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’
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…
Writer Seeks to Talk with Exgay Or Ex-Exgay
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”…
Gus Cairns: ‘I Fell For An Ex-Gay’
British psychotherapist and writer Gus Cairns offers advice to a Miami man whose Canadian boyfriend has gone ex-gay on him.
Zach Speaks Out: Leave the Guy Alone
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…
Frank Worthen Takes Credit
There has been some posting on this site and around the web about whether or not certain ex-ex-gays were ever involved with the founding of various organizations such as Love in Action or Exodus. In his 1995 testimony, Frank Worthen…
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…
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 30, via 365gay.com: The Rev. James Jones is one of two organizers of a July 31 prayer and healing service for people with HIV/AIDS. But in Jones’ mind, the “healing” may have been targeted…
Tell CNN to Cover The Facts About “Reparative Therapy”! Joe Kort, MSW This is from the PFLAG 7/28 e-newsletter. Please consider sending an email to the CNN folks listed at the bottom. Last night CNN’s show Paula Zahn Now aired…
by Wayne Besen FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Saturday, July 30, 2005 CO-FOUNDER OF MINISTRY THAT RUNS TEEN ‘EX-GAY’ BOOT CAMP SAYS GROUP SHATTERS LIVES AND CAN CAUSE SUICIDE Love In Action Co-Founder John Evans Unveils Powerful Letter Rebuking ‘Ex-Gay’ Ministries NEW…