Truth Wins Out reports that the vice chairman of the Exodus board, Dennis Jernigan, may have inserted himself into a Uganda like situation in Jamaica, a place with a virulently anti-gay atmosphere. According to quotes in the Jamaican press, Jernigan…
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Defensive Theology & the Ex-Gay Movement
People and groups that promote and provide ex-gay treatments are almost always religious. While they may draw on debunked Freudian theories (Re-Fried Freud) and co-opt AA recovery methods, many ex-gay practitioners adhere to pastoral or Biblical counseling. Often it has…
It is no secret that Exodus International has had a rough time of it in the past year. Money issues, falling attendance and a major effort to rebrand have left the ex-gay organization in a tenuous state. While there are…
XGW Digest: June 9, 2012
-Gay Pride marches are held in Poland and Latvia. -Conservative Jews in America will now formally recognize same-sex marriages. -President Obama makes a Pride Month proclamation. -The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denies a request to rehear the Prop 8…
The reason I started following the ex-gay movement is directly related to my involvement in the fight for LGBTQ political equality. Our movement differs from earlier civil rights struggles in that we have the extra burden to first prove that…
XGW Digest: June 2, 2012
-Gay San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio solicits funds for his mayoral campaign from anti-gay donors. -Moscow police arrest 40 people during a gay rights demonstration. -A gay man is beaten by a mob at a graduation party in Duluth,…
An original work by Daniel Gonzales while writing for Ex-Gay Watch in 2007, this analysis of the flaws in the Spitzer study is as relevant today as it was then. For while Dr. Spitzer has now formally denounced his own…
XGW Digest: May 26, 2012
-The NAACP’s board votes to endorse marriage equality. -NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn marries her partner. -Two Ukrainian gay activists are savagely beaten by right-wing thugs. – Dharun Ravi is sentenced for his actions that led to Tyler Clementi’s suicide….
I have begun a series of short YouTube videos about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer issues. In particular, I’m interested in the conflict around faith and sexuality that causes so much strife and oppression for LGBTQ people and their…
Watch the Channel 4 News report about Lesley Pilkington, the Christian therapist who lost her appeal against suspension from the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy for her appalling practice: Below, Channel 4’s Jon Snow interviews Mrs Pilkington: Rightly or…