingly logical, but incorrect assumption Exodus is trying to minister to gay and lesbian people. I’m not alone in assuming Exodus…
A new UCLA study of chromosomes in 97 mothers of gay sons and 103 mothers without gay sons shows a difference in the occurrence rate of the way certain cells behave. The cells in women each have two X-chromosomes, one…
First Hand Reports From “Mr. Hetero”
A couple first-hand reports from Mr. Hetero yesterday have begun trickling in. Peterson Toscano’s “part I” is up and so is an account written by Mike Benedetti posted to Indymedia. Update: Peterson’s “Part II” is back up.
How Being Ex-Gay Made Me Appreciate Fetishes
I have a confession, until Thursday I had failed to properly live out “the homosexual lifestyle.” My gay-card had only been provisional. You see, Thursday I went to The Hollywood Spa. Not that it’s the business of XGW readers but…