-A father speaks out for his gay son. -Professor Mark Regnerus defends his conclusions about gay parents. -A Brooklyn teenager loses an eye in an anti-gay attack. -Quebec launches an official registry to track homophobic acts. -Police in Uganda raid…
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XGW Digest: June 16, 2012
-A Republican billionaire starts a new Super PAC to promote marriage equality. -A questionable new study questions whether gay parents are equal to their straight counterparts. -Country star Carrie Underwood voices her support for marriage equality. -The state Democratic parties…
Two days ago we reported on media reports from Jamaica following a visit there from Exodus board vice chairman Dennis Jernigan. Jamaica is a particularly violent place for gay and lesbians. Jernigan’s visit and statements while there were used in…
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…
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…