-The city of Pocatello, ID passes a non-discrimination ordinance. -Canada celebrates ten years of marriage equality. -Google commemorates the late Maurice Sendak’s 85th birthday. -The Russian State Duma unanimously approves a law banning “homosexual propaganda.” -Pope Francis acknowledges the existence…
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A British journalist says she finally realized the value of same-sex marriage after falling in love with a man – despite previously identifying as gay. On The Guardian‘s Comment is free website, Helen Bell writes: I’ve always wanted to end up…
Before a TV exposé of people abused by ex-gay ministries can air, Restored Hope Network pre-emptively sins against those survivors.
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XGW Digest: June 8, 2013
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-Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan extends the deadline for voting on marriage equality. -Another gay man is murdered in Russia. -The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elects an openly gay bishop. -A group of boy scouts marches in uniform in…
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Is the End of Exodus International Near?
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The organization needs to be shut down — shut down. Don’t tweak it, don’t try to improve it, shut it down. — Michael Bussee On June 20th, the OWN network will air the third and probably last of their reports…
Photos by Mike Airhart/Ex-Gay Watch A small coalition of antigay activists met outside the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, D.C., to declare that “homosexuality is nothing to be proud of.” The press event coincides with Capital Pride in the District…
John M. Becker, managing editor of The Bilerico Project, follows up on a rigged study about the suitability of sexual-minority parents: In an explosive interview published yesterday by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Darren Sherkat — a member of the editorial board…
Video at GLAAD Kenyn Cureton, vice president for church ministries at the Family Research Council (certified as an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center), spoke at a recent event sponsored by the FRC’s “Watchmen on the Walls” ministry. After…
The decision of the Boy Scouts of America to stop ostracizing and defaming gay Scouts has drawn support from a broad spectrum of scouting supporters, including the conservative National Catholic Commission on Scouting. Mormons, Methodists, the National Jewish Committee on…
Robert A.J. Gagnon, board member of the ex-gay Restored Hope Network, initiated a Facebook conversation last night that was supposed to be about Setting Captives Free, a mobile-phone app that promises to cure people of “habitual sin” as defined by…