On September 15, gay author and activist Wayne Besen accused the Norfolk, Va., Virginian-Pilot of suppressing disturbing news about Michael Johnston (an exgay with AIDS who was accused of having unsafe sex orgies) and later publishing a bland promotional feature…
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I have updated the I Do Exist video page. The video has been available since June but is being relaunched as a challenge to National Coming Out Day. Churches, schools and exgay advocates in more than 30 cities have scheduled…
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Exgay Mother Violates Vermont Custody Order
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Exgay mother Lisa Miller-Jenkins, who fled her Vermont civil union and took her daughter to the antigay state of Virginia, again refused to comply with her former partner’s Vermont court-ordered visitation, paving the way for a large fine or incarceration,…
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Reggae stars Beenie Man and Capleton and televangelist Jimmy Swaggart have all made front-page news with death threats against gay people. While independent and conservative Christians have condemned the threats, exgays and the religious-right media remain eerily silent. Addendum: Hugo…
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Conservative gay law professor and columnist Dale Carpenter debated gay marriage with Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family on Sept. 16 at the University of Minnesota. While providing support to Focus on the Family’s exgay “Love Won Out” road…
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Exgay Ad in Search of a Willing Billboard
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An outdoor advertising firm confirmed that it refused to post exgay activist Stephen Bennett’s billboard. The ad, sponsored by the New York Christian Coalition, would have appeared on a state highway in New Paltz, N.Y., just north of New York…
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Exodus president Alan Chambers participated in a Sept. 19 antimarriage simulcast sponsored by the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the Southern Baptist Convention. The simulcast was part of the religious-right alliance’s We…
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How Are ‘gay Rights’ Not ‘civil Rights’?
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Bose (in collaboration with Mike) here… The Washington Blade has begun a series “examining similarities and differences between the African-American civil rights movement and the gay rights movement.” The first installment is titled Pro-gay blacks a ‘disgrace’ to civil rights…
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Ex-Gay Watch Profile: Frank Worthen
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Frank Worthen is a grandfather of the exgay movement. He is profiled (and criticized) at length by former ex-gays in Wayne Besen’s book, Anything But Straight. In his web site essay What Is Homosexuality, Worthen acknowledges, "In helping people overcome…
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Exgay Pastor Criticizes Gay Author Wayne Besen
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In a Sept. 10 press release, exgay activist D.L. Foster defends the GOP’s exgay convention entertainer, Donnie McClurkin — and criticizes gay activist Wayne Besen, who has “suddenly found himself at the epicenter of a new career playing CIA with…