# Ex-Gay Watch

> Monitoring the ex-gay movement since 2003.


## Posts

- [Connect the Dots, Ex-Gay Spokesman](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/connect-the-dot/): Randy Thomas is the spokesman for Exodus, but he also operates his own personal blog. In polishing and extending his April 9 mini-reviews of two...
- [Fewer Journalists Say They’re Democrats](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/fewer-journalis/): More from the American Journalist Survey, as reported at Poynter: Compared with 1992, the percentage of full-time journalists who claim to be Democrats has dropped...
- [Journalists Far Better Educated?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/journalists-far/): From the American Journalist Survey at The Poynter Institute: U.S. journalists are much more likely to have earned college degrees than the overall adult population...
- [Of God, Man And the Oval Office](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/of-god-man-and/): This is an old op-ed — the column appeared Feb. 28 in The Washington Post, and I’ve been busy moving for the past 40 days...
- [Exodus: Gays, Be Noisy?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/exodus-gays-be/): The exgay umbrella group Exodus now protests when gays are silent. (Of course, the organization objects when gays speak out, too.) In recent years, the...
- [Exodus: Stop Tolerance in Florida Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/exodus-stop-tol/): Exodus is alarmed at tolerance in Florida. Legislation being considered by a Florida senate panel targets harassment committed in public schools on the basis of...
- [Fox News: Blame the Liberals](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/fox-news-blame/): How would Fox News report the Hindenburg, the JFK and MLK assassinations, the Last Supper?
- [Kernel of Truth About AIDS-Chasers](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/02/kernel-of-truth/): The Gay and Lesbian Alliance against Defamation demands that Rolling Stone magazine publish a lengthy correction of a seriously flawed article on a niche of...
- [Confused News Reports From Ex-Gay Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/02/confused-news-r/): Notes from yesterday’s Exodus news briefing. 1. Regina Griggs, executive director of PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays), misportrays the reasons why station KBYU pulled...
- [Against Violence, But in Favor Of… What](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/02/against-violenc/): An Exodus media spotlight acknowledges and opposes antigay violence in U.S. schools. That’s a good thing; religious-right organizations regularly deny the existence of antigay violence...
- [The Enemy of My Enemy Is… My Enemy](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/the-enemy-of-my/): I don’t understand the tendency among some partisans to defend someone only because they claim to be fighting the same enemy. The religious right’s defense...
- [Postscript: Christian Newspaper Revisited](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/postscript-chri/): The Charlotte World interviewed two people: one who, as previously noted, felt homosexuals should not be permitted to use public pools, and another who felt...
- [Christian Newspaper Opposes Gays in Public Pool](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/christian-newsp/): The Charlotte World, a self-described Christian newspaper in Charlotte, N.C., published an article suggesting that a gay group shouldn’t be allowed to use a local...
- [Campus Crusade Official: Parents, Invade Your Coaches’ Sex Lives](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/campus-crusade/): Revised Feb. 16, 2005 The Washington Post ran an article Jan. 24 (2003) depicting the state of affairs in colleges’ recruitment of student athletes. Some...
- [Ties That Bind Some Gays And Christianity](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/ties-that-bind/): When someone asks why gays would be attracted to Christianity, I have to ask: Which Christianity? Which gays? Same-sex-attracted folks who reject their sexual status-quo...
- [Fundamentalism Hurts](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/fundamentalism/): Great stuff from the Real Live Preacher blog: If you want to know about the Taliban, ask an Afghani woman. If you want to know...
- [Celibate But Not Ex-Gay?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/celibate-but-no/): “For religious reasons, I no longer have sex with men and don’t plan to. … Homosexuality is a choice.” –David Bianco, founder of the gay-press...
- [Satan Does Not Assault Ex-Gays; Exodus Assaults Itself](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/satan-does-not/): Randy Thomas is a friendly, good-natured, nonviolent fellow who happens to be a spokesperson for Exodus International. His personal weblog offers a frank view of...
- [Hospitality](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/hospitality/): “I don’t hate you. I just think that you’re being a pervert … God is angry with your kind of moral behavior.” –The Rev. Jerry...
- [Exodus Fights for Discrimination in Orlando](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/01/exodus-fights-f/): From the Interfaith Working Group: The Orlando City Council passed a non-discrimination ordinance 4-3. As part of its coverage, the Orlando Sentinel published a long...
- [Ex-Gay Ministries Not Incapable of Respect for Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2002/07/ex-gay-ministri/): Ex-gay minister Tom Cole remembers being gaybashed as a child. I was called a fag, a queer, or a sissy. Although I did not fully...
- [A Bit of Narcissism From Exodus Ex-Gays?](https://exgaywatch.com/2002/07/a-bit-of-narcis/): In its June 13, 2002, press release, the ex-gay network Exodus International reflected on recent meetings of the Southern Baptist Convention: Prayer & Action for...
- [Life Complicated for Gay Mormons](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/life-complicate/): From the Tri Valley Herald of Northern California: Gay Mormon supportive of his faith It’s not easy being a gay Mormon. Just ask Nick Lee....
- [CWFA Passes Judgment on Presbyterians](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/cwfa-passes-jud/): Concerned Women for America labels as “sin advocates” anyone who disagrees with its support for discrimination against gay Presbyterians. CWFA claims it was a bad...
- [Mock, Then Play Victim](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/mock-then-play/): Concerned Women for America joins an African Catholic cardinal in mocking gay graduates and parents at a Georgetown University graduation ceremony. Then CWFA plays the...
- [Knight V. Horowitz, Part VI](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/knight-v-horowi/): If Robert Knight ever calls a truce in his battles against other conservatives, it is not presently apparent. Here is Knight’s latest reiteration of earlier...
- [Socially Conservative Pediatricians](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/socially-conser/): The religious right has formed a small organization of pediatricians who espouse socially conservative, patriotic values. The “American College of Pediatricians” screens its membership according...
- [Ex-Ex-Gay Speeches](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/ex-ex-gay-speec/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas responded June 3 to news that former Exodus ministry leader Jeremy Marks is giving speeches with the gay-affirming group Evangelicals Concerned,...
- [Bombers Not Extremist?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/bombers-not-ext/): The Anti-Defamation League reports that white supremacists, anti-Semites, and clinic bombers are rising in praise of Eric Rudolph. Some of them are vowing to retaliate...
- [Threats to Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/threats-to-marr/): Ken Connor of the Family Research Council today describes his support base as “fellow defenders of family, faith and freedom around the country.” Divorce rates...
- [Which Side Can’t Think Or Listen?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/which-side-cant/): On May 28, I said: Some day perhaps I’ll understand my fascination with attempting to dialogue with folks with limited ability to listen or think...
- [False Fly-Over](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/false-fly-over/): From The Orlando Sentinel: Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer has become the first to welcome folks to Gay Days at Disney, saying “I’m the first mayor...
- [Young Gay America](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/young-gay-ameri/): Knight Ridder Newspapers reports on a web site that records a social shift in the journeys of gay youths. Younggayamerica.com features hundreds of stories that...
- [Civil Rights Based on Choice?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/civil-rights-ba/): Ex-Gay Watch reader Rev. D.L. Foster appeared on CWFA radio, discussing his life and his concern that the push for civil rights for gays demeans...
- [Exodus Spokesman’s Battleships](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/exodus-spokesma/): From Randy Thomas’ blog two days ago: At church today Pastor Clark Whitten said “The church needs to get out of the cruise line mentality...
- [Amos And the Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/amos-and-the-re/): Very interesting commentary by Bob Griffith: If those of the Christian Religious Right are looking expectantly for the second coming of Christ as vindication [against...
- [Presbyterian Speaks on Ex-Gay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/presbyterian-sp/): Cleveland K. Evans, Ph.D, developed an overview of research involving ex-gay sexual conversion therapy. This summary might prove handy the next time one hears an...
- [California Domestic Partnership](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/california-dome/): Exodus sister organization Focus on the Family urges Californians to contact their legislators to stop a domestic partnership bill. The bill would give partnerships rights...
- [Philadelphia Boy Scouts](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/philadelphia-bo/): Focus on the Family and Concerned Women for America oppose local autonomy for Boy Scout councils, such as one in Philadelphia that professes tolerance of...
- [Anti-Islamic Double Standard](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/anti-islamic-do/): Exodus ally Focus on the Family and Gary Bauer warn that the term “Judeo-Christian” is under assault from Muslim groups. “The country was built on...
- [‘FRC Criticizes ‘Amazing Race’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/frc-criticizes/): Wherever CWFA’s Robert Knight treads, other religious right groups usually follow.
- [Fund-Raising for Ex-Gays Via Gay Days](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/fund-raising-fo/): The Virginia-based Family Policy Network says it will “turn ‘Gay Days’ into ‘Hope Days.'” Sponsors needed for Christian outreach to homosexuals The press release certainly...
- [Know A Good Comic Strip?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/know-a-good-com/): James Asal is an exceptional comic-strip artist. Adam and Andy finds light humor in ordinary gay life. I’ve looked around, and I’ve yet to find...
- [‘Married’ Gays on CBS](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/married-gays-on/): Submitted by an Ex-Gay Watch reader: WorldNetDaily, a religious-right publication edited by Joseph Farah, and Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America are teaming up...
- [‘You Don’t Have to Change’?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/you-dont-have-t/): This is something that gays have never heard clearly from Exodus. Exodus and its religious right allies declare, “You can change.” But in the presence...
- [Traditional Values Coalition Needs A Shepherd](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/traditional-val/): An Ex-Gay Watch reader sent me this item from The Washington Post. The article is about the upcoming gay-dating reality show, “Boy Meets Boy”: Among...
- [Concerned Women Vs Horowitz](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/concerned-women/): Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America has added a new chapter to his string of arguments against conservative David Horowitz and other defenders of...
- [Gay Pride Parades](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/gay-pride-parad/): Item 3 on this week’s news release from Exodus seems remarkably balanced, both in its assessment of sexual minorities’ different attitudes toward the parades and...
- [Dizzy Yet? Exodus Spin on Columbine](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/dizzy-yet-exodu/): Item 2 from this week’s Exodus news release protests the Gus Van Sant film Elephant. The film: comes from a gay filmmaker, dramatizes the chronic...
- [Tolerance = War?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/tolerance-war/): Highlights from the response to my note to the ex-gay activist: I was deemed to have a confused notion about genetics vs innate characteristics because...
- [Render Unto Caesar](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/render-unto-cae/): Conservative David Horowitz strikes back against Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America: Render Unto CaesarBy David HorowitzFrontPage magazine Last week, Horowitz criticized the religious...
- [Discussion with An Ex-Gay Activist](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/discussion-with/): Janet is a regular participant on the Ex Gay Discussion Board, where a number of ex-gay ministry leaders discuss the war against homosexuality. When on...
- [FRC Official’s Misstatements on Sodomy](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/frc-officials-m/): Robert P. George, board member for the Family Research Council, says Rick Santorum Is Right in the National Review. George starts with a lie —...
- [Ex-Transsexual](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/ex-transsexual/): From the Straits Times, Singapore: The ex-transsexual has thrown the dresses – together with a few skeletons – out of his closet. Religion, he says,...
- [Good Gesture](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/good-gesture/): Pastor D.L. Foster of witnessfortheworld.org wrote last week: Your ideology is truly modern, but over 2,000 years ago Christ said “render to Caesar things that...
- [Mature Ministry](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/mature-ministry/): An Ex-Gay Watch reader found this item on Yahoo’s exgaydiscussionboard group. Someone there had asked whether an ex-gay should “minister” to gays at a gay...
- [Foley’s Privacy](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/foleys-privacy/): Nick at morons.org defends Rep. Mark Foley’s right to privacy, which seems to have been violated by both the Christian Coalition and Florida Democrats in...
- [Antigay Dems, Progay GOP?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/antigay-dems-pr/): From today’s Orlando Sentinel: U.S. Senate candidate and Florida GOP congressman Mark Foley blames unnamed Democrats for circulating a rumor in the media that he...
- [Freedom to Lobby](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/freedom-to-lobb/): Thoughts of blogger Bob Griffith on PFOX and Ex-Gay Lobby Days. Thoughtful reading — respectful of the right to lobby, stating that some gay activists...
- [PFOX-Approved Racial Strife](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/pfox-approved-r/): Regina Griggs, executive director of PFOX, approvingly shares confused strawman arguments, racial stereotypes, and conspiracy theories about those she claims to minister to. Read about...
- [Overgeneralization](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/overgeneralizat/): As often as ex-gay political leaders emulate the anger and the strawman arguments of the religious right, I believe it’s important to avoid overgeneralizing. I...
- [Micro-morality](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/micro-morality/): From an article in today’s Denver Post: “American society is good at focusing on micro-morality but it misses the larger morality,” media historian Robert McChesney...
- [Mockery?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/mockery/): From today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution: An African cardinal and leading candidate to succeed Pope John Paul II disrupted a Georgetown University graduation ceremony when he used...
- [Religious Right Vs YWCA](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/religious-right-2/): The New York Times reports today on the religious right’s declaration of financial warfare against the Young Women’s Christian Association. The Traditional Values Coalition is...
- [Exgay Faceoff](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/exgay-faceoff/): Love Won Out and Love Welcomes All will face off June 21 in Portland, Ore. Love Won Out is a touring political rally organized by...
- [Comparing Moralities](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/comparing-moral/): Focus on the Family publishes a daily newsletter of political propaganda called CitizenLink. CitizenLink is worth a look, if only to observe the organization’s extraordinarily...
- [Conservative Defends Racicot](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/conservative-de/): Invoking the Sermon on the Mount, David Horowitz criticizes Gary Bauer and Paul Weyrich over their threats against Republican Party official Marc Racicot — and...
- [Muslims on Judeo-You-know-what](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/muslims-on-jude/): Last week, I objected to the phrase “Judeo-Christian” as something of an oxymoron and a myth. Since then, Mark O’Keefe of the Religion News Service...
- [Wayne Besen’s Ex-Gay Quotes](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/wayne-besens-ex/): The web site for Besen’s upcoming book offers “Loving Ex-Gay Quotes” suggesting that ex-gay messages are far from loving. I’ve already ordered the book on...
- [Call to Renewal](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/call-to-renewal/): Christian evangelicals nail down an agenda for 2003 and 2004 that focuses on genuine social-morality issues. Of interest to those who are committed to legitimate...
- [Positive Message](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/positive-messag/): From the questions and answers page of the exgay Reconciliation Ministries: What does Reconciliation think of the homosexual? “We must reach out with a clarion...
- [Focus on the Family: Word Game](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/focus-on-the-fa/): Focus on the Family agrees with the Human Rights Campaign: Gays are making progress toward equal rights in localities across the United States. Pro-family activists...
- [Exodus on MSNBC](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/exodus-on-msnbc/): Alan Chambers, executive director of Exodus, appeared on MSNBC’s “Buchanan & Press,” co-hosted by Pat Buchanan and Bill Press, last Friday (May 16). Read the...
- [Media Coverage of Ex-Gay Lobby Days](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/media-coverage/): A search of Google News finds only one article about Ex-Gay Lobby Days. The Harvard Crimson reports about Larry Houston, an ex-gay chef who went...
- [Religious Right Protests YWCA](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/religious-right/): The American Family Association accuses the Young Women’s Christian Association of promoting “homosexual indoctrination” and its new leader of promoting teen-age sex-change operations. Before resorting...
- [Defeat in Baghdad?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/defeat-in-baghd/): From the New York Post via Andrew Sullivan: Having won the war in Iraq, the Bush Administration is throwing the victory away. According to a...
- [God And George W. Bush](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/god-and-george/): Bill Keller’s essay in today’s New York Times helps to explain Bush’s response to Sen. Santorum — a response called “tepid” by the Family Research...
- [Listen, Don’t Lie](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/listen-dont-lie/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas repeats his earlier remarks about the ex-gay agenda, in the context of promoting Ex-Gay Lobby Days and an appearance by Exodus...
- [Ex-Gay Lobby Days](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/ex-gay-lobby-da/): PFOX’s key points in its press release today, copied below, are representative of the spin that I’ve been seeing lately from the ex-gay umbrella group...
- [Conservative Tammy Bruce on Sen. Santorum](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/conservative-ta/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas (yes, the ex-gay guy) spoke highly of conservative lesbian author Tammy Bruce. Now Bruce speaks out on Santorum.
- [Focus/Family Again Seeks to Mandate Funding for Boy Scouts](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/focusfamily-aga/): A “news brief” from Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink today: Boy Scout Funding Pulled The United Way of Miami-Dade County has pulled its yearly grant...
- [The Real Gay Agenda](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/the-real-gay-ag/): Required reading for aspiring, ex-gay political activists. By Andrew Sullivan.
- [Marvin Olasky’s Muddle](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/marvin-olaskys/): FRC praised Marvin Olasky’s defense of Sen. Santorum. Olasky says: Good politics, good theology, and good constitutional law go together here. Good politics? Santorum made...
- [FRC Opens Fire on Bush Campaign](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/frc-opens-fire/): The Family Research Council ratchets up its threats against President Bush’s new 2004 campaign chief, Marc Racicot. In today’s Washington Update, FRC president Ken Connor...
- [Gallup Poll: Recognize Gay Relationships, Majority Says](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/gallup-poll-rec/): From The Gallup Organization: May 15, 2003Six Out of 10 Americans Say Homosexual Relations Should Be Recognized as Legal But Americans are evenly divided on...
- [Exodus Vague in Defending Discrimination, Slapping ‘Gay Elite’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/exodus-vague-in/): Exodus News reports that ex-gays and religious-right activists will visit their congressmen and senators in Washington. They will be exhorting our leaders to hear more...
- [PFOX Right to Privacy?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/pfox-right-to-p/): In regard to the PFOX webmaster’s personal web site: Is it appropriate to hold PFOX partly responsible for the public (albeit anonymous) actions of its...
- [Is PFOX Webmaster’s Hateful Parody of Hate, Hateful?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/is-pfox-webmast/): An old acquaintance of mine, Johanna, notes in fairness to the PFOX webmaster that his lengthy 1/10/2002 death threat against homosexuals is a parody or...
- [FRC: White House ‘Gay Strategy’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/frc-white-house/): Ken Connor, president of the Family Research Council, expresses dismay in today’s FRC Washington Update. He’s upset about the meeting of White House senior aides...
- [Sen. Santorum’s Department of Sexual Security](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/sen-santorums-d/): A safer, less private America, by cartoonist Mark Fiore.
- [The ‘Judeo-Christian’ Oxymoron](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/the-judeo-chris/): The term is an offense to many Jews, and a blending of incompatible ethical and spiritual beliefs. Some would argue that this blending amounts to...
- [AFA’s One-World Empire](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/afas-one-world/): From the American Family Association: …Where America’s influence is exerted in the world, we see living standards rise, human rights honored, well-being increased. The question...
- [FRC Threatens Gays Working in Bush White House](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/frc-threatens-g/): AgapePress, a religious-right propaganda service frequently cited by Exodus as a source of accurate Christian news, reports that FRC is pursuing a witchhunt to root...
- [Exodus Steers for PFOX-GOP Shipwreck](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/exodus-steers-f/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas says he’s glad that Republican National Committee is going to meet with ex-homosexuals. Does Randy believe that PFOX reflects well on...
- [Ex-Gay Spokesman Likes A Lesbian: Tammy Bruce](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/ex-gay-spokesma/): Randy Thomas, Exodus spokesman, reviews the Tammy Bruce book The Death of Right and Wrong. Surely for an Exodus official to discover diversity in lesbian...
- [PFOX Webmaster’s Violent Web Site](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/pfox-webmasters/): His online handle is Burning Black Triangle, or BBT for short. BBT is a Straight Pride advocate who has told PFOX’s online support group about...
- [Kerusso Offline](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/kerusso-offline/): For many weeks, the web site for Kerusso Ministries has been offline. Kerusso is a political organization rather than an ex-gay support group. It is...
- [Christian Satire Against Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/christian-satir/): In response to my note about evangelicals who criticized anti-Islamic bigotry among the religious right, Jayelle pointed me to LarkNews.com, a Christian version of The...
- [GOP Snaps Back At Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/gop-snaps-back/): Following a stormy meeting with the leadership of the religious right, senior White House aides conferred with 200 gay Republicans, according to the New York...
- [PFOX to Threaten the GOP?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/pfox-to-threate/): Regina Griggs, executive director of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays, tried to blackmail Home Depot into making a $3,000 donation to PFOX, after...
- [GOP to Meet with PFOX](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/gop-to-meet-wit/): Concerned Women for America reports that Republican National Committee Chairman Marc Racicot will meet with Parents and Friends of Ex-gays and Gays, an organization whose...
- [PFOX Secret Agent](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/pfox-secret-age/): A recent letter to the editor at the Fredericksburg, Va., Free-Lance Star: A recent letter by Cris Elkins seemed to express a phobia of former...
- [Immoderate Bennett](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/immoderate-benn/): William Bennett has swung from defending gambling losses of something like a million dollars a year, to a promise of total abstinence from all gambling....
- [Dissenting Evangelicals](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/dissenting-evan/): From AP: …Leading evangelical Christians condemned derogatory statements about Islam by the Rev. Franklin Graham and others among their fellow religious conservatives. They also pledged...
- [Sports Fans At Exodus?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/sports-fans-at/): Denver Rockies reliever Todd Jones stands by his threats last month against gay baseball players. Jones’ original remarks, as reported by The Denver Post: Colorado...
- [Exodus on Hospitality: What New Testament?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/exodus-on-hospi/): Exodus News defends churches that kick out not only homosexuals, but anyone else who treats them with Christian hospitality. The defense makes repeated reference to...
- [Exodus Blames the Messenger (Again) Over Santorum](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/exodus-blames-t/): Exodus News again blames the media, this time for presenting one side of Sen. Rick Santorum’s meeting with parents. Exodus overlooks the key fact that...
- [Church Expelled for Welcoming Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/church-expelled/): Religion News Service, May 3, 2003 A Southern Baptist church was been expelled from a regional group of churches after its pastor baptized two gay...
- [Exodus: Speaking for God](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/exodus-speaking/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas reports: Evelyn Reilly of the Massachusetts Policy Institute invited Alan Chambers and I to share our testimonies as a panel before...
- [Bruce Bawer: In Santorum World, Where Gay Couples Are Illegal](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/bruce-bawer-in/): Conservative American author Bruce Bawer points out how Sen. Rick Santorum [who now has support from Exodus] has sought to make it illegal, wherever possible,...
- [No, Antigays Are Not Nazis](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/no-antigays-are/): But I encourage conservative Christians opposed to privacy to see the movie, “The Pianist,” which depicts the government invasion of privacy and home, followed by...
- [Santorum Claims Right to Privacy for Himself](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/santorum-claims/): Four parents of gay children visited with Sen. Rick Santorum — and Santorum verbally abused them for 30 minutes. More puzzling, Santorum’s office declined to...
- [Why Don’t Gay Crowds Like Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/why-dont-gay-cr/): Randy Thomas, spokesman for Exodus, testified in favor of a ban on gay marriage in Massachusetts. Here’s his account: Dr. Satinover mentioned that homosexuality was...
- [Homeless Christian Values](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/homeless-christ/): I encounter many ex-gays online who call themselves “born again” and “Christian.” But when they pray aloud, in some cases I do not hear them...
- [Exodus: Mum’s the Word on Adultery](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/exodus-mums-the/): Two Exodus officials took the time to fly to Massachusetts and support a ban on marriage. Marriage for gay couples, that is. No word on...
- [Evangelizing Those You Misunderstand](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/05/evangelizing-th/): A survey of U.S. evangelical leaders finds that they: are grossly misinformed about Islamic beliefs and practices; and are determined to evangelize and convert Muslims...
- [FRC: Bush “Tepid” on Santorum, Sex Laws](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/frc-bush-tepid/): President Bush says he supports Sen. Rick Santorum, but not necessarily Santorum’s verbal attacks on privacy and same-sex couples. — CNN In response, FRC escalates...
- [Exodus: Few Blacks in This Glass House](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/exodus-few-blac/): Exodus News favorably quotes an antigay African-American who’s very upset at gay groups for playing tokenism with racial minorities. Well, some gay groups play that...
- [Exodusism: Ex-Gay Turns Sexual Attraction Into an Ideology](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/exodusism-ex-ga/): From Exodus News, April 23: Christine Sneeringer of Worthy Creations ministry in Fort Lauderdale Florida wrote “All We’re Created to Be” and describes her personal...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays Re: Bush Silence on Santorum](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/exodus-ex-gays/): Over the past three days, the Family Research Council has harshly criticized the GOP for not defending Sen. Rick Santorum. It has done so not...
- [Ex-Gay Culture War: Where It’s Not Easter Just Yet](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/ex-gay-culture/): Our Christian traditions tell us that Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead today, victorious over sin that had enslaved humankind. Faithful Christians are thankful...
- [Do Exodus Ex-Gays Support Enforcement of Sodomy Laws Or Not?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/04/do-exodus-ex-ga/): Is Exodus playing a bit loose with the truth when it says it supports sodomy laws? The possibility does exist. In the legal case Lawrence...
- [Pat Robertson to Supreme Court: Get Sick And Retire](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/pat-robertson-t/): Pray-TV evangelist Pat Robertson is sending prayers of ill will to Supreme Court justices who flout his ill will toward gays and the American right...
- [Town Bullied for Not Discriminating Against Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/town-bullied-fo/): The Florida-based Liberty Counsel, which was an ally of Exodus executive director Alan Chambers in the battle to promote antigay job discrimination in Orlando, is...
- [Exgay Leader Joins with Christian Reconstructionists](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/exgay-leader-jo/): Exodus executive director Alan Chambers will speak at the Center for Reclaiming America’s 2003 political conference.
- [Additional Information on Ex-Gay Coalition](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/additional-info/): Earlier today, Mike A. noted that an ex-gay coalition has launched a web site, PATHinfo.org. At this point, there is no evidence to suggest that...
- [Exgaywatch.com Is Back in Service](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/exgaywatchcom-i/): I was called out of town on emergency business on Monday. Sorry for the absence of new content. New items were added overnight, and more...
- [God to Punish America for Legalizing Sodomy?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/god-to-punish-a/): Gary North is one of the leaders of Christian Reconstructionism. In a commentary on the Supreme Court ruling on sodomy laws, he writes: I have...
- [Ex-Gay Statement of Principles](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/ex-gay-statemen/): This web site: P.A.T.H.: Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality reiterates the agenda spelled out by ex-gay organizations who lobbied on Capitol Hill last month. Nice agenda...
- [Ex-Gays to Gays: Get Out of the Military](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/ex-gays-to-gays/): Love Won Out conference organizer Focus on the Family warns ominously that the Supreme Court ruling against sodomy laws may encourage gay servicemembers of the...
- [Does Ex-Gay Therapy Work?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/does-ex-gay-the/): This was passed along by Christopher of Chronotope and safersex.org: Two therapists explain the counterproductive outcomes of reparative therapy. I’ve mentioned periodically that I know...
- [Christian, Jewish Clergy Affirm Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/christian-jewis/): Colorado Christian and Jewish clergy members condemned Colorado’s ban on gay marriage. The clergy will battle an effort led by Colorado U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave...
- [Gay Dating, Straight Marriage: Comparing Apples to Oranges](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/gay-dating-stra/): The Washington Times, Concerned Women for America, and Family Research Council are timid in reporting on the flimsiness of heterosexual relationships. So when a recent...
- [Why Is Gary Bauer Losing the Culture War?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/why-is-gary-bau/): Gary Bauer tells Focus on the Family: Marriage has been, for thousands of years of Judeo-Christian civilization, the uniting of one man and one woman....
- [Finding Obscenity in Sodomy Laws](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/finding-obsceni/): Knight Ridder columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. wrote last week: Five years ago, in an apartment in Houston, an obscene act was committed. And it wasn’t...
- [Taking the Court System Out of Marriage?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/taking-the-cour/): Matt Daniels, president of the Alliance for Marriage, told Fox News’ Brit Hume on June 30: The [Federal Marriage Amendment] says two things. Marriage in...
- [Focus on the Family’s Cheap Marriage Certificates](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/focus-on-the-fa-5/): In a July 2 news brief e-mailed to CitizenLink subscribers, Focus on the Family gripes that the Chicago area has begun to treat gay domestic...
- [Focus on the Family’s Moral Relativism](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/focus-on-the-fa-4/): Claiming that most Americans oppose gay “marriage,” Focus on the Family promotes moral relativism with a definition of marriage based on the whims of public...
- [Vacation](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/vacation/): Remember the Go-Gos song? Vacation All I ever wanted Vacation Had to get away Vacation Meant to be spent alone I’ll be back Sunday night,...
- [GOP’s Frist Follows Democratic Mentors?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/gops-frist-foll/): Democratic Socialist Thomas Scott Tucker has penned the following. When Bill Clinton signed the vindictive Defense of Marriage Act under cover of darkness — I...
- [Frist Faces Opposition Over Federal Marriage Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/frist-faces-opp/): Here are some of the organizations that have criticized Senate majority leader Bill Frist for supporting an antigay Federal Marriage Amendment that would undermine states’...
- [Musical Ex-Gays And Churches That Hate](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/musical-ex-gays/): In “Musical Ex-Gays” earlier today, I neglected to note how Chambers meant well. I was referring to his appeal to ultraconservative churches not to damn...
- [Ill.  Church Split Over Gay Music Director’s Firing](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/ill-church-spli/): In Christianity, there are thousands of sins over which a church could perform litmus tests, firing or evicting anyone who fails the test. An Illinois...
- [Churches Need Musical Ex-Gays?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/churches-need-m/): The executive director of Exodus apparently means well. From ReligionJournal: Ex-gays are one of the most gifted groups of people in the areas of creativity...
- [Senate Majority Leader Supports National Ban on Gay Marriages](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/senate-majority/): From KIRO TV, Seattle: Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” [Senate Majority Leader Bill] Frist says he’s concerned that legalizing gay sex could lead to such...
- [New Web Address for Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/new-web-address/): You may now visit us here: www.exgaywatch.com No need to remember a complicated Salon.com address — exgaywatch.com will find this Salon blog for you.
- [Blame the Media? Ex-Gays Can’t Find One Another](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/blame-the-media/): Exodus International and Focus on the Family refuse to say how many ex-gays there are, who they are, or where they are. They offer only...
- [Love Won Out’s Ex-Gays: Still Attracted to Gays, But Celibate — Sometimes](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/love-won-outs-e/): Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, head of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, reportedly displayed sexism and an insensitivity toward child abuse at the...
- [Sodomy-Law Proponents’ Hypocrisy on States’ Rights](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/sodomy-law-prop/): The organizations listed below have accused the Supreme Court of violating “states’ rights” to set their own policies toward “sodomy.” However, the same organizations favor...
- [Ex-Gay Group Launches African-American Media Campaign](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/ex-gay-group-la/): From WitnessForTheWorld.org: Asserting that America’s black gay and lesbian community needs to come home to God, members of a group of African American former homosexuals...
- [Religious Right Obstructs Parents’ Rights Over School T-Shirt](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/religious-right-4/): With her parents’ approval, a lesbian teen-ager in New York wore a T-shirt to school that said “Barbie is a Lesbian.” The school suspended her,...
- [Janet Parshall on Apostasy](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/janet-parshall/): According to Agape Press and former Family Research Council spokeswoman Janet Parshall, Christians who dare to disagree with them on such matters as abortion and...
- [Focus on the Family: Doomsday for Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/focus-on-the-fa-3/): Ex-gay movement underwriter and convention organizer Focus on the Family continues to blame “homosexual activists” for broad public opposition to sodomy laws. And it continues...
- [Traditional Values Coalition Battles Transgender Americans](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/traditional-val-2/): The Traditional Values Coalition seems to view unimprisoned gays and the “transgender agenda” as threats to its vision for the United States. Here’s what TVC...
- [FRC Redefines Civil Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/frc-redefines-c/): FRC dictates “The Meaning of Marriage.” Colin Stewart, executive vice president of the Family Research Council, pens a comparison between marriage and Humpty Dumpty. However,...
- [Gay Teenager’s Prison Term Voided](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/gay-teenagers-p/): In 2000, 18-year-old Matthew Limon was sentenced to prison in Kansas for having voluntary oral sex with someone three years younger. Both teen-agers were developmentally...
- [NYT Doesn’t Know What A Conservative Is](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/nyt-doesnt-know/): An article in today’s New York Times interviews “conservatives” who are uniformly angry at the Supreme Court ruling against sodomy laws. However, all the interviewees...
- [Ex-Gay Difference of Opinion on Sodomy Ruling](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/ex-gay-differen/): Two top Exodus officials seem to be saying very different things, in reaction to the Supreme Court ruling against Texas’ sodomy law. Mike Airhart offered...
- [Focus on the Family: Sodomy Ruling A Loss for Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/focus-on-the-fa-2/): In a Focus on the Family article, moral conservatives argue that the Supreme Court ruling on sodomy laws is a loss for gay activists. They...
- [White House: No Comment on Sodomy Ruling](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/white-house-no/): Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer, June 26, 2003: QUESTION: And on the Texas sodomy case, does the President believe that gay men have the legal...
- [Salon.com Commentaries on Sodomy Ruling](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/saloncom-commen/): The next war: Bush and the Supreme Court With William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O’Connor considering retirement, activists on all sides are preparing for a...
- [Supreme Court Ruling on Sodomy: Activist Quotes Pro And Con](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/supreme-court-r/): Public-domain quotes from the Associated Press: “This is a giant leap forward to a day where we are no longer branded as criminals.” – Ruth...
- [Gays in Military: Sodomy Ruling May Affect ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/gays-in-militar/): From Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, June 26, 2003: In 2001, a blue ribbon panel of military law experts called for repeal of the sodomy statute...
- [Episcopalians: No Major Denomination Supported Texas Sodomy Law](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/episcopalians-n/): From Integrity USA, June 26, 2003: We would point out that no major US Christian denomination supported Texas in this appeal. The days of Christian-supported...
- [Libertarians on Sodomy Ruling: Constitution Restrains Government](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/libertarians-on/): From the Cato Institute: In a 6-3 decision delivered today, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law prohibiting consensual sex between partners of the...
- [Ex-Gays Say Gays Feel Unfairly Singled Out By Sodomy Laws](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/ex-gays-say-gay/): From Exodus, June 26, 2003 Exodus encourages fellow Christians to respond with compassion and reason on this historic turn in public policy regarding homosexuality. While...
- [Joke: Why Do Straight Men Die Earlier?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/joke-why-do-str/): This PowerPoint presentation file asks the question.
- [FRC on Sodomy: Give Us Self-Government on Our Terms Only](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/frc-on-sodomy-g/): From the Family Research Council: By extending legal protections to homosexual behavior, the court majority not only struck down the 1986 precedent in Bowers v....
- [Soulforce: After Sodomy Ruling, Maybe Some More Churches Will See the Light](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/soulforce-after/): From Soulforce, a national interfaith organization: “This is a fantastic day for all people because the Supreme Court has recognized that our government has no...
- [Family Research Council Insults the U.S. Supreme Court](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/family-research/): FRC’s Ken Connor describes the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, including no less than five conservatives, as “judicial activists” and “unelected warriors wearing black...
- [Clarence Thomas: Texas Sodomy Law ‘Uncommonly Silly’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/clarence-thomas/): JUSTICE THOMAS, dissenting. I join JUSTICE SCALIA’s dissenting opinion. I write separately to note that the law before the Court today ‘is … uncommonly silly.’...
- [NGLTF: Sodomy Case Showed Sorry State of U.S. Legal Rights](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/ngltf-sodomy-ca/): From the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: This court case epitomizes the sorry state of legal rights for gay people in this country. In...
- [Family Pride Coalition: Texas Sodomy Law Obstructed Gay Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/family-pride-co/): From the Family Pride Coalition: “Today, the Supreme Court ruled for fairness for all Americans,” said Aimee Gelnaw, executive director of the Family Pride Coalition....
- [Reform Jews: Sodomy Laws Violate Equal Protection](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/reform-jews-sod/): From the Religious Action Council of Reform Judaism: The Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis are committed to the...
- [Amnesty: Sodomy Laws Violate International Human Rights](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/amnesty-sodomy/): From Amnesty International USA: Even as we celebrate today’s decision we must not forget that some 70 countries still have laws prohibiting homosexual relations and...
- [Americans United: Criminal Law Can’t Be Based On Religious Beliefs](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/americans-unite/): From Americans United for Separation of Church and StateJune 26, 2003 “This decision is a strong reaffirmation of the principles of secular government and personal...
- [Presbyterians: Supreme Court Ruling ‘One More Step Toward Equality’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/presbyterians-s/): From More Light Presbyterians (mlp.org): In the 1960’s all 50 states had sodomy / anti-gay laws. In 1986 when the Hardwick decision was made upholding...
- [Dignity USA: Supreme Court Ruling Promotes Justice, Fairness for All](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/dignity-usa-sup/): Marianne Duddy, Executive Director of DignityUSA: “The best news is that Judeo-Christian values are no longer being used to uphold clearly discriminatory laws.” Duddy also...
- [Agape Press: Supreme Court Exchanges Truth of God for A Lie](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/agape-press-sup/): From Agape Press, a religious-right propaganda service: In his letter to the Romans, the apostle Paul says men whose “foolish hearts were darkened” exchanged the...
- [Quakers: Ruling Against Sodomy Law Good, But Falls Short](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/quakers-ruling/): From the American Friends Service Committee, June 26, 2003: “We regard this as a victory in the struggle for justice, not only for lesbians, gays,...
- [Falwell: Pedophilia Is Consensual, Too](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/falwell-pedophi/): From Falwell Confidential, June 26, 2003: Mathew Staver, President and General Counsel of Liberty Counsel called the [Supreme Court] decision [overturning a Texas sodomy law]...
- [United Church of Christ Favors Ruling Against Sodomy Law](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/united-church-o/): In a statement released today, the Rev. Michael Schuenemeyer, the church’s Minister for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns and HIV/AIDS Ministry, says, “With the...
- [Texas Sodomy Law Overturned](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/texas-sodomy-la/): CNN offers a report that’s being updated periodically, with details added. The legal aspects of the ruling are discussed today on Fox News Channel’s DaySide...
- [A Bit About Your Ex-Gay Watch Blogger](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/a-bit-about-you/): I should have plenty to report about the Supreme Court ruling tonight. In the meantime, check out this discussion at GayChristian.net. To what extent does...
- [Bulletin! Gay And Ex-Gay Christians Get Along!](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/bulletin-gay-an/): An Ex-Gay Watch reader points out calm, thoughtful discussions among Christian gays and ex-gays at GayChristian.net. The tone of the talk is wonderful to see.
- [Gay Marriage, Conservative Values: Win-Win Scenario](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/gay-marriage-co/): Steve Chapman writes an excellent opinion piece in the Chicago Tribune. While I excerpt key points, the whole article is worth reading, even if one...
- [Antigay Flyover Sponsor’s Win-Lose Scenario](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/antigay-flyover/): Scott Lively is the director of Abiding Truth Ministries and its political lobby. ATM is co-sponsoring the antigay flyovers of Gay Days at theme parks...
- [FRC, HRC Duke It Out Over Antigay Marriage Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/frc-hrc-duke-it/): On MSNBC’s “Buchanan and Press” on Monday, FRC’s Ken Connor seemed to be unable to move beyond stereotypes about homosexuals as AIDS-ridden sex workers all...
- [Jeffry G. Ford’s Ex-Gay Journey](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/jeffry-g-fords/): He was the head of the Twin Cities ex-gay ministry Outpost, a national speaker for Exodus, and for 10 years a former homosexual. His parents...
- [One-Way Conversation with An Ex-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/one-way-convers/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas recounts a conversation with a gay-tolerant professor. The woman apparently couldn’t stop talking to herself about ex-gays long enough to listen...
- [Hopeforhomosexuals.com: False Advertising?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/hopeforhomosexu/): The Family Policy Network advertises hopeforhomosexuals.com as a place where real ex-gays offer testimonies about the success of “change” in their lives. Yet the ex-gay...
- [FAQ on Antigay Theme-Park Fly-overs](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/faq-on-antigay/): The Family Policy Network has published an FAQ regarding the group’s fly-overs at Gay Days. Q: “Is this a protest?” A: “No. It is merely...
- [Opportunity Missed By Bennett](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/opportunity-mis/): Stephen Bennett has posted a transcript of his CNN appearance to his website’s discussion forum. He and Elizabeth Birch of the Human Rights Campaign were...
- [Blundering Toward Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/blundering-towa/): Scholars quoted in The New York Times argue that North America is rushing into gay marriage with far too little public discussion of definition, ethics,...
- [A Ministry of Name-Calling](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/a-ministry-of-n/): The folks at the exgaydiscussionboard frequently exhibit a bad habit. Hobbled by addictions, absolutisms, co-dependencies, and low self-esteem, many of them failed to form healthy...
- [Discrimination Good for Gays?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/discrimination/): As reported by Wayne Besen, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers has promoted discrimination by “Christians” against gays. A new study by the Human Rights Campaign...
- [FRC: Tax the Unmarried](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/frc-tax-the-unm/): I’m catching up here. Earlier this week, the Family Research Council blasted Sen. Bob Graham, presidential candidate. Graham wants to offer federal tax breaks, which...
- [Illogical Analogy to Racism](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/illogical-analo/): The Analogy War’s latest salvo: Task force calls churches to help gays abandon lifestyle “There is no such thing as a gay Christian,” Wilkins said....
- [Religious Freedom](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/religious-freed/): Southern Baptists resolve “to oppose steadfastly all efforts by any court or state legislature to validate or legalize same-sex marriage or other equivalent unions.” And...
- [Freedom of Association](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/freedom-of-asso/): Clint Bolick of the Institute for Justice writes in The Washington Post that while conservatives defend freedom of association for the Boy Scouts, they oppose...
- [Canadian ‘Homosexual’ Group Opposes Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/canadian-homose/): From Friday’s Calgary (Alberta) Herald: It is “selfish and rude” for the gay community to push for same-sex marriage legislation and “redefine society’s traditions and...
- [Focus/Family Markets Gay-Marriage Scare](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/focusfamily-mar/): If a conservative three percent of the population were gay, then there would be roughly nine million gay people in the United States. As of...
- [Exodus Targets Churches](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/exodus-targets/): An Exodus press release today declares “Exodus Conference Targets Broader Audience.” Exodus emphasizes its outreach this year to churches; outreach to gays is not mentioned....
- [Ex-Gay Video At So. Baptist Convention](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/ex-gay-video-at/): “The Way Out,” an ex-gay video, was to be presented June 17 by Exodus and Southern Baptist Convention leaders at the SBC convention in Phoenix....
- [FRC Rewrites Rivals’ Agendas](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/frc-rewrites-ri/): The Family Research Council falsely links the “gay agenda” to Hillary Clinton’s support of benefits for heterosexual partners of federal employees. As this National Review...
- [We’re On Vacation, You Don’t Have to Be](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/were-on-vacatio/): Ex-Gay Watch is on leave until Wednesday, June 19, 2003. But you can still participate. Please leave feedback about the blog’s first two months of...
- [Philly Boy Scouts Go Back on Their Word](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/philly-boy-scou/): From The Philadelphia Inquirer: Shortly after enacting a nondiscrimination policy, the Philadelphia Boy Scout council has kicked out a gay scout. Under pressure from the...
- [Focus/Family’s Hometown Gay Pride](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/focusfamilys-ho/): According to The Denver Post, Focus on the Family calls its home city’s support of Gay Pride Week “shameful.” Gay Pride Week is an opportunity...
- [FRC Calls for War to Save Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/frc-calls-for-w/): The Family Research Council expresses outrage at Canadian judges for honoring that nation’s constitution and expanding the pool of marriage candidates. FRC claims that marriage...
- [Exodus, Self-Marginalized on Radio?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/exodus-self-mar/): Alan Chambers will be a guest on the moral-conservative radio show “Janet Parshall’s America.” Parshall is a longtime spokeswoman for the Family Research Council. Her...
- [Principles Behind Ex-Gay Lobby Days](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/principles-behi/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas spells out the “core principles” of Ex-Gay Lobby Days. CHOICE: Many people who experience same-sex attractions choose not to act on...
- [Talking with Stephen Bennett Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/talking-with-st/): Here are the criteria for participation in the discussion forum at Stephen Bennett Ministries. What can get your post/topic deleted? Since we are devoted to...
- [Sullivan on Ontario Gay Marriage Ruling](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/sullivan-on-ont/): Andrew Sullivan comments on the Ontario gay marriage ruling: Gay marriage strengthens straight marriage; and marriage will help integrate gays into society and the family...
- [Antigay Movement Miniscule Among AT&T Shareholders](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/antigay-movemen/): The antigay movement lost its latest battle to encourage antigay discrimination at AT&T. Focus on the Family sought to rally AT&T shareholders to vote for...
- [Ex-Gay Leader Criticizes Gay Tolerance At Avis](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/ex-gay-leader-c/): Exodus board member and Focus on the Family activist Mike Haley thinks Avis should shut up and turn back the clock — way back —...
- [Intolerance for Mormons](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/intolerance-for/): Over at the exgaydiscussionboard, several of the Yahoo group’s most active ex-gay participants are insulting two ex-gay Mormons and threatening them with damnation. I find...
- [Gay Left, Religious Right: Who’s More Wrong?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/gay-left-religi/): Steve Miller, neoconservative blogger for the Independent Gay Forum, writes in David Horowitz’s FrontPage magazine: Take the charge hurled by gay activists that the Bush...
- [FRC: Marriage Under Challenge](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/frc-marriage-un/): From the Family Research Council: Speaking on behalf of the Family Research Council, Allan Carlson will deliver a lecture, “Marriage on Trial,” on Capitol Hill...
- [Gay Marriage in Ontario](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/gay-marriage-in/): The Ontario high court opinion is here in PDF format. Reuters, June 10, 2003 Toronto Starts Issuing Gay Marriage Licenses CBC Ottawa, June 10, 2003...
- [Religious Right to AT&T: Fire Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/religious-right-3/): Ex-gay movement underwriter Focus on the Family wants AT&T to discriminate against gay employees in the name of “family values.” This week, AT&T shareholders have...
- [Withered Tolerance](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/withered-tolera/): Last weekend, The Gazette in Colorado Springs published an article on tolerance, written by Kamon Simpson. Unfortunately, the article is not online. America is full...
- [Gay Partner Abuse](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/06/gay-partner-abu/): From Salon.com: Abuse and NeglectBy David Tuller Domestic violence occurs as often among gay couples as among hetereosexuals, according to a new study, but victims...
- [Evangelical Ex-Ex-Gay Reflections](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/evangelical-ex/): Christian evangelical ex-ex-gay man Mike Williams offers a testimony of emotional pain, faith and reconciliation toward the ex-gay minister who harmed him as a young...
- [Christians Fighting Christians](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/christians-figh/): A quick reflection: A while back on XGW, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas objected to the expectation that Exodus should publicly criticize its political allies when...
- [Anything But Straight](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/anything-but-st/): Haworth Press set today as the release date for Wayne Besen’s book on the ex-gay movement, “Anything But Straight.” The unveiling will be accompanied by...
- [Exodus Ensnares Itself in Anti-Gay-Marriage Week](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/exodus-ensnares/): In yesterday’s Exodus commentary on reparative therapy, spokesman Randy Thomas appears unwilling to read or accurately summarize the literature that he cites — so he...
- [Focus on the Family Mocks Marriages](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/focus-on-the-fa-8/): Exodus chairman and ex-gay activist Mike Haley runs the antigay politics division of Focus on the Family. Today, Focus reminded its CitizenLink newsletter readers that...
- [Antigay Group Censors Itself](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/antigay-group-c/): This afternoon, Concerned Women for America removed from its web site an article, discussed at XGW here, that described a gay Canadian couple as “domestic...
- [Gays = Terrorists?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/gays-terrorists/): Is it terrorism when a gay couple from Canada wishes simply to cross the border as a couple? Concerned Women for America now labels them...
- [Rumor: John Paulk Criticizes Christian Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/rumor-john-paul/): From a message posted to the Silt blog, and mentioned briefly in comments at XGW some time back: John Paulk called into Mike Signorile’s radio...
- [Conservative Churches Not Growing After All?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/conservative-ch/): “Conservative” Christian church leaders occasionally boast that their churches are growing like gangbusters while so-called “liberal” denominations (mainline and orthodox Christian denominations, or any denomination...
- [Exodus Reflects on Being Associated with KKK](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/exodus-reflects/): Exodus International executed a political stunt in July when it asked an Orlando city councilwoman to proclaim July 21 “Exodus International Day.” When some Orlando...
- [Exodus Spokesman on Freedom of Speech](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/exodus-spokesma-3/): The Exodus national office displayed a selective respect for freedom of speech and self-determination in its news release for Sept. 16. Exodus promotes “freedom from...
- [CWFA Gives Texas Rangers Fans A Bronx Cheer](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/cwfa-gives-texa/): Texas Rangers Gay Day received a modest turnout of gay sports fans — but Concerned Women for America apparently has its cities mixed up: It...
- [Marriage Is…](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/marriage-is/): Anti-gay-marriage advocates commonly portray marriage as unitary and monolithic, capable of being nullified if stretched too far. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), for...
- [Kansas AG Distorts, Misleads, Inflames](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/kansas-ag-disto/): Matthew Limon was convicted of having consensual but criminal sex with a nearly-15-year-old boy when he was 18 and both lived at a group home...
- [Factoid: CBN Rakes In $200 Million](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/factoid-cbn-rak/): The antigay Christian Broadcasting Network/700 Club, which represents only a portion of Pat Robertson’s corporate empire, reported $199 million in income in the year ended...
- [Dr. Dobson Ignores Marriage, Scapegoats Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/dr-dobson-ignor/): Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson writes “from [his] heart” that the institution of marriage is failing. He points out the conditions he...
- [Invisible Ex-Gays in Orlando?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/invisible-ex-ga/): The controversy surrounding Orlando city council member Vicki Vargo’s proclamation of Exodus International Day on July 21 was noted in an earlier Ex-Gay Watch item...
- [Ex-Gay Flyover Ban At Walt Disney World](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/ex-gay-flyover/): Focus on the Family is again flouting national security — and the private-property rights of Disney — as it protests an FAA ban on planes...
- [Ex-Gay Ads And TV Appearances](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/ex-gay-ads-and/): Focus on the Family celebrated on Sept. 12 with the announcement that its lawsuit against a Florida bus company, over ex-gay ads that the company...
- [Ex-Gay Day in Orlando](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/ex-gay-day-in-o/): Orlando gay rights activists are challenging Orlando’s proclamation of July 21 as an official ex-gay day. City Council member Vicki Vargo proclaimed July 21 as...
- [Montana “Christians” on Gay Reality TV](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/montana-christi/): Julie Millam, executive director of the Montana Family Coalition, says “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” should not be on TV: “To me, that’s not...
- [Jesus And Miracles](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/jesus-and-mirac/): Off-topic: Here’s a worthwhile reflection from Joel Sax about Christians’ modern-day, heretical preoccupation with “miracles.” Do some conservative Christians lash out at “paganism” in part...
- [Input Welcome From Ex-Gays’ Family, Friends](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/input-welcome-f/): Reading the life stories any of us write about ourselves, whether gay or ex-gay, family or friend, it’s not always easy to get a sense...
- [Gay Terrorists: Misguided Generalizations](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/gay-terrorists/): 365Gay.com reports a bomb scare at a Lutheran school near Cleveland. It was evacuated after a caller threatened to blow up the school unless the...
- [Ex-Gay Minister’s AIDS-Cure Appeal](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/ex-gay-minister-2/): Previous discussion of this ex-gay ministry. From: “Matthew C. Manning” Reply-To: newsletter@matthewcmanning.com Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 04:06:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: MatthewCManning.com FREE VIDEO COUPON...
- [Hidden Updates At Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/hidden-updates/): I have added new material to these messages: Queer Eye vs. Shmomosexuals Musician A Possible Role Model for Ex-Gays
- [Prof. Throckmorton’s Stereotypes](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/prof-throckmort/): Warren Throckmorton, an antigay psychology professor at a small Pennsylvania conservative-Christian college, is a prolific writer on behalf of the ex-gay movement. (Google search.) Unfortunately,...
- [Ex-Gay Spokesman’s Lost Blog](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/ex-gay-spokesma-2/): XGW readers have already noticed that Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas discontinued his blog on Aug. 28. Eventually the blog is likely to be purged from...
- [Simply Being, Sans Labels](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/simply-being-sa/): Tom McGeveran names himself a “shmomosexual” and frets over the work of the Fab Five becoming more prominent in public consciousness than that of the...
- [Malaysian Condemns Lipstick Ex-Lesbians](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/malaysian-conde/): Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad reminded the world of how much the Islamic nation of Malaysia dislikes gays. Same-sex acts in Malaysia are punishable by up...
- [Ex-Gay Finances: Double-Talk?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/ex-gay-finances/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas says that while two of the largest gay-rights groups, Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD, reported a hypothetically combined income of $27...
- [Ex-Gay Group Pans Madonna-Britney Kiss](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/ex-gay-group-pa/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas says: Madonna’s special performance was to passionately kiss Britney and Christina on stage. This caused only a brief and not very...
- [Queer Eye Vs. Shmomosexuals](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/queer-eye-vs-sh/): Like Jody at Naked Writing, I’ve discovered I’m a shmomosexual. Someone please inform Randy Thomas before he refers to us unpaid shmomos as the “gay...
- [Labor Day And Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/labor-day-and-e/): Exodus, Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, and Pat Robertson were essentially silent — near as I can tell...
- [Musician A Possible Role Model for Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/musician-a-poss/): Musician Rufus Wainwright tells the New York Times about his journey to “Gay Hell” and back. Wainwright is blunt about his recent-past drug abuse and...
- [The Human Face of Schism](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/09/the-human-face/): It’s tempting to use war language to describe the politics that affect gays and ex-gays: Battles, attacks, retreats, wins, and losses. In the end, much...
- [“Right Christians” Eye Family Values Vs. “Christian Right”](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/right-christian/): The Rev. Allen Brill spent a week in June contrasting family values with the political goals of the religious-right organizations. He also examined how politically...
- [Exodus Spokesman Flip-Flops on Sodomy Laws](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-spokesma-2/): In an interview with Christianity Today, Exodus spokesman and ministry manager Randy Thomas warns that the Supreme Court ruling against sodomy laws will shape public...
- [Former Ex-Gays Await Stephen Bennett](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/former-ex-gays/): Stephen Bennett, who heads the ex-gay ministry named after him, was scheduled to preach and market music to gays in Provincetown, Mass., last weekend. A...
- [Exodus Chairman’s Day Job: Doomsday Warnings](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-chairman-3/): Exodus board chairman Mike Haley’s day job is the management of antigay activism at Focus on the Family. In Focus’ CitizenLink newsletter, Haley’s operation warns...
- [Preview: Ex-Gay Minister Matthew C. Manning](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/preview-ex-gay/): XGW reader David B. points out ex-gay minister Matthew C. Manning. Mr. Manning’s web site states that he has miraculously received and maintained an HIV-negative...
- [Exodus on ‘How to Be Gay’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-on-how-t/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas earns a one-thumb-up approval rating for accurately describing — albeit momentarily — the Michigan university class, “How to Be Gay.” Unfortunately,...
- [Exodus Chairman Protests the Hospitable Workplace](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-chairman-2/): A Human Rights Campaign study found that most Fortune 500 companies have policies opposing discrimination against same-sex-attracted workers. And a rising number of top companies...
- [Ex-Gays Might Enjoy “Queer Eye”](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/ex-gays-might-e/): In the Aug. 26 Exodus media spotlights report, Randy Thomas frets that the Fab Five on the hit TV show Queer Eye for the Straight...
- [Civility And Thoughtfulness Amid the Culture War](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/civility-and-th/): I’ve been very busy doing technical work for the IGF site and, for this blog, researching the facts behind Exodus’ all-too-frequent misstatements and political diatribes....
- [Exodus Chairman’s Misquotes on Gay Demographics](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-chairman/): Mike Haley, chairman of the board of Exodus International and a spokesman for Focus on the Family, fumed at CBS Aug. 21 for “The Amazing...
- [Biblical Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/biblical-marria/): Alex Frantz at Public Nuisance discusses how the Bible defines traditional marriage: Marriage in the United States shall consist of a union between one man...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays Speak the Bible. But Do They Read It?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-ex-gays-2/): In an Aug. 12 news statement, the Exodus national office cites Matthew 18 as a guideline for Episcopalians responding to the naming of a monogamous...
- [Wayne Besen: Ex-Gay Group Can Blame Itself for NEA Lockout](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/wayne-besen-ex/): PFOX Can Blame Itself for NEA Silence By Wayne Besen The audacity was breathtaking. The same week ex-gay poster boy Michael  Johnston was revealed as...
- [Wayne Besen: Groups Concealed Unsafe Sex By Ex-Gay Leader](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/wayne-besen-gro/): From the Express Gay News in South Florida: The ‘Ex-Gay’ Coverup, Aug. 18, 2003 Besen, the author of Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and...
- [Coming Up At Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/coming-up-at-ex/): I’ve been busy elsewhere the past several days, but there’s plenty of material to be posted tonight: News from Exodus and Wayne Besen, draft principles...
- [Exodus: Failures Not So “Minute”](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-failures/): Alan Chambers spoke to Orlando Weekly reporter Jeffrey Billman: By Chambers’ estimate, only 30 percent of those who seek to switch orientations succeed. Fifty percent...
- [Lawyer for Alleged Victim of Ex-Gay Activist Speaks](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/lawyer-for-alle/): The attorney for one of ex-gay activist Michael Johnston’s alleged victims wrote to XGW today: I wanted to say that I appreciate your web site...
- [Gays Vs Ex-Gays: Slander?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/gays-vs-ex-gays/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas protests XGW’s reflections on the Michael Johnston tragedy here. My response: Thomas neglects to mention that, after he blogged about his...
- [Prosecute Michael Johnston on Sodomy, HIV Charges?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/prosecute-micha/): We are unlikely to see ex-gay activists call for that. Because, despite the desire of Exodus leaders and the religious right to see the nation’s...
- [Exodus: Not Ministering to Gays, But to Antigay Churches](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-not-mini/): At a news conference in late July, reported by religionjournal.com, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers publicly acknowledged that the national office has shifted away from...
- [Coral Ridge Ministries Shortchanges Repentance](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/coral-ridge-min/): I received a press release, not posted online, issued by Coral Ridge Ministries. It was forwarded to me by Wayne Besen. Here is the full...
- [Exodus Confuses Discussion of Ex-Gay “Change”](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-confuses/): A Baptist Press interview with Exodus executive director Alan Chambers: misrepresents popular debate about the origins of homosexuality attempts to distract public attention from the...
- [Followup on Ex-Gay Michael Johnston](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/followup-on-ex/): Excellent, sad, gloat-free commentary by journalist Natalie Davis.
- [Groups Cook the Books on Gay Domestic Violence](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/groups-cook-the/): In March 2001, Gary Glenn of the American Family Association of Michigan declared that upwards of 50 percent of gay relationships are beset by domestic...
- [Exodus: Sadly, Not So Compassionate After All](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-sadly-no/): Last Wednesday, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers issued a responsible and compassionate response to news about ex-gay ministry leader Michael Johnston’s efforts, deliberate or incidental,...
- [Opportunity for Exodus to Promote Accountability And Responsibility](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/opportunity-for/): I share Natalie’s thoughts and prayers for Michael Johnston. It’s tough when I find myself acting contrary to my deeply held values and beliefs, and...
- [Author Wayne Besen Comments on Ex-Gay Ministry’s Collapse](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/author-wayne-be/): Read it all right here.
- [Exodus Prays for Safety of Michael Johnston’s Partners](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-prays-fo/): Exodus executive director Alan Chambers expresses concern for former ex-gay ministry leader Michael Johnston — and for those who might have been infected in the...
- [Exodus Poetic But Misleading Over Bishop Robinson](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/exodus-poetic-b/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas waxes sweetly poetic with his subhead about the Episcopal Church in today’s press release: “Pro-homosexual advocacy cracks a denomination’s scriptural foundation...
- [‘Moral Failing’: Michael Johnston, Kerusso Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/moral-failing-m/): The American Family Association confirmed that Michael Johnston, the ex-gay HIV-positive head of Kerusso Ministries, had closed his ministry after numerous unsafe sexual encounters with...
- [Overgeneralizing](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/overgeneralizin/): Several people have told me that I’ve been overgeneralizing about ex-gay ministries lately. I believe they are right. This blog works best, I believe, when...
- [Apology](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/apology/): I retract what I said Friday about Ron B. of Courage Seattle. I am sorry for associating Ron with ex-gays. I have deleted the remark...
- [Gay Sexual Liberation Movement, R.I.P.?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/gay-sexual-libe/): Here is a Boston Phoenix article by gay progressive Michael Bronski, published this week. Bronski criticizes the mainstream gay population and the major activist groups...
- [Dependence Vs Co-Dependence on God](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/08/dependence-vs-c/): Ex-Gay Watch reader Johanna strongly disagreed with my message about co-dependent expressions of the Christian faith. I don’t believe I said that evangelicals promote a...
- [Concerned Women, Focus on the Family Escalate the Paranoia](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/concerned-women-3/): Concerned Women for America and Focus on the Family have steadily increased the volume of their antigay press releases this week. One item in particular...
- [Gay Christians in An Evangelical World](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/gay-christians/): For two years as a teen-ager, I was a born-again Christian and an evangelical. By age 18, however, my faith had matured toward a politically...
- [Focus on the Family: Fear Instead of Facts About Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/focus-on-the-fa-7/): From the July 29 CitizenLink newsletter, there’s plenty for me to comment on later today. Focus on the Family seems to have taken its conspiracy...
- [The Unwelcome Mat At Exodus’ Front Door](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/the-unwelcome-m/): As recently as the mid-1970s, television confined its depiction of homosexuals to suicidal whimperers and psychopathic lesbians. This bizarre caricature has faded from mainstream culture...
- [Author: ‘Gays Reclaim Jesus’ Words’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/author-gays-rec/): Fenton Johnson, author of “Keeping Faith: A Skeptic’s Journey” (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), reflects thoughtfully and deeply upon his own faith journey in a Los Angeles...
- [Portland, Ore., Newspaper Covers Bases on Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/portland-ore-ne/): In a July 27 commentary, Portland Oregonian associate editor David Reinhard wrote that gays should be content with a tattered patchwork of half-baked legal rights...
- [N.Y. Media Ignore Violence Prompting Gay School](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/ny-media-ignore/): Both the editorial board and columnist Steve Dunleavy at the New York Post call the New York City public schools’ announcement of a predominantly gay...
- [American Family Association Defends Bias, Harassment At Pa. School](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/american-family/): Having already helped remove harassment-free zones from a northwestern Pennsylvania high school, the American Family Association is battling to silence a Gay-Straight Alliance that has...
- [Concerned Women: Daily Propaganda](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/concerned-women-2/): Concerned Women for America has issued its daily selection of propaganda. The headlines below are verbatim from CWA; the summaries are mine. In Their Own...
- [Antigay TVC Seeks Bailout From Retirees, Drug Companies](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/antigay-tvc-see/): The July-August 2003 issue of the AARP Bulletin reports about financial troubles at the antigay Traditional Values Coalition. According to the article, “Christian Crusaders? Or...
- [Anti-Gay-Marriage Movement’s Difficult Predicament](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/anti-gay-marria/): Lee Bockhorn, associate editor at The Weekly Standard, summarizes the predicament of the anti-gay-marriage movement: In the upcoming battle, defenders of marriage must find a...
- [Response to Jeff Jacoby on Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/response-to-jef/): More old news here (I promise, I’m almost caught up). Jeff Jacoby argued July 3 in The Boston Globe that 40 percent of Vermont gay...
- [Pat Robertson’s Bad Supreme Court History](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/pat-robertsons-2/): Useful for future reference: Last week, Linda Campbell of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram noted historical and mathematical inaccuracies in Pat Robertson’s “prayer offensive” against the...
- [Public Gay Sex in the Hamptons](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/public-gay-sex/): A small number of presumably wealthy gays in the Hamptons are complaining after a crackdown by police and neighbors against public sex on the beaches....
- [Antigay Group Markets Flawed Testimony Against ‘Lesbianism’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/antigay-group-m/): Concerned Women for America profiles Valerie Pegues’ victory over “lesbianism.” To be lesbian means to be attracted to women. But Pegues says she was always...
- [Support for Marriage Amendment Stalling?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/support-for-mar/): There has a been a rapid public diversification of conservative views on gay marriage. Religious Right Rethinks Strategy as Agenda Stalls By Mark O’Keefe Religion...
- [Lipstick Graffiti: The Ex-Gay Theme Park Flyovers](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/lipstick-graffi/): Ex-Gay Watch reader Jayelle Wiggins lives in Orlando, operates her own blog, and dialogues with ex-gays in various venues. Here’s her thoughtful and respectful commentary...
- [Pat Robertson’s Cure for Aging (and Retirement)](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/pat-robertsons/): Are you an aging Supreme Court justice? Feeling your heart skip a beat now and then? There’s no need to retire — Pat Robertson’s age-defying...
- [Antigay Group’s ‘Dark Obsession’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/antigay-groups/): Family Research Council Senior Analyst Tim Dailey has written “Dark Obsession: The Tragedy and Threat of the Gay Lifestyle.” FRC recommends the book for its...
- [Antigays Say Government, Not Church, Should Control Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/antigays-say-go/): In a column praised by the Family Research Council, antigay columnist Maggie Gallagher argues that marriage should not be privatized and given to the churches...
- [Antigay Group on the Military: Gays Get Out, Dunno Why](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/antigay-group-o/): Concerned Women for America warns that gay-equality advocates want to end the U.S. armed forces’ aggressive campaign to dismiss gay servicemembers. [The] law states, “The...
- [Focus on the Family Wants White House to Lock Out Gay Conservatives](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/focus-on-the-fa-6/): From today’s Focus on the Family newsletter, CitizenLink: One of the leading homosexual activist groups in the country said that the White House consults with...
- [Boy Scouts: Antigay Discrimination Required to Be Christian?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/boy-scouts-anti/): Concerned Women for America reports that a federal court has sided with the state of Connecticut against the Boy Scouts of America. The BSA was...
- [Pat Robertson Rationalizes About Prayer Against Supreme Court](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/pat-robertson-r/): In an interview with CNN, Pat Robertson rationalizes about his prayer that three Supreme Court justices — only one of them liberal — will retire....
- [Misuse of Prayer At Ex-Gay Discussion Board](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/misuse-of-praye/): The gay son of antigay PFOX executive director Regina Griggs is said to be ill with a heart problem. No doubt prayers for good health...
- [Exgay Declaration of Independence?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/exgay-declarati/): In June, I analyzed the principles espoused by the ex-gay movement during Ex-Gay Lobby Days. This week, PFOX executive director Regina Griggs changed her description...
- [Prayer Offensive: Pat Robertson’s Sin of Idolatry?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/prayer-offensiv/): Dr. Rembert Truluck, a Christian preacher, blasts Pat Robertson’s “prayer offensive” against the Supreme Court justices, calling it a form of idolatry. Truluck argues that...
- [Santorum Turns Deaf Ear to Antigay Bullying](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/santorum-turns/): Susan Wheeler, mother of seven, is touring the Philadelphia area, sharing her documentary video, “Jim in Bold.” The video brings together stories about gay youth...
- [Rev. Flip Benham Wages Tactic of ‘Terror’ Against Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/rev-flip-benham/): Rev. Carol Anne Lawler writes in The Charlotte Observer: To the Rev. Philip "Flip" Benham: Who died and left you God? Benham’s group, Operation Save...
- [Books Analyze Pat Robertson’s Misuse of Christianity](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/07/books-analyze-p/): Journalist Natalie Davis has collected an Amazon user-friendly list of books that critically analyze Pat Robertson’s decades-long exploitation of Christianity. Browse the book list at...
- [Redesigning Ex-Gay Watch (cont’d)](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/redesigning-ex/): As you can see, I’m gradually putting back the past design features that worked well — wide fluid columns, black sans serif type. More to...
- [Classical Values: Rufus And Emo-Sexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/classical-value-2/): Eric at Classical Values expands on our comments about Rufus Wainwright. Eric offers a hilarious definition of “emo-sexual.” The depression, lack of self-esteem, and binges...
- [Gay Group to PFOX: Fight Fire with Fire](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/gay-group-to-pf/): The Human Rights Campaign is launching anti-exgay ads in the Washington, D.C., subway system, according to 365gay.com. The action is in response to ads in...
- [Exodus Slaps GLSEN, Promotes ‘Gender-Affirming’ Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/exodus-slaps-gl/): Yesterday, I noted that Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas said ex-gay ministries don’t emphasize “gender-affirming” role modeling. Here’s an indication to the contrary: A statement by...
- [Updates on Gay Louisiana Mom](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/updates-on-gay/): The situation surrounding Sharon Huff, the mother of the 7-year-old who was reprimanded for mentioning that he had two moms, will be considered during a...
- [Designing Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/designing-ex-ga/): The columns are too narrow, the text is too small, the colors are all wrong, the writers are too friendly to ex-gays… These are just...
- [Romantic Comedy to Feature Ex-Gay Ministry](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/romantic-comedy/): The film “Save Me” is in pre-production and may appear in art houses in 2005, according to the Windy City Times.
- [Support Our Boys in the War on Terrier!](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/support-our-boy/): Joel Sax reports from the front.
- [Ex-Gay Clarification on Gay “Culpability” for AIDS](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/ex-gay-clarific/): On his personal blog, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas today issued a clarification to his official comments, quoted by Focus on the Family, blaming gays as...
- [Classical Values: A Homosexual Morality?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/classical-value/): Eric at Classical Values adds to an already lively debate on morality: Are gays amoral souls who need monitoring by heterosexual morality police, or have...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays Neglected By Gay Media?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/exodus-ex-gays-4/): The Washington Blade, Dec. 5, offers a he-said-she-said between gay activist and author Wayne Besen and Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas. “What I can say is...
- [Finding Humor in Ex-Gay Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/finding-humor-i/): From The Spectator, Seattle University, Dec. 4: “Straight” uses humor to express views “Straight” is the name of a one-man comedy written and played by...
- [Collaboration Cuts Park Cruising By Utah Gays & Ex-gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/collaboration-c/): Salt Lake City police, frustrated that constant arrests did not noticeably deter men cruising public park restrooms for sex, collaborated with public health officials, gay...
- [Analysis:  Balance, Objectivity of WaPo’s “Bad Wurd” Article](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/analysis-balanc/): Washington Post Staff Writer Laura Sessions Stepp wrote yesterday about the dispute between Sharon Huff and officials at her 7-year-old son’s school in Youngsville, Louisiana....
- [Conflicting Statements By School That Harassed Son of Lesbian](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/conflicting-sta/): Via Morons.org: According to The Advertiser, a Louisiana public school district is unapologetic in its punishment of a boy after he explained to a classmate...
- [Matthew Limon Update (17-Year Sodomy Conviction)](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/matthew-limon-u/): XGW has previously commented on the Matthew Limon case: June 28: Gay Teenager’s Prison Term Voided Sept. 17: Kansas AG Distorts, Misleads, Inflames Oct. 1:...
- [Focus on the Family Offers Abstinence Alone — Not Accurate Information](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/focus-on-the-fa-9/): A followup on two XGW messages on AIDS earlier this week. Focus on the Family asserted on Tuesday that homosexuals should fight HIV/AIDS through abstinence...
- [Ex-Gay Flames At Illinois Conservative Site](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/ex-gay-flames-a/): On Nov. 21, the conservative Illinois Leader published a review criticizing gay-affirming Hollywood celebrities and alleging inequity in media coverage of antigay hate crimes and...
- [Dr. Throckmorton’s Web Site](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/dr-throckmorton/): Warren Throckmorton, outspoken pro-ex-gay associate professor at a small Christian college, has launched his own independent web site, DrThrockmorton.com. The site is useful for its...
- [Public-School Harassment: Exodus Vs ACLU And GLSEN](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/public-school-h/): PlanetOut reports that “a 7-year-old Louisiana boy was scolded by his teacher, sent to the principal’s office and required to attend a discipline session after...
- [FRC Promotes Closets That Contribute to AIDS](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/frc-promotes-cl/): In browsing Google News today, I found a handful of articles linking high risk of HIV infection to closeted and homophobic same-sex-attracted populations (and their...
- [New Zealand Ex-Gays At High Risk of HIV/AIDS?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/new-zealand-ex/): A New Zealand news site reports on a survey finding that men resembling the ex-gay profile — “men who were isolated [from other gays] or...
- [Credentials of International Ex-Gay Therapist Challenged](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/credentials-of/): Melvin W. Wong was the lead speaker at a group of ex-gay seminars organized by Focus on the Family in Singapore last week. Wong is...
- [Focus Expands Ex-Gay Campaign to Asia](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/focus-expands-e/): Focus on the Family extended its ex-gay political campaign to Singapore late last week with seminars marketing “recovery therapy.” And already the lead speaker faces...
- [Antigay Christians’ High Divorce Rates (cont’d)](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/antigay-christi/): Continuing the selective morality discussion: Froma Harrop of The Providence Journal wrote an excellent commentary Nov. 26 on the extremely high divorce rate among Bible...
- [Judgment And Unbelief From Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/judgment-and-un/): On Oct. 31, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas accused people who disagree with his opinion on homosexuality of worshiping “personal interest” and having “compromised the integrity...
- [How Other Fla. Private Schools Handle Gay Students](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/how-other-fla-p/): The Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale) asked different Florida private schools how they might handle a gay student differently from Jupiter Christian, which allegedly demanded the student...
- [Columnist Brent Bozell Joins Ex-Gay Campaign Against ‘Law & Order:SVU’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/columnist-brent/): Exodus International launched a campaign last week against ‘Law & Order:SVU’ over an episode that it apparently didn’t watch, or only saw parts of. Conservative...
- [Ex-Gay Greg Quinlan Warns Against Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gay-greg-qui/): Pro-Family Network is a Dayton, Ohio-based project of ex-gay activist Gregory Quinlan, who periodically uses ConservativePetitions.com to promote antigay political measures. ConservativePetitions.com collects $1.95 for...
- [Ex-Gay Asks Lesbian Advice Columnist for Help with Fiance](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gay-asks-les/): Meryl Cohn, a.k.a. Ms. Behavior, today advises an ex-gay man on his lack of honesty with his (female) fiance about his gay past, about their...
- [Ex-Gays And the Sin of Gluttony](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gays-and-the/): Further to our ongoing discussion of selective morality among antigay activists, the Dallas Morning News reports today on the complete failure of America’s clergy to...
- [Celibate Catholic Gays Dismiss Co-Existence](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/celibate-cathol/): Conservative Catholic celibate gays in Providence, R.I., say that if God allowed it, they would like to be in monogamous relationships. But a Nov. 23...
- [Deb Price Profiles Anti-Exgay Activist Wayne Besen](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/deb-price-profi/): On Nov. 17, Creators Syndicate columnist Deb Price profiled Wayne Besen’s first experience with an ex-gay ministry and his subsequent encounters with people who felt...
- [Ex-Gays And “Bourgeoisie Religion”](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gays-and-bou/): Extending earlier discussion a bit: Lars Gaardfeldt of Sweden wrote a 1998 lecture, The Bible as Medicine: Bible and Prayer as Miraculous Cure Against Homosexuality....
- [ExGayWatch Categories](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/exgaywatch-cate/): (Updated Nov. 24) I have added Categories to the sidebar. Thus far, the site’s entries are indexed by category from July 25 to the present....
- [ExGayWatch E-Mail Problem](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/exgaywatch-e-ma/): Ex-Gay Watch’s main e-mail address, editor @ exgaywatch.com, has apparently been bouncing messages for more than a week. We believe the problem is fixed. If...
- [Antigay Teacher Could Have Used Ex-Gay Lessons](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/antigay-teacher/): 365gay.com reports that a Bronx high school teacher was fired for “15 specific incidents of discrimination, harassment and misconduct during the 2001-2002 school year.” Other...
- [Does Ex-Gay Contempt for Gay Couples Help Ex-Gays?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/does-ex-gay-con/): In the wake of the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, Exodus could have informed its membership of the diversity of thoughtful, faithful and...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays: Accountability = Persecution?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/exodus-ex-gays-3/): In a Nov. 10 “media spotlight,” Exodus cites actions by a British law enforcement and a Colorado family court as proof that U.S. homosexuals (“the...
- [Noted Elsewhere: Moral Tunnelvision Among Some Evangelical Protestants](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/noted-elsewhere/): Camassia nicely weaves together some recent debate across the blogosphere over a tendency among evangelical Protestant churches to scapegoat homosexuality for their own declining commitment...
- [ExGayWatch Profile: Michael B. Hamar](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/exgaywatch-prof/)
- [Ex-Gay Advocate Throckmorton Gets TV Facts Wrong](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gay-advocate/): Prof. Warren Throckmorton, an advocate for ex-gay politics, admits he didn’t see Law and Order: SVU last week. (Original XGW entry on L&O:SVU). But then...
- [Profile: Ex-Gay Activist Carlton Quattlebaum](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/profile-ex-gay/): Carlton Quattlebaum (e-mail) operates as the Healing Choices Ministry in Canton, Mich. He is hosted by Tri-City Christian Center. Quattlebaum formerly worked for Reconciliation Ministries...
- [Numerous Exgays Support Ohio Ban on Gay Partnerships](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/numerous-exgays/): Go read the Gay People’s Chronicle, Cleveland, Nov. 21. Note, Aug. 22, 2004: The remainder of this message was a short excerpt from the article;...
- [Child-Porn Charge Dismissed Against Ex-Gay Counselor](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/child-porn-char/): Relayed to XGW by Wayne Besen: The Dallas Voice reported two weeks ago that an ex-ex-gay man, Mark Hufford, has dropped a lawsuit against Texas...
- [Wayne Besen Commends Law And Order: SVU](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/wayne-besen-com/): Press release from Wayne Besen about last week’s Law & Order: SVU episode: AUTHOR ON EX-GAY MYTH COMMENDS NBC’S LAW AND ORDER FOR HIGHLIGHTING SCIENTIFIC...
- [Ex-Gays for Reform](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gays-for-ref/): Ex-Gay Watch is launching a “brother blog,” Ex-Gays for Reform. If you believe homosexuality is a sin, but you are displeased with antigay and ex-gay...
- [Poll Tracks Churches’ Impact on Acceptance of Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/poll-tracks-chu/): The Pew Research Center released a poll yesterday correlating attitudes toward homosexual persons with religious affiliation. The poll data reflect an apparent backlash: opposition to...
- [Updates on Bush And the MCC](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/updates-on-bush/): See the comments section of last week’s XGW entry about Bush congratulating the predominantly gay Metropolitan Community Church for updates: 11/12: XGW reader Rich sees...
- [Ex-Gays in Cleveland](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gays-in-clev/): Relayed from Wayne Besen: ‘Ex-gays’ to be focus of three Cleveland events By Anthony Glassman, Gay People’s Chronicle (Cleveland), Nov. 14, 2003 “Ex-gays” will be...
- [Exodus Condemns NBC’s ‘Law And Order:SVU’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/exodus-condemns/): Like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Exodus regrettably sees far-reaching evil conspiracies behind those who disagree with it. The organization this morning issued a condemnation of the...
- [School Defends Expulsion of Gay Christian Student](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/school-defends/): I have updated the original XGW story. In addition to accusing the student of having bad grades, the school continues to assert that the student...
- [Ex-Gay, Ex-Ex-Gay: Two Women’s Stories](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gay-ex-ex-ga/): From Natalie Davis: Two Roads Diverged is an excellent feature story, originally published November 2001 in Mademoiselle, about two women’s paths through the ex-gay movement....
- [Baffling? Intriguing? You Decide!](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/baffling-intrig/): Dear ex-gay supporters, Didja hear about this? President Bush sends this note: I send greetings to the members of the Metropolitan Community Church Los Angeles...
- [Ex-Gay Murder on ‘Law And Order:SVU’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gay-murder-o/): The Tuesday night episode was about the murder of an ex-ex-gay man. It eventually became apparent that one suspect was a reparative therapist of the...
- [Change Your Religion with ‘Plug ‘n’ Pray’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/change-your-rel/)
- [Ex-Gays See Ally in Lesbian](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gays-see-all/): Exodus International executive director Alan Chambers and spokesman Randy Thomas frequently publish broad accusations against “radical” and “elite” gays without identifying specific individuals or citing...
- [Ex-Gay Mom Fights Ruling Against ‘Homophobia’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gay-mom-figh/): The conservative Christian legal group Liberty Counsel is aiding a Denver ex-gay adoptive mother in a battle against the woman’s female former partner, who had...
- [Ex-Gay Ads: Throwing Out Baby with Bathwater](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/11/ex-gay-ads-thro/): The ex-gay group PFOX may no longer be able to post ads for free in the Washington, D.C., subway system. One of the city’s gay...
- [Blogwatch: Biological Factors in Sexual Orientation](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/blogwatch-biolo/): Rich Blinne summarizes the findings of the recent study of sexual “identity” reported by Reuters.
- [Ex-Gays Spell Out Planned Legal Threats](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gays-spell-o/): Here is the memo from ex-gay activist Arthur Goldberg announcing the ex-gay movement coalition’s detailed plan to sue schools, counselors, insurers, doctors, and organizations such...
- [Rembert Truluck on ‘Ex-Gay Wars’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/rembert-truluck/): Former Southern Baptist pastor and gay Christian speaker Rembert Truluck offers a positive review of Wayne Besen’s new book, Anything But Straight. An XGW review...
- [Activist Dares Ex-Gays to Sue Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/activist-dares/): Gay activist Wayne Besen responds to a threat by an ex-gay political coalition to sue school districts that do not promote ex-gay claims, or that...
- [Comments on Eviction From Pro-Ex-Gay School](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/comments-on-evi/): Camassia points to worthwhile comments about the eviction of a gay Christian student from a pro-ex-gay school (XGW story). Read the discussion at Joshua Claybourn’s...
- [Ex-Gay Coalition Seeks One-Way Freedom](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gay-coalitio/): Cybercast News Service reports today that a political coalition representing numerous U.S. ex-gay organizations, including hundreds of local affiliate groups, “is developing a legal strategy...
- [How to Prevent Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/how-to-prevent/): Author and gay activist Wayne Besen, to Express Gay News, Oct. 6: Besen concedes that the gay community is partly to blame for the ex-gay...
- [Exgay Media Notes: Alleged Death Threats By Coral Ridge Speakers](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/exgay-media-not/): Besen: Coral Ridge Gang Trying to ‘Reclaim the Dark Ages’ Express Gay News, Oct. 10 At an Oct. 10 rally hosted by a South Florida...
- [Media Notes: Ex-Gay Workshop, Oklahoma City](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/media-notes-ex/): Online media coverage of the ex-gay “Love Won Out” conference in Oklahoma City, and related protests, seems to be sparse. If you have seen articles...
- [PFOX Ex-Gay Ads: History Repeats](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/pfox-ex-gay-ads/): Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays promotes job discrimination against homosexuals. A past webmaster promoted the killing of gay people and arson against gay-tolerant...
- [Catholic Sexual Abuse: Bishop’s Moral Relativism?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/catholic-sexual/): The Raving Atheist and Arthur Silber offer thoughtful commentary on Bishop Wilton Gregory’s alleged appeal to moral relativism. Rev. Gregory, head of the U.S. Conference...
- [Pro-Exgay School Outs, Expels Gay Christian Youth](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/pro-exgay-schoo/): A few hours’ drive south of the Exodus national office, an 18-year-old gay Christian student and his mother are suing his Jupiter, Fla., private high...
- [Ex-Gay Fears on Display for Oklahoma City](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gay-fears-on/): On Sept. 29, Exodus chairman and Focus on the Family operative Mike Haley accused gay people of intolerance for daring to disagree with his message...
- [FRC: Bigotry Is ‘Truth,’ Gays Are Sick, Change Is Simple](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/frc-bigotry-is/): The Family Research Council today defended Lt. Gen. William Boykin’s assertion that Muslims are idolaters and that the Iraq conflict is a war by Christians...
- [Ex-Gay Finance: Dire Straits](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gay-finance/): The following text is from The Exodus Impact (print newsletter), October 2003. XGW commentary forthcoming. “From Alan’s desk” [Exodus executive director Alan Chambers writes:] Dear...
- [Ex-Gay Group Concedes Possible Gay Link to Biology](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gay-group-co/): From Exodus News: The Exodus subheadline reads, “Media spin reaches new pseudo-scientific heights.” But the spin isn’t coming from the media; it comes first from...
- [Followup: YWCA Fires Patricia Ireland](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/followup-ywca-f/): …according to the New York Times via Amy Welborn. Back in May, I said the YWCA had a right to redefine its mission, though the...
- [Ex-Gay Group Calls Culture Warrior ‘Balanced’](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gay-group-ca/): In a “Breaking Praise Report” sent via e-mail today, Exodus says: Greetings! During this historic season of gay rights legal victories, Exodus has been called...
- [Wayne Besen, Ex-Ex-Gay in Miami Herald](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/wayne-besen-ex-2/): Steve Rothaus of The Miami Herald wrote Oct. 11 about an ex-ex-gay Christian man, Jerry Stephenson, who is featured in Wayne Besen’s new book, Anything...
- [Exodus Opens Door to Insubordination](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/exodus-opens-do/): The Exodus Spotlight for Oct. 14 says this letter from an “anonymous high school counselor” is “very moving”: I am currently a high school counselor...
- [Ex-Gay Fatigue](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gay-fatigue/): From Exodus Spotlights, Oct. 14: The Exodus staff has been working overtime to get the message out that freedom from homosexuality is possible through a...
- [C.S. Lewis on Marriage Protection](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/cs-lewis-on-mar/): From Mere Christianity, Chapter 16: Before leaving the question of divorce, I should like to distinguish two things which are very often confused. The Christian...
- [Ex-Gay Ally Demands Virginia Discriminate](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gay-ally-dem/): Family Policy Network, known for its ex-gay theme-park flyover campaign during Gay Days last summer, is again seeking headlines. FPN criticized Virginia Attorney General (and...
- [A Visit to the Homo No Mo Halfway House](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/a-visit-to-the/): If I had to pick one glaring, gaping, horrifically, horrendously obnoxious hole in the vast majority of conversations about being gay or lesbian or ex-gay...
- [MAFS: Mentally Anguished Fence Sitters](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/mafs-mentally-a/): Rich Blinne, thoughtful XGW reader and commenter, found this article intriguing like I did: Supporting gays, but not gay marriage For many, equality is one...
- [Alternatives to Fundamentalism: Two Glimpses](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/alternatives-to/): Having grown up in the Episcopal Church, it seems to me the press struggles to get its arms around recent events. Coverage of the gathering...
- [XGW: Status Report](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/xgw-status-repo/): I received Wayne Besen’s book from Amazon today. I’ll read it as soon as possible. Steve B. is still working on Part II of his...
- [Ex-Gay/Religious Right Financial Power](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gayreligious/): I’ve been busy the past two weeks planning a high school reunion, so my postings have been rare and Steve B. has been filling in....
- [Spitzer Study I: A Micro Target](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/spitzer-study-i/): Dr. Robert Spitzer’s study of 200 self-identified former homosexuals is back in the news. The Archives of Sexual Behavior, the official journal of the International...
- [FRC’s Cookie-Cutter Antigay Sermon](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/frcs-cookie-cut/): The Family Research Council is mass-distributing this antigay sermon to thousands of churches for use by pastors during “Marriage Protection Week.” Comments welcome.
- [Exodus on Violence in Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/exodus-on-viole/): From Tuesday’s Exodus Spotlights: Today’s youth are bombarded with conflicting messages concerning sexuality and identity. The culture war has created such a clamor that it...
- [Exodus And Dr. Laura](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/exodus-and-dr-l/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas periodically blasts critics of Dr. Laura, broadly associating them with terrorism. Exodus should be more careful of who it defends, as...
- [Ex-Gay Petition](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/ex-gay-petition/): Ex-gay Gregory Quinlan of Pro-Family Network says all gays can not only change their orientation, they can all become lockstep, politically correct, social conservatives too....
- [Privacy And Civilization](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/privacy-and-civ/): From an article by Chris Matthew Sciabarra at Free Radical, a libertarian publication: “It is a tragic, ironic twist that some conservatives have posed as...
- [Focus/Family Barks At Gay Sportswriter](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/focusfamily-bar/): In its CitizenLink newsletter for Oct. 1, Focus on the Family questioned Boston Herald sportswriter Ed Gray’s motive for acknowledging his sexual orientation. From the...
- [Gender: Relevant in the Marriage Debate? How?](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/gender-relevant/): Lynn at Noli Irritare Leones offers insightful analysis of the big debate over gender — whether and how it relates to the definition of marriage....
- [Religious Scientists on Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/religious-scien/): Courtesy of Rich Blinne, the American Scientific Affiliation, a somewhat diverse range of articles on homosexuality by scientists who are Christian. This is mainly a...
- [Focus/Family: Stop Gay Monogamy](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/focusfamily-sto/): Focus on the Family is known for its opposition to gay marriage. In California, however, the organization doesn’t want gays to be monogamous and responsible,...
- [Focus/Family: Dunno What Gays Say, We Disagree Anyway](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/focusfamily-dun/): Focus on the Family will be conducting an ex-gay political rally in Oklahoma City on Oct. 25. Focus has heard that gay-tolerant counterprotesters will be...
- [Focus/Family Wants Gay Kid Imprisoned 17 Years](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/focusfamily-wan/): XGW commented two weeks ago on the case of Matthew Limon. Last week, Focus on the Family reminded its CitizenLink readers that it wants the...
- [Focus/Family: Married Abroad? Stay There](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/10/focusfamily-mar-2/): Focus on the Family declared gay Canadian couples unwelcome in the United States on Monday. Focus joined Concerned Women for America in demanding that foreign...
- [Former Catholic Priest Assesses Ex-Gay Science Studies](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/former-catholic/): Writing for the Southern Voice, former Roman Catholic priest Daniel A. Helminiak compares the Robert Spitzer narrow survey of “change” among ex-gay activists with Ariel...
- [Randall Terry Learns Anti-Family Lesson From Ex-Gay Role Models](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/randall-terry-l/): Rewrite, April 17: When I started this entry last week, I said simply that I was busy putting out a technical wildfire at another site,...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Profile: Mario Bergner](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/ex-gay-watch-pr/): This has been sitting in my outbox for days now. I’d hoped to write a longer item; instead, I will start this entry now, and...
- [Guardian Report on Ex-Gay Expo’s Use Or Abuse of Science](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/guardian-report/): Wayne Besen and James Barber both point me to an excellent Apr. 3 article in the Guardian (London). Using Focus on the Family’s “Love Won...
- [NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus Seeks Funds, Members](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/nea-ex-gay-educ-2/): Exodus today issued a call for support by Jeralee Smith of the NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus. The caucus goal is to inject ex-gay activists into...
- [GLAAD Protests Univision Segment on Ex-Gay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/glaad-protests/): E-mailed to me by Jayelle: GLAAD protests a segment of the Univision talk show “Casos de Familia” that aired March 25. GLAAD says: The program...
- [Ex-Gay Rally At Illinois State Capitol](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/ex-gay-rally-at/): The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill., reports today on an ex-gay rally at the state Capitol, sponsored by Concerned Women for America and Peter LaBarbera’s...
- [Can’t Afford A CD Burner, Huh?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/cant-afford-a-c/): Somebody is attempting to save Ex-Gay Watch pages to floppy disk and then view the pages from the disk. Bud, I think your disk is...
- [Focus on the Family: ‘Be Intolerant’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/focus-on-the-fa-11/): An April 2004 newsletter of Focus on the Family declares that God will destroy the United States and Western civilization will crumble if life-long gay...
- [Exodus Voices Anger At Methodists — And ‘liberal’ Churches](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/exodus-voices-a/): After a "lesbian identified" Methodist minister is acquitted in an official church trial, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers criticizes the church leadership before launching into...
- [Ex-Gay Network Changes Its Mind on Massachusetts Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/ex-gay-network/): On Monday, Exodus applauded a Massachusetts constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage but permit civil unions. Quite likely the Exodus leadership overlooked the whole...
- [Ex-Gays, FRC Initially Disagree Over Mass. Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/ex-gays-frc-ini/): Proclaiming “Beacon Hill not bullied by judicial tyranny,” Exodus International applauded the Massachusetts legislature’s approval Monday of a constitutional amendment that would ban marriage for...
- [Comparing Antigay Speech And Anti-Jewish Speech](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/comparing-antig/): Michael Hamar points out one of John Aravosis’ sites, HateCrime.org, which compares the factoids used by Nazi German propagandists to justify discrimination against Jewish people,...
- [Village Voice Writer Seduced By Ex-Gay Activist on Geraldo? Ugh.](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/village-voice-w/): Village Voice writer Michael Musto accused an unnamed ex-gay activist of making overtures to him, when both happened to be in the green room for...
- [Ex-Gay Media Blog: ‘Gay Marriage’ Leads to Incest](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/ex-gay-media-bl/): The Exodus media blog yesterday promoted a WorldNetDaily item categorically accusing gay parents, who seek marriage to protect their kids, of promoting incest. Exodus claims...
- [The False Link Between Gays, NAMBLA](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/the-false-link/): I’m mainly noting this for future reference. Lynn at Noli Irritare Leones remembers attending a San Francisco gay parade decades ago. NAMBLA isn’t welcome among...
- [Writer Looking for Ex-Gays, Ex-Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/writer-looking/): Jody at Naked Writing is looking for people who have been in the ex-gay movement. He is writing an article about the movement for a...
- [Anniversary: Archbishop Oscar Romero](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/anniversary-arc/): Jeanne D’Arc of Body and Soul remembers Archbishop Romero, who was an outspoken advocate for El Salvador’s population. He risked (and lost) his life defending...
- [NARTH Defends Dishonored Transgender Book](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/narth-defends-d/): From PlanetOut: The Lambda Literary Foundation withdrew J. Michael Bailey’s book “The Man Who Would Be Queen” from award consideration. Even the relatively conservative authors...
- [Gay Activist Wayne Besen Visits Rapid City, S.D.](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/gay-activist-wa/): The Rapid City Journal reported Mar. 17 on Wayne Besen’s appearance Mar. 21 at the Midwest Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Resource Conference. The article...
- [Reality Check: Gay Youth, Young Adult Blogs](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/reality-check-g/): As a mid-40-something, it’s easy for me to lapse into hope that the world is a much better place for gay teens and young adults...
- [Ex-Gays Could Model Tolerance to Antigay Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/ex-gays-could-m/): David Morrison, in Sed Contra: And They Wonder Why Parents Homeschool Their Kids, says: Parent’s are rightly protective of their kids and the ideas and...
- [Minnesota Republican Suffers for Ties to Holocaust-Denying Ex-Gay Activist](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/minnesota-repub/): From Michael Hamar: 365gay reports that Minnesota state Rep. Arlon Lindner has lost the state GOP’s endorsement to run for another term of office. In...
- [Extortion Against Southern Gospel Singer Kirk Talley](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/extortion-again/): Find the most recent XGW coverage of Kirk Talley here. March 23, 2004 This page’s original post is below, heavily revised. The links have also...
- [GOP Official: Orientation Can Be Punished; Ex-Gays Fair Game?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/gop-official-or/): The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is charged with investigating allegations of discrimination by federal employees. The 1978 Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) created...
- [Focus/Family Defends Secularism, Fears End to Antigay Culture War](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/focusfamily-def/): Focus on the Family and the Eagle Forum today admitted key objectives motivating their war against gay couples: Preserve secular control over marriage, and its...
- [Gay Marriage, Pro-Chastity Advocates Debate Over Stanley Kurtz](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/gay-marriage-pr/): I am debating gay marriage at David Morrison’s pro-chastity blog, Sed Contra. Addendum: In a May article in Slate, Prof. M.V. Lee Badgett thoroughly refutes...
- [N.Y. Gay-Tolerant Clergy Charged for Performing Marriages](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/ny-gay-tolerant/): USATODAY.com – New York clergy charged for marrying gay couples My first thought: This is going to fan the so-called wildfire. My second thought: Charges...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays Rip Youth Antiviolence Group, Condemn Gay Activists to Hell](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/exodus-ex-gays-7/): I’ve been dismayed and discouraged at the Exodus national office’s March 5 defense of antigay bullying in schools, and its condemnation of gay people to...
- [Usenet Flamewar Over Ex-Gay Polemicist Stephen Bennett](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/usenet-flamewar/): E-mail rebel Ace Fumigators started a flamewar in Usenet’s alt.censorship group on March 1 by posting Stephen Bennett’s press release, “Former Homosexual: ‘Gay Marriage is...
- [Lobbying Your Elected Officials to Protect ALL Families](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/lobbying-your-e/): The Human Rights Campaign makes it easy to contact your state and federal elected officials. Whatever our beliefs about sexuality may be, lawmakers need to...
- [Paul Cameron As Bob Dole?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/paul-cameron-as/): Samantha Bee did an investigative news parody on Thursday’s episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Is it a problem, she asks, to publicize...
- [Beside the Point: ‘You Don’t Have to Be Gay’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/beside-the-poin/): Posted today to Ex-Gay Watch’s former location at blogs.salon.com: From: Frank Blakely I will get straight to the point. This entire controversy of homosexuality exists...
- [Ex-Gay Book Review: Wayne Besen’s ‘Anything But Straight’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/ex-gay-book-rev/): Writing for Vermont’s monthly Out In The Mountains, Robert William Wolff praises gay activist Wayne Besen’s book about the ex-gay movement, Anything But Straight.
- [Celibate Catholics Respond to Antigay Polemicist](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/03/celibate-cathol-3/): David Morrison and Ron Belgau are members of Courage, a group of same-sex-attracted Roman Catholics who believe homosexual behavior is sinful and therefore choose to...
- [Ex-Gays for Bush: Turning Away From Christianity?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/ex-gays-for-bus/): Exodus leaders Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas have frequently expressed support for President Bush’s re-election in 2004 — most recently they did so on Janet...
- [‘Gestapo’ Language And Ex-Gay Tolerance](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/gestapo-languag/): Andrew Sullivan is widely regarded among conservatives as an example of tolerance and accommodation. He addresses antigay individuals and arguments on a case-by-case basis. He...
- [Celibate Catholic Praise for Randy Shilts, Dorothy Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/celibate-cathol-2/): Catholic pro-celibacy blogger and Courage participant David Morrison remembers gay journalist Randy Shilts, who died ten years ago this month. Shilts was among the first...
- [Catholic Sexual Abuse: Crunching the Gay Numbers](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/catholic-sexual-2/): From The Washington Post: A Catholic lay panel found that 4 percent of the nation’s Catholic priests who have served since 1950 were at one...
- [Ex-Gay Stephen Bennett Criticizes Bush, Civil Unions](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/ex-gay-stephen/): In his State of the Union address, President Bush popularized a misunderstanding of the Federal Marriage Amendment. He said, more or less, that he supported...
- [Ex-Gay ‘Passion’ for Mel Gibson Flick](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/ex-gay-passion/): Eric Scheie at Classical Values nicely summarizes pundits’ up-and-down votes for ‘The Passion of the Christ.’ Hopefully, Exodus ex-gay spokesman Randy Thomas will broaden his...
- [Exodus Praises Bush, Slaps Marriage for Gays on Janet Parshall Show](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-praises/): Janet Parshall, former spokeswoman for the Family Research Council, operates a Christian Right radio show that appears to uphold themes of joyous secularism. Exodus executive...
- [Background Memo: PFOX Webmaster’s Calls for Antigay Violence](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/background-memo/): PFOX was instrumental in the recent formation of the NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus. PFOX’s history of support for discrimination and opposition to antibullying programs in...
- [Attracted to the Same Sex: Am I Gay Or Not?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/attracted-to-th/): People often come to realizations about themselves — as well as changes in their perspective — as they approach middle age. What happens when someone...
- [Gay Marriage And Ambivalent Conservatives](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/gay-marriage-an/): An excellent article from Tech Central Station. I’ve been looking at it since yesterday, and will try to comment further by this weekend. Advance feedback...
- [Gay Marriage Licenses in New Mexico — And Cambodia](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/gay-marriage-li/): From an Associated Press story: Apparently unprompted by activists, the county clerk in Sandoval County, N.M., said she will issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples,...
- [Bloggers, Ex-Gay Eye Where the Marriage Debate Stands](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/bloggers-ex-gay/): Animator Mark Fiore comments on the Attack of the Gay Agenda. Bill (and Kent) tally the mayors that have said they support marriages for gay...
- [Overlawyered: No to the FMA](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/overlawyered-no/): Overlawyered summarizes numerous conservative legal arguments against the Federal Marriage Amendment.
- [The Battle Isn’t Between Gays And Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/the-battle-isnt/): XGW participant Raj commented to Rich: “So do you really believe that your side wouldn’t do that elsewhere?” I’m not sure what sides are being...
- [NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus Formed](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/nea-ex-gay-educ/): Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) appears to have played a key role in organizing the caucus, but its current role in the caucus is...
- [Ex-Gay Official Criticizes ABC for Showing Married Gays Kissing](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/ex-gay-official/): In his first action since banning and erasing all comments on his blog, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers wrote an open letter to ABC on...
- [Correction About Ex-Gay Activist Larry Houston](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/correction-abou/): On Feb. 7, I wrote about Massachusetts ex-gay activist Larry Houston. Mr. Houston wrote me on Feb. 14 to politely request a correction: I was...
- [DearMary.com: Antigay Constitutional Amendment Sparks Backlash](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/dearmarycom-ant/): I commented here and here that President Bush’s effort to write antigay discrimination into the U.S. Constitution had sparked a creative backlash. In San Francisco...
- [Exodus Director, Frist Misunderstand Impact of Marriage Ban](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-director-4/): On his “Just Think!” blog, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers reprints statements by Sen. Bill Frist supporting a nationwide constitutional ban against marriages and civil...
- [Exodus Ex-Gay Position on Adoption](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-ex-gay-p/): Exodus executive director Alan Chambers spells out his opposition to adoption by gay people, as well as his preference that gay biological parents either give...
- [Exodus Explains Ties to Focus on the Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-explains/): On his blog, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers explains the organization’s political advocacy on behalf of Focus on the Family this way: My trip was...
- [Exgay Darryl L. Foster on Exgay Politics](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exgay-darryl-l/): Updated July 20, 2004 D.L. Foster operates Witness for the World, an ex-gay ministry. On his web page, Understanding Exgays: People or Politics, Foster shares...
- [Exodus Spokesman: ‘A Lesser Love’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-spokesma-5/): In his essay, Sacrificing A Lesser Love, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas attempts to explain why, based solely on his own life experiences, he presumes to...
- [Exodus Spokesman on S.F. Marriages: ‘Judicial Activist Mayor’?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-spokesma-4/): Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas must be at a loss for words about the marriages of gay and lesbian couples in San Francisco. Judicial tyranny, activist...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays Launch Media Synopsis Blog](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-ex-gays-6/): Mixing literalist meditations on unrelated (prooftexted) Bible passages, news story leads, links, and religious right propaganda, Exodus International launched a political news blog yesterday (Feb....
- [Gay Teen Can Sue Pro-Exgay Florida School](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/gay-teen-can-su/): Last October, XGW briefly covered the case of Jupiter Christian School in Central Florida. The mother of Jeffrey Woodard, a Christian, accuses the school of...
- [Ex-Gays Say Again: No Marriages for Mass. Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/ex-gays-say-aga/): Exodus sent the following press release yesterday: Breaking News! Exodus International, North America * P.O. Box 540119 * Orlando, FL 32854 Internet: www.exodus-international.org Media Inquiries:...
- [The Right Christians: ‘Hiding Behind Hatred’ Over Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/the-right-chris/): From Allen Brill today: Having problems with your credibility on issues like war and peace, the economy and the military record you try to flaunt?...
- [Ex-Gay Spokesman Lobbies Against ‘Special Rights’ for Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/ex-gay-spokesma-4/): While in Nashville for Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out,” Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas took the time to lobby 25 state lawmakers: I am...
- [Vanderbilt Experts, Former Ex-Gay Put Ex-Gay Leader on the Defensive](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/vanderbilt-expe/): When Focus on the Family announced that “Love Won Out” — its one-sided program promoting ex-gay ministries and antigay therapies — would come to Nashville,...
- [Classical Values: Conservatives, Feminists Bureaucratize Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/classical-value-3/): Eric at Classical Values wonders whether the ever-growing role of government — driven by conservatives and feminists — is helping to crush marriages and families.
- [Gay Teens And Marriage: XGW Responds to Ex-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/gay-teens-and-m/): I have responded on Exodus executive director Alan Chambers’ blog to his public complaint against the Boston Globe. In case he deletes my response, here...
- [Exodus Leaders Inspire Massachusetts Antimarriage Activist](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-leaders/): Exodus leaders Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas testified in Massachusetts last year, encouraging lawmakers to outlaw gay marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships. According to...
- [Gays And Ex-Gays: Broken Friendships](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/gays-and-ex-gay/): Exodus executive director Alan Chambers was a guest on gay activist Michelangelo Signorile’s satellite radio show Jan. 27. He posted his reaction to his guest...
- [Exodus Director Mystified By Gay Teen Couples](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-director-3/): On his personal blog, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers shares his letter to the Boston Globe, responding to a Jan. 20 article (archive fee required)...
- [Exodus Director: Think What of the Liberty Counsel?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/exodus-director-2/): On his personal blog yesterday, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers reprinted, without criticism, a press release by the Liberty Counsel, an organization that files lawsuits...
- [Janet Jackson: Ex-Gay Spokesman’s Oversight](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/janet-jackson-e/): Was he so distracted by a woman’s breast that he overlooked the obvious? On his personal blog, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas says: Tammy [Bruce] is...
- [NYT Pans ‘Latter Days’ Depiction of Ex-gay Treatment](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/nyt-pans-latter/): In a movie review of “Latter Days” for the New York Times last Friday, Dave Kehr praises the film for charting one man’s journey —...
- [CSIndy Publishes Feature on Denver Ex-Gay Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/csindy-publishe/): John Dicker of the Colorado Springs Independent has penned a level-headed and sensitively written feature story about Where Grace Abounds, an unusual ex-gay ministry located...
- [PFOX Cheers Ex-Gay Testimony on Faith-Based Funding](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/pfox-cheers-ex/): The antigay parents organization PFOX issued a press release Jan. 30 praising Exodus chairman and Focus on the Family exgay activist Mike Haley. Haley had...
- [Focus on the Family Cheers Imprisonment of Gay Teen-Ager](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/focus-on-the-fa-10/): In the news briefs section of its Feb. 2 CitizenWatch electronic newsletter, Focus on the Family cheered the Kansas appellate court ruling against Matthew Limon....
- [Conservatives Opposed to Federal Marriage Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/02/conservatives-o/): Citizen Outreach has launched a web site, Leave Marriage to the States, at lawfullywedded.com. The site consists of conservative voices — many of them antigay...
- [Kansas Court Keeps Matthew Limon in Prison](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/kansas-court-ke/): Following its decision in Lawrence v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Kansas Court of Appeals to reconsider the conviction of gay teen-ager Matthew...
- [CWA: Marriage Amendment Intended to Abolish Civil Unions](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/cwa-marriage-am/): In an interview with Human Events, Sandy Rios of Concerned Women for America maps out the organization’s strategy on gay marriage. Specifically, CWA believes the...
- [Exodus Director: Prosecute Michael Johnston?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/exodus-director/): On his blog “Just Think!” on Jan. 7, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers says those who knowingly transmit HIV should be prosecuted, regardless of sexual...
- [Why Ex-Gays Must Oppose Gay Couples?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/why-ex-gays-mus/): In the Jan. 23 issue of Spotlights, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers attempts to explain why Exodus lobbies ex-gays and Christians to discriminate — and...
- [Anne Paulk: Re-Stereotyping TV Lesbians](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/anne-paulk-re-s/): Ecclesiastes 1:9 has nothing to do with “lesbianism” or the Showtime cable network, but that didn’t stop Exodus from cutting-and-pasting a random Bible verse into...
- [Exodus: Either/Or Politics](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/exodus-eitheror/): Commentator Deroy Murdock wrote an op-ed for Scripps Howard, reminding heterosexuals that their non-monogamous straight peers — not homosexuals — are the ones with a...
- [Courage Founder: Blame Imbalanced Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/courage-founder/): The conservative Roman Catholic media agency Zenit published a lengthy interview Jan. 24 on the alleged parental and social origins of homosexuality. The sole subject...
- [Chambers Vs. Signorile: Ex-Gay on Gay Radio](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/chambers-vs-sig/): Exodus executive director Alan Chambers was a guest on gay author and activist Michelangelo Signorile’s radio show Jan. 27. Chambers’ blog entry about the show...
- [Courage: Ron Belgau on Catholicism And Chastity](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/courage-ron-bel/): Ron Belgau of Courage Seattle gave a talk at Georgetown University last week: “The Love That Does Not Count the Cost: A Biblical Reflection on...
- [Morons.org on Taxpayer Handouts to Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/moronsorg-on-ta/): Nick of Morons.org doesn’t appreciate Focus on the Family’s effort last week to steer federal funding of faith-based initiatives.
- [Ex-Gay Watch: Overlawyered](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/ex-gay-watch-ov/): Overlawyered.com is a blog that tracks the high cost and the threat to liberty posed by Americans’ habit of suing one another instead of discussing...
- [Ex-Ex-Gay Takes Comedy on the Road](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/ex-ex-gay-takes/): Performer Peterson Toscano takes his one-man show, “Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House — How I Survived the Ex-Gay Movement!”, to Washington,...
- [Wayne Besen on Faith-Based Prisons](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/wayne-besen-on/): In an op-ed column for The Tallahassee Democrat, anti-ex-gay activist Wayne Besen warns that Florida’s plan for a faith-based prison may lead to favoritism for...
- [Private Ad Firm Rejects Ex-Gay Ad](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/private-ad-firm/): Stephen Bennett Ministries says it merely wanted to post an ex-gay billboard in Albany, the capital of New York state: The Stephen Bennett Ministries billboard...
- [Focus/Family: How to Treat Gay Loved Ones?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/focusfamily-how/): Blogger Jayelle Wiggins attended Love Won Out in Orlando in November 2001, then wrote up her experience. Recently, Focus on the Family surveyed her on...
- [Taxpayer Handouts to Ex-Gays — Yes Or No?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/taxpayer-handou/): The following media outlets cover an uproar over Focus on the Family ex-gay activists’ appearance at a Congressional hearing on funding of faith-based initiatives: The...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Reopens](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/ex-gay-watch-re/): The boxes are unpacked in D.C., and two very helpful Comcast representatives finally connected us to the ‘Net today, after the company bureaucracy had spent...
- [Greed Is Good? Focus on the Family Agrees…](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/01/greed-is-good-f/): … with an author who praises profit motive and self-interest as Christian motives to advance society.
- [Blogging And Libel](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/blogging-and-li/): For our fellow bloggers out there, a brief primer on libel and blogging. The Libel Defense Resource Center has an FAQ page. Here’s an excerpt:...
- [Ex-Gay Minister Threatens Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/ex-gay-minister/): The first threat occurred here. The second threat occurred here in response to an earlier posting. XGW discusses the legalities of blogging and libel here.
- [Ex-Gay Watch Moving to D.C.](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/ex-gay-watch-mo/): Readers have noticed activity slowing to a trickle. The reason is that XGW is moving to Washington. We’ll be moved in, and ready to blog...
- [Ex-Gay Spokesman: No ‘Division’ From Focus on the Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/ex-gay-spokesma-3/): On Dec. 9, Ex-Gay Watch observed that Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas had complained publicly about being quoted out-of-context by Focus on the Family. The next...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays Say Rosie Exploits Children](https://exgaywatch.com/2003/12/exodus-ex-gays-5/): Exodus International spokesman Randy Thomas accuses homosexuals of exploiting children. Specifically, he says Rosie O’Donnell is exploiting children by helping the bullied gay youths at...
- [Sojourners: ‘God Is Not a Republican… Or a Democrat’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/sojourners-god/): Blogger Chuck Currie reprints yesterday’s press release from Sojourners for takebackourfaith.org. How has the love of Jesus, the Prince of Peace – and his good...
- [A Silent Protest: How Gay-tolerant Families Might Respond to Ex-gay Talk of God’s Hate](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/a-silent-protes/): Stephen Bennett defends his hostility to gay parents, their families, and supportive straight parents during his Aug. 7 protest in Provincetown, Mass. Other online coverage:...
- [Pro-exgay Prof Defends Ad, Blasts GLAAD](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/pro-exgay-prof/): The Exodus web site features a press release penned late last week by Warren Throckmorton. Instead of explaining or defending the odd language and overly...
- [Gay Blogger to Kerry Supporters: Wake Up!](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/gay-blogger-to/): Patrick Connors is guest blogging at the Gay American blog. Like XGW, he is becoming unhappy with John Kerry. It is the will of the...
- [Reflections on Gay Family Week in Provincetown](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/reflections-on/): Paul E. Keith wrote about Stephen Bennett’s demonstration in Provincetown, Mass., over the weekend. Since then, Paul has reflected some more, and writes: My original...
- [New Study: Male Sexual Orientation Influenced By Prenatal Factors, Birth Order](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/new-study-male/): A newly published study suggests sexual orientation in males is influenced by prenatal development. Blanchard, R. (2004). Quantitative and theoretical analyses of the relation between...
- [Soulforce Local Group Confronts Antigay Catholic Group Courage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/soulforce-local/): Virginia Stephenson of Soulforce Albuquerque provides a first-hand account of her group’s encounter with Courage, a Catholic organization that promotes chastity among same-sex-attracted individuals. Courage...
- [Kids, Clowns, And Prayers Confound Ex-gay Stephen Bennett in P’town](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/kids-clowns-and/): Paul of Gay Christian Network provides a first-hand account of activist Stephen Bennett’s ex-gay leafletting effort in Provincetown, Mass.
- [Off-topic: ‘Are Liberal Christians Phony?’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/off-topic-are-l/): David Batstone is the executive editor of Sojourners, an evangelical Christian magazine with a history of pro-life, pro-human-rights, antipoverty and antiviolence activism rooted in the...
- [Off-topic: Morality of the Cherry-pickers?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/off-topic-moral/): Tommy Tomlinson of The Charlotte Observer (free subscription required) comments on Catholic bishops who pick and choose which Biblical moralities to uphold and which to...
- [‘Hate Crime’: Kirk Talley’s Extortionist Sentenced](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/hate-crime-kirk/): Find the most recent XGW coverage of Kirk Talley here. August 6, 2004 The antigay Southern Baptist who attempted to extort money from southern gospel...
- [Missouri Votes Against Existing Families with Gay Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/missouri-votes/): Jason Kuznicki of Positive Liberty sums it up, adding that single parents are starting to turn against Bush.
- [Ex-gay Stephen Bennett in P-town on Saturday](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/ex-gay-stephen-3/): Time to follow up on Stephen Bennett’s plans to bring Bible gift bags to gay and lesbian families and their children in Provincetown Massachusetts this...
- [Lutherans Concerned: ‘Is Ex-gay a False Hope?’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/lutherans-conce/): Lutherans Concerned is selling this 15-minute video for $12 (plus $3 for shipping and handling). At $1 per minute, I think I’ll wait for a...
- [Promise And Problems At Portland Fellowship](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/promise-and-pro/): XGW reader Norm notes that John Paulk is no longer listed on the staff of Portland Fellowship. And the Fellowship’s founder, Phil Hobizal, remains on...
- [Latest Victim of ABC’s John Stossel](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/latest-victim-o/): Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) reminds us that antigay activists like Alan Chambers aren’t the only victims of ABC commentator John Stossel. This time,...
- [ABA Reports on Virginia Ban on Civil Unions](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/aba-reports-on/): The American Bar Association reports on legal expert reactions to a Virginia law, enacted July 1, which voided gay civil unions — and, some say,...
- [Gay Intolerance of Christians in Sweden?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/gay-intolerance/): Numerous culture warriors in July pointed to Sweden’s enforcement of laws against antigay defamation as proof that all gay activists are intolerant of antigay Christians....
- [Who’s Politicizing Gay Parenting? Certainly Not (ahem) FRC](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/whos-politicizi/): The Family Research Council takes issue with the American Psychological Association again over gay parents. The FRC declines to link its readers to last week’s...
- [Focus/Family Criticizes Democrats for Abstaining on Gay-marriage Policy](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/focusfamily-cri/): A couple weeks ago, Christianity Today reported that Focus on the Family is blurring the line between its tax-deductible operations and its partisan political advocacy...
- [Christian Libertarians? Sometimes Not](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/christian-liber/): Jon Rowe comments that Christian Reconstructionists have infiltrated libertarian circles by labeling themselves “Christian libertarians.” Unlike real libertarians who wish to eliminate big government, however,...
- [Illinois Church Sign Sparks Debate](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/illinois-church/): The church sign lacked both originality and insight: “God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve” and “Marriage is between a man and a...
- [Big-government Resolution to Support Ex-gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/big-government/): Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays is rallying support for U.S. House and Senate resolutions supporting tolerance for “former homosexuals and lesbians.”
- [Scary Places Frem 20,000 Feet](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/scary-places-fr/): Aerial view of Washington’s Dupont Circle. I see upscale shoppers and workers sipping chais or chowing on wraps. Ben claims to see a place where...
- [Psychotherapist Joe Kort on Ex-gay ‘extreme Makeovers’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/psychotherapist/): In late June, web site and the Gay Spirituality blog, Michigan psychotherapist Joe Kort offered his own lengthy clinical and personal assessment of reparative therapies....
- [Wayne Besen Responds to Ex-gay Ad Campaign](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/wayne-besen-res/): Here is activist/author Wayne Besen’s press release.
- [Andrew Sullivan: Christ-centered Faith Vs ’subordination’ of Women](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/andrew-sullivan/): Responding to an e-mail defending the subordination of women, Andrew Sullivan writes: The strength to be subordinate! And this comes from a religious tradition that...
- [L.A. Times Publishes Full-page Ex-gay Ad](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/la-times-publis/): Exodus announces the second ex-gay ad, published today in the L.A. Times. (Here’s other XGW coverage of the Exodus ads.)
- [Ex-Gay Watch: Discussed Elsewhere](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/ex-gay-watch-di/): Dalai Banana discusses the allure of spiritual regression (OK, this is my own spin) — the temptation to limit oneself to an immature, beginner-level spirituality...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: Site Updates](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/ex-gay-watch-si/): Bit by bit, I’m updating old sections of the site. Here are updated entries and their revision dates: July 20, 2004 Exgay Darryl L. Foster...
- [Cincinnati Background Info](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/cincinnati-back/): I figured I’d dig around for a little background info on Cincinnati Ohio, where Exodus published a full-page ad in the Cincinnati Enquirer on Thursday.
- [Exodus Ad: Question Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/exodus-ad-quest/): Exodus International has launched an ad campaign starting with a full page in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Headlined, “I Questioned Homosexuality,” its theme is also reflected...
- [Discussion: Fluidity in Sexual Orientation](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/discussion-flui/): I really appreciate the depth and range of insights coming through the comments on the flexibility and fluidity post. For those who follow new posts...
- [Flexibility And Fluidity: Personal Reflection](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/flexibility-and/): A good discussion has ensued under the Gay Story With an Ex-Gay Theme post. I want to continue that with my thoughts on the flexibility...
- [Stephen Bennett Updates](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/stephen-bennett-3/): Two months ago we took a look at Stephen Bennett Ministry’s (SBM’s) fundraising efforts for an evangelism trip to Provincetown MA. At that point, the...
- [A Gay Story With an Ex-gay Theme](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/07/a-gay-story-wit/): The July issue of Instinct Magazine (on newsstands only, not online) includes a piece titled “Meet The World’s Most Boring Homo,” by Parker Ray. It...
- [Gay Marriage Helps Taxpayers? FRC Skips A Heartbeat](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/gay-marriage-he/): The Congressional Budget Office said gay marriage would, on the whole, benefit U.S. taxpayers. The Family Research Council responded, as Scott Lewis notes, with non...
- [Liberal Catholic Analysis of Courage Activist](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/liberal-catholi/): A liberal Catholic blogger thoughtfully and methodically analyzes the recent and sometimes stereotypical reasoning of Ron Belgau, who is an activist in Courage, the Catholic...
- [Focus/Family Smears Moderate Evangelicals As Leftists](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/focusfamily-sme/): Focus on the Family attempts to smear two leading evangelicals — Tony Campolo and Jim Wallis — as New Age leftists. Both evangelists have spent...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays Agree: Constitution’s Defenders Are Anti-Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/exodus-ex-gays-9/): Exodus, the Orlando-based network of ex-gay activists, joins the American Family Association, Focus on the Family, and other anti-tolerance organizations in inventing a remarkably blatant...
- [Attack on Antigay Preacher: Focus Twists Facts](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/attack-on-antig/): Focus on the Family, which opposes unfettered free speech for gay-tolerant viewpoints, digs up a 2001 incident in Britain, in which an antigay street preacher...
- [Focus on the Family Profiting From Son of Sam?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/focus-on-the-fa-13/): David Berkowitz murdered six people and severely injured others during a 1970s killing spree. Now ex-gay movement marketer and underwriter Focus on the Family is...
- [Some Things Never Change](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/some-things-nev/): This month, my job changed, my salary rose, my office moved… but ex-gay activists remain as committed to conflict, resentment, and tired old refrains as...
- [Former Ex-Gay Returns to NYC with One-Man Satire](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/former-ex-gay-r/): Former New Yorker Peterson Toscano, who endured 17 years of ex-gay reparative therapy in Manhattan and elsewhere, returns to the city to present his one-man...
- [The Politics of Science: Distinguishing Between Love And Sex](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/the-politics-of/): If love and sexual desire are distinct experiences with distinct and separate biological underpinnings, then what does that mean for the ethics and politics of...
- [Reagan’s Loose Cannon: Ex-Gay Leader Stands By Oliver North](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/reagans-loose-c/): Founded as a day for Americans of all faiths, the National Day of Prayer is now closely tied to Focus on the Family. It is...
- [NYT Columnist on GOP Convention’s Gay-Aversion Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/nyt-columnist-o/): New York Times columnist Frank Rich comments today on the GOP convention organizers’ floundering effort to administer “gay-aversion therapy” to the city of New York.
- [FRC: Getting Straight the Research on Homosexuality?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/frc-getting-str/): Someone recently wrote to XGW, requesting a copy of Getting It Straight: What the Research Shows About Homosexuality. FRC’s description of the booklet is not...
- [Briefly: Remembering Patrick Cusick](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/briefly-remembe/): Patrick Cusick, 72, a longtime gay rights activist and an active participant in the 1960s black civil rights movement, died May 10. The June 4...
- [Psych Advice for Gays And Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/psych-advice-fo/): Psychotherapist Joe Kort wrote a book, published last year, titled 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do to Improve Their Lives. What smart things does...
- [Wayne Besen: ‘Doom’ for Gay Republicans](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/wayne-besen-doo/): Wayne Besen, author of Anything But Straight about the ex-gay movement, comments in a June 4 op-ed in The Washington Blade about the difficulties facing...
- [Throckmorton Tells Mental Health Pros to Host Antigay Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/throckmorton-te/): Warren Throckmorton, a professor at a Bible college in Pennsylvania, is frequently cited as a scholar by PFOX and other ex-gay political activists. In an...
- [Scattered Words: Ex-Gay Blogger](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/scattered-words/): Twenty-two-year-old D.C.-area blogger Ben at Scattered Words exemplifies the agreeable ex-gay Christian: Someone who pursues an ex-gay sexual and spiritual path primarily because it’s right...
- [Ex-Gay Anne Paulk: Who Owns Traditional Values?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/ex-gay-anne-pau/): In a June 1 op-ed column in The Oregonian (Portland), Exodus board member, author and Focus on the Family associate Anne Paulk reacts to an...
- [Pediatricians, Sexual Orientation, And Adolescence](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/pediatricians-s/): The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association on June 2 applauded the publication of an American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement, “Sexual Orientation and Adolescence,” in...
- [Mel White on Falwell, Bush, And Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/mel-white-on-fa/): Pridesource.com today published an interview with the Rev. Mel White, head of Soulforce, the U.S. network of gay-affirming, faith-based, nonviolent activist organizations. White has much...
- [Ex-Gay Activist Seeks Mutual Respect in the Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/ex-gay-activist/): Chad W. Thompson is a rising individual in the ex-gay movement. Formerly a media specialist for the Iowa Family Policy Center, Thompson is the founder...
- [‘Anything But Straight’ Book A Finalist for Two Awards](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/anything-but-st-2/): Chicago’s Windy City Times interviewed gay activist Wayne Besen on June 2. Besen’s book about the ex-gay movement, Anything But Straight, was nominated for the...
- [Focus/Family Invites Anecdotes on Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/focusfamily-inv/): James Dobson of Focus on the Family is releasing a new antigay/exgay book, “Marriage Under Fire,” in mid-June.
- [Robert Knight’s One-Eyed View of Hate Crimes](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/robert-knights/): In a May 29 essay at the WorldNetDaily web site, reprinted four days later at Concerned Women for America, Robert Knight blasts a newly proposed...
- [Ex-Gay: Visibility ‘Glorifying the Homosexual Lifestyle’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/06/ex-gay-visibili/): Ex-gay quote of the day, from Focus on the Family’s daily CitizenLink e-mail, regarding MTV’s new gay cable network: Melissa Fryrear, gender issues analyst at...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: A Glance At the News](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ex-gay-watch-a/): Democratic Catholic Lawmakers Warn Bishops From The Washington Post: Forty-eight lawmakers, including several who are anti-abortion, warned the bishops not to harm the church by...
- [Exodus Double-Speak on Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/exodus-double-s/): In his early movie, Bananas, Woody Allen’s character Fielding Mellish complains: This trial is a travesty. It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham...
- [Exodus Leader: Gay Elite Kidnapped Brown Anniversary](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/exodus-leader-g/): Exodus International‘s executive director, Alan Chambers, writes a personal blog titled Just Think! Encourage it in others. Demand it of yourself. In an entry yesterday,...
- [Ex-Gays And the (Right-Wing) Morning News](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ex-gays-and-the-2/): Oliver Griswold of The Morning News did for 30 days what some ex-gay activists do for their entire adult lives: Live solely on an all-reactionary...
- [MinistryWatch Analyzes Finances of Ex-Gays, Focus on the Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ministrywatch-a/): The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability monitors the financial integrity of evangelical Christian ministries on an annual basis. Christianity Today notes this week that ECFA’s...
- [Ex-Lesbian Staffer At Focus on the Family to Debate Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ex-lesbian-staf/): Via e-mail from Focus on the Family today: Former lesbian Amy Tracy and Focus anti-marriage activist Glenn T. Stanton will debate against marriage for gay...
- [Ex-Gay Tim Wilkins: Bridge-Builder?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ex-gay-tim-wilk/): Ex-gay activist Tim Wilkins of Wake Forest, N.C., spotlights an effort that he made to establish friendly rapport with gay activists in Tucson, Ariz. His...
- [Ex-Gay Greg Quinlan: Homosexuality A Personality Disorder](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ex-gay-greg-qui-2/): Ten speakers with diverse perspectives on gay rights debate before high school honors students in the Toledo area on May 10. Among the speakers was...
- [Christians Seek Mutual Understanding About Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/christians-seek/): While the leadership of the Exodus International ex-gay network opposes dialogue that might lead to mutual understanding between gay and ex-gay people of faith, especially...
- [Ex-Gay Selects CD Partner with Ties to Racism, Anti-Semitism](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ex-gay-selects/): Ex-gay activist Stephen Bennett enthusiastically promotes his antigay CD as a joint project with World Net Daily. As it happens, the current issue of the...
- [Survey Casts Doubt on Ex-Gay Protests of ‘Liberal’ Media](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/survey-casts-do/): Greg Valiga notes a Media Matters survey finding that “a plurality of the American electorate has concluded that conservatives have the most power and influence...
- [Ex-Gay Spokesman Pans Sexual Abuse in Iraq](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ex-gay-spokesma-5/): U.S. military intelligence officials broadly and systematically authorized or tolerated abuse against Iraqi detainees. That much is made clear by the International Committee of the...
- [Stephen Bennett Plans $50K Evangelism Trip to Provincetown](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/stephen-bennett-2/): Last year Stephen Bennett Ministries (SBM) chartered a bus and took 30 Christians from Connecticut to evangelize gays and lesbians vacationing in Provincetown, MA for...
- [Bureaucrats And Bathhouses Vs. AIDS](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/bureaucrats-and/): While Los Angeles bureaucrats and bathhouses drag their feet, the pro-gay AIDS Healthcare Foundation is demanding that city bathhouses either clean up or shut down....
- [Aversion Therapy Survivor Reports on Love Won Out in Vancouver](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/aversion-therap/): Toronto Star reporter David Graham reports from the Love Won Out conference over the weekend, comparing and contrasting it with his experience as a voluntary...
- [Tradition Vs. ‘Traditional Values’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/tradition-vs-tr/): Dalai Banana offers a wonderful reflection on tradition. Genuinely traditional cultures offer some extreme advantages — and disadvantages — over the largely traditionless cultures of...
- [Dr. Satinover Politicizes Science to Advocate Discrimination](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/dr-satinover-po/): CPT_Doom provided a lot of the info and some of the writing for the following. Thanks, CPT. — Mike A. == Jeffrey Satinover, one of...
- [The Way of the Cross…](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/the-way-of-the/): … is not culture war. A long, thoughtful post from a progressive Christian, Catholic perspective. (Upon opening the page, you may need to scroll up...
- [Bulletin! Most Evangelicals Are Not Evil](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/bulletin-most-e/): Few Christian evangelicals are culture warriors. This is a fact, though one might hear otherwise from reactionaries (like James Dobson and Alan Chambers) who claim...
- [University of Minnesota Staffer’s Ex-Gay Testimony: A Work in Progress](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/university-of-m/): Minnesota’s Six Foot Pole pointed me to the ex-gay personal story of Michael David Wallen, an athletics staffer at the University of Minnesota. If Wallen...
- [Stephen Bennett Markets WorldNetDaily Antimarriage CD](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/stephen-bennett/): Ex-gay and antigay movement leaders see profit in the battle against marriage and civil unions for gay couples. As Stephen Bennett sees the situation, one...
- [Randall Terry And Gay Son Jamiel Revisited](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/randall-terry-a/): I finally found a newsstand copy of the May issue of Out magazine, featuring an interview with antiabortion activist Randall Terry’s gay son Jamiel. I’ll...
- [Ex-Gays Used As Weapon Against Tolerant Students in Illinois](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/05/ex-gays-used-as/): Students who contemplatively or prayerfully honor a “Day of Silence” in protest against antigay violence and harassment in the schools should be punished, according to...
- [Bigotry Toward Berkeley: Lessons Not Learned By Ex-Gay Director](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/bigotry-toward/): Earlier this month, Exodus executive director Alan Chambers charged into Berkeley, Calif., determined to thwart hordes of hateful and violent liberals. What he found, but...
- [Exodus Exgays Bend the Golden Rule in Tennessee](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/exodus-exgays-b/): Rhea County, Tenn., made headlines a couple weeks ago when it sought to pass laws to arrest the county’s homosexual residents and run them out...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: Administrative Note](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/ex-gay-watch-ad/): I spent the weekend catching up on matters at “the other site” that I work on. I’ve got plenty of XGW e-mail and news to...
- [Focus on the Family’s Battle Against Research on Sex](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/focus-on-the-fa-12/): Focus on the Family must be satisfied with what little scientific study has been done on gays and ex-gays. What makes me say that? Well,...
- [Antigay Math on Gay Couples Doesn’t Add Up](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/antigay-math-on/): The Exodus media blog cites a new press release promoting the Gay and Lesbian Atlas, an almanac of facts and figures about gays in America....
- [Ex-Gay Network’s Favorite ‘Secular’ Newspaper](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/ex-gay-networks/): That newspaper is The Washington Times, of course. And Kevin Drum notices that something is amiss with the policies on accurate reporting at Exodus’ favorite...
- [Exodus Ex-Gay Director Insults Lutheran Presiding Bishop](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/exodus-ex-gay-d/): In an April 8 news release, Exodus International executive director called upon the “true Body of Christ” — fundamentalists — to sign a petition demanding...
- [Berkeley Marriage Symposium Features Ex-Gay Director](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/berkeley-marria/): Exodus International executive director Alan Chambers appears today at a symposium on same-sex marriage at the University of California-Berkeley. The symposium program places Chambers on...
- [Exodus Ex-Gays: Outlaw Homosexual Parenting](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/exodus-ex-gays-8/): In an April 16 issue of “Media Spotlights” that contains numerous errors of basic grammar as well as fact, Exodus International says: 1) The American...
- [Focus/Family Sees Gay Marriage As Evil Conspiracy to Silence All Christians](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/focusfamily-see/): A couple months ago, Focus on the Family exgay operative and Exodus chairman Mike Haley begged a gay-tolerant, largely Christian audience at Vanderbilt University for...
- [Bob Enyart Interviews Gay-Marriage Author](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/bob-enyart-inte/): Gay author Jonathan Rauch is touring the nation to promote his new book, “Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and...
- [Ex-Gay News Brief: Wayne Besen Book Tour Visits Charleston, S.C.](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/ex-gay-news-bri/): The Charleston Post and Courier on April 14 briefly noted gay activist/author Wayne Besen’s then-upcoming speech April 15. Besen is touring the country to promote...
- [Ex-Gay Stephen Bennett, Feature Writer for Far-Right Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/ex-gay-stephen-2/): My mind is getting slow — time for me to pop some Paxil. I knew that Stephen Bennett has been publishing articles about his victimization...
- [Anti-gay Parents Say Satire = Evidence](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/anti-gay-parent/): The Thames Valley District school board in London, Ontario was considering expanding its safe schools program to include gay and lesbian students. A parents group,...
- [New Science Study Directed At Therapists of Ex-Gays, Change-Seekers](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/new-science-stu/): The April issue of the APA journal Professional Psychology: Research & Practice (Vol. 35, No. 2) includes an article, “Treating Patients Distressed Regarding Their Sexual...
- [Exodus Says Gay Couples Costly to Co-Workers’ Health Premiums](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/04/exodus-says-gay/): The spokesman for much of the ex-gay movement wants America’s workers to resent gay couples because, he says, they’re AIDS-infected and will cost their co-workers...
- [PFOX Asks Cheneys to Support Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/pfox-asks-chene/): Wayne Besen’s commented last week on the furor over John Kerry mentioning Mary Cheney’s sexual orientation — a public disclosure that was based on her...
- [‘Gays Are Heterosexuals with Homosexual Problems’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/gays-are-hetero/): Oct. 21, 2004, on the PFOX Yahoo group (closed to non-members, and not archived): “No one is gay to begin with. We are all born...
- [Exodus: Vote for Absolute Right Vs. Absolute Wrong](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/exodus-vote-for/): Here are some excerpts from the October 2004 issue of the Exodus newsletter. Unfortunately, Exodus does not make its newsletter available online. Boldface print was...
- [Plain Dealer Skims the Surface of Exgay Science Debate](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/plain-dealer-sk/): In reporting on the scientific debate over sexual orientation — what causes it, can it be changed — Cleveland’s Plain Dealer newspaper interviews an Ohio...
- [Wayne Besen Questions Exgay Stephen Bennett’s Ties to Demon-deliverance Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/wayne-besen-que/): Here is a press release dated today from Wayne Besen. Author Calls on Ex-Gay Leader to Explain Involvement with Bizarre, Backwoods Demon Deliverance Cult Stephen...
- [Homosexuality And Pedophilia: The False Link](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/homosexuality-a/): By Joe Kort, MSW Originally published in “In the Family” magazine, Fall 2003 I thought I would publish this here on this site as I...
- [‘How an Ex-gay Ministry Set Me Free’ to Be Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/how-an-ex-gay-m/): Credibility suffers a bit whenever identity can’t be verified, but this person’s anonymous testimony at GayHealth.com is still worth reading, because it exemplifies a common...
- [Quaker Remembers Fundamentalism And Two Exgay Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/quaker-remember/): Beppe (Joe G.), a Quaker blogger, shares some of his journey through two exgay ministries. One of them, OutPost, was led at the time by...
- [Antigay Parents Group Asks Why the Lack of Support From Kerry/Edwards](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/antigay-parents/): Aggrieved-antigay-relatives group PFOX complains that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has been strangely quiet on the issue of equal treatment for former homosexuals. Said [executive...
- [Catholic Antigay Teaching And Heterosexism](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/catholic-antiga/): Gay-spirituality blogger Joe Perez discusses Catholic moral theology and homosexuality with chastity advocate, Courage member and author David Morrison. Joe’s reflections are remarkably civil. I...
- [On the Consistency of Abstinence And Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/on-the-consiste/): Pro-feminist Christian blogger Hugo Schwyzer comments on a consistent ethic of desire that supports both abstinence and gay marriage.
- [Irrational E-mail](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/irrational-e-ma/): The recent e-mail message was short, and completely devoid of substantiation: Mr. Editor Person- Umm… yes… I know you will dismiss me as a conspirator...
- [Houston Weekly Profiles Ex-gays, Ex-exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/houston-weekly/): The news and entertainment weekly Houston Press profiles exgays in its Oct. 14 issue. Sometimes sarcastic, often serious, the article balances the journeys of several...
- [Vote ALL Your Values](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/vote-all-your-v/): People of faith remind us to vote ALL our values, not just hot-button issues.
- [Citing Extremes, Exodus Protests Diversity And Tolerance in General](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/citing-extremes/): Writing for Exodus, exgay activist Nancy Brown complains that gay-tolerant and antigay activists were treated unequally at two separate events in two different states. Tolerance...
- [Wayne Besen Says Cheney Family Humiliated Daughter Mary](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/wayne-besen-say/): Gay author/activist Wayne Besen comments on the contrived hullaballoo over Mary Cheney, the openly lesbian daughter of the vice president who formerly served as gay...
- [Ex-gay Pastor Promotes Georgia Ban on Gay Unions](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/ex-gay-pastor-p/): The Southern Voice reports that a Georgia state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and domestic partnerships is causing division among the state’s churches. Among...
- [Exgay Comedy Show Continues National Tour](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/exgay-comedy-sh/): “Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House — How I Survived the Ex-Gay Movement,” the original one-man comedy by Peterson Toscano, continues to...
- [Focus/Family Overcounting Antigay Rally Attendance?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/focusfamily-ove/): Focus on the Family mobilized a political rally against gay couples — and in favor of antigay politicians — on the National Mall in Washington...
- [Thanks, Advocate](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/thanks-advocate/): I wish to extend my appreciation to Etelka Lehoczky and The Advocate, for talking with me and mentioning Ex-Gay Watch in Lehoczky’s article on gay...
- [Exgays Claim Kerry ‘born Gay’ Remark Insults Them](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/exgays-claim-ke/): According to CNSNews.com, exgays across the spectrum are “enraged” at John Kerry’s debate remark that people could be born gay. Kerry said: “I think if...
- [Tolerance in Southern Gospel Music Land](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/tolerance-in-so/): Southern gospel singer Kirk Talley has opted to downplay the antigay extortion committed against him early this year — and to go silent about the...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Profile: Michael Marcavage of Repent America](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/ex-gay-watch-pr-5/): On October 10, 11 antigay activists affiliated with Repent America, a pro-exgay religious group, were arrested for disrupting a gay-pride festival in Philadelphia. AgapePress and...
- [Wayne Besen Criticizes Ex-gay Ad Ruling](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/wayne-besen-cri/): Focus on the Family this week won the right to post exgay ads on Tampa Bay, Fla.-area bus shelters, according to 365gay.com. Gay activist/author Wayne...
- [Science Study Boosts Asexual Pride Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/science-study-b/): “LONDON, England (CNN) — About one percent of adults have absolutely no interest in sex, according to a new study, and that distinction is becoming...
- [Study Links Genes, Male Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/study-links-gen/): “LONDON, England (Reuters) — Genetic factors, along with cultural and early experiences, influence male homosexuality, Italian scientists said on Wednesday.” One study is by no...
- [Wayne Besen Debates Author of Exgay Book](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/wayne-besen-deb/): Gay activist and author Wayne Besen debates Talbert W. Swan II, editor of the exgay book “Closing the Closet: Testimonies of Deliverance from Homosexuality.” (Previous...
- [Kirk Talley Restoration Team Leaves Key Questions Unanswered](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/kirk-talley-res/): Southern gospel singer Kirk Talley has the backing of his “restoration team” to resume a concert/ministry, according to an e-mail newsletter from the singer dated...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Begins Discussion Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/ex-gay-watch-be/): On an experimental basis, I am opening a Yahoo group to discuss exgay and ex-exgay news, politics and science. Join the XGW e-mail discussion group...
- [Washington Post Series on Gay Youth](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/washington-post/): I have updated my original entry on Parts I and II of the Washington Post series on gay youth struggles. I’ll comment here later on...
- [‘Real Manhood’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/real-manhood/): Anabaptist/Episcopalian consistent-life blogger Hugo Schwyzer thoughtfully discusses the subject, which sadly tends to be addressed with unrealistic and counterproductive stereotypes by religious-right activists.
- [Wayne Besen Keynotes March for Matthew Shepard](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/wayne-besen-key/): Gay activist and author Wayne Besen keynotes the Chicago Matthew Shepard March, a commemoration today of the sixth anniversary of the antigay murder of Wyoming...
- [Antigay Illinoisans Rally for Discrimination; LaBarbera Rebukes Peaceful Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/antigay-illinoi/): Exgay activist Stephen Bennett lent his support Sept. 26 to an Oak Park, Ill., antigay church’s rally against marriage and civil unions for gay couples....
- [Exodus Confuses the Sex-ed Debate](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/exodus-confuses-2/): Speaking for Exodus on Oct. 1, exgay activist Nancy Brown collects unrelated factoids from the ideologically antiliberal publication Human Events and assembles an illogical case:...
- [PFOX Sees ‘red’ Over Vandalized Exgay Billboard](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/pfox-sees-red-o/): Aggrieved-relatives group PFOX complains to the religious-right media that its exgay billboard in Richmond, Va., has been vandalized. But a closer look at the billboard...
- [Nice But Irrelevant: Exgays Exist](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/nice-but-irrele/): Prof. Warren Throckmorton and TownHall.com editor Ryan Zempel want antiliberalists to know that exgays exist. According to Zempel, Throckmorton’s exgay video I Do Exist demonstrates...
- [Antigay AFA Activist Compounds His AIDS Error](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/antigay-afa-act/): Activist Gary Glenn, of the American Family Association-Michigan, talked the religious-right news service AgapePress into distorting HIV/AIDS statistics on Sept. 22. Glenn inflated the incidence...
- [Even NYC Schools Unsafe for Same-sex-attracted Students](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/even-nyc-school/): I just stumbled across a story in today’s New York Daily News. The bottom line: Even in “liberal” school systems like New York’s, teen-age students...
- [Exgay Leader Comments on Swaggart Death Threat](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgay-leader-co/): After 12 days of silence about the subject, Exodus president Alan Chambers on Sept. 24 criticized Jimmy Swaggart’s Sept. 12 death threat against gay people....
- [Open Thread: Does Kerry Hope to Lose?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/open-thread-doe/): Does anyone else wonder whether the Democratic Party leadership might — through intent or apathy — be forfeiting the presidential election? Kerry/Edwards have offered no...
- [I Read You Loud And Queer!](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/i-read-you-loud/): I Read You Loud and Queer! by Joe Kort, MSW Coming out is a very hard thing to do. National Coming Out Day is October...
- [Eugene Volokh: Who Are the Real Moral Relativists?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/eugene-volokh-w/): Eugene Volokh (via Dispatches from the Culture Wars) challenges the myth that liberals are moral relativists while conservatives are paragons of moral absolutism.
- [Oklahoma Schools: Gay Hell, Recruiting Ground for Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/oklahoma-school/): Some exgay political activists like Prof. Warren Throckmorton accuse the nation’s schools of promoting “homosexuality.” They imply, usually without evidence, that pro-tolerance advocacy in education...
- [Citing Gay Boycott for Equality, Exgays Allege Elitism](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/citing-gay-boyc/): Speaking for Exodus, exgay activist Nancy Brown scolds gay people today for wanting the same things that heterosexuals take for granted: marriages, kids, trustworthiness, jobs,...
- [PFOX Erects Exgay Billboard in Virginia](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/pfox-erects-exg/): Aggrieved-relatives group PFOX has launched an exgay billboard on Interstate 64 near Richmond, Va. The billboard, an enlarged and repurposed version of its 2003 Washington,...
- [Evangelist Colson Agrees with Radical Muslims About U.S. Decadence](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/evangelist-cols/): Read Chuck Colson’s article at Christianity Today.
- [Exgay Cure for AIDS: Ignored Condoms And False Stats](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgay-cure-for/): (Updated Oct. 18, 2004 to reflect Gary Glenn’s assignment of blame for uncorrected factual errors in the AgapePress article.) From the religious-right propaganda service, AgapePress:...
- [Conservative Discovers Danger in Gay-marriage Ban](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/conservative-di/): Daniel A. Crane of Yeshiva University writes in Christianity Today that giving the government increased authority over marriage may seriously harm the family: “If the...
- [Gay Bloggers Defend the Freedom to Discriminate](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/gay-bloggers-de/): Gay libertarian bloggers Jason Kuznicki and Jonathan Rowe have been thoughtfully debating a constitutional freedom to discriminate.
- [Wayne Besen Details Virginia Newspaper’s Exgay Bias](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/wayne-besen-det/): 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...
- [Exgay Video Update: Relaunch During National Coming Out Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgay-video-upd/): 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...
- [Exgay Mother Violates Vermont Custody Order](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgay-mother-vi/): 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...
- [Exgays Silent As Celebs Issue Death Threats Against Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgays-silent-a/): 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...
- [Slanted Tolerance: Exgay Official Reviews Gay-marriage Debate](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/slanted-toleran/): 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...
- [Exgay Ad in Search of a Willing Billboard](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgay-ad-in-sea/): 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...
- [Exodus Reiterates Support for Constitutional Bans Against Gay Civil Unions](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exodus-reiterat/): 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...
- [How Are ‘gay Rights’ Not ‘civil Rights’?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/how-are-gay-rig/): 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...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Profile: Frank Worthen](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/ex-gay-watch-pr-4/): 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...
- [Exgay Pastor Criticizes Gay Author Wayne Besen](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgay-pastor-cr/): 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,...
- [AFA, Focus on the Family Boycott Procter/Gamble](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/afa-focus-on-th/): Focus on the Family yesterday joined the American Family Association in a boycott against Procter & Gamble, which is headquartered in Cincinnati and supports a...
- [Activist Says Virginia Newspaper Suppressed Exgay Scandal](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/activist-says-v/): From today’s press release by Wayne Besen: ACTIVIST CHARGES THAT THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT SUPPRESSED INFORMATION ON EX-GAY LEADER FOR IDEOLOGICAL REASONS Puff-Piece Shows That ‘Virginian-Puppet’ Can’t...
- [Uncloseted? Rep. David Dreier, Televangelist Paul Crouch](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/uncloseted-rep/): From Daily Kos via Chuck Currie and others: BlogActive, Raw Story and Hustler magazine (ugh) have apparently outed antigay Republican Rep. David Dreier of California....
- [Ex-gay Assesses C.S. Lewis, Freud](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/ex-gay-assesses/): Randy Thomas reviews a PBS program, The Question of God, about the perspectives of C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud on science and religion. In part...
- [Hugo Schwyzer on Well-balanced Masculinity](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/hugo-schwyzer-o/): Few of my friends or acquaintances consider “traditional” notions of masculinity and femininity — soccer dads and cookie moms — suitable for role modeling in...
- [Nature Vs. Nurture Debate At Evangelical Outpost](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/nature-vs-nurtu/): Joe Carter at The Evangelical Outpost launched a “gay gene” discussion that satirically touches upon the difficulties facing heterosexual couples when one partner suddenly identifies...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: In the News, Sept. 14, 2004](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/ex-gay-watch-in-4/): Hugo Schwyzer and his commenters thoughtfully analyze the Barna Research Group’s findings on high divorce rates among born-again Christians. A three-time divorcee and religious convert,...
- [The Face of Gay Americans](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/the-face-of-gay/): By Joe Kort, MSW Originally published in the Detroit Jewish News, September 2004 I am a Gay American too, just like New Jersey Gov. James...
- [Exodus Ex-gays Say California Child-abuse Bill Promotes Pedophilia](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exodus-ex-gays-10/): Exodus on Friday accused the California professional therapy community, volunteer organizations, a task force on child abuse, and state Sen. Sheila Kuehl of “promoting pedophilia.”
- [McGreevey’s Struggle Compared to Exgay Life](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/mcgreeveys-stru/): In The Psychology of the Closet: Governor McGreevey’s New Clothes, psychotherapist Jack Drescher, M.D., contrasts New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey’s struggle to come out as...
- [Biblical Morality May Be Tougher Than Exgay Pols Say It Is](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/biblical-morali/): United Church of Christ seminarian Chuck Currie and the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice offer a timely Bible study and litany, “On Labor Day...
- [Exodus Spokesman Randy Thomas Comments on Zell Miller](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exodus-spokesma-6/): On his personal blog, Exodus spokesman Randy Thomas defends Democrat Zell Miller, who spoke at the Republican National Convention in New York:
- [Exgay Chad Thompson Seeks Moderate Course on Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgay-chad-thom/): Exgay youth advocate Chad W. Thompson wrote a Sept. 1 article for Christianity Today, declaring “Banning Gay Marriage Is Not The Answer.”
- [Kirk Talley’s Southern Gospel Music Comeback: What Others Think](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/kirk-talleys-so/): Averyfineline.com commented a couple weeks ago with the usual insight and sensitivity, as well as some concern, about the comeback of Southern gospel music singer...
- [‘I Do Exist’: New Exgay Video By Prof. Warren Throckmorton](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/i-do-exist-new/): Prof. Warren Throckmorton of the conservative Christian Grove City College has produced a new exgay video. The 48-minute program, “I Do Exist,” features interviews with...
- [Activist Wayne Besen Criticizes New Ex-gay Book](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/activist-wayne/): Activist/author Wayne Besen today criticized a new exgay book, “Closing the Closet: Testimonies of Deliverance from Homosexuality.” The book, edited by pastor Talbert W. Swan...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: In the News, Sept. 4, 2004](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/ex-gay-watch-in-3/): In today’s New York Times, an op-ed by Michael Hout and the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley finds that Christian evangelicals are “remarkably pluralistic in their...
- [Exgay Advocates Appeal to Anglican Church of Canada](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgay-advocates/): In August a Canadian exgay coalition wrote a letter to the Anglican Eames Commission. The letter complains of feeling victimized and oppressed by advocates for...
- [Liberal-conservative Wars Distract Us From the Real Enemy](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/liberal-conserv/): This is what I’ve been thinking about lately: The failure of the United States, and the West, to take substantive action against real terrorism.
- [Handling Homophobia: Gay Rights Or Children’s Needs?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/handling-homoph/): Handling Homophobia: Gay Rights or Children’s Needs? By Joe Kort, MSW Copyright © 2004 When people think about children, rarely is their focus on how...
- [Exgay’s Big Night At GOP Convention](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/exgays-big-nigh/): Tonight’s highlights (lowlights?) at the GOP convention: Bishop Keith Butler, Southfield, Mich. Outspoken opponent of marriage and civil unions for gay people (Google search) Ex-gay...
- [Ex-Gay Watch By the Numbers](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/09/ex-gay-watch-by/): Curious to know a little about XGW’s readership relative to other weblogs? Here’s what I have found: TruthLaidBear counts 30 unique incoming links to XGW,...
- [Off-topic: CNN Rejects Log Cabin Republican Ad](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/off-topic-cnn-r/): BoiFromTroy reports: Cable news channel CNN is refusing to air the new “Hopes not fears” ad by the Log Cabin Republicans because images in the...
- [GOP Convention Opener Compares Gay Unions to Nazism](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/gop-convention/): I noted some time ago that the exgay network Exodus and some of its political allies periodically associate gay equality under the law with Nazism....
- [Is That Edible? FRC ‘fortune Cookies’ At GOP Convention Contain Spitballs](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/is-that-edible/): At the political organizations steered by James Dobson — Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, and Exodus, among others — insults seem to have...
- [Psychotherapists Debate “change” Via Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/psychotherapist-2/): Psychotherapist Joe Kort wrote “Queer Eye for the Straight Therapist for the May/June issue of Psychotherapy Networker. The article traces Kort’s winding road from struggling...
- [Exodus Applauds GOP Convention’s Exgay Entertainer](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/exodus-applauds/): Updated Aug. 27 to include reaction by the ex-gay network Exodus. John Aravosis first pulled together the news Aug. 26 that an antigay ideologue will...
- [Focus/Family Takes the Low Road As Cheney Defends His Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/focusfamily-tak/): By Dan Gonzales, www.modern.prosaic.nu for Ex-Gay Watch I was baffled by the Family News in Focus audio program (Windows Media, Real) even more than normal...
- [‘People Can Change’: Ex-gay, Ex-exgay Mormons](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/people-can-chan/): The Deseret Morning News profiles Glenn Wyler, founder of People Can Change, an online ex-gay ministry. The article gives due attention to Wyler’s journey, his...
- [Ex-gay Noe Gutierrez And the Matter of Mushrooms](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/ex-gay-noe-guti/): I’ve got bigger stories than this to report, but I’ve been busy. A couple folks gave me a gentle push about this item, though, so...
- [Evangelizing Homosexuals: Right Way, Wrong Way, Or No Way?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/evangelizing-ho/): XGW recently banned one antigay activist who disrupted the site. She felt that threatening people, making false statements, refusing to substantiate her accusations, posting off-topic...
- [Gay Male Relationships: Toads And Princes](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/gay-male-relati/): Some gay relationships are looked up to, with admiration, by gay and nongay peers alike. And like heterosexual relationships, some gay pairs serve are fodder...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Profile: Mark Yarhouse](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/ex-gay-watch-pr-3/): A quick glance at Mark A. Yarhouse, Psy.D
- [‘It’s Elementary’: Noe Gutierrez Turned Ex-gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/its-elementary/): Here’s an old story, well-known among ex-gays for a long time now; not so well-known among gays. Noe Gutierrez, a star of the safe-schools/pro-tolerance video...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Profile: Prof. Warren Throckmorton](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/ex-gay-watch-pr-2/): A quick overview of Warren Throckmorton
- [Ex-Gay Watch: In the News, 21-22 August 2004](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/ex-gay-watch-in-2/): No Milk Please offers a parody today of what makes gay people unhappy, and why people “change.” Jon Zuck of the normally peaceful and meditative...
- [Hypersensitive Over the Word ‘homosexual’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/hypersensitive/): Sean Kinsell comments today on persnicketiness over the identification of people as “gay” or “homosexual.” Both gay and antigay people can become very touchy when...
- [One Quaker’s Thoughts on Ex-gay Stephen Bennett](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/one-quakers-tho/): Joe G. of beppeblog yesterday added his own fresh thoughts on Stephen Bennett’s pro-apocalypse article for the American Family Association.
- [Exodus Announces Third Recent Ex-gay Ad](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/exodus-announce/): Exodus announces its third recent ex-gay ad claiming “freedom” from “homosexuality.” This time the ad appears in the conservative Christian men’s magazine New Man. In...
- [Ex-gay Stephen Bennett’s Assistant Vents Against Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/ex-gay-stephen-4/): This morning, Janet Hensley — a volunteer for Stephen Bennett Ministries and an online "researcher" for Yahoo’s exgaydiscussion board — resumed spamming Ex-Gay Watch with...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: In the News…](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/08/ex-gay-watch-in/): George W. Bush told Larry King last week that states can provide gay civil unions. Never mind that his Federal Marriage Amendment would have (depending...
- [The Connections Between Exodus And Focus on the Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/the-connections/): Mike Haley of Focus on the Family occupies the chairmanship of the Exodus board of directors. His predecessor as Exodus chairman, John Paulk, was also...
- [Asia Newspaper Promotes Exgay Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/asia-newspaper/): The Star, a major newspaper in Malaysia, published a package of stories about exgays on Jan. 12: Helping homosexual persons resolve long-standing issues  Circumstances may...
- [Religious Right Plans Exgay Campaign in U.S. Public Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/religious-right-9/): The exgay movement’s small publicity coup in an Asian newspaper appears to be part of a growing effort by the religious right to "prevent" homosexuality...
- [Falwell/Robertson: Sincere But Misguided — Or Fraudulent?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/falwellrobertso/): Is it "hackneyed, inappropriate, and immature" to call Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson "frauds" — particularly when they regularly lie about the positions and activities...
- [Christian Nation? Jon Rowe Weighs the Arguments](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/christian-natio/): Is the United States a Christian nation? Libertarian lawyer and college professor Jon Rowe thoughtfully and concisely weighs the arguments (and actions) of the culture...
- [Careless Or Complicit? Exodus Director on Ann Coulter’s Muslim-bashing](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/careless-or-com/): One of Alan Chambers‘ favorite pundits is Ann Coulter. She’s at the top of the Exodus president’s blogroll, and his own tone of writing often...
- [Porn Filters: Blocking the Benign, Sparing the Sleaze](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/porn-filters-bl/): Revised for clarity While surfing the ‘Net this afternoon, I stumbled by accident into my firewall’s content filtering application, which disagreed with a site that...
- [Ex-exgay Artist Announces ‘Burning Bush World Tour’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/ex-exgay-artist/): FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Gay performance activist Peterson Toscano announces his 2005 “Burning Bush World Tour” which brings his original one-person ex-gay satire, “Doin’ Time in...
- [Peterson Toscano: Ex-exgay Artist Announces Winter Tour Dates](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/peterson-toscan/): Ex-exgay performance artist Peterson Toscano, whose show "Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo’ Halfway House" has been reviewed previously by XGW, announces winter tour...
- [Exgay Blogs And Accountability](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/exgay-blogs-and/): Commenters have noticed that I removed the direct navigation links to the few active exgay blogs on the Net. First, a reassurance: I will continue...
- [Antigay Parents to Catholic School: Evict the Kids](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/antigay-parents-2/): Imagine a group of Catholic parents demanding that their church school throw out the children of parents who are divorced or employed as usurers, death-row...
- [700 Club Profiles Exgay Phillip Tucker](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/700-club-profil/): The 700 Club spotlights the journey of one exgay man, Phillip Tucker. Can a single man’s anecdotes substantiate the exgay political movement’s stereotypes about same-sex-attracted...
- [The Gay Disease? Why Couples Don’t Show Public Affection](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/the-gay-disease/): In his column for Jan. 5, 2005, gay activist/author Wayne Besen examines the possible reasons why gay couples in nearly all of America remain afraid...
- [Exgay Expert Fails to Defend Arkansas Ban on Gay Foster Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/exgay-expert-fa/): From 365gay.com: Finding that children are not harmed by living with gay or lesbian parents, an Arkansas court Wednesday struck down a state regulation that...
- [The Academic Freedom — to Be Ignorant?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/the-academic-fr/): Liberals often fight for the academic freedom to study topics deemed taboo. Now, CNN reports, some conservative students are battling for the academic freedom not...
- [Family Values Ploy? Harass Gay-tolerant Employers](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/family-values-p/): John Aravosis, ImpossibleMike, and Big Muddy IMC comment on the latest Alan Keyes/Larry Klayman political fundraising scam: A national shareholder campaign to force major employers...
- [Reasons Why Exgays Should Support Civil Unions](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/reasons-why-exg/): This is an "open draft" — meaning that I welcome input in creating the list of reasons why exgays should support civil unions. I’ll be...
- [Lesbian Mom? Antigay Group Vouches for Violent Dad](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/lesbian-mom-ant/): Dispatches from the Culture War continues to perceive dishonesty and outright brutality in the political religious right’s battle to split up some families where the...
- [Ex-gay Myth Disputed: Do Gay Men Have Body Image Hangups?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/ex-gay-myth-dis/): From Reuters: Both gay and heterosexual men are equally likely to aspire to an unattainable body type, or to harbor a distorted image of their...
- [Judge Bans Anti-exgay Testimony in Gay Marriage Case](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/judge-bans-anti/): 65gay.com reported Dec. 28: San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer … has told the city it cannot include arguments countering the assertions made...
- [Religious-right Criticisms of Scandinavia Disputed (again)](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/religious-right-8/): The journal Issues in Legal Scholarship published a full issue not too long ago on single-sex marriage. Among the articles is "Nordic Bliss? Scandinavian Registered...
- [Religious Right’s Failure of Action: Orthodoxy Vs. Orthopraxis](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/religious-right-7/): Episcopal seminarian Bob Griffith comments on the divide between Christians who, like the fabled Pharisees, demand "right belief" and wage war against independent thinkers and...
- [LA Times Profiles Concerned Women for America](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/la-times-profil/): Richard T. Cooper and Johanna Neuman of the LA Times profile the obsessively antigay religious-right outfit Concerned Women for America. While it cites conservative critics...
- [Official Christianity Vs. Authentic Christianity](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/official-christ/): Bishop Yvette Flunder of the United Church of Christ finds hateful rhetoric, redefined “moral values,” fear, intolerance, exclusion, racism, sexual bigotry, zeal for war, and...
- [Columnist Finds Apostasy Among the Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/columnist-finds/): From numerous other blogs: Liberal columnist Jennifer Barnett Reed of the Arkansas Times demands the return of her Christian faith, stolen by amoral, greedy, hypocritical,...
- [UCC Blogger: ‘Christian’ College Kicks Out Top Student for Sexual Honesty](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/ucc-blogger-chr/): United Church of Christ seminarian Chuck Currie links to this Washington Times story about Trinity Christian Academy in Texas. The Academy apparently admits political idolaters...
- [Exodus Again Buries Some Facts About Hate Crimes](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/exodus-again-bu/): Last week I discussed the Exodus media blog’s distortion of hate-crimes statistics — and its unapologetic republication of violent threats against gay people. On Friday,...
- [BigFib.com Parodies PeopleCanChange.com](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/bigfibcom-parod/): BigFib reports that People Can Change has launched two websites: MostPeopleChangeBack.com and ChristiansCanChange.com I wish! The world could use some exgay activists who are broad-minded...
- [Sfweekly.com Profiles Three Unnamed Exgay Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/sfweeklycom-pro/): Sfweekly.com lampoons a trio of Northern California ex-gay ministries. One group helps parents reinforce their own stereotypes about “the gay lifestyle” that they imagine their...
- [Christianity Today Redefines Secularism](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/christianity-to/): Based on a single unidentified survey, writer David Klinghoffer helps Christianity Today redefine “secularist” as irreligious and unethical. Secularism, as I see it, is a...
- [Testing BlogJet](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/testing-blogjet/): I have installed an interesting blog client for Windows — BlogJet. Let’s give it a whirl….
- [Gay Adolescence: Does Your Gay Age Match Your Chronological Age?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/gay-adolescence/): Gay Adolescence: Does Your Gay Age Match Your Chronological Age? By Joe Kort, MSW Ex-gays love to point the finger at lesbians and gays "bad...
- [Questioning Exgays About Hate Speech](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/questioning-exg-2/): The Christmas message reprinted below is directed at the leadership of the Anglican Communion. But it is perhaps even more applicable to the U.S. exgay...
- [Focus/Family Blends Love Won Out with Politics](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/focusfamily-ble/): Dan Gonzales wrote last week: The Dec. 2 broadcast of Focus On The Family Radio features the testimony of an ex-lesbian at a Love Won...
- [Exgay Mother in Utah Fights Visitation](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/exgay-mother-in/): Another Vermont civil union has ended in an exgay custody battle. According to Boston.com, exgay mother Cheryl Pike Barlow is asking the Utah court system...
- [Exodus Reacts to Methodist Trial of Lesbian Minister](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/exodus-reacts-t/): Exodus regularly tells gay people to closet their sexuality, and suggests that to do otherwise lacks sexual and spiritual integrity. But for the church trial...
- [Blame Ex-exgays for Exgay Therapy Failures?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/blame-ex-exgays/): Important update, May 8, 2005: Read here. In Southern Voice (Dec. 10), Gareth Fenley comments on the exgay video "I Do Exist," developed by Warren...
- [Around the Block: Exgays in the News](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/around-the-bloc-2/): Focus on the Family cheers killers’ change of story in Matthew Shepard murder (Dec. 6) Focus’ press release, misquoting Katie Couric, is here. AgapePress helps...
- [Holiday Ripoff? Phantom Rebates At Roxio](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/holiday-ripoff/): Easy Media Creator 7 burns music, movies and data onto CDs and DVDs. I use it to back up data from my computer. The software...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: Administrative Note](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/ex-gay-watch-ad-2/): Here is an automatically updated list of new web pages mentioning ex-gays, courtesy of Google. This is a possible future addition to XGW. I need...
- [New Focus/Family Campaign Against Tolerance in Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/new-focusfamily/): Exodus membership director Randy Thomas’ blog on Thursday identified Exodus’ new spokeswoman: Julie Neils, who was a spokeswoman for Focus on the Family during the...
- [The Heterosexual Questionnaire, Provided By Joe Kort, MSW](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/the-heterosexua/): The following is a tongue-in-cheek questionnaire designed to illustrate the heterosexism implied in these same questions asked of lesbians and gays. Imagine as you read...
- [Exodus: ‘When Being Gay Is Not So Merry And Bright’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/exodus-when-bei/): In a Dec. 3 news release riddled with boldface print worthy of an amateur fundamentalist Bible tract, Exodus criticizes honest depictions of "gay life" and...
- [Are You a Homosexual Masochist?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/are-you-a-homos/): Are you a Homosexual Masochist? by Joe Kort Since writing my book, “10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Improve Their Lives” in August,...
- [Draft Comment Guidelines for Exgay Discussions](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/draft-comment-g/): Analysis of the latest Exodus press release (posted to their web site on most Fridays) is forthcoming. In the meantime, some draft guidelines for comments...
- [Administrative Note: TV Ban Against UCC Ad](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/administrative/): Rather than post fresh entries here, since this issue is off-topic, I am directing interested people to UCC seminarian Chuck Currie’s weblog for updates, as...
- [PAX-TV Tonight: Exgay Says Gays Can’t Be Christian](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/pax-tv-tonight/): Exgay activist Stephen Bennett will debate whether people can be gay and Christian on PAX-TV’s Faith Under Fire tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT, 9 p.m....
- [Religious Right’s Sen. Frist: An Unwise Investment](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/religious-right-6/): According to the Associated Press, Senate majority leader Bill Frist invested a fortune in campaign funds in lousy stocks since 2000 — and ran up...
- [Religious Right’s Awkward Christmas Boycotts](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/religious-right-5/): Dan Gonzales wrote last Friday with an update on the American Family Association and Concerned Women for America. Knight, of CWFA, claims three times in...
- [Christian Blogger Mourns Defrocking of Lesbian Minister](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/christian-blogg/): United Church of Christ seminarian Chuck Currie writes: I have a great deal of love for the United Methodist Church and the local congregations that...
- [Anti-gay-marriage Activists Broaden Efforts Against Churches, Libraries, Colleges, Science](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/anti-gay-marria-2/): Focus on the Family and its political allies failed this week to convince the Supreme Court that marriage is imminent danger from a relative handful...
- [20/20 on Matthew Shepard: No Comment From Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/2020-on-matthew/): Responses to ABC’s 20/20 program revising history in the case of Matthew Shepard: Chris Matthew Sciabarra: God hates fags… But Shepard’s killers don’tChris Bull: Antigay...
- [Focus/Family Honors Group Accused of Felonies](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/focusfamily-hon/): Michael Marcavage and his antigay Repent America group await a Dec. 14 hearing on several felony and misdemeanor charges related to their raid against OutFest,...
- [Thanks, And an Apology: Red/blue Moral Values](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/thanks-and-an-a/): Apologies to Avery at southern Gospel music blog averyfineline.com for letting down my guard against the red/blue-state myth that the major media pundits seem to...
- [Double-talk on Civil Unions And Benefits](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/double-talk-on/): According to PrideSource, throughout the campaign to constitutionally ban marriage for gay couples in Michigan, antigay advocates said that Proposal 2 was "only about marriage….this...
- [Commentary: Gospels Say the Religious Right Is Wrong](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/commentary-gosp/): Rick Mercier of the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., pens a thoughtful commentary, too rarely seen in larger news media. Introductory paragraphs: I cracked open...
- [Focus on the Family Vs Kinsey Expert: You Decide](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/focus-on-the-fa-15/): Focus on the Family bases its campaign against Alfred Kinsey upon a foundation of hearsay. It may be refreshing, then, listen to NPR’s Fresh Air,...
- [Congressman Alleges Inaccuracies in Abstinence-only Programs](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/congressman-all/): This morning’s Washington Post reports: Many American youngsters participating in federally funded abstinence-only programs have been taught over the past three years that abortion can...
- [Exodus ‘elitism’: Gays Who Break the Exgay Mold](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/exodus-elitism/): I have quoted little from Exodus leaders Randy Thomas and Alan Chambers recently, because they repeat the same ludicrous, unimaginative, thoughtless, unresearched mantra that has...
- [Media Refuse Gay-inclusive Religious Ads](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/media-refuse-ga/): CBS, NBC, and UPN Major broadcast TV networks have refused to run an uncontroversial Christian ad campaign that emphasizes the United Church of Christ’s welcome...
- [Former APA Chief Defends Exgay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/former-apa-chie/): NARTH reports on Robert Perloff, former president of the American Psychological Association. Perloff keynoted the annual NARTH conference in mid-November. Excerpts from Perloff: I am...
- [WT: Antigay Parents Battle Mutual Tolerance](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/wt-antigay-pare/): Mutual tolerance means, "You don’t have to agree with one another, but you do have to get along." The Washington Times reported Nov. 30 that...
- [True Moral Mandate Vs Religious-right Mandate](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/true-moral-mand/): Recent responses to religious-right distortions of American voters’ moral mandate: ABC reported, with no opposing viewpoints, that Coral Ridge Ministries sees the election as a...
- [How Many Gays Are There? A Lot, GQ Poll Says](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/12/how-many-gays-a/): From journalist Rex Wockner (link is not permanent — visit this week): Intriguing results in a survey conducted for GQ magazine and reported in its...
- [Report: HRC Fires Its Executive Director](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/report-hrc-fire/): Updated below. According to Christian Grantham at OutletRadio: Cheryl Jacques, the Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign, has been fired. According to sources that...
- [How the Grinch Stole Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/how-the-grinch/): How the Grinch Stole Marriage by Mary Ann Horton, Lisa and Bill Koontz (with apologies to Dr. Seuss) Every Gay down in Gayville liked Gay...
- [Red-state Morality? Kirk Talley Testifies At a Southern Church](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/red-state-moral/): From Kirk Talley’s e-mail newsletter today: Sunday morning I sang in Kilgore, Texas at the First Bapt Church of Danville. Pastor Freeman Pierce invited me...
- [New PFOX Ally on Maryland School Board? Not Quite Yet](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/new-pfox-ally-o/): We’ve previously addressed PFOX’s undiplomatic statements against public officials who are skeptical of exgay ideology. In the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., PFOX fought unsuccessfully...
- [Exgay Mom’s Custody Battle Continues in Va.](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/exgay-moms-cust/): Lisa Miller and her partner, Janet Miller-Jenkins, exchanged vows in a civil union ceremony four years ago in Vermont. Through artificial insemination, Lisa conceived and...
- [Ad Policy Under Fire At Washington Post](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/ad-policy-under/): The Washington Post included an antigay "magazine" insert in last Friday’s edition of the newspaper. The insert was loaded with disputed statistics, some from discredited...
- [You Belong To Me: The Truth About Sexual Abuse](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/you-belong-to-m/): “YOU BELONG TO ME” The Truth about Sexual Abuse By Joe Kort, MSW This article’s title reflects the perpetrator’s belief, that the victim now belongs...
- [FBI: 1,200 Hate Crimes Based on Sexual Orientation in 2003](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/fbi-1200-hate-c/): CNN reports that the FBI knows of six homosexuals reportedly murdered in 2003 because of their sexual orientation. The 1,200 hate crimes committed due to...
- [Dispute Over Tolerance At the University of Maryland](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/dispute-over-to/): Kevin Rector, a student at the University of Maryland, writes in an op-ed about the bigotry of a university physics department staff member, Bill Norwood,...
- [Around the Block: Exgay Headlines](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/around-the-bloc/): Half-truth = whole truth? Exodus reprints Prof. Warren Throckmorton’s recent article of half-truths about the failure rate of exgay ministries. Exodus’ headline for Throckmorton’s article...
- [Exgay Stephen Bennett to Debate Gay Christians](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/exgay-stephen-b/): Exgay activist Stephen Bennett will debate the topic "Gay and Christian" on PAX-TV’s Faith Under Fire on Saturday, Dec. 4. Other debate participants: Ron Poindexter,...
- [Exgay D.L. Foster to Debate Gay Parents on PAX-TV](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/exgay-dl-foster/): Exgay activist Darryl L. Foster will appear on Lee Strobel’s Faith Under Fire program Saturday evening, Nov. 20, on PAX TV. He will debate gay...
- [A Response to ‘Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/a-response-to-l/): From songwriter/inspirationalist Marsha Stevens via the southern gospel music blog averyfineline.com: I like Mark Lowry‘s take on the old saying. He says, "What if we...
- [Kirk Talley Sings On, Despite Resistance](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/kirk-talley-sin/): The place: Calvary Baptist Church, Hazel Park, Mich.The source: Kirk Talley’s e-mail newsletter, Nov. 15, 2004:Excerpt: I was standing backstage ready to sing when Victor...
- [Ex-Gay Or Sexual Anorexic?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/ex-gay-or-sexua/): Ex-Gay or Sexual Anorexic? By Joe Kort, MSW The term sexual anorexia isn’t a common term. Anorexic usually describes people with an eating disorder who...
- [Target of PFOX Threat Responds](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/target-of-pfox/): PFOX this month issued implicit threats against the Montgomery County, Md., school board and a committee assigned to update the school system’s sex-education curriculum. In...
- [Homo for the Holidays!](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/homo-for-the-ho/): Homo for the Holidays! By Joe Kort, MSW We gays and lesbians are still recovering from the trauma of the recent political elections; the passing...
- [Questioning Exgay Claims About Gay Health](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/questioning-exg/): Discredited researcher Paul Cameron’s rigged reports on gay health still get passed off as fact by a variety of exgay web pages, including Exodus archives....
- [Hugo Schwyzer: Straight Man, Gay Bar](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/hugo-schwyzer-s/): While heterosexual women often feel unsafe in straight bars, heterosexual male blogger Hugo Schwyzer reports no discomfort and no harassment while dancing in gay bars....
- [Wayne Besen: Democrats Betray Gays At Their Own Risk](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/wayne-besen-dem/): From Wayne Besen’s latest column: The gay movement is the canary in the coalmine for the future of the Democratic Party. If party leaders move...
- [Exgay Pundit Throckmorton Criticizes Wayne Besen](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/exgay-pundit-th/): At the social-conservative website MichNews.com, Warren Throckmorton editorializes against gay author/activist Wayne Besen. Comments about Prof. Throckmorton’s criticisms began at XGW here but should continue...
- [Antigay Protests Against ‘Kinsey’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/antigay-protest/): I mentioned briefly here that Focus on the Family has been orchestrating a national smear campaign against legendary sexuality researcher Alfred C. Kinsey — and...
- [PFOX Threatens Suburban D.C. Sex-ed Panel](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/pfox-threatens/): PFOX complains in a Nov. 5 press release that exgay propaganda is being excluded from sex-ed school curricula in suburban Washington, D.C. The press release...
- [Media Coverage of Exgays And Marriage: Imbalanced?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/media-coverage-2/): Has news reporting about gay marriage been imbalanced in favor of tolerance for gay people — or are the critics and ombudsmen giving more weight...
- [Wayne Besen: ‘Piranha in the Fish Tank’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/wayne-besen-pir/): From activist/author Wayne Besen’s column for this week: Perhaps the left is guilty, as Neo-Puritans claim, of denying religion a more prominent space in the...
- [Why Don’t Gays Condemn Pedophilia? Actually, They Do](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/why-dont-gays-c/): I received this message over the weekend: From: Nina & Buzz Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 7:38 AMTo: editor@exgaywatch.comSubject: Your statement requested.Dear Editor,Child sex abuse,...
- [Post-election Briefs From Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/post-election-b/): From the New York Times, Nov. 9: Researchers say the religious right continues to suppress research into human sexuality. The research is aimed at reducing...
- [Poll: Voters’ Moral Values Are Not Conservative](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/poll-voters-mor/): The Washington Post last week published an exceptionally sloppy article that imagined the nation’s churches spontaneously and miraculously rebelling from the grassroots up — against...
- [Exgay Tim Wilkins: ‘I Still Love Homosexuals’](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/exgay-tim-wilki/): Exgay testimonies have a way of circling the Internet. As they move around, they are re-dated and passed off as new. Tim Wilkins’ web site...
- [A Look Back: Switch to Canada?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/a-look-back-swi/): Since the election, Canada’s immigration site has enjoyed a sizable increase in traffic from worried [or interested] Americans. Should one consider emigration? Is Canada really...
- [Focus on the Family Keeps Doomsday Threat Handy](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/11/focus-on-the-fa-14/): Focus on the Family chairman James Dobson threatened the United States with doomsday while campaigning for the re-election of George Bush. (Previous XGW coverage.) According...
- [Jewish Religion Supporting Gays And Lesbians](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/jewish-religion/): Jewish Religion supporting Marriage for Gays and Lesbians When I read anything about those suggesting or demanding that they use their faith to change their...
- [The Straight Dope on Pedophilia](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/the-straight-do/): The Straight Dope message board debates antigay activists’ claim that pedophilia is linked somehow to homosexuality. In linking to XGW’s article on the subject by...
- [Ex-gay Meet-ups Online](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/ex-gay-meet-ups/): Ex-gays have their own meet-up section for support and companionship at ex-gay.meetup.com. No need to visit right now — no one has joined.
- [How Do You Define ‘gay’ And ‘homosexual’?](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/how-do-you-defi/): The discussion here about the false link between homosexuality and pedophilia drifted into a debate about how different people define “gay,” “homosexual,” and “heterosexual.” I...
- [From James Dobson: Doomsday Threat And the “L” Word](https://exgaywatch.com/2004/10/from-james-dobs/): According to The Oklahoman, Focus on the Family chairman James Dobson last week accused Oklahoma Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Brad Carson of lying. The...
- [Comment Registration Troubles](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/comment-registr/): Two people have had difficulty registering to comment via TypePad. If you wish to comment but are encountering obstacles with TypePad, please let me know....
- [The Ex-Gay Watch Agenda](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/the-ex-gay-watc/): This old copy of the About XGW page needs a bit of a rewrite. Feedback is welcome from everyone — but especially from exgay readers...
- [Simpsons Dares to Take The “Straight Pill”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/simpsons-dares/): If there were a pill you could take that would make you straight, would you take it? Yeah, we’ve all heard this question. Tonight on...
- [Changes At Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/changes-at-ex-g/): Ex-Gay Watch has been located at exgaywatch.com for two years, but some web sites still link to an old address, exgay.blogs.com. That old address eventually...
- [PAX Hosts Peaceful Debate Between Exodus Leader, Former Exgay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/pax-hosts-peace/): Heard on PAX-TV’s Faith Under Fire, hosted by Lee Strobel, a few hours ago: Strobel:  When it comes to gays and God, there are two...
- [Exgay Leader Faces Christian Ex-exgay Actor Tonight on PAX](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/exgay-leader-fa/): Peterson Toscano appears tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT, 9 p.m. CT/MT, on the PAX cable network’s program Faith Under Fire, hosted by Lee Strobel. Toscano,...
- [Organizations Refuse to Acknowledge Failure of Attack on Gay Youth](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/organizations-r/): Yesterday was the “Day of Truth.” The following news and propaganda sites have no follow-up coverage today: Cybercast News ServiceWorld Magazine BlogSBC Baptist Press NewsFamily...
- [Taking Responsibility for Our Lives](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/taking-responsi/): It’s encouraging to see the spate of recent articles like this opinion piece from the Palm Springs Desert Sun, talking honestly about certain kinds of...
- [Evangelical Warns of Movement’s Materialism, Worldliness](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/evangelical-war/): Christianity Today interviews evangelical Ron Sider, who for decades has preached — better than I can — against the anticommunity individualism, legalism, materialism, worldliness and...
- [PFOX Scores Near-Miss on Hate Crimes](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/pfox-scores-nea/): They’ve opposed the inclusion of sexual orientation in hate crimes laws. Now they’re calling for the inclusion of former homosexuals in a Maryland hate-crimes bill...
- [Ex-Gays Join ADF’s “Day of Truth”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/ex-gays-join-ad/): Given the smashing success [sarcasm] that was “National Coming Out of Homosexuality Day” the religious right has created “Day of Truth” this Thursday following GLSEN’s...
- [A Brief History of Daniel Gonzales](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/a-brief-history/): After finding myself sending Mike numerous emails to the effect of “please post this” (including the one below) I’ve decided to join the team here...
- [Exgay Teen Radio Program a Prisoner of Its Own Rhetoric](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/exgay-teen-radi/): By Dan Gonzales Last Saturday, "Life On The Edge Live," Focus on the Family’s two-hour teen radio show, dealt exclusively with homosexuality and the guest...
- [My XGW Agenda](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/my-xgw-agenda/): In case anyone is curious, I’d like to fill you in on how I came to be an XGW contributor. It actually started with a...
- [Support for Gay Marriage Declining?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/support-for-gay/): I’m not sure if it’s true, but it has the folks at the Conservative Voice all atwitter. The press release comes complete with an approving...
- [Another Study on Gene Theory](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/another-study-o/): Covered by Agape Press and followed, of course, by the requisite bleating press release from Warren Throckmorton, denouncing the reported findings. Blah, blah, blah. On...
- [Apologies From Mike](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/apologies-from/): My real-world partner Steve and I are hosting out-of-town relatives this week. A handful of XGW readers has been sending helpful news tips via e-mail;...
- [Exgays: What Are They Good For?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/exgays-what-are/): I’m just musing here, but it occurs to me that in some ways the existence of the ex-gay movement does the gay movement quite a...
- [Gay Writer Keith Boykin, Readers Assess Exgay Darryl Foster](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/gay-writer-keit/): Gay writer Keith Boykin says that he has been receiving considerable criticism via e-mail in response to an old article criticizing exgay activist Donnie McClurkin....
- [Conservatives And Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/conservatives-a/): One thing that always strikes me when discussing gay rights with conservatives, is their underlying wish (sometimes expressed explicitly) that the whole issue will just...
- [Leaving Fundamentalism](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/leaving-fundame/): David L. Rattigan launched LeavingFundamentalism.org in mid-March, according to WHOIS. Already, Leaving Fundamentalism has numerous thoughtful articles of interest to Christians who are recovering from...
- [About Joe Kort](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/about-joe-kort/): Joe Kort, psychotherapist, has been in practice since 1985. He specializes in Gay Affirmative Psychotherapy as well as IMAGO Relationship Therapy. Joe also specializes in...
- [About Steve B. (Bose)](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/about-steve-b-b/): Steve B. is a writer on alcoholism-awareness and alternative-treatment issues. He specializes in moderation management.
- [About Mike Airhart](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/about-mike-airh/): Mike Airhart is a business news editor, online content specialist, and free-lance writer. He has a B.A. in Communication. In college, he specialized in the...
- [A Constructive Alternative to Exgay Road Show](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/a-constructive/): "Love Won Out" had an unintended but positive effect on the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Straight and Allies organization at the University of Texas Medical Branch....
- [Media Cloud the Picture of Boy Scouts Child-porn Offender](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/media-cloud-the/): The Washington Blade’s Steve Koval notes that several news media outlets have been squeamish about discussing the nature of the child porn that was discovered...
- [Exgay Network Launches School Antitolerance Campaign](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/exgay-network-l/): Exodus has launched Groundswell 2005, a campaign that declares: Homosexual activists are using the public schools to promote dangerous life policies. How will you respond?...
- [Pro-exgay Pundit Criticizes Dear Abby](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/pro-exgay-pundi/): On March 30, pro-exgay pundit Warren Throckmorton criticized Dear Abby, who in a recent column told a parent: "It is not uncommon for the parents...
- [Gay Quaker Calls Anti-exgay Protests Counterproductive](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/gay-quaker-call/): Stop the counterprotests against ex-gays — or at least rethink them, says Michigan-based Quaker (Christian) gay-issues director Michael Gibson Faith.  In an article today at...
- [PFOX, Pro-exgay Pundit Seek Special Rights](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/pfox-pro-exgay/): AP reported today (via Newsday) that Prof. Warren Throckmorton had been "removed" from a national advisory board of Magellan Health Services. That much appears to...
- [Bisexuality, Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/bisexuality-ex/): Jon Rowe has been blogging recently on the nature of bisexuality.  Jon’s a very smart guy and his posts always provide interesting reading–and there are...
- [Who Killed Terri Schiavo?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/who-killed-terr/): 1. Terri Schiavo. She killed herself when her bulimic behavior led to a persistent and, in time, irreversible persistent vegetative state. 2. Michael Schiavo. He...
- [About Joe Riddle](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/about-joe-riddl/): Greetings, Everyone! Thanks very much to Mike for giving me the chance to guest-blog on his site. XGW is a great resource, and I’m excited...
- [Researchers: Don’t Trouble Us with Exgay Facts](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/researchers-don/): "Atheist psychiatrist argues that gays can change," reports Christianity Today. That subheadline, a misquote, is refuted by the story’s first paragraph — which acknowledges that...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: A New Author, a Small Shift in Direction](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/ex-gay-watch-a-2/): Please welcome Joe Riddle as an author for Ex-Gay Watch. Joe has first-hand experience with the exgay movement, as a former participant in the Mormon...
- [Biased About Bias: Exodus, Focus on the Family Rant At Magellan Health](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/biased-about-bi/): TO: Ex-Gay Watch (via e-mail) CC: Focus on the Family (via e-mail) RE: Focus on the Family broadcast, 3/22/05 It’s somewhat odd that today on...
- [Exgay Pundit Threatens U.S. Judiciary Over Terri Schiavo Case](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/exgay-pundit-th-2/): Most bloggers and pundits have taken sides in the Terri Schiavo debacle, and a few have actually contributed constructively to the debate. Among them: Charles...
- [Reacting to Scandal, PFOX Changes the Subject](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/reacting-to-sca/): In a March 18 op-ed in The Washington Blade, aggrieved-parents group PFOX responds publicly to the disclosure (months ago) that its president, Richard Cohen, had...
- [Are Exgay Groups Ever Worthy of Support?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/are-exgay-group/): Jackie asked: Suppose Exodus changed their beliefs to be in line with what you described. But suppose that they continue to assert that "SOME people...
- [Factoid: American Medical Association Position on Exgay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/factoid-america-3/): American Medical Association position on reparative therapy and health care for the homosexual The AMA: opposes, the use of "reparative" or "conversion" therapy that is...
- [1997: Focus on the Family Co-founder Apologizes to Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/1997-focus-on-t/): PRESS CONFERENCE A statement to the press on August 15, 1997 at the Gay and Lesbian PrideCenter, 125 N. Parkside Drive Colorado Springs, Colo., Offices...
- [Factoids: Critiques of Antigay Researcher Paul Cameron](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/factoids-critiq/): Dr. Gregory Herek:The facts about Paul Cameron Mark E. Pietrzyk, The New Republic, October 3, 1994:Queer Science Rainbow Alliance:Paul Cameron: The conservative Christian art of...
- [Factoids: Political Assessments of Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/factoids-politi/): Political Research AssociatesCalculated Compassion: How the Ex-Gay movement Serves the Right’s Attack on Democracy National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, PRA, Equal Partners in FaithChallenging...
- [Factoid: Pediatric Policy on Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/factoid-pediatr/): American Academy of PediatricsHomosexuality and Adolescence, American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, October 1993 Confusion about sexual orientation is not unusual during adolescence. Therapy directed at...
- [Reviews: Research on the Effectiveness And Safety of Reparative Or Conversion Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/reviews-researc/): Dr. Gregory HerekAttempts to Change Sexual Orientation Douglas Haldeman, Ph.D. The Pseudo-Science Of Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy(PDF format) Jeramy TownsleyBibliographies: Assessments of evidence for change...
- [Factoid: American Psychological Association Exgay Q&A](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/factoid-america-2/): American Psychological Association exgay Q&A The Q&A answers questions including: What Is Sexual Orientation?What Causes a Person To Have a Particular Sexual Orientation?Is Sexual Orientation...
- [James Dobson’s False Focus on the Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/james-dobsons-f/): Soulforce is an interfaith organization that organizes nonviolent resistance to spiritual violence against gay and gay-tolerant individuals. In conjunction with its prayer vigil this year...
- [Factoid: American Psychiatric Association Position on Exgay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/factoid-america/): The American Psychiatric Association position paper (PDF format) on reparative or conversion therapiesMarch 2000 The potential risks of "reparative therapy" are great, including depression, anxiety...
- [Throckmorton Interviews Mrs. SpongeBob](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/throckmorton-in/): Pro-exgay pundit Warren Throckmorton "interviews" Mrs. SpongeBob. Throckmorton joins James Dobson in accusing the We Are Family Foundation, without substantiation, of promoting "gay rights causes."...
- [Health Provider Removes Pro-exgay Pundit From Advisory Panel](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/health-provider/): From Focus on the Family’s "Family News in Focus" radio broadcast and an accompanying article for March 3, 2005: Magellan Health Services, the largest health...
- [British Exgay Group Defends Death Penalty for Homosexuals](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/british-exgay-g/): British gay human rights group OutRage is criticizing London mayor Ken Livingstone criticism, after the mayor thanked the anti-gay Islamic StraightWay Foundation for supporting his...
- [Exgay’s Funeral Stunt Embarrasses Catholic Diocese of San Diego](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/exgays-funeral/): Revised Mar. 23, 2005 Earlier this month, American Family Association propaganda service AgapePress profiled James Hartline, an HIV-positive exgay activist. Hartline claimed to be battling...
- [Wisconsin Group to Gays: Tolerate Imprisonment](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/wisconsin-group/): Without a trace of criticism, Exodus exgay media blogger Nancy Brown promotes AgapePress’ March 4 defense of Wisconsin Christians United as a group of martyrs...
- [Activist Calls PFOX Leader Richard Cohen ‘dishonest’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/activist-calls/): In correspondence published in January 2005 by Teach The Facts, the professional American Counseling Association said it found merit in six specific ethical-misconduct charges against...
- [Focus/Family: ‘Satan Uses’ Equality Activists](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/focusfamily-sat/): News from Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out” ex-gay road show in Houston, Feb. 19, 2005. From the Galveston Daily News: Bill Maier, child/family...
- [The Ban Has Been Lifted!](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/03/the-ban-has-bee/): The Ban Has Been Lifted! By Joe Kort, MSW I am not talking about the government’s "Don’t ask, don’t tell" policy on gays in the...
- [Vigil Against Alleged Untruths At Focus on the Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/vigil-against-a/): The faith-based, gay-affirming organization Soulforce is gearing up for a May 1 vigil at Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. Soulforce contends...
- [Exgay Trackback Spam](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/exgay-trackback/): A few weeks back, I got fed up with Scattered Words’ repeated insertion of duplicate trackbacks, or links to Scattered Words, into pages at Ex-Gay...
- [Exgays in Houston: Which Side Is Being Intolerant?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/exgays-in-houst/): In a Feb. 15 American Family Association article that is reprinted as a Feb. 18 press release, exgay umbrella group Exodus accuses unnamed "homosexual activists"...
- [Oops. Exgays Hand HRC a Valentine, Thanks to Dolly Parton](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/oops-exgays-han/): A member of Southern gospel singer Kirk Talley’s exgay restoration team sang backup on a song Dolly Parton recorded a few years back, when he...
- [Facts Vs. Bias in Media Coverage of Maryland Sex Education](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/facts-vs-bias-i/): David Fishback, chairman of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Board of Education’s Citizens Advisory Committee on Family Life and Human Development, responds in the Washington area’s...
- [Documentary Seeks Brothers: One Gay, One Antigay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/documentary-see/): Allan Johnson wrote to Ex-Gay Watch with an update to the original post that appeared on this page. I have deleted the earlier comments, simply...
- [Free Speech for Me, Not for Thee](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/free-speech-for/): Demanding free speech for themselves, antigay parents in inland California on Feb. 11 angrily protested free expression by high school students who chose to support...
- [Dr. Jeffrey Satinover: Sexual Orientation Is a ‘fiction’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/dr-jeffrey-sati/): In an interview with Marvin Olasky for World magazine, longtime exgay movement pundit Dr. Jeffrey Satinover argues that because: homosexuality is not a uniform attribute...
- [Alan Keyes Sets Bad Example for Antigay Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/alan-keyes-sets/): Some 69 times, the web site of exgay movement marketer and financier Focus on the Family promotes antigay politician and commentator Alan Keyes. So did...
- [Uniform Hate Crime Statistics Are Not So Uniform](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/uniform-hate-cr/): Uniform Hate Crime Statistics Are Not So Uniform By Jim BurrowayUpdated version, March 29, 2005  "Gay-slaying verdict: guilty." This was the top story on the...
- [Ex-exgay Peterson Toscano’s ‘a-musing’ Blog](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/ex-exgay-peters/): Peterson Toscano, gay Christian (Quaker) creator of the sensitively written one-man comedy, "Doin’ Time in the Homo NoMo Halfway House," has resumed blogging. Check out...
- [Exgay Testimonial: Roberta Laurila](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/exgay-testimoni/): Exodus seems to be updating its web site’s exgay testimonials — several pages of the Exodus web site have been added or changed, according to...
- [Gay Penguins Reject Exgay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/gay-penguins-re/): Six gay male German penguins rejected advances from four hot Swedish penguinettes. From 365gay.com: "The males pined for their mates until they were reunited." In...
- [Antigay Swedish Pastor Wins Appeal in Defense of Hate Speech](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/antigay-swedish/): From The Washington Post, Feb. 12: A Swedish appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a Pentecostal pastor found guilty of violating the country’s...
- [700 Club Implies Former NFL Player Is Ex-gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/700-club-implie/): Former NFL player Roy Simmons came out as gay in 1992. (Google search.) After disappearing from the public eye for a decade, he now tells...
- [Zoo Attempts Exgay Therapy on Penguin Couples](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/zoo-attempts-ex/): 365gay.com, Feb. 8: A German zoo is trying “to cure” three gay penguin couples using a form of aversion therapy. The Bremerhaven Zoo is splitting...
- [Ex-gay Promotes Indiana Ban on Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/ex-gay-promotes/): From Dan Gonzales: Advocate OutQ News, which is broadcast on Sirius satellite radio, features a short clip of exgay activist Brad Grammar speaking in favor...
- [Wallis: Democrats Must Rediscover Pro-life Moral Values](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/wallis-democrat/): In an interview with Christianity Today, progressive evangelical Jim Wallis — who has argued for many years that religious fundamentalists have too much influence in...
- [Throckmorton Offers Exgay Spin on Study of Gay Genetics](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/throckmorton-of/): Pro-exgay pundit Warren Throckmorton issued the press release "New Genetics Study Undermines Gay Gene Theory" on Feb. 9. Exgay activist group Exodus International reprinted the...
- [Gay Web Sites Delink Ex-gay ‘crisis’ Line](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/gay-web-sites-d/): From the Houston Voice (Feb. 11): Four gay and lesbian Web sites that unknowingly listed the National Youth Crisis Hotline as a resource have deleted...
- [Demand for Virginia Schools to Showcase Ex-gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/demand-for-virg/): In suburban Virginia, the Fairfax County school board censured Stephen M. Hunt for using his authority as a board member to pressure principals into inviting...
- [Keith Boykin: 10 Things You Should Know About the Down Low](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/keith-boykin-10/): Keith Boykin skillfully separates facts from media hype and political propaganda.
- [The Old Design Is Back](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/the-old-design/): Until I find time to implement the new one. I welcome constructive criticism.
- [Hate Crimes: After 15 Years, What Progress?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/hate-crimes-aft/): In late 1989, I wrote the following article about hate crimes statistics. The article was published by Sojourners, a progressive Christian evangelical magazine that publishes...
- [First They Came For Bert And Ernie](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/first-they-came/): By Joe Kort(Corrected Edition) As the years go by, a growing number of cartoon characters have been forcibly "outed." I am amazed that anyone would...
- [Protecting Maryland Marriage, Pastor Says](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/02/protecting-mary/): Alas, A Blog comments today on DefendMarylandMarriage.com — another one of those antigay web sites that names none of its authors, but lobbies for discrimination...
- [What Did Dobson And SpongeBob Have in Common?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/what-did-dobson/): Religious-right organizations, including the American Family Association and Focus on the Family, launched a media frenzy last week when they criticized a pro-tolerance video starring...
- [Ex-ex-gay Profiles](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/ex-ex-gay-profi/): Sept. 26, 2000, The Advocate: Wade Richards, associate of Peter LaBarbera Nov. 24, 1998, The Advocate: Clint Trout Chris Ponticelli Mark SatterleeSame article with pictures...
- [ExGayWatch Profile: Jeremy Marks](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/exgaywatch-prof-4/): Jeremy Marks Leader of the British evangelical Christian group Courage This organization was formerly Britain’s leading ex-gay organization, but Marks has since declared ex-gay ideologies...
- [ExGayWatch Profile: Wade Richards](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/exgaywatch-prof-3/): Wade Richards Advocate story Worked with Peter LaBarbera Now ex-ex-gay. Featured prominently in Wayne Besen’s book, Anything But Straight To be continued…
- [ExGayWatch Profile: Anne Paulk](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/exgaywatch-prof-2/): Anne Paulk Husband: John PaulkLocation: Portland, Ore. Author: In a 1998 New York Times full-page ad, Paulk proclaimed, "I’m living proof that Truth can set...
- [Prof. Throckmorton Launches Exgay Internet Radio Station](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/prof-throckmort-2/): Exgay pundit and PFOX ally Prof. Warren Throckmorton launched Identity Radio on Jan. 24. By "identity," Prof. Throckmorton means the exgay political "identity" that defines...
- [PlanetOut Reports on Exgay Richard Cohen](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/planetout-repor/): In a Jan. 26 report on the professional decline of PFOX president Richard Cohen, Tom Musbach of PlanetOut interviews Ex-Gay Watch participant "Rick from Fredonia,...
- [Maryland Educators Challenge Exgay Claims](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/maryland-educat/): A group of suburban Maryland educators and parents continues to challenge claims being published by exgay pundit and PFOX ally Prof. Warren Throckmorton via the...
- [Counselors Group Confirms Exgay’s Expulsion](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/counselors-grou/): TeachTheFacts.org is a web site that defends comprehensive sex education in suburban Maryland public schools against a recent campaign by exgay and political religious-right organizations...
- [What Were You Doing During Inauguration Week?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/what-were-you-d/): Exgay leaders Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas spent the week in Washington celebrating with a who’s who of the religious right. Thomas met, saw, or...
- [Evangelical Opposition to Protest Group Repent America](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/evangelical-opp/): Earlier this month, Exodus exgay leader Alan Chambers joined Concerned Women for America in offering support for antigay protest group Repent America — specifically, for...
- [Exgay Review of ‘Anything But Straight’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/exgay-review-of/): "Unmasking the lies of Wayne Beeson [sic]" — that’s what more-or-less-anonymous exgay blogger Ben aspires to do. But then he doesn’t do it. He and...
- [Counseling Professionals Expelled PFOX President for Ethics Violations](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/counseling-prof/): Update: The American Counseling Association confirms that Richard Cohen’s expulsion occurred in May 2002. Press ReleaseFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, Jan.  25, 2005 website: www.WayneBesen.com ANTI-GAY P-FOX...
- [G-d Is Not Homophobic By The Rev. J. Alton Cressman, 1995](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/g-d-is-not-homo/): G-d is not homophobic by The Rev. J. Alton Cressman, 1995 The following article originally appeared in the Port Huron, Michigan Times Herald as a...
- [Gratitude And Frustration](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/gratitude-and-f/): I’m grateful to folks like Dan Gonzales and averyfineline, who send me factoids and tips via e-mail — or who post them directly to the...
- [Subjective Views About the Founders of Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/subjective-view/): It is often reported that two cofounders of Exodus, Michael Bussee and Gary Cooper, became lovers and left the organization. Bussee and Cooper appear together...
- [Profile: Exodus International](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/profile-exodus/): Board of Directors Mike Haley Tom ColeLiving Hope Ministries in Arlington, Texas Rev. John J. Smid, TreasurerExecutive director, Love In Action, Memphis, Tenn. Divorced and...
- [Profile: Parents And Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX)](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/01/profile-parents/): Family Research Council, a religious-right organization  launched and still guided behind the scenes by James Dobson, founded PFOX in 1996. Press release, 1996Profile at ReligiousTolerance.org...
- [Where’s A ‘Live-In Ministry’ Near You?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/wheres-a-live-i/): Exodus calls them “live-in ministries” and helps market them. Critics call them “ex-gay camps” or compulsory “brainwashing” facilities. Whatever one calls them — we’d like...
- [AgapePress Quotes Local Bigot Who Offers Substantiation Based On His Collection Of Private Files](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/agapepress-quot/): Today the Agapepress gleefully reports homosexuals have been arrested for public sex at Richfield County Park in Michigan. Gary Glenn, the apparent head of the...
- [Religious Right Slips Up Again](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/religious-right-10/): Shhhush… don’t tell anyone but the religious right’s charade slips up again regarding their motives for supporting the ex-gay cause. (Hint: It has to do...
- [Ex-Gay Ad Policy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/ex-gay-ad-polic/): Several readers have noticed ex-gay ads appearing on the margins of the Ex-Gay Watch home page. This web site does have the ability to filter...
- [Why It Sucks to Be a Gay Kid of Fundamentalist Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/why-it-sucks-to/): Reflecting on a June 19 New York Times article about the rapid growth of politically organized, grassroots antigay bigotry, Joe Riddle explains — from his...
- [Note From Mike](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/note-from-mike/): Dear Reader, If you have some writing experience, convey messages with a civil and factual tone, and believe you could improve on our content (such...
- [Note From Daniel](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/note-from-danie/): Note From Daniel: Please send news, story leads and tips to Mike through this weekend. I really appreciate the flood of helpful emails readers have...
- [Love In Action Statement On Children Sent To LIA’s “Refuge” Ministry Program Against Their Will](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/love-in-action-3/): Love In Action had their press conference today and as of my lunch break here in LA only a few statements had been posted online...
- [Love In Action To Hold Press Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/love-in-action-2/): [Update: Press conference has been held, to view analysis click here.] Love In Action has finally announced a press conference for Thursday morning. It will...
- [Tell The Gay Media To Get Off Their Duff](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/tell-the-gay-me/): Ok folks, I’m sick of the national gay media NOT covering the current Love In Action fiasco. How about we take some of that energy...
- [Friend Or Foe? How Must We Respond to Embarrassing Quotes](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/friend-or-foe-h/): Blogger Mike Ditto confirms that a March 1994 article in We The People quoted former Love In Action participant Tom Ottosen recalling LIA director John...
- [Put Warning Label on Homosexuals, Exgay Ad Sponsor Says](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/put-warning-lab/): The New York Christian Coalition — which last year sponsored an exgay billboard on behalf of exgay activist Stephen Bennett — now says that gay...
- [Comparing ‘Love In Action’ to A Cult](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/comparing-love/): Blogger Mike Ditto itemizes ways in which the Love In Action rules for participants resemble the rulebook of a cult.
- [Censorship? Anonymity Requested Over Love In Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/censorship-anon/): I am moving the comments about this issue to their page of origin here. I believe that concerns over one individual, “Zach,” are a distraction...
- [Troy, Michigan High School Gay Poster](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/troy-michigan-h/): There is currently a debate going on in a high school in Troy, Michigan about a poster that hangs in a teachers’ classroom reading, “Gay...
- [Can’t We All Just Get Along?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/cant-w/): I have been reading about Love In Action and all that they are about. Organizations like Love In Action and AFA prey on the gay...
- [Questioning Love In Action Director’s Affirmation of Suicide](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/questioning-lov/): In March 1994, according to this second-hand source, a Santa Rosa, Calif., gay periodical called We The People published an article written by someone named...
- [Love In Action Staff Credentials Questionable](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/love-in-action/): After careful review of the “Love In Action” website, it appears there are only TWO, count em TWO staff members listed who even have college...
- [Blog Of A 16 Year Old Sent To “Love In Action” Live-In Program Against His Will](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/blog-of-a-16-ye/): A 16 year old named Zach in Bartlett, Tennessee recently came out to his parents who reacted by announcing they are sending him to an...
- [Focus To Use “Love Won Out” Conference To Attack Rights Of Those Who Chose To Remain Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/focus-to-use-lo/): FOTF’s next Love Won Out ex-gay roadshow is being held in Seattle on the 25th of June. Focus hasn’t posted a schedule online yet but...
- [Not Another March on Washington](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/not-another-mar/): Five years after the Millennium March fiasco, veteran activist Robin Tyler calls for an April 2008 March on Washington. (Source: The Washington Blade, June 10)...
- [AFA’s Ed Vitagliano: Homosexuals Who Identify With Classic TV Lack Intimacy And Connection](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/afas-ed-vitagli/): The TV Land network is airing a special this month called “Tickled Pink” which discusses classic TV shows and characters gay viewers have historically identified...
- [Another Paul Cameron Study…](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/another-paul-ca/): In case anyone is interested, Paul Cameron has come up with yet more “proof” that homosexuality causes an early death. But if the press release...
- [1975: LA Chief of Police States He’d Rather Convert Gays Than Participate In Pride](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/1975-la-chief-o/): Los Angeles Pride is this weekend June 10-12 and the parade grand marshall is… Paris Hilton. No, I’m not kidding. Here’s some pride related history...
- [AgapePress Brutal Attack on Message of Tolerance And Peace for Gay Children](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/agapepress-brut/): Two years ago at Troy High-school in Troy, Michigan a teacher put up a poster that read “Gay people are everyday people.” That’s the full...
- [Spitzer Quoted in Southern Voice Supporting APA Resolution on Marriage Equality](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/spitzer-quoted/): Alert Reader Regan DuCasse brings a story at Southern Voice titled “Leading mental health group backs same-sex marriage” this to my attention. Yes I know...
- [New Life Church Featured in Harper’s: “Homosexual Deamons Can Leap In Your Bones”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/new-life-church/): Via WORLD Magazine Blog, an excerpt from Soldiers of Christ an article appearing in the current issue of Harpers Magazine: Linda Burton was “specifically called...
- [New Documentary Profiles Ex-exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/new-documentary/): PRESS RELEASE Filmmaker Tom Murray is pleased to announce the premiere of his recently completed documentary project, “Fish Can’t Fly.” www.fishcantfly.com The screening will take...
- [Exodus Loves a Misquote of PFLAG](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/exodus-loves-a/): In a May 9 story about the National PTA’s differing treatment of PFLAG and PFOX, the Washington Times misquoted a key source. This misconduct by...
- [Good for the PTA](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/good-for-the-pt/): The PTA has turned down a request from PFOX to exhibit at its annual show, while approving a request from PFLAG. Now, why exactly would...
- [Dust Bunnies in Your Closet](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/dust-bunnies-in/): Dust Bunnies in your Closet By Joe Kort, MSW Recently, a high school in Troy, Michigan made the news when the Detroit area Lesbian and...
- [“One-Sex Marriage” Takes To The Water, Will She Float?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/one-sex-marriag/): I apologize for the high number of off-topic posts this last 48 hours but I felt we could use a new thread on which to...
- [“Gay” Vs. “Homosexual” Affects Gallup Poll Results 10 Percentage Points](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/gay-vs-homosexu/): Advocate.com/Sirius OutQ Radio report today on a new Gallup poll surveying moral attitudes placed onto the lives gay and lesbian Americans. Given that I do...
- [A Call For Neurological / Physiological Study to Confirm Ex-Gay Claims of Heterosexual Functioning](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/a-call-for-neur/): WorldNetDaily readers all too often exhibit ugly, heinous and hateful worldviews** but published on May 20th, 2005 is a letter of interest. Unfortunately, letters are...
- [Boycott of Disney Ends](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/boycott-of-disn/): The [AFA] is announcing the end of its years-long protest against the Walt Disney Company. For nine years, the pro-family organization has urged its supporters...
- [A Glimpse At PFOX Supporters’ Prejudices](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/a-glimpse-at-pf/): PFOX publicly declares that it favors tolerance for gays and exgays. But PFOX’s own Yahoo-based e-mail discussion and “support” list, advertised on the front page...
- [Comment Registration/Review](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/comment-registr-2/): Because of a deluge of spam in the past couple days, I’ve turned on comment moderation, which means that readers may comment as follows: 1....
- [Another Gay Teen Suicide, Unlikely to Matter to Fryrear](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/another-gay-tee/): Alert reader Scott Hutcheson brought a story of the gay-teen-suicide of Jeffrey Price to my attention. Excerpts: His battle, involving his sexuality and his depression...
- [Update on Booklet in GLSEN Boston Sex-Ed Program](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/update-on-bookl/): I’ve read Stephen Bennett’s blog entry about an inappropriate booklet found by antigay activists a Boston-area sex-ed program. (Previous XGW coverage.) I’ve read Bennett’s quotations...
- [This Post Is For SoCal Residents Only](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/this-post-is-fo/): Conversion-therapy themed art film Fixing Frank (2002) will be showing at the Laemmle Sunset 5 for the week beginning May 20th. If you don’t know...
- [AFA Describes Bennett Ministries, No Mention of Helping Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/afa-describes-b/): Mike did an excellent job of discussing Throckmorton’s reaction to a GLSEN brochure in his previous post. Today I noticed Stephen Bennett joined the fun...
- [Throckmorton Protests GLSEN Sex-Ed Brochure](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/throckmorton-pr/): Exgay movement pundit Warren Throckmorton protests sex-ed literature that was allegedly distributed at Brookline High School on April 30 at an event hosted by GLSEN...
- [Southern Baptists Consider Public-School Inquisition](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/southern-baptis/): A resolution is being proposed at this year’s Southern Baptist national convention, demanding Southern Baptists investigate their local public school systems and withdraw their kids...
- [AFA to Wal-Mart: Discriminate, Or We’ll Shop At Target](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/afa-to-wal-mart/): The American Family Association is rallying consumers to think twice before their next shopping trip, and then write letters to Wal-Mart demanding that the retailer...
- [Stephen Bennett Misquotes Gay Journalists](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/stephen-bennett-4/): From an interview in the April edition of the American (Anti)Family Association “Journal.” (Hat tip: Freedom Of….) Exgay activist Stephen Bennett says: But overall, the...
- [OutOfTheCloset.tv Invites Exgay Videos](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/outoftheclosett/): Exgay ministries are invited to post their exgay videos — for free — at OutOfTheCloset.tv. Surely, there must be a catch.
- [Antigays Furious After Judge Preserves Nebraska Couples’ Access to the Law](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/antigays-furiou/): A Nebraska state constitutional amendment, approved by voters, banned not just gay marriage but any legal agreement between same-sex couples, including contracts to share health...
- [Exodus Gives Nod to Anti-Education Rant](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/exodus-gives-no/): This rant has nothing to do with exgays — so naturally, Exodus media blogger Nancy Brown gives a favorable nod to it. Traditional morality used...
- [LaBarbera: Your Immorality’s Worse Than Mine](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/labarbera-your/): Conservative Christians may be corrupt — but that’s OK because liberal Christians are worse. So suggests antigay activist Peter LaBarbera in a press release that...
- [Cynical Toward Women: Exodus, Focus Promote Sexism](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/cynical-toward/): In Exodus’ weekly media synopsis, Exodus and Focus on the Family promote this account of God’s plan for men and women. Dorothy Kelley Patterson is...
- [FDA Sperm Ban: Fear of AIDS, Or Gay Reproduction?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/fda-sperm-ban-f/): Since the mid-1980s, the Red Cross — with FDA support — has prohibited men who have had sex with men, at any time since 1977,...
- [National PTA Chooses PFLAG Over PFOX](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/national-pta-ch/): The National Parent-Teacher Association has agreed for a second year to feature a pro-homosexual group [PFLAG] at its annual convention while rejecting a group [PFOX]...
- [Bill Maier, As Norm He Wanna Be](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/bill-maier-as-n/): Good times over at Focus today. Four, count em, four of today’s six FNIF stories mention gay issues. That’s quite a preoccupation Bob Ditmer has...
- [Dan Savage Confesses His Sissy Love](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/dan-savage-conf/): Dobson was whining about the Judicial filibuster again yesterday(*) and I’ll be honest with you, it’s beginning to exhaust me. I need something to listen...
- [Christian Schools’ Heterosexism Can Work in Favor of Gay Students](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/christian-schoo/): According to the Seattle Times (via World Magazine Blog) There are still Christian schools here on the “left coast” that won’t allow their male wrestlers...
- [Gay Marriage = Social Good](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/gay-marriage-so/): Rick Sincere has a post on his blog today, discussing new research that documents a decline in sexually transmitted diseases with the advent of gay...
- [Studies: Biology Influences Sexual Orientation AND Gaydar](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/studies-biology/): From Medical News Today, there’s news of a biological basis for “gaydar,” the rumored ability of some gay people to identify one another through poorly...
- [Punish Peds — But What About Their Hosts?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/punish-peds-but/): NGLTF today demanded that (unnamed) people stop extending sympathy to Spokane, Wash., mayor Jim West (because he’s an antigay conservative?), and insisted that West resign...
- [‘Family’: Remembering Akili Tyson](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/family-remember/): I pause for a moment to remember my former housemate, Akili Tyson, who died nine years ago today. What follows is a transcript from NPR’s...
- [Deal with the Devil? Exodus Call to Political Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/deal-with-the-d/): In The Exodus Impact (April 2005, not available online), a front-page article by Exodus president Alan Chambers: defends his use of the Exodus presidency to...
- [Joe Dallas to Exodus Ministries: Fight Gays. Discriminate.](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/joe-dallas-to-e/): In the April 2005 issue of Exodus’ monthly Impact newsletter (not available online), exgay author and Exodus speaker Joe Dallas joins president Alan Chambers in...
- [Antigay Mother’s Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/antigay-mothers/): It’s Mother’s Day… a day for phone calls, greeting cards, flowers and chocolates. But what can you do for your mother, when an antigay denomination...
- [Postgay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/postgay/): Ex-Gay Watch’s Joe Riddle also has his own blog, Purple America. Over at Purple America, Joe observes that the importance that he assigns to his...
- [Exgay… Or Ex-sexual?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/exgay-or-ex-sex/): Maria at Daily Dose of Queer has been reading some exgay blogs, and now she, too, is getting the impression that some exgays turn not...
- [Report: Spitzer Regrets Role in ‘I Do Exist’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/report-spitzer/): Last fall, Gareth Fenley, a licensed psychiatric social worker, attended the Atlanta premiere of Warren Throckmorton’s exgay video, “I Do Exist.” The premiere was emceed...
- [What Goes Around: Exgay Accusations About Canada](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/what-goes-aroun/): In the April 2005 issue of Exodus’ Impact political newsletter, organization president Alan Chambers defends his involvement of Exodus in political extremism by claiming that...
- [If Gay Were Straight, Could You Change? Exodus Doesn’t Answer](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/if-gay-were-str/): Jeff Postelwait is the author of a light-hearted op-ed titled If gay were straight, could you change yourself?, posted April 8 at the Daily O’Collegian....
- [Where to Go Next in Exgay Battle Against Maryland Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/where-to-go-nex/): A judge this week issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Montgomery County, Md., Public Schools from testing a revised sex-education curriculum.
- [Focus/Family Sees Bogeymen in Christian Protesters](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/focusfamily-see-2/): On May 2, Focus on the Family offered half-truths and misrepresentations to explain its arrest of a family during a gay-tolerant Christian protest at the...
- [Friends of Exodus: Dominionists Dream of U.S. Theocracy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/friends-of-exod/): Exodus leaders Alan Chambers and Randy Thomas, and Exodus media blogger Nancy Brown, frequently applaud the political activism of people like Alan Sears (Alliance Defense...
- [Prof. Warren Throckmorton And the Real Issues](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/prof-warren-thr/): In an Advocate.com article posted April 29, Prof. Warren Throckmorton says he doesn’t believe that Concerned Women for America, the Illinois Family Institute, or Stephen...
- [Same-Sex Unions May Reduce Sexually Transmitted Illnesses](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/same-sex-unions/): Thomas S. Dee, a professor of economics at Swarthmore College, has released a statistical study of the impact of gay marriage and civil unions in...
- [But Remember…He’s Not ‘Gay’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/but-rememberhes/): NY Times is reporting that the mayor of Spokane, Wash., James West (a Republican and outspoken opponent of gay rights), has been accused of molesting...
- [Tolerant Words From Exgay Stephen Bennett](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/tolerant-words/): Stephen Bennett’s blog entry for May 1 is titled Learning to Respectfully Agree to Disagree: Something Impossible for Most Homosexuals?. Bennett’s essay is a model...
- [Uncovered: Exgay Pundit Throckmorton’s Political Ties](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/uncovered-exgay/): In his May 2 column, author/activist Wayne Besen uncovers seemingly well-established, far-right political affiliations of exgay pundit Warren Throckmorton.
- [PFOX Suing Maryland Schools to Stop Sex-Ed](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/pfox-suing-mary/): The Washington Post reports today that the antigay parents/spouses group PFOX plans to join a Maryland religious-right group, Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum, in suing...
- [Tolerant Ex-Gays? Gay-Tolerant People of Faith Arrested](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/tolerant-ex-gay/): Six months ago, the antigay militant group Repent America raided a Philadelphia autumn pride festival. According to witnesses, they shouted down the stage performers and...
- [Showtime Comedy Show Profiles PFOX President](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/showtime-comedy/): Tonight I happened to catch political comic duo Penn & Teller’s latest episode, “Family Values,” in a TV series with a name that can’t be...
- [Antigay Violence Up Eight Percent](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/antigay-violenc/): From Chuck Currie: On April 26, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs released a report documenting an 8 percent increase of violent attacks against people...
- [Focus/Family Gets Special Rights on ABC](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/focusfamily-get/): From Chuck Currie: In December and again in March, ABC television denied requests by the United Church of Christ to purchase airtime for a national...
- [Double Speak From Dobson (As If That’s Anything New)](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/double-speak-fr/): Today’s broadcast of Focus On The Family featured the previously recorded ex-gay testimony of Mike Haley. For that matter Dobson’s introduction was prerecorded as well...
- [Focus Closes It’s Doors to Public On Day of Soulforce Planned Visit](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/focus-closes-it/): After being tipped off by a commenter it came to my attention that Focus is closed to the public today. I verified this by calling...
- [FOTF Broadcast to Feature Ex-Gay Mike Haley Same Day As Soulforce Protest](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/fotf-broadcast/): On Monday May 2nd when Soulforce is protesting by taking the public tour at Focus headquarters, the Focus On The Family daily broadcast is scheduled...
- [Focus Quietly Responds to Soulforce with Nonsense](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/05/focus-quietly-r/): Tucked away on their CitizenLink, Focus On Social Issues, Homosexuality and Gender page Focus issues a rebuttal to various charges made by Soulforce against James...
- [Lesbian Health Organization Speaks Up Against Throckmorton Reappointment](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/lesbian-health/): Pro-gay groups have been mostly silent on Throckmorton’s reappointment to Magellan Healthcare’s board. [correct me if I’m wrong, I can only read so many sites]...
- [An Anti-Gay Timeline](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/an-anti-gay-tim/): Some of you might be interested in seeing this 30-year timeline of the anti-gay movement compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center. I consider myself...
- [Opinion & Analysis: Soulforce’s Confrontation of Dobson Anti-Climactic](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/opinion-analysi/): Reminder, Soulforce‘s two-day rally at Focus On The Family’s Colorado Springs headquarters begins Sunday. (Previous XGW coverage) Soulforce makes little mention of Focus in connection...
- [‘Things Gay Men Can Do to Find Real Love’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/things-gay-men/): Christmas is eight months away — and so is Joe Kort’s new book, 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do to Find Real Love. But...
- [Wayne Besen: Capitulate Or Fight Back](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/wayne-besen-cap/): In his April 26 column, activist/author Wayne Besen says U.S. gays have a choice: Sequester themselves in their closets, or don boxing gloves. Besen sees...
- [Exodus’ Alan Chambers Raises Money for Gay Pride](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/exodus-alan-cha/): According to PrideSource.com, Chambers spoke April 6 — Pride Week — at Central Michigan University. Taking a strategy from the playbook of [garble] Bar’s fundraiser/protest...
- [Ex-gay Lutheran Character in Gay Novel](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/ex-gay-lutheran/): Van Gower of Southern Voice reviews the new novel “Sex Camp” by Brian McNaught. Of the many compelling characters, the writer struggled most to fairly...
- [Ex-gays to Gays: Marry And Be Sexless?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/ex-gays-to-gays-2/): Guided by two unnamed exgay activists, Minnesota state senator Michele Bachmann vowed Apr. 8 to win a constitutional ban against gay unions. Bachmann told them...
- [At Exgay Speech in St. Louis, Is the Tolerance Mutual?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/at-exgay-speech/): The Journal, at Webster University near St. Louis, profiled exgay Dan Colombo on April 7 following his campus visit. Dan Colombo used to be gay,...
- [Cheated By Tolerance — Or By a Cult of Blame?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/cheated-by-tole/): This is an oldie, but worth bringing up, I think. The December 2004 issue of Christianity Today published this exgay smear against Christians. Hiding behind...
- [Magellan Health Dust-up: A Chance to Sell Exgay Videos](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/magellan-health-2/): I see from PFOX’s April 22 press release that Prof. Throckmorton and PFOX are using their self-generated Magellan Health news story to sell copies of...
- [Falwell University’s Ex-gay Agenda](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/falwell-univers/): Soulforce organized a visit by 60 gay-tolerant students to Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University on April 25. Inside Higher Ed quotes Jake Reitan, an organizer of...
- [AFA Reports Stephen Bennett Has Nothing New to Say](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/afa-reports-ste/): Evidently it’s a slow news day over at AFA’s AgapePress, which decided to reprint a fluffy little interview from last month with Stephen Bennett whom,...
- [Gays And Christians](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/gays-and-christ/): I’m sure many of you have already seen this article from the Galveston Daily News, highlighting efforts by local Christian groups to counter the anti-gay...
- [MobyNetDaily](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/mobynetdaily/): “We’re convinced that if we have children, we’re going to do everything in our power to make them gay. [emphasis added] Like maybe drinking a...
- [Magellan Health Services Invites Throckmorton Back](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/04/magellan-health/): Magellan Health Services has invited Warren Throckmorton back to it’s advisory board. (Previous coverage at XGW) Quoting this AP article at Advocate.com: Magellan spokeswoman Erin...
- [NARTH To Akinsanya: Failure Is Your Fault](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/narth-to-akinsa/): NARTH has a recent press release on the documentary film maker David Akinsanya. A link is given through to the article in The Independent but...
- [Sometimes Pictures Speak Louder Than Words](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/sometimes-pictu/): Yesterday was the second of the conservative Christian’s telecasts called Justice Sunday. Ironically, although there was much denunciation of the Supreme Court’s recognition of some...
- [Globe Article About Theories Re Sexual Orientation Basis](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/globe-article-a/): There is a very good article in the Sunday Boston Globe about the various theories as to the origins of sexual orientation. The author, Neil...
- [Ex-Gay Watch: Agenda Revisited](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/ex-gay-watch-ag/): Ex-Gay Watch is developing both an FAQ and a priority list for future projects. So I turn to you, our readers: What questions are worth...
- [Gay Rams Study](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/gay-rams-study/): There’s another article out today about research done at Oregon State University on gay sheep. The researchers found marked differences in the brain anatomy and...
- [Lutherans Vote on Gay Issues](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/lutherans-vote/): UPDATED AT 2:50 PST The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the fifth largest church in the country, is voting today on three provisions relating...
- [NARTH Rapid Response Team](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/narth-rapid-res/): NARTH sent out an email looking to form a rapid response team to counter “misinformation in the media or other cultural institutions about reorientation therapy.”...
- [Is My Child Becoming Homosexual?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/is-my-child-bec/): That’s the sub-title of Focus on the Family’s web page entitled, “Helping Boys Become Men, and Girls Become Women.” The page goes on to offer...
- [BBC2 to Air Unhappy Gay Reporter’s Ordeal At Exgay ‘Love In Action’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/bbc2-to-air-unh/): Britain’s BBC2 will broadcast “Sad to Be Gay” tonight at 9 p.m. local time. From the program description: David Akinsanya hates being gay. He has...
- [Wayne Besen: ‘The High Calling of the Low Road’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/wayne-besen-the/): From WayneBesen.com: It is the 21st Century and the cover of Time Magazine has pictures of a chimpanzee and God under the bold headline, “Evolution...
- [XGW Seeks to Compile Media Contacts List](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/xgw-seeks-to-co/): Recently XGW has been deluged by media interview and referral requests. We do not currently maintain a formal list of individuals willing to be publicly...
- [Fish Can’t Fly: Response Action Planned Against ‘Ex-Gay’ Film](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/fish-cant-fly-r/): NEWS ADVISORY: For Immediate Release August 9, 2005 RESPONSE ACTION PLANNED AGAINST “EX-GAY” FILM In response to an initiative underway aimed against the spirit of...
- [British Paper Reports One Man’s Reorientation Attempt](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/british-paper-r/): There’s a quite interesting article in The Independent about David Akinsanya, a British man who is seeking to change his sexual orientation from gay to...
- [Tolerance OK? Powerful PFOX Rep Overrides Group’s President](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/tolerance-ok-po/): Compare the recent public statements of two PFOX officials regarding public education, and one finds that PFOX can’t make up its mind whether to claim...
- [Hate-Crime Statistics, Penalties, And Enforcement](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/hate-crime-stat/): Patrick Yaeger assesses the impact of hate crime statistics collection and enhanced penalties upon state and federal government activity against violent criminals who previously were...
- [Truth Sets Free: Creating Inclusive Christian Community](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/truth-sets-free/): From Straight, Not Narrow comes word of a well-designed web site called TruthSetsFree.net. Founder Justin R. Cannon, a student at Earlham College in Indiana, says:...
- [Exgay Stereotypes to Play Advisory Role in Maryland Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/exgay-stereotyp/): The Montgomery County, Maryland, Board of Education will limit a reconstituted sex-education committee to an advisory role in planning a new sex-ed curriculum, according to...
- [Transcript of CNN Debate Between HRC, Warren Throckmorton](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/transcript-of-c/): Joe Solmonese, a longtime Democratic operative who now leads the Human Rights Campaign, debated exgay movement pundit Warren Throckmorton on “CNN Sunday Night,” July 31....
- [Co-Founder ‘Sickened’ By Exgay Attempts To Rewrite History](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/co-founder-sick/): From WayneBesen.com Reprinted with permission Friday, August 05, 2005 John Evans: I’m Sickened By Attempts To Re-Write LIA History by Wayne Besen The History of...
- [Recycling Antigay Catholic Stereotypes](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/recycling-antig/): Social-conservative website MichNews.com in mid-July reprinted the boilerplate exgay sales pitch of the Rev. Richard Perozich, who for years has been influential in the U.S....
- [Book Review Under Fire: What’s ‘Mental Health’ In A Theocracy?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/book-review-und/): Mel Sheesholtz, Ph.D, voices skepticism about Destructive Trends in Mental Health (Amazon link), a new book edited by Rogers H. Wright and Nicolas A. Cummings....
- [Gay Activists React to Zach’s Post-LIA Statement](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/gay-activists-r/): Memphis, Tenn.-area gay-equality activist Morgan Fox and national actvist Wayne Besen react to Zach today in Southern Voice.
- [Peterson Toscano Cracks the Zach Code](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/peterson-toscan-2/): Through a process of exacting literary and scientific analysis, the Love In Action survivor, performance artist, and comedian deciphers — once and for all —...
- [Queer Day: ‘Exgays Drive Ratings And A Homophobic ‘View’ ‘](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/queer-day-exgay/): 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...
- [Jim Burroway: ‘Liar Detector’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/jim-burroway-li/): 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:...
- [Writer Seeks to Talk with Exgay Or Ex-Exgay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/writer-seeks-to/): 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...
- [Gus Cairns: ‘I Fell For An Ex-Gay’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/gus-cairns-i-fe/): 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](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/zach-speaks-out/): 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...
- [Frank Worthen Takes Credit](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/frank-worthen-t/): 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...
- [Boston Globe: Antigay Researcher Paul Cameron Buys His Way to Infamy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/boston-globe-an/): 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” —...
- [Cleveland Gay, HIV/AIDS Services Say Exgay Minister Misled Them](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/cleveland-gay-h/): 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...
- [Tell CNN To Cover The Facts About “Reparative Therapy”!](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/tell-cnn-to-cov/): 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...
- [Love In Action Co-Founder: ‘My Ministry Shatters Lives’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/love-in-action-4/): 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...
- [Radio Show Discussion’s 3-to-2 Exgay-Gay Ratio](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/radio-show-disc/): The NPR radio program On Point aired a one-hour discussion of exgay “therapy” on July 29. According to the Making Gays Straight program description, the...
- [Movement Co-Founder Coaches Exgays in Troubled Marriages](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/movement-co-fou/): The Houston Voice and New York Blade follow up earlier reporting with a new story today on Jerry Falwell’s July 21 appearance at the week-long...
- [Exodus Antigay Youth Director to Be on ABC’s ‘The View’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/exodus-antigay/): Received from Exodus International via e-mail just now: Scott Davis, director of Exodus Youth, is scheduled to appear on ABC’s daytime talk show, The View,...
- [Note From Andrew](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/note-from-andre/): FYI, I’m on vacation through Sunday, August 7th. Have a good week, everyone!
- [Exgay Therapy: NPR Show to Air One-Hour Discussion](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/exgay-therapy-n/): The National Public Radio program On Point will discuss Love In Action and “conversion therapy” for a full hour tonight — 7 p.m. Eastern time....
- [Friday Moment of Zen](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/friday-moment-o/): In cased you missed the Jon Stewart Show’s hilarious Samantha Bee, in this week’s segment on the “gayification” of NASCAR, click here. The segment includes...
- [Kirk Talley: ‘Out of the Lord’s Closet, Revisited’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/kirk-talley-out/): The August issue of GQ still is not at my local newsstand, so I turn over the mike to southern gospel music blogger averyfineline.com for...
- [The Good Morning America Segment](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/the-good-mornin/): As reported yesterday, Good Morning America had a segment on Zach’s story this morning. It had many features similar to the CNN story, yet many...
- [Note From Daniel](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/note-from-danie-2/): FYI, I’m on vacation through the end of next week.
- [LIA on CNN](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/lia-on-cnn/): Deborah Feyerick covered the LIA / conversion therapy story last night on CNN. She glossed over many of the rules that have bloggers upset, generalizing...
- [Seeking Models of Support for Gay-Affirmative Abstinence](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/seeking-models/): I attend a predominantly gay church (although, ironically, the musicians are all straight). In discussion with my pastor this Sunday, I learned that a mutual...
- [Evangelicals Concerned: ‘ABC-TV Debates Ex-gay Myth’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/evangelicals-co/): Press release issued today by Evangelicals Concerned ABC-TV Debates Ex-gay Myth EC Member is Guest on ABC-TV This Thursday Morning Watch this Thursday morning’s Good...
- [Zach Featured in NYT](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/zach-featured-i/): A story that rather fell through the cracks here on XGW: Zach’s story made the New York Times. In terms of raw information, it adds...
- [Why I Believe the Ex-gay Movement Will Fail](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/why-i-believe-t/): It’s about economics. More specifically, it’s about economic sociology. Consider: the social cost of coming out and living openly as a gay person continues to...
- [About Andrew](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/about-andrew/): Ex-Gay Watch welcomes its newest writer: Andrew is a web designer, blogger, and citizen media specialist. He is currently attending Purdue University in Indiana, where...
- [A Composite Look At Exgay Prejudices And Demands](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/a-composite-loo/): Gay libertarian blogger Jason Kuznicki presents a composite look at the exgay e-mail that he receives several times per year. Kuznicki concisely captures the trickle-down...
- [Demonstration July 29 Against Antigay Boot Camp](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/demonstration-j/): The Queer Action Council of Memphis, Tenn., has announced two vigils July 29 at antigay boot camp Love In Action: Please join us for what...
- [PFLAG Statement on the Release of Tennessee Teen From ‘Ex-Gay Camp’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/pflag-statement/): 7/26/2005 1:44:00 PM Contact: Taylor Thompson of PFLAG, tthompson@pflag.org WASHINGTON, July 26 — As Zach Stark, the Tennessee teen who recently gained national attention after...
- [Are Homosexual Men’s Lives 20 Years Shorter? No, Says Exgays’ Source](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/are-homosexual/): The Ex-Gay Watch health section tracks exgay activists’ frequent criticisms of gay individuals’ health and longevity. Exgay literature frequently cites two statistics: 1. Homosexuality takes...
- [Falwell: It’s Okay to Force Kids Into Ex-gay Camps](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/falwell-its-oka/): Speaking at a conference of Exodus International, the largest religious group promoting the idea that gays can can change their sexual orientation, Rev. Jerry Falwell...
- [Cruise Control: Gay Men And Sexual Addiction](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/cruise-control/): CRUISE CONTROL: A Book for Gay Menby Robert Weiss, MSW, CAS Review by Joe Kort, MSW July 25, 2005 No, this book isn’t about how...
- [Presbyterians To Take Moderate Position On Sexuality. My Prediction: Focus Will Try to Create Chaos](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/presbyterians-t/): “Presbytarians Issue Draft Report On Gay Debate” from the Louisville Courier-Journal: The drafts released so far are heavy on advice on how Presbyterians could learn...
- [WORLD Magazine Attacks United Methodist Church For Tolerating Gay Church Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/world-magazine/): Marvin Olasky’s World Magazine has taken to attacking the United Methodist Church for simply allowing the gay-friendly Methodist group, Reconciling Congregations, to use its facilities....
- [Political Cartoonist: Exgays ‘Teaching (In)tolerance’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/political-carto/): Alarmed by an exgay partial victory in Montgomery County, Md., public schools, Boston Bay Windows political cartoonist Mikhaela Reid illustrates perceived similarities between exgay educational...
- [GQ Profiles Kirk Talley](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/gq-profiles-kir/): Southern gospel weblog averyfineline.com reports that the August 2005 issue of GQ profiles southern gospel singer Kirk Talley. The article is not available online. Talley...
- [Metrosexuality Outpaces Exgay Resistance](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/metrosexuality/): Metrosexuality may be gaining ground — against the wishes of one exgay activist and the leading antigay media organizations. Google finds several articles in the...
- [Penn & Teller on Showtime And Richard Cohen’s MANLOVE](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/penn-teller-on/): I was contacted by Penn & Teller last January, 2005, and asked if I conducted Reparative Therapy. I told them no and they asked if...
- [Salon.com Tackles the Ex-Gay Story](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/saloncom-tackle/): I hope you’ve all been catching Salon’s four-part series on the work of ex-gay ministries. In Part I, they cover PFOX’ efforts to prevent anti-bullying...
- [Focus On The Family Adds Podcasting](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/focus-on-the-fa-16/): Family News In Focus and all other Focus programs now offer podcasting. Grab the URL for FNIF here. Advocate OutQ needs to get with it...
- [Review of “Fish Can’t Fly” By T Joe Murray](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/review-of-fish/): (OK, so hot boys on the web page movie poster…. Ya not in the actual film. Fred Phelps isn’t mentioned either.) Whereas OutFest LA ignored...
- [Briefly Noted: ‘Christian’ Adoption Chain Bans Homosexuals, Catholics](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/briefly-noted-c/): Bethany Christian Services is a national antigay adoption chain that advertised (via Google ads) at Ex-Gay Watch until I banned them a couple weeks ago....
- [Thought Toddler Gay, Dad Kills Son](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/thought-toddler/): This article at 365gay.com https://www.365gay.com/newscon05/07/071405childMurd.htm is an illustration of the damage that Reparative Therapy and the ex-gay movement does to children–particularly males. In Preventing Homosexuality...
- [Antigay Father Outs ‘Zach’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/antigay-father/): “Zach” is real. His name is Zach Stark. A Google search finds that, until today, Zach had only been identified by full name in one...
- [Exodus Cancels Tolerant Speaker](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/exodus-cancels/): According to his online calendar, Jay Bakker’s speech to the 2005 Exodus “Freedom” conference has been canceled. (Hat tip: XGW commenter Sarah.) Exodus has not...
- [Can Gays Change Their Orientation?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/can-gays-change/): I don’t know–but you can find out what MSNBC’s readers think by checking out the online poll. It’s live right now, go vote! The accompanying...
- [Family & Friends Interviews Love In Action Director](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/family-friends/): Family & Friends magazine of Memphis, Tenn., published an excellent package of articles this month, following the controversy surrounding Love In Action, a regional exgay...
- [Love In Action’s Rev. John J. Smid Talks Openly](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/love-in-actions/): By Patricia Pair, publisher with Anita Moyt, managing editor Family & Friends magazine, July 2005 Memphis, Tennessee familymag@aol.com Reprinted with permission In a recent interview,...
- [Three Individuals Offer Advice to Love In Action Protesters, Teen, Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/three-individua/): By Anita Moyt, managing editor Family & Friends magazine, July 2005 Reprinted with permission Family & Friends asked two individuals knowledgeable about Love in Action...
- [The Memphis Protest Heard ‘Round the World](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/the-memphis-pro/): By Anita Moyt, managing editor Family & Friends magazine, July 2005 Reprinted with permission On May 29, 2005, a set of words appeared on a...
- [Seventeen Magazine Seeks Interview](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/seventeen-magaz/): The Love In Action debacle has caught the interest of Seventeen magazine. Does anyone know any ex-gay therapy survivors under age 23? If so please...
- [New Blog: Straight, Not Narrow](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/new-blog-straig/): Jim Johnson has just started a blog titled Straight, Not Narrow. Johnson has attended a GLBT-affirming church for several months, and says he wants to...
- [QNotes: Featured Speaker May Be Too Tolerant for Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/qnotes-featured/): According to David More, editor of QNotes, Jay Bakker (son of Jim and Tammy Faye) is threading a religious and political needle by agreeing to...
- [New Religious Liberal Political Group Forms -and- The Conservative Love Affair With Declaring The Left Half Of America “Un-American”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/new-religious-l/): It’s no secret many XGW readers feel religion is disproportionately wielded politically by the right. Jerry Falwell’s column at the WorldNetDaily takes aim at a...
- [Exodus Again Refers Supporters to Discredited Statistician](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/exodus-again-re/): Blogger Brady of “Some Guys Are Normal” first noticed on June 14 that Exodus was distributing propaganda by long-discredited “researcher” Paul Cameron. Cameron runs an...
- [One Blogger’s Dialogue with Exgay Live-In Program Director](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/one-bloggers-di/): Blogger Willie Hewes of Free Z. has been dialoguing a bit with Love In Action executive director John Smid. Here is Hewes’s letter and Smid’s...
- [Falwell, Purported Victim to Speak for Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/falwell-purport/): Exodus, the exgay political network, may be drifting toward the particular fringe of Christianity represented by Jerry Falwell. In fact, Falwell is a Featured Speaker...
- [Antigays Repent, But Moral Tunnelvision Persists](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/antigays-repent/): Some antigay Christians are uncomfortable thinking about the world in tangible, rational, measurable, logical terms. These individuals — indeed, whole denominations — may be more...
- [PFOX Wants Antigay Polemicist to Steer D.C.-Area Sex Ed](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/pfox-wants-anti/): Teach The Facts is a group of Montgomery County, Maryland, parents and educators that is defending comprehensive sex education from attack by the religious right....
- [Victim Or Aide? Dr. Spitzer And Those Who Distort His Work](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/victim-or-aide/): When I reviewed recent MSNBC coverage of exgays on July 4, I confess I had not thoroughly read this article: Choosing research to prove your...
- [Comment Difficulties](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/comment-difficu/): Updated July 10, 2005: I discarded many antispam restrictions on July 8, and I hope that commenting is becoming easier. The tradeoff is that I...
- [Abstinence Or Death? Exgay Battle Against Sex Education](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/abstinence-or-d/): As regular readers know, in the past year Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) has (quite literally) cashed in on a new pet cause: the...
- [Scientology And Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/scientology-and/): A reader pointed out today that Ex-Gay Watch has no articles on the Church of Scientology’s efforts in the ex-gay marketplace. (We have had comments...
- [PFOX Claims It’s Tolerant](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/pfox-claims-its/): Richard Cohen, M.A. President, PFOX July 6, 2005 Statement to the Montgomery County Board of Education (Statement on behalf of a broader campaign with the...
- [Insurances DO Pay for Reparative Therapy!](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/insurances-do-p/): Insurances DO pay for Reparative Therapy! by Joe Kort, MSW I was recently asked how psychotherapists get paid for providing Reparative Therapy (RT) if most...
- [Alan Chambers Infographic [Click To View Full Size Version]](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/alan-chambers-i/): Alan Chambers Infographic [Click To View Full Size Version]
- [Math By Alan Chambers, Ex-Gays To Take Over World By 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/math-by-alan-ch/): All of these quotes are from Alan Chambers: [hint, watch the bold text] While the news is being touted in the homosexual community as another...
- [“81 Words” That Changed The World](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/81-words-that-c/): Raj sent this to me a while back. Back in 2002 PRI and NPR’s This American Life ran an hour long show revealing the story...
- [Question of Bias in MSNBC Coverage of Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/question-of-bia/): Updated July 4, 2005 Two recent articles at MSNBC.com offer fairly well-written primers on recent exgay activism — though, in sticking to the basic issues,...
- [Throckmorton Opposes Programs Mixing Ministry And “Treatment”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/throckmorton-op/): In the same Washington Blade article as the post below, Warren Throckmorton weights in on the risk of unlicensed programs such as Love In Action...
- [New Investigation of Love In Action Launched](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/07/new-investigati/): Last week the Tennessee Dept. of Child Services conducted an investigation of allegations of child abuse at Love In Action. Now the Tennessee Department of...
- [Have You Seen Shawn O’Donnell?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/have-you-seen-s/): I have scattered reports that ex-ex-gay Shawn O’Donnell was involved in Exodus’ group publicity photo a few years back and has since left the ex-gay...
- [Review of “Bullying Prevention Information: Resources for Schools” By Warren Throckmorton](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/review-of-bully/): Review of “Bullying Prevention Information: Resources for Schools” by Warren Throckmorton, June 2005. In a personal email from Prof. Throckmorton to myself dated June 27th,...
- [AFA Praises Parent Who Stopped Student GSA By Distributing Ex-Gay Literature](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/afa-praises-par/): Alert reader Timothy brought my attention to a very ugly article published at the Agapepress today regarding events last December. (As if the fundamentalist media...
- [Note To Commenters, You Must Provide a Source](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/note-to-comment/): Today I had to delete two five comments for failing to provide a source. Whenever a commenter uses a quote, mentions an article or posts...
- [State Investigation Of Love In Action Ends](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/state-investiga/): Alert reader Regan brought this story to my attention. The Tennessee Department of Children’s Services has concluded it’s investigation and announced allegations of child abuse...
- [PFOX Yet To Disclose Anti-Bullying Materials Presented At Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/pfox-yet-to-dis/): Update: Throckmorton emailed me this same evening with the material presented. He directed me to www.respectandthefacts.com. I’ll have a look in the next day or...
- [State of Tennessee Announces Investigation of Love In Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/06/state-of-tennes/): The state of Tennessee has begun an investigation in response to allegations of child abuse at Love in Action, a Memphis facility that advertises homosexual...
- [One Weapon Removed From Anti-Gay Arsenal](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/one-weapon-remo/): Reports suggest that a vaccine has been found that is 100% effective at preventing certain strains of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). These strains are...
- [Exgay Offers ‘Complete Healing From Homosexuality’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exgay-offers-co/): A message received via e-mail today from exgay activist Chad Thompson: Hey guys, I wanted to let you know that I just got back from...
- [Antigay Opposition to Violence Reduction in Iowa](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/antigay-opposit/): From the Des Moines Register via Gay News Blog and Good As You: Exgay activist Chad Thompson’s former employer, the Iowa Family Policy Center, opposed...
- [Did CNN Cover ‘Concerned Women’ on Gay Youth?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/did-cnn-cover-c/): Good As You provided a heads-up Oct. 6 that Concerned Women for America spokesman Robert Knight was to appear on CNN’s Paula Zahn NOW program...
- [Exgay, Abstinence-Only Parody of ‘Basic Instinct’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exgay-abstinenc/): Those of you over age 35 may remember a 1970s youth program called “Scared Straight.” The idea of the program was that, by sending delinquent...
- [In Miers Media Confusion, Exodus President Sees Proof of Media Bias](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/in-miers-media/): In the same week that a Time magazine cover story granted substantial print space to the Exodus exgay outreach program to youth, Exodus president Alan...
- [Exodus President Trusts Bush on Miers Nomination](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-presiden/): On his personal weblog, Exodus President Alan Chambers on Oct. 4 stated his disappointment that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers has not expressed the clear...
- [Throckmorton: GLAAD Denies Packing Audience For Taping Of Dr. Phil](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/throckmorton-gl/): On Monday I was forwarded an email supposedly written by Heidi Lee, an officer at GLAAD detailing how the Dr. Phil show was taping a...
- [Meeting the Fundies](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/meeting-the-fun/): There is an article by Steve Satterwhite in the Texas Observer allowing “some of the more vociferous amendment proponents” a chance to put in their...
- [Ex-Ex-Gays In Central New York Wanted For Media Interview](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/ex-ex-gays-in-c/): Would any ex-gay therapy survivors in the Central New York area please contact Gaetano Pollice, a student reporter at Syracuse University. gpollice@syr.edu
- [Stephen Bennett All Up In A Tizzy Over Time](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/stephen-bennett-5/): On Monday Exodus sent out an emails proudly announcing the current Time Magazine cover story on gay teens which in my opinion gives a respectable...
- [Exodus International Testimonials Blame Homosexuality For Life Problems - Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-internat-2/): Click to enlarge Click to enlarge For documentation and notes click below.
- [GLAAD Seeks Supportive Studio Audience For Dr. Phil’s “Healing Gay Teens”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/glaad-seeks-sup/): I have an unverified report claiming this wednesday Dr. Phil is to tape a show tentatively called “Hope to Heal Your Gay Teen?” GLAAD wishes...
- [Richard Cohen Starbucks Quote Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/richard-cohen-s/): Concerned Women For America are concerned about pro-gay quotes printed on Starbucks coffee cups. We figured some anti-gay quotes aught be suggested to take it’s...
- [Study Shows Conversion Therapists Rate Well Amongst Clients - Second Analysis](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/study-shows-con-2/): Dr. Warren Throckmorton has written an article called “Sexual reorientation therapy clients rate their experience with psychotherapists” in which he discusses the results of a...
- [Ex-gay Quotes on Starbucks Cups?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/ex-gay-quotes-o/): The Concerned Women for America’s Culture and Family Institute has applauded Baylor University for pulling cups from the campus Starbucks that included a quote for...
- [Steven Bennett Opposes Connecticut’s Civil Unions And Gay People in General](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/steven-bennett/): Gadfly ex-gay activist, Steven Bennett, has issued a press release stating his firm stance “in direct opposition to his State’s new law legalizing homosexual civil...
- [Harrier Miers Involved With Which “Exodus Ministries” Exactly?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/harrier-miers-i/): From Bush’s nomination speech: She led by example. She put in long hours of pro bono work. Harriet Miers has given generously of her time...
- [Study Shows Conversion Therapists Rate Well Amongst Clients.](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/study-shows-con/): Dr. Throckmorton and Exodus Media are touting a new study that shows reorientation therapists rating well amongst their clients. Exodus brags for several paragraphs about...
- [Behind the Myths: Sexual Orientation And Pedophilia](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/behind-the-myth/): Jim Burroway analyzes the numbers, the perpetrators, and the survivors of pedophilia. Burroway’s analysis casts doubt upon religious rightists’ efforts to link molestation to gay...
- [Keith Boykin: Is Exgay Donnie McClurkin Still Gay?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/keith-boykin-is/): Keith Boykin analyzes exgay activist and gospel singer Donnie McClurkin in depth. Given McClurkin’s stubborn antigay prejudices and hostilities, Boykin finds reason to doubt McClurkin’s...
- [Campaign to Defend the Constitution From the Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/campaign-to-def/): From Frederick Clarkson via Jesus Politics: Campaign to Defend the Constitution (DefCon) is a new Washington-based online campaign. The group’s mission: DefCon is an online...
- [Exgay Joe Dallas: (Hoping For?) Destruction And Doomsday](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exgay-joe-dalla/): Exgay activist, author, and former Exodus official Joe Dallas was quoted Sept. 28 by the American Family Association media organ Agape Press (via Jesus Politics):...
- [Religious Right: ‘An Unholy Alliance Between Church And State’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/religious-right-11/): From Lee R. Shelton IV via Jesus Politics: The American Empire: An Unholy Alliance between Church and State
- [Love In Action: Christian ‘Fraud’?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/love-in-action-8/): From Pastor Dan at Street Prophets via Jesus Politics, in response to this news of the exgay lawsuit against the elected leaders of Tennessee: It’s...
- [Focus on the Family: ‘Bearing False Witness’ Against Anglicans](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/focus-on-the-fa-17/): Normally sedate and often conservative, Episcopal blogger Bob Griffith (Hypersync) perceives “blatant mischaracterization, intentional misinformation, and forthright lying” by Focus on the Family in a...
- [Exgays’ Extreme Makeover?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exgays-extreme/): Focus on the Family — heavily staffed by exgays — participated in this weekend’s episode of Extreme Makeover on ABC. With ample profanity (and a...
- [Southern Decadence: Exgay Twists Facts to Appear Sensible](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/southern-decade/): Once in a while, Exodus official Randy Thomas says something sensible. On Sept. 12, Thomas had the opportunity to do that — but then spoiled...
- [Exodus Exec Cuts Off British Interview](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-exec-cut/): Exodus International official Randy Thomas explained Sept. 17 on his blog that he had discontinued an interview with British journalists when they asked unspecified questions...
- [Exgay Executive Hits the Road](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exgay-executive/): Exodus “membership director” Randy Thomas announced his travel plans last week: Wichita — Freedom at Last meeting with “regional leaders” [Sept. 30] and two workshops...
- [QAC Calls Exgay Live-In Program’s Allegations ‘Lies’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/qac-calls-exgay/): Received via e-mail tonight from the Queer Action Coalition, Memphis, Tenn.: AS OUTLINED HERE: LOVE IN ACTION LAW SUIT DETAILS FILLED WITH LIES ABOUT QAC...
- [Ex-Gay Therapeutic Facility, Religious-Right ADF Sue Tennessee](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/ex-gay-therapeu/): The Alliance Defense Fund and “Love In Action,” an exgay live-in facility in Memphis, are suing the state of Tennessee. Until recently, LIA claimed to...
- [Concerned Women Declare That 9/11 Priest Mychal Judge Was Not Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/concerned-women-4/): Concerned Woman, Dennis Lynch, has issued an article declaring that Father Mychal Judge was definitely not gay. Judge was the priest who died on 9/11/01...
- [Funny Word Games But a Sinister Agenda](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/funny-word-game/): The ex-gay movement exists, to a great extent, because of its usage of a language that allows them to say one thing and mean another....
- [Washington Times Champions Ex-Gays… Again](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/washington-time-2/): In keeping consistent with their anti-gay, pro-ex-gay agenda, the Washington Times has another non-news article about the Spitzer report. The excuse for this article was...
- [False Tom Cruise Rumor About Exgay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/false-tom-cruis/): Update: Based on a report by the Good As You blog, this XGW post originally cited a press release attributed to Bertram Fields. However, Good...
- [Dobson Quoted Saying Creationism / “Intelligent Design” Are The Same Thing](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/dobson-quoted-s/): In case you’re ever in an argument and want to prove “intelligent design” is creationism in disguise, here’s the proof from within the religious right:...
- [Ontario High School Contact Info](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/ontario-high-sc/): In case anyone wishes to contact Dianne De Groot, admissions director of Ontario High School, her email address is info@ocschools.org.
- [“Banned Books Week” Focuses on Gay Literature](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/banned-books-we/): WorldNetDaily published this wacky, factless diatribe on Banned Books Week, and how libraries are really banning the Christian view by not including antigay scripture tracts...
- [One Lutheran Family Takes a Stand](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/one-lutheran-fa/): As an anecdotal example of the trauma caused in families by the rigid and literal interpretation of selected scriptures on homosexuality, one woman put her...
- [Dobson’s Half-Truth About CDC Study of Gay Demographics](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/dobsons-half-tr/): Focus on the Family performed a disservice to its readership today when it raised the strawman argument that unnamed gay activists claim 10 percent of...
- [‘Love In Action’ Hangs On](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/love-in-action-7/): The Memphis, Tenn.-based Queer Action Coalition reported Sept. 22 that the exgay live-in “ministry” Love In Action had recruited unnamed antigay lawmakers to assist in...
- [Do Hate Crime Protections Result in Persecution Of Pulpit Speech?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/do-hate-crime-p/): Focus and the American Family Association are repeatedly claiming that adding sexual orientation to Federal hate crime protections will be used to persecute speech from...
- [Besen: PFOX President Richard Cohen Has ‘Meltdown’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/besen-pfox-pres/): PFOX President Richard Cohen appears to have suffered a meltdown following a televised debate with Wayne Besen. Wayne is author of Anything But Straight which...
- [90% Success Rate???](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/90-success-rate/): There is a nice article in the Columbia Missourian about how churches are increasingly divided about how gay people fit in. The article focuses on...
- [World’s First Exgay Penguin?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/worlds-first-ex/): Fox News reports on the splitting of famous gay penguins Silo and Roy at New York’s Central Park Zoo. Apparently, Silo left Roy for Scrappy,...
- [Focus Reminds Us Bible Condemns Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/focus-reminds-u/): Today’s broadcast (Real Audio) of Focus On The Family is entitled Biblical Perspective on Homosexuality, Pt 1 (of 2). It consisted of a prerecorded sermon...
- [Pope Benedict Starts a New Witch Hunt](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/pope-benedict-s/): The Boston Globe has an article explaining the Pope’s latest stance on why homosexuals should not be allowed to become priests, even if they are...
- [Students’ Right To Equal Access: AFA Espouses Hypocrisy From Week To Week](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/students-right/): In the AFA’s Agapepress last week: [Linda Harvey of Mission America] warns that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is disseminating information in an effort...
- [‘But I’m A Cheerleader’ Goes Song And Dance](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/but-im-a-cheerl/): The campy 1999 movie about a cheerleader who is sent off to ex-gay camp because she’s showing signs of lesbianism (she’s a vegetarian, doesn’t like...
- [‘Love In Action’ Exgay Facilities Warned to Close](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/love-in-action-6/): From the Associated Press via 365gay.com: The Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities has ordered the closing of what it calls two unlicensed...
- [Anne Heche Forum Message Disavows Mother’s Exgay Activities](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/anne-heche-foru/): Actor Anne Heche’s mother, Nancy Heche, is a speaker for Focus on the Family’s antigay roadshow, Love Won Out. Queerty found an August statement attributed...
- [Exgay Richard Cohen + Howard Stern = Tawdry Circus](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/exgay-richard-c/): It’s come to my attention some XGW readers and contributors are displeased with Howard Stern’s Sept. 15 “interview” (I use the term loosely) of Richard...
- [American Baptist Church Splits Over Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/american-baptis/): Modern historians tend to couch the Civil War in terms of economic factors. However, I think they overlook the deeply felt religious war that preceded...
- [Calling Former ‘Love In Action’ Participants](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/calling-former/): Peterson Toscano, Jeff Harwood and others are pulling together data on all participants who attended the Memphis-based live-in ex-gay program Love In Action from 1995...
- [Love In Action Stalls for Time](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/love-in-action-5/): The Memphis-based Queer Action Coalition reports: A lawyer for Love In Action/Refuge contacted the State of Tennessee late yesterday [Wednesday?] claiming to have received their...
- [CDC Survey Provides Percentages of Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/cdc-survey-prov/): The CDC has released a report today about sexuality in persons age 15 to 44. The information is based on a survey in 2002 of...
- [Media Request: Researching Ex-Gay Ministries In The UK](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/media-request-r/): Yet another media request. Feel free to respond if you’re able to help this guy out. I’ll be writing a feature article for a British...
- [Audio Of Richard Cohen On Howard Stern](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/audio-of-richar/): From The Malcontent here’s an MP3 of Richard Cohen on the Howard Stern Show. I’ve got work so don’t expect any analysis out of me...
- [Serial Monogamous Penguins Please Conservatives](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/serial-monogamo/): From Wonkette.com: Today, the New York Times investigates the Christian conservatives’ fifth column: Penguins. Turns out conservatives have become unlikely champions of the documentary “March...
- [Citizen Magazine: Stupid](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/citizen-magazin/): Family.org’s magazine, Citizen, recently published an article responding to some of Soulforce’s claims of spiritual violence. Their response, however, requires a very illogical manner of...
- [From False HIV Test Result, Hope Ministry Operative Coerced Lesbian Into Exgay Religious “Treatment”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/from-false-hiv/): I recently discovered the following decade-old story and thought it should be added to our records at XGW. Quoted text is from a 1999 broadcast...
- [LIA/R May Face Cease And Desist Order](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/liar-may-face-c/): Morgan Fox at Queer Action Network has given us an update on the State of Tennessee’s inspection of Love In Action/Refuge. Coverage prior to this...
- [Blogger: Christian, Gay And Confused](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/blogger-christi/): From Brady at Some Guys Are Normal comes word of a new blog by a Christian woman trying to work through her same-sex attraction. Her...
- [Exgay Movement: Mostly White And Male. Why?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/exgay-movement/): Former exgay Peterson Toscano asks why the exgay movement is dominated by white males. One tentative guess among many possibilities: Denied equal power and privilege...
- [Peterson Toscano: Exgays And the Bible’s Unclean Woman](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/peterson-toscan-3/): Former Love In Action exgay live-in program participant Peterson Toscano compares his past journey as an exgay with that of the unclean woman in Mark,...
- [Alan Keyes: As Stupid As He Believes Gays to Be?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/alan-keyes-as-s/): Alan Keyes’ renewamerica.us web site published a rubbish-strewn article by Nathan Tabor on Sept. 8. Without attribution, the article relies upon: ostracized Dr. Paul Cameron’s...
- [Sen. Rick Santorum And Anti-Community Values](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/sen-rick-santor/): Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., is facing conservative and pro-life criticism for his new book against community values entitled It Takes A Family — the title...
- [Harshly Defining Fundamentalism](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/harshly-definin/): Answering those who say “fundamentalist” is too strong a word to describe antigay Episcopal bishops who have aligned with corrupt foreign bishops to destroy the...
- [Exodus Exec Lobbies Against Rights of Gay Couples](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/exodus-exec-lob/): Exodus membership director Randy Thomas planned to speak to Denver exgay ministry Where Grace Abounds on Sept. 1. Thomas also was to meet with an...
- [Exgay Silent on Ties to Antigay Katrina Opportunists](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/exgay-silent-on/): Last month, Pat Robertson blamed unnamed 1970s gay activists for establishing no-fault divorce laws, and accused unnamed lesbians of leading the battle for abortion rights....
- [Heresy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/heresy/): From certain evangelicals who cheer the destruction of New Orleans, to polls finding that churchgoers are far more likely than the general public to support...
- [Tennessee Counselor Turns Domestic Partner](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/tennessee-couns/): The Tennessean reports on a woman whose reparative therapy counselor became a “friend” and then a domestic partner to a woman attempting to change her...
- [Targeted Hurricane Katrina LGBT Relief Fund](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/targeted-hurric/): From: Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Subject: [GLAAD Southeastern Update] Targeted Hurricane Katrina LGBT Relief Fund We continue to be encouraged by the outpouring...
- [An Open Letter to My Sixth-Grade Gym Teacher](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/09/an-open-letter/): An open letter to my 6th grade gym teacher which I mailed today. I believe as gays and lesbians we should go back and confront...
- [God Loves the Sinners, Hates the City (other Than the Gay Part)](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/god-loves-the-s/): Anti-gay activist group, Repent America, has claimed that God destroyed New Orleans because it welcomes gay visitors. A few choice selections from its press release...
- [Pope: ‘Having Children Is a Gift That Brings Life And Well-Being to Society’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/pope-having-chi/): Everyone except the homosexuals; They’re not allowed to help “bring life and well-being to society”. And while we’re at it, we’re not going to let...
- [AFA Promoting Bible Supplements Deliberately Misinforming Children About HIV](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/afa-promoting-b/): Various arms of the AFA such as OneMillionYouth.com and the AgapePress have been promoting a new bible distributed by Tim Todd Ministries containing comic book...
- [Pope to Condemn Gay Priests](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/pope-to-condemn/): From 365Gay.com, a rumor that the Vatican will become even more anti-gay: The Vatican is preparing to bar gays from entering the priesthood and is...
- [Compiling Quotes For New Exodus Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/compiling-quote/): Word has it you people enjoy my info-graphics. I was thinking of putting one together on illustrating how various Exodus staffers’ definitions of “change” lands...
- [UK Story About Love in Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/uk-story-about/): An article in a UK paper, The Guardian, about the ex-gay movement. (hat tip Morgan Fox) Although part of the article reads like “aren’t those...
- [Exodus Agenda to Seduce Children Into Ex-gay Lifestyle](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/exodus-agenda-t/): The Christian Post had an article about Exodus. While it is basically a bland little information piece, there are a few items in it which...
- [Falwell Supports Equal Housing](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/falwell-support/): Southern Voice released an article yesterday highlighting Jerry Falwell’s newfound support for equal housing & employment rights for gays & lesbians, as shown on “The...
- [Common Childhood Experiences](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/common-childhoo/): I have to admit I enjoy the gay literary genre of autobiographical short stories. In that genre, I’ve found a frequently occurring archetype. (My most...
- [Exodus Membership Director Campaigns Against Gay Couples](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/exodus-membersh/): Randy Thomas, the membership director of Exodus, spoke at a press conference by the promoters of a constitutional amendment in Florida to ensure that gay...
- [Warning Straight Folks… You’re Next](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/warning-straigh/): The following quotes are from an article about a Focus on the Family forum where an Indiana congressman discussed how religion should influence public policy....
- [Reason #9 Why I Despise 365gay.com](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/reason-9-why-i/): The opening shots have been fired by both sides in the battle over a proposed amendment to the Texas state Constitution that would bar same-sex...
- [On A Lighter Note - Focus Interviews Knight Of Concerned WOMEN For America On Gender Confusion](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/on-a-lighter-no/): Kodak wants to make transgender employees comfortable by giving them their own bathroom. Mara Keisling is with the National Center for Transgender Equality. She commends...
- [Fabulous New Term- “Pick And Choose Absolutist”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/fabulous-new-te/): In case you didn’t hear Pat Roberton’s moronic comments about Hugo Chavez: You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he...
- [Washington Times Misquotes the Gay & Lesbian Atlas  (REVISED)](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/washington-time/): This entry has been revised to respect the request of the respondent from the Urban Institute. The individual responding thinks it best for the authors...
- [Death Threats Against Ex-gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/death-threats-a/): There’s some buzz going about on the right about a death threat being put out against exgay activist James Hartline. Red State forwards this quote:...
- [Homosexual? Well Then Question Exodus - Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/homosexual-well/): Click image to enlarge. Click image to enlarge.
- [WORLD Magazine Fails To “Question Homosexuality” Or Even Exodus.](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/world-magazine-2/): Jamie Dean of WORLD Magazine wrote an article to examine sexuality serve as an unquestioning soapbox for Alan Chambers. I sent WORLD an editorial reply:...
- [Bennett (over)Reacts to Washington Post Article](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/bennett-overrea/): Stephen Bennett has reacted to the Washington Post article with a press release claiming that it is a “hatchet job.” He says: Bennett no longer...
- [WaPo: The Cohen Addendum](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/wapo-the-cohen/): The Washington Post does a two-fer today in covering the ex-gay agenda. The same Sandra Boodman has another article up that doesn’t quite make fun...
- [The Last Zach Update(?)](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/the-last-zach-u/): Zach has updated his journal once again, and unleashed another torrent of support / debate / ranting / etc. on his MySpace account. He reaffirms...
- [WaPo: Setting the World Straight](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/wapo-setting-th/): Sandra Boodman has an article in the Washington Post discussing ex-gays and the psychology behind the issue. The article is well balanced, in the old...
- [XGW Still Needs Volunteers Willing To Tell Their Stories](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/xgw-still-needs/): Reminder, we REALLY REALLY need more people willing to be listed as media referrals! Volunteers are not expected to memorize or recite any sort of...
- [Dennis Prager - TownHall’s Theological Trannie Train Wreck](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/dennis-prager-t/): Dennis Prager wrote an article on TownHall.com prescribing his god’s judgment upon the transgendered. Well… most of them, assuming you’re able to follow his bizarre...
- [Dominionists Throw Tantrum Over Lawrence V. Texas Even Though The Country Is Over It](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/08/dominionists-th/): An interesting snippet from Peter Sprigg of FRC talking about the upcoming hearing on Roberts’ nomination to the Supreme Court. Peter Sprigg is the man...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 11/22/05](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/stephen-bennett-9/): After just a couple weeks on the air “straight talker” Stephen Bennett seems to be running out of things to say and so it now...
- [Infographic - Focus on the Family Pretends the First Amendment Won’t Protect Them](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/infographic-foc/): Click cartoon to enlarge I would really like to thank queer cartoonist Bruce Garrett for his time and ideas to generously shared with me in...
- [A Very Agape Thanksgiving](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/a-very-agape-th/): Actual headline: Thanksgiving: Thanking God for That Dead, Liberal Church The Agapepress helps spread some holiday spirit. Let’s face it though, no article can ever...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 11/21/05](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/stephen-bennett-8/): “Straight talker” Stephen Bennett launched into a bizarre tirade against virtually the entire modern mental health profession in today’s program. (Real Audio / Windows Media)...
- [A Parable](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/a-parable/): It seems that ya’all want to talk a bit about religion lately. So, I’m posting a little parable I’ve written. If you aren’t into parables,...
- [Curse the Fundamentalist Darkness, Or Light A Candle?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/curse-the-funda/): Few uses of prayer are more cynical than the Family Research Council’s weekly voodoo-doll ceremonies in which white male fundamentalists in Washington pray that God...
- [Jimmy Carter Protests Fundamentalist Egotism And Hate](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/jimmy-carter-pr/): (Week-old news. I’m posting this for the XGW archive.) Exodus President Alan Chambers likes to accuse his conscientious critics of being the agents of Satan,...
- [Welcome to AgapePress’ News Source](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/welcome-to-agap/): Oh goodie. Now AgapePress is quoting ExGayWatch for their “news” article about NARTH’s conference. If there was any question as to whether the rightwing anti-gay...
- [Peterson’s Trifecta: A Look At the Love In Action Handbook](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/petersons-trife/): Peterson Toscano has three recent posts he describes as “awesome” he feels have gone unappreciated by Ex-Gay Watch. Said posts are based on principals Peterson...
- [Los Angeles City Councilman Protests NARTH](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/los-angeles-cit/): NARTH chose Marina Del Rey as the convention site for their annual meeting. Marina Del Rey is an unincorporated part of the County of Los...
- [Gay Christian Author Now Ex-gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/gay-christian-a/): In 2002, K. Godfrey Easter wrote Love Lifted Me: In Spite of the Church about his experience as a gay Christian. He has now written...
- [When Is Someone Exgay?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/when-is-someone/): How do you define “exgay”? More to the point, what characteristics describe ALL exgays? Multiple answers are permitted. Definition: An exgay is someone who: (pick...
- [Focus Worried Next APA President Might Not Like Ex-gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/focus-worried-n/): Focus appears worried openly-gay Jack Drescher is a candidate for the APA Presidency in December. Focus quotes Drescher: “They can mask it in the language...
- [Exodus President Alan Chambers Claims Satan Using Gay People to Further His Agenda to “Destroy the Kingdom of God”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/exodus-presiden-3/): [bold] Can you imagine a world where ministries like Exodus International were illegal? [/bold] There is a move not only to silence the voices of...
- [God’s Wrath?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/gods-wrath/): News reports today include: Conservative Christian televangelist Pat Robertson told citizens of a Pennsylvania town that they had rejected God by voting their school board...
- [Focus Self-Identifies Resources on Sexuality with “Fag,” “Dyke” And “Flamer”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/focus-self-iden/): Meta tags are hidden code in a web page written by a webmaster to direct a search engine how to classify that page. Focus on...
- [Congratulations to Exgays of Maine](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/congratulations/): Ex-Gay Watch would like to congratulate the ex-gays of Maine on the results of yesterday’s election. Now, regardless of where a resident of Maine falls...
- [Some Thoughts on Marriage Equality](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/some-thoughts-o/): Today the California Court of Appeal is hearing arguments on why its opposite-sex only rule for marriage is unconstitutional. Arguments are being proposed that it...
- [Ex-Lesbian Shares Secret Psychic Insight on WNBA Star](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/ex-lesbian-shar/): Is Exodus handing out special glasses or something cos some select ex-gays have sure been reading minds recently. If anyone attends an exgay conference and...
- [Maine Vote](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/maine-vote/): I’m not so curious about Texas, but for those of you following Maine there seem to be coverage on MaineToday.com.
- [New Gay Current Events Humor Site](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/new-gay-current/): Fans of GoodAsYou.org will love the new site… [drumroll] FAKE GAY NEWS . COM [ta daaa!] Think of it as a gay version of The...
- [How Tony Orlando And Dawn Saved My Life](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/how-tony-orland/): How Tony Orlando and Dawn Saved My Life by Joe Kort, MSW When I was in middle school, I fell in love with a singing...
- [Melissa Fryrear of Focus Still Just Making Stuff Up - Love Won Out Boston](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/melissa-fryrear-2/): We’ve all seen this quote from Love Won Out Birmingham: “I never met a person who aspired to be homosexually challenged,” the gender issues expert...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 11/03/05](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/stephen-bennett-7/): (Audio link) Straight talker Stephen Bennett’s program today was comically titled “Cartoons, Children and ‘Gender Confusion’ – Is There a Correlation?” That’s an excellent question...
- [Evangelical Leader Supports Lawrence, Opposes Christian Theocracy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/evangelical-lea/): Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, was interviewed in ChristianityToday about a new book he’s written. In this book, he argues that...
- [South Park Takes on Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/south-park-take/): South Park, the irreverent cartoon about a group of fourth graders living in South Park, Colorado, is one of the better satirists of current culture....
- [Hate Crime Hysteria - Focus Continues To Ignore Existence of First Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/hate-crime-hyst/): Focus continues to bury it’s head in the sand over hate-crime protections for gay Americans today. I sent them the following letter: For as much...
- [James Hartline’s Sordid Past Exposed](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/james-hartlines/): Periodically the AgapePress, WorldNetDaily or some other wingnut press will quote James Hartline, ex-gay of San Diego. Hartline can be counted on to provide some...
- [Financial Excesses At ACLJ: Jay Sekulow Exposed](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/financial-exces/): From Walter Olson at Overlawyered.com: The Pat Robertson-founded American Center for Law and Justice is ostensibly a religious-right nonprofit legal-advocacy organization. But Tony Mauro of...
- [The Revolution Will Be Podcast](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/the-revolution/): Mike is swamped with work and is going out of town till mid next week so I’m seizing control of XGW. Send all important leads/tips/money...
- [NARTH Promotes Racist Column On Townhall.com](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/narth-promotes/): On their website and by email, NARTH endorsed a delightful article on Townhall.com attacking essentially all multicultural studies college classes as evil. I’m not kidding,...
- [Love Won Out Boston Protests - Photos And Audio](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/love-won-out-bo/): Local hate group, Article 8, has some excellent photos of the protest at Love Won Out last weekend. Family “News” in Focus (ok let’s face...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 10/31/05](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/stephen-bennett-6/): Mr. Bennett points out there are no definitive studies proving sexuality is genetic. However Bennett deceives by omission. He repeatedly asserts sexuality is developmental but...
- [Exodus Media Blog Favors Anti-Gay Propaganda - Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-media-bl-2/): Click image to enlarge For documentation and notes click below.
- [Exodus Official Comments on Boston Globe LWO Article](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-official-2/): Exodus lobbyist Randy Thomas comments on the Oct. 28 Boston Globe interview of him at Focus on the Family’s Love Won Out road show. I...
- [Family Research Council, Ex-Gays Gain Power in Suburban D.C. Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/family-research-2/): The Montgomery County, Maryland, Board of Education has identified the members of a sex-education curriculum development panel. This panel is is being recreated after the...
- [Toscano: How Sexual Abuse Made Me Ex-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/toscano-how-sex/): Thoughts by former ex-gay Peterson Toscano: Lots of “ex-gay” proponents claim that one of the causes of same-sex attraction is childhood sexual abuse. I don’t...
- [Are Antigay Bullies Reacting to Their Own Arousal?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/are-antigay-bul/): Alas, A Blog casts a bit of doubt upon the widespread belief that suppressed sexual arousal prompts antigay bullies to act violently against persons assumed...
- [Washington State Subjected to Ex-gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/washington-stat/): Washington state was subjected a little puff piece on the ex-gay movement from KOMO TV news website. The ex-gay ministry, Groundswell, is quoted as saying...
- [Warren Throckmorton And the Gay Eunuchs](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/warren-throckmo/): Warren Throckmorton has adopted an interesting take on scripture in Matthew in which Jesus refers to “eunuchs because they were born that way”. Throckmorton’s interpretation...
- [AFA War Against Walgreen’s / Man Says Priest Didn’t Make Him Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/afa-war-against/): I see below that Dan Gonzales disagrees strongly with one of Wayne Besen’s posts this week. I hadn’t noticed that post, but there are at...
- [Guilty By Location - Wayne Besen Accuses Alive In Christ Ministry Of Politicking](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/guilty-by-locat/): In his blog today, Wayne Besen attacks Brenna Simonds, leader of a small Boston exgay ministry, the name of which he does not give. That...
- [When Reality Out Does Infographics](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/when-reality-ou/): Addendum: The above graphic is REAL. But here are some show topics I would like to suggest for Bennett’s show. Yes, these are JOKES but...
- [Melissa Fryrear Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/melissa-fryrear/): Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge
- [Straight, Not Narrow: Exgay Tim Wilkins A Bit Narrow](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/straight-not-na/): Jim Johnson of Straight, Not Narrow thoughtfully analyzed exgay Tim Wilkins and his organization, Cross Ministry, on Oct. 13. Johnson applauds Wilkins for his openness...
- [Former Exgay Peterson Toscano Performs in Maryland](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/former-exgay-pe/): GayLife of Maryland profiles Peterson Toscano, a former Love In Action live-in client who now performs several spiritual and comedic one-man plays, including “Doin’ Time...
- [Who Is Silencing the Ex-Gays?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/who-is-silencin/): The political religious right, of course. Peterson Toscano explains.
- [Exodus Promotes Allies’ Ridicule of Dr. Phil, Co-Existence, And Antibullying Efforts](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-promotes/): The Exodus media blog promoted the following propaganda pieces by antigay political allies this week, and withheld alternative viewpoints from the Exodus readership. (Exodus does...
- [Judge Denies Exgay Mental Facility’s Effort to Avoid Licensure](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/judge-denies-ex/): Published today in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn. (free subscription required): A federal judge denied a motion Friday that would have permitted Love In Action...
- [Exodus Official’s Folksy Agenda in Washington](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-official/): Whatever Exodus lobbyist Randy Thomas was doing in Washington and Chicago this week, he isn’t ready to share with the public. Instead, on his vanity...
- [Conservative WSJ Columnist Finds Dobson Lying About Miers](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/conservative-ws/): Focus on the Family co-founder James Dobson has maintained that White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove did not give him assurances about how...
- [Longer Prison Terms for All Sex Crimes?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/longer-prison-t/): Exodus President Alan Chambers doesn’t say what the proper sentence for a teen-age consensual sex offender should be. But — given Exodus’ past support for...
- [Cause of Homosexuality Found: It’s Hip Hop](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/cause-of-homose/): Self-appointed youth “minister” G. Craige Lewis has found the cause of homosexuality: Hip-hop music. Lewis operates a profitable livelihood under the alias EX Ministries. His...
- [Critics of Lesbian Cleric: Follow the Money](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/critics-of-lesb/): United Church of Christ seminarian Chuck Currie follows the mammon money underwriting Republican activists’ two-pronged effort to divide mainstream churches with partisan misinformation over hot-button...
- [Bloggers Dissect Maggie Gallagher](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/bloggers-dissec/): While guest-blogging at the conservative Volokh Conspiracy, anti-marriage activist Maggie Gallagher’s intellectual and moral shallowness were laid bare as she persistently declined to offer coherent...
- [Focus Broadcast Blames Absent Fathers For Causing Something Besides Homos For A Change](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/focus-broadcast/): The last three days of Focus On The Family broadcasts have been an panel of apologetics experts (apologeticists?) lamenting how few Evangelicals share their particular...
- [Exodus President Agrees with ACLU Against Kansas Sex Law](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-presiden-2/): Today at Ex-Gay Watch, Exodus President Alan Chambers agreed with me that homosexual and heterosexual sex crimes deserve equal punishment, and that the Kansas Supreme...
- [Kansas Bars Harsher Sentences for Gay Teen-agers](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/kansas-bars-har/): At age 18, Matthew Limon — a developmentally disabled young man — engaged in voluntary sexual activity with a 14-year-old male. This followed two prior...
- [Slippery Slope Story Was All Wet](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/slippery-slope/): Last week the far right news sources were exulting that their predictions had come true. They claimed that gay civil unions had led to a...
- [Does Harriet Miers Attend a Pro-gay Church?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/does-harriet-mi/): Much of the brouhaha surrounding the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court has centered on her attitudes about homosexuality. The extremist on the...
- [Dr. Phil Episode On Gay Teens Air Date](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/dr-phil-episode/): According to Wayne Besen the recently taped Dr. Phil episode on gay teens will air Wednesday (tomorrow).
- [Bruce Garrett Cartoons Love In Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/bruce-garrett-c/): Queer cartoonist Bruce Garrett takes on Love In Action. Click on image to view Garrett’s page and scroll down for full size cartoon. Via Peterson...
- [Protecting the Children](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/protecting-the/): In an article oddly titled First Person – Homosexuality, child sexual abuse, and foster care, Alan Sears, CEO of the Alliance Defense Fund, is riling...
- [TVC’s Sheldon Accepted Big Bucks to Support Gambling, Mislead Followers](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/tvcs-sheldon-ac/): The Washington Post reported Oct. 16 that the Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, head of the Traditional Values Coalition, accepted at least $25,000 in direct funds,...
- [For the Record: ‘Boot Camp’ Director Remains Vice Chair of Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/for-the-record/): Given John Smid’s numerous dubious claims — about his ordination, his education, his qualifications, and the mental-health activities of Love In Action — I just...
- [Viacom/CBS Again Refuses Gay-Inclusive Church Ads](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/viacomcbs-again/): From Queer Day: CBS has again refused to air United Church of Christ’s gay-inclusive television commercial saying it amounts to “advocacy” and therefore cannot be...
- [Are You Sexually Compulsive?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/are-you-sexuall/): From Patrick Yaeger of Queer Visions: Are You Sexually Compulsive? Many in the gay community still equate sexual promiscuity with gay liberation in general. Irresponsible...
- [Rescuing Jesus From the Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/rescuing-jesus/): Here are recent writings by others on the growing corruption and apostasy of the religious Right, and efforts at renewal offered by other Christians who...
- [Defining Anglican Homophobia](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/defining-anglic/): Courtesy of blogger Father Jake: Andrew Linzey is one of the editors of Gays and the Future of Anglicanism: Responses to the Windsor Report (Amazon...
- [Two Views of Exgay Speech in Milwaukee](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/two-views-of-ex/): When exgay activist Tim Wilkins spoke to a forum at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Oct. 4, two campus newspapers offered two differing accounts of...
- [Exodus to Lobby in D.C., Chicago](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-to-lobby/): The not-exgay-but-something-like-it Exodus official Randy Thomas says he is traveling to D.C. again today.
- [Religious Lobby Uses Ex-Gay Lore](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/religious-lobby/): The Boston Globe has a story [free registration required] on Richard Land, the Souther Baptist Convention’s lobby in Washington. Gay leaders are particularly alarmed about...
- [XGW Seeking Other Patients Told By Their Therapists To Lie In Spitzer Study](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/xgw-seeking-oth/): In one of my last therapy sessions with Joseph Nicolosi of NARTH he asked me to participate in a self-reporting study on ex-gays being conducted...
- [TVC Claims Change Is Always Possible](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/tvc-claims-chan/): Last night Lou Sheldon of the TVC issued possibly the most nonsensical response to Time’s recent article on gay teens I have seen yet. (Yes,...
- [Blame the Priest, Ask for Cash](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/blame-the-pries/): New York Socialite “J. David Enright IV says that Father Joseph Romano sexually abused him at a Christian youth camp in the early 1960s, when...
- [I Hereby CHOOSE to Be Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/i-hereby-choose/): I laughed reading this account of ex-gay minister Tim Wilkins’ talk to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Apologetics Association, a student-led organization that exists to “promote...
- [A Look Back: Past Commentary on Fundamentalism](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/a-look-back-pas/): Almost three years ago, Ex-Gay Watch complimented Real Live Preacher regarding a thoughtful post on the difficulty that both Christians and people of other faiths...
- [Coming Out Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/coming-out-day/): Today is National Coming Out Day. Ex-gay activist Warren Throckmorton accurately identifies the purpose of Coming Out day in a Focus on the Family article:...
- [Exgay Battle in Montgomery County, Md., Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exgay-battle-in/): Due to time constraints, I have been unable to cover this issue recently — a shame, since I live nearby and my best friends’ daughter...
- [Unintentional Self-Parody: Inter-Varsity Guide for Parents](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/unintentional-s/): The Grace Pages briefly reviews A Parent’s Guide to Preventing Homosexuality, authored by Joseph Nicolosi and published in 2002 by Inter-Varsity Press. The examples of...
- [Prof. Throckmorton’s College Rated Unsafe for Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/prof-throckmort-3/): The blogosphere noted this long ago; I’m posting this mostly for archival purposes. The Princeton Review rated Grove City College, home of exgay movement pundit...
- [Catholic Pro-Chastity Blogger on Sex Abuse And the Purge](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/catholic-pro-ch/): Sed Contra, written by Courage participant and chaste Catholic David Morrison has offered a great deal of nuanced thinking on this topic. More antigay than...
- [Seventeen Magazine Profiles Former ‘Love In Action’ Exgay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/seventeen-magaz-2/): Seventeen, the teenage women’s magazine, profiles Love In Action survivor Wade Richards in its November 2005 edition. Richards also was featured in the documentary Fish...
- [Bennett to Gays: Get Off the Home And Garden Network!](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/bennett-to-gays/): Exgay activist Stephen Bennett, like a number of feminists and conservatives, would like to rid the television airwaves of pornography. Of course, Bennett defines pornography...
- [Oregon Christian Coalition Leader Accused of Molesting Girls](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/oregon-christia/): Lou Beres, the longtime chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition, faces molestation accusations from three female family members who were preteens at the time of...
- [Exodus Media Blog Upholds Kentucky Schools’ Antigay Bullying](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exodus-media-bl/): The Exodus media blog on Oct. 4. promoted an antigay tirade by Richard Mullenax of TheRealityCheck.org. By failing to check the facts behind the polemics,...
- [Gay Teens Closer to Exgays Than to the Gay ‘Movement’?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/gay-teens-close/): Once in a while, the Exodus media blog posts something that might conceivably be true — at first glance. “I don’t think the gay movement...
- [Focus Admits Exgay Program’s Agenda: Undermine Gay Couples’ Rights](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/focus-admits-ex/): In a press release for its Boston “Love Won Out” conference, Focus on the Family briefly acknowledges that attacking gay couples’ partnership and marriage rights...
- [Focus/Family Misreports About ‘Love In Action’ Spokesman](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/focusfamily-mis/): In a story today on its CitizenLink web service, Focus on the Family reported (emphasis is XGW’s): Gerard Wellman, who joined the staff of Love...
- [“Preachin’ the Good News” in Philly](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/preachin-the-go/): Philadelphia had its gay pride festival, Outfest, this weekend. They were preached at by Repent America (the same good folks who told us God sent...
- [James Dobson’s Cronyism And Harriet Miers](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/james-dobsons-c/): Has Harriet Miers agreed to act as a High Court crony, obeying the wishes of George Bush and James Dobson no matter the facts of...
- [Nature AND Nurture, ‘Gay Gene’ Geneticist Dean Hamer Says](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/nature-and-nurt/): Dean Hamer is the geneticist whose groundbreaking 1992 research is periodically misused by exgay activists to conjure up an imaginary belief (among unnamed and impossible-to-find...
- [Exgay Leaders: If Not the Enemy, Then Who Is?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/exgay-leaders-i/): Former exgay Peterson Toscano finds reasons not to view the leaders of Exodus, “Love Won Out,” and Love In Action — people like Exodus board...
- [NARTH Announces 2005 Conference Speakers - Denies Media Access to XGW](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/narth-announces/): NARTH has announced a speakers list for this year’s conference November 11-13 here in LA. The majority of listings are names I don’t recognize and...
- [Speaking Truth And Reconciliation to Exgay ‘Boot Camp’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/speaking-truth/): Former exgay Love In Action participant Peterson Toscano has been thinking about appropriate and inappropriate tactics toward the Tennessee exgay inpatient therapeutic facility, Love In...
- [British Ex-Gay Movement: Down But Not Out](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/british-ex-gay/): People in the United Kingdom may have assumed that the exgay movement there was effectively crippled when the head of Exodus’ British flagship organization, Jeremy...
- [Christine: From Unhealthy Straight Lifestyle to Clean ‘Gay Lifestyle’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/christine-from/): From ex-ex-gay blogger Christine: One of the things that bothers me about many ex-gay testimonies is that they often talk about how horrible the “gay...
- [Catholic Bishops: Beware of Biblical Inerrancy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/catholic-bishop/): Biblical inerrancy has always been rejected by mainline Christian denominations, including the oldest of them all: the Roman Catholic Church. Tradition, history and science have...
- [Focus on the Family Equates Gay Couples, Donkey Sex](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/focus-on-the-fa-18/): From Media Matters for America: Focus on the Family founder and chairman James C. Dobson predicted on his radio program [MP3 file] that allowing same-sex...
- [Coming Out — Not As A Label, But As Oneself](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/10/coming-out-not/): Exgay activists affiliated with Exodus, Focus on the Family, and the American Family Association frequently attempt to shoehorn sexual strugglers into smallminded and unhealthy stereotypes....
- [It Keeps Going… And Going…: PFOX Word-War Against National PTA](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/it-keeps-going/): Good As You comments on the ongoing war of words by antigay aggrieved-parents group PFOX against a decision made half a year ago by National Parent Teacher Association....
- [Interview With Blogger Who ‘Questions’ Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/interview-with/): Last autumn (yes, I’m that far behind in my e-mail), Colleen Keating interviewed “Ben” of the Scattered Words blog. Read her article in The Vital...
- [Pastor Says Exgay Road Show ‘Blurs the Distinctiveness That Makes Us Who We Are’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/pastor-says-exg/): The Rev. Irene Monroe (email) writes a regular online column, “Queer Take.” Last month, Monroe commented at length on Focus on the Family’s October exgay...
- [Soulforce Responds to SBC Pastor’s Arrest for Alleged Gay-Sex Solicitation](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/soulforce-respo/): Soulforce responds to the arrest of Southern Baptist Convention pastor Rev. Lonnie Latham: Robyn Murphy, Director of Public Relations and Media, for Soulforce: “Many people...
- [Exgay Lobbyist, Focus Smear Gay Efforts to Prevent HIV-Drug Misuse And Risky Sex](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/exgay-lobbyist/): In a recent radio broadcast and article coordinated with Focus on the Family, Exodus exgay lobbyist Randy Thomas falsely accused the “gay community” of failing...
- [Dead Horse? Beat Away: Exgay Lobbyist’s Fixation on the Formerly Fab Five](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/dead-horse-beat/): There is much that one might find wrong with the fashion industry — superficiality, materialism, runaway consumption, impractical and overpriced designs, and overrepresentation of New...
- [Southern Baptist Pastor Arrested for Gay Sex Offer](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/southern-baptis-2/): The Recording Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Church has been arrested for propositioning a male undercover officer for oral sex.
- [Net Access Outage](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/net-access-outa/): As long as I’ve lived in my current apartment some unknown neighbor has been providing me with wireless internet. Their signal has been down for...
- [Are You Ex-Gay? How Did You Break Free?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/are-you-ex-gay/): In response to some advice that I posted for an exgay reader, another reader recently wrote to ask whether I am exgay, and if so,...
- [Locations for XGW Local Meetings](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/locations-for-x/): If you are interested in meeting other Ex-Gay Watch readers in Southern California or the Northeast Corridor (Washington-Boston), please sign up here. No dates for...
- [Seeking Participants for Joe Nicolosi Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/seeking-partici/): I’m preparing a new infographic on Joe Nicolosi. Does anyone have any high-resolution photos of him? Also I’m looking for former clients of Nicolosi willing...
- [Homosexuality - Biggest Problem of the Inner City According to Lou Sheldon](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/homosexuality-b/): Sometimes it’s nice to know we queers aren’t the only ones who find Lou Sheldon creepy; Tucker Carlson does too. My editor had just assigned...
- [How Straight Boys Made Me Stop Trying To Be Ex-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/how-straight-bo/): I occasionally have inquiries about my own experience with ex-gay / reparative therapy. I was a client of Joseph Nicolosi for about a year between...
- [Infographic - Love In Action Advertises Help For “Sexual Sin” Parody](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/infographic-lov/): Click Image To View Full SizeClick Image To View Full Size It appears from Love In Action’s newest advertisment they now offer treatment for sexual...
- [MyExGaySpace](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/myexgayspace/): Exodus Youth is being all hip now and has set up a profile on Myspace. (Read this if you live on Mars and have never...
- [Fred Phelps Vs. Repent America: Exgay Doublespeak](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/fred-phelps-vs/): On Dec. 27, Exodus lobbyist Randy Thomas prided himself on his rejection of “false prophet Fred Phelps.” Phelps is the patriarch of a Kansas fundamentalist...
- [The Moral Lessons of Brokeback Mountain](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/the-moral-lesso/): Even before they had seen the movie, exgay network Exodus and its prime benefactor Focus on the Family feared that Brokeback Mountain might prompt conservative...
- [Ex-Gay Tim Wilkins Agrees To Take Lie Detector Test](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/ex-gay-tim-wilk-2/): I recently learned blog Good As You has made offers to ex-gays asking them to appear on The 700 Club and take a lie detector...
- [New Advertisement From Love In Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/new-advertiseme/): I’m open to ideas on how to infographic-ize this newest advertisement from Love In Action. There will be no comments on this post, please email...
- [Mobile Access to Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/mobile-access-t/): If you own a mobile phone or handheld computer with a JavaScript-enabled web browser, you may now visit the most recent entries at Ex-Gay Watch...
- [Exgay Blog Nominations](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/exgay-blog-nomi/): Quite some time ago, I withdrew exgay personal web sites from the XGW indexes of worthwhile web sites (located in the column to your right)...
- [Socarides And the Use of ‘Mental Health’ to Enforce Social Norms](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/socarides-and-t/): The death of Charles W. Socarides reminded libertarian lawyer Jonathan Rowe of opposing social factions’ efforts, over the decades, to misuse the concept of “mental...
- [Love In Action Associate Director Nathan Bell Gets Sacked](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/love-in-action-9/): Peterson Toscano reports Nathan Bell, associate director of Love In Action, has been terminated by the ministry. Peterson has extensive contacts associated (past and present)...
- [Socarides Dies: A Grandfather of Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/socarides-dies/): Charles W. Socarides, a grandfather of the reparative therapy movement and co-founder of the antigay National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, died Dec....
- [Exodus Earnings Jump; Exgay Network Gets ‘C’ for Transparency](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/exodus-earnings/): Exodus financial results for 2004 are now available, courtesy of MinistryWatch: Contributions to Exodus rose 36 percent, from $454,000 in 2003 to $617,000 in 2004....
- [Disconnect in Fund-Raising By Parents Critical of Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/disconnect-in-f/): Conservative Christian Blogger/journalist Justin McLachlan disagreed took issue with recent calls for an investigation of Focus on the Family’s tax-exempt status. In response, McLachlan researched...
- [Are We Hypocrites?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/are-we-hypocrit/): We here at exgaywatch have been recently criticized for not applying the same standards to those that oppose the ex-gay ministries as we do to...
- [Old Handouts From My Time In Therapy With Joseph Nicolosi](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/old-handouts-fr/): (Click to download packet in Acrobat) I was sorting through my old NARTH files at my parents’ place over Christmas and found some old handouts...
- [When You Just Can’t Say It](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/when-you-just-c/): Resource available for those people unable to bring themselves to purchase a book with “HOMOSEXUALITY” on the cover. Well I’m assuming the “H…” is for...
- [More Coverage on the Coverage](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/more-coverage-o/): In addition to the article in Christianity Today previously discussed here that addressed religious media coverage of Brokeback Mountain, an article in the New York...
- [Christmas Roundup: Dan’s Hometown Gay Bar & How Christmas Made Peterson Ex-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/christmas-round/): Christmas greetings from Ventura, my hometown as well as home of the only gay bar between Santa Barbara and LA County. That bar, Paddy’s, serves...
- [Christianity Today Looks At Christian Media Response to Brokeback](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/christianity-to-2/): Christianity Today has an article today that reflects on the movie reviews given by Christian media for Brokeback Mountain. Author Jeffrey Overstreet doesn’t pay attention...
- [Feedback](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/feedback/): I’m gone (I hope) for five days. While I’m out, please offer constructive feedback about the James Dobson baseball card, XGW’s other infographics, and features...
- [Focus Dismisses Biblical Truth About Christmas](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/focus-dismisses/): The Chicago Tribune reports on true conservative churches — in other words, churches that reject trees, Santa, carols, consumer merchandise swapping, and other unbiblical icons of...
- [Hard Times At Love In Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/hard-times-at-l/): Hard times, and rumors of such, are circulating around the Memphis, Tenn.-based antigay therapeutic outfit Love In Action. The Memphis-based Queer Action Coalition observes declining activity at LIA...
- [Infographic - Focus Claims ‘Evangelical Community’ Hasn’t Said Anything About Gays That Jesus Would Apologize For](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/infographic-foc-2/): Click Image to Enlarge.
- [Anti-gay Catholic “Interview” Posted At NARTH](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/anti-gay-cathol/): In reviewing NARTH’s posting of Zenit’s interview with Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons (described as “a psychiatrist, author and contributor to the Catholic Medical Association’s document “Homosexuality...
- [Open Forum](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/open-forum/): So saith a conservative judge: “It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would...
- [Watch Interview Today of Former Exgay](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/watch-interview/): Peterson Toscano will be interviewed live today for the Seattle public access TV program “Being in Seattle.” Toscano will be asked to speak about his...
- [NARTH: Analyze This](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/narth-analyze-t/): Ex-Gay Watch seeks writers to critically analyze the following recent NARTH antigay propaganda items: Researcher Studies How MSMs Organize Sexual Culture In Public Parks New...
- [With Ears Closed, Hearts Hardened, And Morals Compromised](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/with-ears-close/): The culture war over homosexuality is not, primarily, a battle between liberals and conservatives. It is often a war between those who refuse to discuss...
- [Exgays Silent on Bush Espionage Against U.S. Christians](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/exgays-silent-o/): To my knowledge, exgay activists Alan Chambers, Randy Thomas, and Stephen Bennett — all unabashed supporters of President Bush — have yet to comment on...
- [Is There Red-State Demand for ‘Brokeback’?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/is-there-red-st/): Wayne Besen observes some resentment brewing over the unavailability of “Brokeback Mountain,” thus far, outside of a few major cities. Is America nearly as red-state...
- [Brokeback: But What About the Wives?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/brokeback-but-w/): Perhaps I’ve missed it, but I have yet to see substantive, civil public discussion about the wives and children who were also harmed in the...
- [Brokeback: Good Questions From Christianity Today](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/brokeback-good/): If anything, Christianity Today’s questions for conservative-Christian viewers of “Brokeback Mountain” may be a bit too tolerant: 1. The tagline for Brokeback Mountain is, “Love...
- [TVC Repackages Exgay Message on ‘Brokeback’ Into Homo ‘Assault’ on Christmas](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/tvc-repackages/): ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and ‘Capote’ constitute a sinister homosexual “assault” on Christmas, according to the “Traditional Values” Coalition. Need proof of the assault? TVC’s Andrea Lafferty (who hasn’t...
- [Focus: “Evangelical Community” Hasn’t Said Anything About Gays Jesus Would Apologize For](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/focus-evangelic/): In today’s Family News In Focus broadcast propaganda reader Steve Jordahl stated that the “Evangelical community” hasn’t said anything about gay people Jesus would want...
- [Fox Snubs Brokeback](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/fox-snubs-broke/): At the risk of annoying you all with more news about Brokeback Mountain… Fox News has released Roger Friedman’s the top 10 movies of the...
- [AIM’s “Quit Gay Sex” Campaign](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/aims-quit-gay-s/): Did anyone else catch this Cliff Kincaid op-ed from the ironically named, “Accuracy in Media” news site? After praising ABC News for prompting people to...
- [Jim Venice And Pure Heart Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/jim-venice-and/): In an article in the St. Lewis Riverfront Times called Pray the Gay Away by Chad Garrison, Jim Venice expounds about his ex-gay counseling for...
- [Ford Update](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/ford-update/): It appears that Ford has taken an about face on advertising with gay press. After meeting with representatives of the community, Ford has issued a...
- [The Southern Baptists Join the Anti-Brokeback Parade](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/the-southern-ba/): Not to be left out of the lunacy, the Southern Baptists have now decided that Brokeback Mountain will destroy friendship between boys. Their logic is...
- [Stephen Bennett On Brokeback: A Porn Parody Come To Life](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/stephen-bennett-15/): So there’s this porno movie called “The Hole” which is a parody of “The Ring.” Story goes there’s this videotape you watch, and upon finishing...
- [Concerned “Women” for America Attack Brokeback](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/concerned-women-5/): Although the conservative christian movement was resolved not to protest Brokeback Mountain lest it raise visibility and increase sales, the men over at Concerned “Women”...
- [Brokeback Free At The New Yorker Magazine Archives](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/brokeback-free/): I was unaware Brokeback Mountain, the original short story, is available for free online at The New Yorker. Big ole thanks to Stephen Bennett for...
- [Queer Quotable](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/queer-quotable-3/): “He may have gay friends but he doesn’t want me as one of them.” -Peterson Toscano Peterson has tried unsuccessfully for the last five weeks...
- [HRC: ‘Inflammatory Ads Mislead Public on Hate Crimes’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/hrc-inflammator/): NEWS from the Human Rights Campaign For Immediate Release – Tuesday, Dec 13th, 2005 Contact: Steven Fisher | Phone: (202) 216-1547 | Cell: (202) 431-7608...
- [Ex-Gay Ads Oppose Hate-Crime Laws](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/ex-gay-ads-defe/): Gay rights activist and author Wayne Besen comments on a newly launched exgay ad campaign (ad in PDF format): The “ex-gay” ministries launched a new,...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 12/12/05](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/stephen-bennett-14/): In numerous previous broadcasts, Stephen Bennett claims to have numerous unnamed gay and lesbian friends. In today’s program (12/12/05) Bennett claims he doesn’t know a...
- [Queer Quotable](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/queer-quotable-2/): “If I spent as much time thinking about lesbian sex as they do, I wouldn’t have time to do my real job.” [*] Kate Kendall,...
- [All Things Brokeback](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/all-things-brok/): Happy Brokeback Mountain Weekend, The movie is now out and the blogosphere, along with the media, is going crazy. In jumping on the bandwagon, I...
- [Gay Christian Response to D.C.-Area Exgay Ads](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/gay-christian-r/): The Washington Blade reported last week on an exgay TV ad campaign by a Washington, D.C.-area church. According to the report, critics including Wayne Besen...
- [Focus/Family Protests Victory of Community Values Over Obstructionists](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/focusfamily-pro/): From Teach The Facts (Montgomery County, Maryland): In early November, a three-judge panel ruled in favor of Palmdale, Calif., schools and the local community regarding...
- [Suburban D.C. Parents Monitor Antigay, Exgay Ideologues](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/suburban-dc-par/): In predominantly liberal Montgomery County, Maryland, the suburban D.C. public school district’s sex-education program is guided by a panel of education and health experts and parents...
- [Themes Contained in Brokeback Mountain Shared By Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/themes-containe/): Stephen Benentt and Exodus have issued statements condemning Brokeback having never indicated if they have so much read the original literary work or seen the...
- [Throckmorton: Youth Depression Could Be an ‘STD’ Spread By Sex](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/throckmorton-yo/): From Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink web site: COMMENTARY: SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DEPRESSION — THE NEW STD?Research reverses the thought that teen depression leads to risky...
- [Focus/Family Calls Brokeback ‘Twisted,’ Warns of ‘Ick Factor’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/focusfamily-cal/): Posted today on Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink web site: REVIEWERS CALL ‘BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN’ TWISTED Gay love story carries a high “ick” factor.
- [Brokeback Mountain - Video of Alan Chambers on Good Morning America](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/brokeback-mount/): Click For Video From the report: Not everyone agrees. Exodus International, a Christian group that works to “cure” gays, is urging people not to see...
- [After Melee, Repent America Objects to Being Treated the Way It Treats Others](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/after-melee-rep/): Repent America is a southeast Pennsylvania antigay organization whose leader, Michael Marcavage, hopes a future fundamentalist federal government will make homosexuality punishable by execution. Repent...
- [Ex-Gay James Hartline Goes After Adult Businesses, Hasn’t Provided Evidence](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/ex-gay-james-ha/): San Diego’s very own and extra special ex-gay, James Hartline threw a press conference / tour of local adult businesses he claims violate city zoning...
- [PFOX Thought for the Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/pfox-thought-fo/): In early autumn 2000, I joined the PFOX Yahoo group to learn how PFOX parents cope with same-sex orientation in their families. Many of the...
- [Ford Dumps Gays for AFA](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/ford-dumps-gays/): For years, Ford Motor Company has been supportive of the gay community. Much of this support was generated in 2002 when Ford desperately needed Allan...
- [Soulforce Plans Summer Roadtrip - Equality Ride](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/soulforce-plans/): Soulforce** has announced a major event for next summer, a traveling protest called Equality Ride. At military and religious colleges around the nation, bans on...
- [Rocky Mountain Methodists Are Angry](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/rocky-mountain/): The United Methodist clergy in the Rocky Mountains are displeased with what they view as an anti-gay decision made by the church’s judicial body. The...
- [PFOX President Gloats That Most Ex-Gays Not Eligible for Priesthood](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/pfox-president/): As has been discussed here, the new Vatican policy on seminarians excludes ex-gay Catholics that have “deep-rooted homosexual tendencies”. Regina Griggs, president of PFOX, claims...
- [Author Demands American Family Association Pull ‘Fraudulent Video That Promotes HIV’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/author-demands/): From Wayne Besen: Press ReleaseTuesday, Dec. 6, 2005 AFA’s Video Features ‘Ex-Gay’ Leader Caught In HIV Scandal, Says Wayne Besen NEW YORK – Author Wayne...
- [Randy Thomas Makes [Unintentionally?] Hilarious Comment About ‘Fringe Group’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/randy-thomas-ma/): Exodus’ Randy Thomas recently blogged: Based also on minimal information, [Robinowitz] is far less an activist than Drescher. Drescher supports fringe activist groups [Randy’s link]...
- [HRC, Just Wondering](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/hrc-just-wonder/): Does HRC have any policy analysts watching the threat ex-gay “ministries” pose to civil equality of gay Americans? Using HRC’s search page with keywords “exgay”...
- [Stephen Bennett’s Radio Program to Do Call-in Show](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/stephen-bennett-13/): Announced on Straight Talk Radio’s website today: I would SO call in today and join the fun but alas I have work. Call In to...
- [Complaint And Petition Ask IRS to Investigate Focus on the Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/complaint-and-p/): Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint Nov. 28 with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service against James Dobson’s Focus on the Family.
- [The Vatican’s Gay (and Ex-gay) Problem](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/the-vaticans-ga/): The contorted thinking behind the Vatican’s decision on seminarians is raising questions all along the political spectrum (other, of course, than the reactionary anti-gay activists)....
- [QUEERTY Freedom of Speech Update](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/queerty-freedom/): Sent them a little email to make sure I was reading things correctly: I’m sorry I might have misread your post but are you actually...
- [Advice to An Exgay Survivor of the ‘Gay Scene’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/advice-to-an-ex/): Here is a message that I recently wrote to an anonymous exgay individual who said it was “the gay scene” — which, he said, seemed...
- [Wells Fargo: Focus Closes Their Account, I Open One](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/wells-fargo-foc/): Basically all of today’s Focus On The Family broadcast was spent discussing how Focus chose to leave their old bank, Wells Fargo, for being too...
- [Chad And Dan Go to Dinner](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/12/chad-and-dan-go/): Chad Thompson is in Orange County speaking at a church conference on HIV/AIDS and we met for dinner. Until recently I haven’t followed Chad’s work...
- [The Only Queers I’ve Found Actively Unhappy About Sweden?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/the-only-queers/): From gay culture blog QUEERTY: A Swedish court convicted him under hate crime legislation but the ruling was appealed; Sweden’s Supreme Court has now utterly...
- [Don’t Just Read About the Religious Right…](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/dont-just-read/): …instead, take action. Visit Religious Right Watch, then consider becoming involved in Talk To Action.
- [Mother Jones: Where the Christian Right Is Leading Us](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/mother-jones-wh/): I still haven’t had time to read the December cover story and related articles thoroughly. Among the items of interest are stories about the Founding Fathers’...
- [Bitter Spirit: ADF Pollutes Biblical Teaching About Homosexual Persons](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/bitter-spirit-a/): While I congratulate Swedish pastor Ake Green on his acquittal by his country’s supreme court, I reject the Alliance Defense Fund’s assertion that calling homosexuality a...
- [Open Forum: Discrimination](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/open-forum-disc/): Facts solicited: Do same-sex-attracted persons suffer from discrimination? (Cite current examples and provide links.) Opinions solicited: Should it be illegal for private individuals or organizations...
- [Gays? Be Accountable. Exgays? Change the Subject](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/gays-be-account/): On his personal blog, Randy Thomas of the Exodus national office cheers Brown University columnist Carman McNary for protesting alleged “drunken orgies” organized by the...
- [Calling Oneself ‘Godly’: Self-Flattery Or Blasphemy?](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/calling-oneself/): Both Exodus president Alan Chambers and Exodus lobbyist/political organizer Randy Thomas have gotten in the habit, lately, of calling themselves, and fellow conservative Christians, “godly.” Latest example:...
- [Exodus Lobbyist’s Rant Against Freedom-Defending ‘Jihadists’](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/exodus-lobbyist/): Neither liberals nor the ACLU have espoused “compassion” for Islamic terrorists, nor sought to ban Christmas. But Exodus lobbyist Randy Thomas apparently needed someone to grumble...
- [Agapepress States Consequences of Homosexual Sin “more Grievous” Than Other Sins](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/agapepress-stat/): These less grievous sins of course include the time Agape editor Jody Brown thought herself too busy to bless a staff writer after they sneezed....
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 11/25/05](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/stephen-bennett-12/): Stephen Bennett seems to have different numbers than “mister not-so-straight mathematics” Alan Chambers. Perhaps Bennett’s numbers are from 2003 since that was the last time...
- [Queer Quotable](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/queer-quotable/): “You can’t promote homosexuality. You only can acknowledge it.”[*] Garrett J. McAuliffe, Professor, Old Dominion University. McAuliffe produced the DVD, Counseling Gay and Lesbian Youth,...
- [Press Release for Joe Kort’s New Book, “10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Find Real Love”](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/press-release-f/): It is my hope that this book might be used to challenge those who use the “gender impaired” argument to promote the ex-gay movement. Yes...
- [26 Gay And Transgendered People Arrested in Emirates Could Be Given Hormones](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/26-gay-and-tran/): More than two dozen gay Arab men — arrested at what police called a mass homosexual wedding — could face government-ordered hormone treatments, five years...
- [Stephen Bennett Befriends Homosexuals, Flatters Self](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/stephen-bennett-11/): “Straight talking” Stephen Bennett explains precautions listeners should take when evangelizing to “the homosexual.” (11.23.05 Real Audio / Windows Media) (+11:25) Stephen: I believe homosexual...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 11/23/05](https://exgaywatch.com/2005/11/stephen-bennett-10/): “Straight talker” Stephen Bennett gets in the spirit of Thanksgiving on today’s show. (11.23.05 Real Audio / Windows Media) (+7:47) Stephen: Homosexuals are desperately looking...
- [Christian School Gets Confused About Christian Love](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/christian-schoo-2/): The San Diego Union-Tribune has a story about Michelle Williams, an Academy Award nominee for Brokeback Mountain. The principle of her childhood school decided Michelle...
- [Dan Being A Dork](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/dan-being-a-dor/): Woo! Focus just announced a Politics Won Out conference for September in beautiful Palm Springs. It’s been years since I was there and fall is...
- [FRC, LaBarbera Succumb to the Relativism of Lifeboat Theology](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/frc-labarbera-s/): The effort by Peter LaBarbera and the Family Research Council to lock HIV-positive gay travelers out of the United States reminds me of a Christian...
- [Pro-Exgay Vs Gay-Tolerant Reaction to UCLA Gay Genetics Finding](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/pro-exgay-vs-ga/): A UCLA study recently suggested that a mother’s genes may play a contributing role in their sons’ sexual orientation. (Previous XGW coverage.) Exgay movement pundit...
- [Exodus Ad Heroes, the ‘Philadelphia 11,’ Endorse Constitution Party](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/exodus-ad-heroe/): As Ex-Gay Watch has frequently noted, since late 2004 Exodus has periodically praised antigay activists who are euphemistically labeled the “Philadelphia 11.” The Philadelphia group...
- [Black Exgay Activist Admits Ties to Constitution Party](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/black-exgay-act/): On his web site, African-American exgay activist D.L. Foster acknowledged yesterday that he is an active supporter of the Constitution Party. Foster says he spoke...
- [Focus on the Family Compliments LWO Protesters](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/focus-on-the-fa-20/): Focus on the Family tonight acknowledged its host church’s observations that the gay-affirming protesters at “Love Won Out” in St. Louis were friendly, well-behaved and...
- [Alan Chambers, Semantics Dancer](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/alan-chambers-s/): Alan Chambers is quite adept at the semantics-dance as evidenced by a recent Exodus press release: “While there are some who may not agree with...
- [‘Love Won Out’ Parodies](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/love-won-out-pa/): Last weekend’s Love Won Out has set off a rash (relax, it’s a good kind of rash) of infographics but also some people took it...
- [Sign Maker’s First-Hand Account of ‘Love Won Out’ Vigil](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/sign-makers-fir/): Read NancyP’s commentary on the Feb. 25 St. Louis vigil at Pam’s House Blend.
- [Peter LaBarbera, Illinois Family Group Promote Racist Constitution Party](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/peter-labarbera/): Peter LaBarbera’s Illinois Family Institute identifies itself as an independently financed partner of Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council, and the Alliance Defense...
- [‘Love Won Out’ to Parents: Discriminate With A Smile](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/love-won-out-to/): The St. Louis Post-Dispatch follows up on yesterday’s “Love Won Out” exgay road show. The newspaper counts more than 350 vigilers peacefully protesting the conference...
- [Blame Game: PFOX/FRC’s Peter Sprigg Passes the Buck Over Creationists’ Court Loss](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/blame-game-pfox/): Peter Sprigg is the representative of aggrieved-parents and exgay-lobbying group PFOX on the citizens’ sex-education advisory committee of the Montgomery County school district in suburban...
- [Vigil’s Message to Exgays: ‘Love Needs No Cure’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/vigils-message/): St. Louis-area gay-equality advocates conducted a peaceful vigil today outside the exgay political road show “Love Won Out,” which is sponsored by Focus on the...
- [Mike Tidmus: ‘Cash Won Out’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/mike-tidmus-cas/): Mike Tidmus has posted a slick infographic to his web site. I agree with Tidmus that John and Anne Paulk were once antigay profiteers —...
- [James Dobson: What Goes Around](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/james-dobson-wh/): Focus on the Family is supporting a watered-down reciprocal beneficiaries bill in Colorado that was discussed previously at Ex-Gay Watch. The bill offers little or...
- [‘Ex-Gay Research’: New Book Due Summer 2006](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/ex-gay-research/): Ex-Gay Research:Analyzing the Spitzer Study and Its Relation to Science, Religion, Politics and Culture By Jack Drescher and Kenneth J. Zucker
- [Nominated As Best Single-Issue Blog](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/nominated-as-be/): Ex-Gay Watch has been nominated for the 2005 Koufax Awards in the category of Best Single Issue Blog. Daniel Gonzales and Timothy Kincaid deserve most...
- [Open Forum: The ‘Me’ Generation](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/open-forum-the/): At someone else’s suggestion, I thought that after 3 1/2 years at the helm, I’d take a moment to say just a little about myself....
- [Exodus, Proclaiming Freedom To The Straights](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/exodus-proclaim/): After posting my recent open letter to Alan Chambers I was privately contacted by an Exodus staffer regarding my seemingly logical, but incorrect assumption Exodus...
- [New Study Supports Genetic Basis to Orientation](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/new-study-suppo/): A new UCLA study of chromosomes in 97 mothers of gay sons and 103 mothers without gay sons shows a difference in the occurrence rate...
- [First Hand Reports From “Mr. Hetero”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/first-hand-repo/): A couple first-hand reports from Mr. Hetero yesterday have begun trickling in. Peterson Toscano’s “part I” is up and so is an account written by...
- [How Being Ex-Gay Made Me Appreciate Fetishes](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/how-being-ex-ga/): I have a confession, until Thursday I had failed to properly live out “the homosexual lifestyle.” My gay-card had only been provisional. You see, Thursday...
- [Jerusalem WorldPride Condemned By Ex-Gay Activist](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/jerusalem-world/): AgapePress reports that Jerusalem WorldPride 2006 is scheduled for August 6-12, 2006. The event was planned for last year. However, the pull-out of settlers from...
- [Bishop V. Gene Robinson Checks Into Rehab: AFA Responds By Pimping Out Stephen Bennett](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/bishop-v-gene-r/): From the Agapepress: However, the former homosexual says he was not surprised at the news of the Episcopal bishop’s problems with alcoholism, as homosexual men...
- [Anti-Gay Activists Debate Who’s Not Hateful Enough](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/anti-gay-activi/): In Colorado, there is a bill before the legislature to create a Domestic Partner registry allowing couples to become domestic partners and have some of...
- [The XGW 11,000 Award Goes To… Singer/Songwriter Steve Schalchlin](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/the-xgw-11000-a/): Congratulations to singer/songwriter Steve Schalchlin for posting the 11,000th reader comment at Ex-Gay Watch. Schalchlin and his partner Jim Brochu are the co-writers of the...
- [Mission America And Concerned Women Team Up to Defame Gay Youth](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/mission-america/): For Valentine’s Day, the religious extremists have ratcheted up their barrage of hatred. Linda Harvey of Mission America, a rabid anti-gay organization, has a new...
- [Concerned Women Oppose Burial Rights](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/concerned-women-7/): Sometimes I’m shocked at the degree to which anti-gay activists will go to bring pain and harm to gay people. This is one of those...
- [AFA Radio Hosts Gary DeMar Who Has Advocated Executing Homosexuals](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/afa-radio-hosts/): From Media Matters For America: Far-right Christian author and American Vision president Gary DeMar was the guest on the February 2 edition of American Family...
- [A Contrast in Families](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/a-contrast-in-f/): In Ohio, a bill was introduced to ban children from being placed for adoption or foster care in homes where the prospective parent or a...
- [Melissa Fryrear Makes Up More Numbers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/melissa-fryrear-3/): From today’s (02/13/06) broadcast of Family News In Focus: Love Won Out is a ministry of Focus on the Family that proclaims same-sex attraction doesn’t...
- [Open Letter To Alan Chambers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/open-letter-to/): Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International was recently quoted by Salon.com saying, “lifelong homosexual relationships are not possible.” Ex-Gay Watch’s own Timothy provided analysis in...
- [Exodus President: Lifelong Homosexual Relationships “Not Possible”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/exodus-presiden-5/): According to Salon, Alan Chamber spoke to the Conservative Political Action Conference: A 1:30 p.m. session on “Marriage in the States,” which was supposed to...
- [Former ‘Love In Action’ Patient Performs ‘Queer 101′](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/former-love-in/): Peterson Toscano, a performance artist and two-year survivor of the Love In Action exgay live-in “therapy” program, performed his sketch Queer 101 at the Lavender...
- [False Accusations: Dobson’s Exgay Activists Apoplectic Over Broken Eggs](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/false-accusatio/): When antigay fundamentalists periodically spray-paint walls, break windows or commit arson at gay-tolerant churches, Focus on the Family does not leap on the air and...
- [Exgays Behaving Indecently](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/exgays-behaving/): Atlanta-area antigay activist D.L. Foster has been temporarily prohibited from commenting at XGW. His privileges will be restored when: he permits civil discussion at his...
- [Love In Action’s Day in Court](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/love-in-actions-2/): Ben Popper of The Memphis Flyer reports on Love In Action’s day in court last week. The unlicensed exgay live-in therapy agency is suing to...
- [Dan Savage NYT Op-Ed “Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Ex-Gay Cowboys”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/dan-savage-nyt/): An excerpt from Dan Savage’s New York Times op-ed February 10, 2006 titled “Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Ex-Gay Cowboys.” Straight audiences...
- [Anti-Gay Parents Blame School Seminar](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/anti-gay-parent-2/): A North Carolina couple, Jim and Beverly Burrows, have outed their son. The boy attended a school seminar entitled The New Gay Teenager and, per...
- [Open Forum](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/open-forum-2/): Liberalism: The theory and practice of: freedom of expression freedom of religion freedom of the press rule of law Democracy: Rule by vote. In its...
- [Paul Cameron Article](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/paul-cameron-ar/): The Southern Poverty Law Center’s has an Intelligence Report written by David Holthouse that gives a synopsis of the career Paul Cameron has made out...
- [A Penguin Parable In The Style Of GoodAsYou.org](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/a-penguin-parab/): You all know the story: Swedish female penguins sent to seduce “homosexual” male Humboldt penguins in a German zoo failed to break up the male...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 02/09/06](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/stephen-bennett-2-2/): More gender expression obsession to be had on Benett’s show today courtesy of guest Christine Sneeringer, Executive Director of Worthy Creations: (+22:45) Christine: God is...
- [Hilarity At The AFA](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/hilarity-at-the/): As much as we complain (and usually rightfully so) about the Agapepress, it’s good to see their headline writer has a sense of humor. NBC...
- [Dan Seeks Mac Audio Editing Assistance](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/dan-seeks-mac-a/): As you can see from the below post, I’ve found a way to take take audio clips of Stephen Bennett’s show and save them for...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 02/07/06](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/stephen-bennett-18/): DL Foster was Stephen Bennett’s guest today. The conversation covered quite a bit of ground as Joe Brummer documents on his site. Most disturbing however...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 02/06/06](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/stephen-bennett-17/): Today’s program was the testimony of a woman only identified as “Maureen,” the mother of an independent, out, adult lesbian in a domestic partnership. Note...
- [Republican Jesus On Love In Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/republican-jesu/): “Republican Jesus” a regular feature of the blog Jesus’ General takes on recent developments about Love In Action.
- [Dan’s Ex-Gay “Going In” Anniversary](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/dans-ex-gay-goi/): Superbowl Sunday 1999 is when I first told my mother “I am, but don’t want to be homosexual.” “I’m gay but don’t want to be,”...
- [“Day of Truth” Is Back And They Have A Hip New Video](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/day-of-truth-is/): Possibly realizing how un-hip attacking gay youth is, the “Day of Truth” is back this year with a “hip” new video that’s really just unintentionally...
- [Just Noticed](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/just-noticed/): Hmm… The Exodus Media Blog hasn’t been updated in almost a month now.
- [Survivor Protests ‘Love In Action’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/survivor-protes/): Three Memphis, Tenn., TV stations report on a hearing Feb. 3 between Love In Action and the State of Tennessee. A survivor of the inpatient...
- [Former Exgay Activist John Paulk Becomes A Caterer](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/former-exgay-ac/): Ex-poster-boi of the ex-gay movement John Paulk (not to be confused with Johan Paulk, google at your own risk) has opened up a Portland, Ore.,...
- [Focus/Family: Liberals=Nazis. Fascists=OK?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/focusfamily-lib/): In an interview plagued by mediocre English, selective memory, and confused politics, Hilmar von Kampe — who was a youth in Nazi Germany — tells...
- [Teenage Participant in Exgay Love In Action/Refuge to Speak Out](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/teenage-partici/): A press release follows from Queer Action Coalition, Memphis, Tennessee. The unidentified teenager will appear at 3 p.m. today outside a hearing between the unlicensed...
- [Physical Attraction To Gender In Trans V.s. Ex-Gay Couples: A Double Standard From Gays?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/physical-attrac/): Last weekend I braved the heterosexual-gridlock on the Sunset Strip to see Transamerica. In keeping with Pat “take him out” Robertson’s logic God was clearly...
- [Open Forum: Alert — There Are Homosexuals on Project Runway!](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/open-forum-aler/): With Season Two of the Bravo network program entering its final phase, two semifinalists talk on video about their struggle with sexual orientation and self-disclosure....
- [Muhammad Cartoon / AFA Threatens ‘Will & Grace’ Over Caricature of Crucifixion](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/02/muhammad-cartoo/): Don Wildmon’s AFA yesterday announced a letter-writing campaign calling on NBC affiliates not to air the April 13 episode of “Will & Grace” because it...
- [‘Concerned Women’ Smears Teachers Who Oppose Antigay Bullying](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/concerned-women-6/): According to no less of an authority than Concerned Women For America’s Robert Knight, all but 5 teachers in the San Leandro Unified School District...
- [Straight Talk Radio To Host First Gay Friendly Guest After Sixty Five Air Dates](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/straight-talk-r/): Tomorrow (Tuesday) Stephen Bennett’s guest will be Jeff Tooley of the United Methodist committee at the Institute of Religion and Democracy will explain how “gay...
- [Exgay Chad Thompson Reviews ‘Brokeback’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/exgay-chad-thom-2/): Chad Thompson, operator of Des Moines, Iowa-based Inqueery, has written a new review of Brokeback Mountain. Read it here. Thompson is also marketing his latest...
- [John Paulk Ranked Among High-Profile Religious-Right Scandals](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/john-paulk-rank/): The Rev. Steven Baines is an elder in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). In a commentary published Jan. 26 at Advocate.com, Baines cites former...
- [Christian College Tells Student Not To Slap Fellow Athletes On The Butt](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/christian-colle/): In a meeting with [John Brown University] administrators, [expelled student Michael] Guinn said, he was given a code of conduct tougher than what other students...
- [A Tenable Belief: ‘Brokeback’ And Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/a-tenable-belie/): In mid-January, CNN’s Larry King Live aired a four-person discussion of Brokeback Mountain and marriage for gay persons. The guests were Janet Parshall and Albert...
- [Questioning ‘It’s Not Gay’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/questioning-its/): On the Exodus e-mail support list for antigay parents, a number of participants have been promoting the exgay-activist video It’s Not Gay. They say it...
- [Duncan Bouwer’s Exgay Talk - “Yes I Am In Denial”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/duncan-bouwers/): I’ve recently subscribed to Duncan Bouwer’s ExGayTalk podcast. Duncan is an ex-gay, music teacher, father and husband in Johannesburg, South Africa. His most recent podcast...
- [Redesign Ups And Downs](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/redesign-ups-an/): You may have noticed a few changes in the look of XGW: A new logo, a few color and font changes. More changes are planned,...
- [Disciplining Commenters (Again)](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/disciplining-co/): I closed a Brokeback Mountain discussion tonight because an anonymous commenter with the pseudonym “Charles” was repeating the same comment, arguing for the sake of...
- [Bewildered By Anti-Exgay Hostility](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/bewildered-by-a/): The Augusta Free Press in Virginia profiles Greater Hope exgay activist Jeff Watros, who says he doesn’t understand why he’s perceived as a loud, pushy...
- [Canadian Gays Rush to Be Alter-ed](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/canadian-gays-r/): From Google News via Colleen Keating…. Whatever alterations those poor Manitobans are undergoing, it sounds painful.
- [Prof. Throckmorton to Air on ‘Christian Dissent Live’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/prof-throckmort-4/): The following radio program was postponed; a new air date is to be announced. From Cole Wakefield at Christian Dissent Live, a progressive Christian radio...
- [Exodus Youth Resists XGW’s Attempts To Monitor](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/exodus-youth-re/): As previously discussed on XGW, Exodus Youth has a Myspace profile. Using Myspace one is able to easily send out mass emails to other users...
- [Trackbacks](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/trackbacks/): Here’s a note solely of interest to other weblog or web site operators: XGW does not block trackbacks, except from likely spammers. If you encounter...
- [Foster Colleague: America Should Learn Anti-Gay Law And Violence From Nigeria](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/foster-colleagu/): A post at ex-gay pastor D.L. Foster’s blog, apparently by Nigerian Pastor Kingsley Nwafor (the attribution is implied by a double quote preceding and following...
- [Gays More Likely to Be Left Handed](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/gays-more-likel/): I’m quite late in addressing a finding published in July in Psychological Bulletin. As I was unable to find access to the original report, my...
- [Antigay Preacher Hutcherson’s Invisible Boycott](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/antigay-preache/): Daniel Gonzales commented on the lighter side of antigay preacher Ken Hutcherson — his choice of operating systems to boycott — here. But there’s a...
- [Responding Constructively to Focus/Family’s Moral-Superiority Complex](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/responding-cons/): From Greg McCandless, via e-mail: I’m only a recent visitor to your website but found that you had recently addressed Gary Schneeberger’s column on the...
- [Youth Pastor Writes About ‘Finding God on Brokeback Mountain’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/youth-pastor-wr/): Andrew Seely ministers to youth at a Presbyterian church in California. His review of Brokeback Mountain was published at RelevantMagazine.com, a Christian publication by and...
- [Open Forum: Project Runway Sucks](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/open-forum-proj/): Talk about anything except that &@!#? show.
- [Unrepentant Sins of an Antigay Advocate](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/unrepentant-sin/): The following is my message to antigay activist Bernie Dehler (email, web) regarding his unrepentant sins, which became the subject of this unrelated discussion of...
- [Celibate Gay Man Eyes ‘Brokeback’ with Skepticism](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/celibate-gay-ma/): Readers who tire of imaginative Exodus propaganda about Brokeback Mountain are invited to read David Ben-Ariel’s commentary, Brokeback Mountain Blues: Thoughts of a celibate, gay...
- [Exodus Piggybacks on Media Attention to ‘Gay Cowboy’ Movie](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/exodus-piggybac/): The exgay political network Exodus capitalizes on the commercial success of Brokeback Mountain with a Jan. 16 press release seeking media interviews. While the movie...
- [In Singapore, A Government Welfare Check for Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/in-singapore-a/): From Fridae of Singapore, Jan. 17: The government of Singapore has granted US$61,500 to an Exodus-affiliated exgay ministry. The so-called Liberty League breaks with mainstream...
- [‘Book Of Daniel’ Leads to Pre-Enlightenment Rhetoric From Focus/Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/book-of-daniel/): In what can only be described as a stunning display of pre-Enlightenment “thought,” Family News In Focus and the Institute on Religion and Democracy condemned...
- [Bennett Makes Up Words, Confuses Media of Tunisia And United States](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/bennett-makes-u/): God forbid anyone else in the religious right should top Stephen Bennett’s outrageousness on any given issue, he provided some recent thoughts on the Golden...
- [Microsoft Too Gay-Friendly - Like the Alternatives Aren’t, Too?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/microsoft-too-g/): From the 365gay.com story titled “Microsoft, Others Boycotted For Supporting Washington Gay Rights Bill“ When Democrats announced they would reintroduce the LGBT rights bill Microsoft...
- [Ex-Gays Now Number In The Millions According To Falwell](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/ex-gays-now-num/): In 2003 Exodus said exgays numbered in the “thousands…”In 2004 Exodus said exgays numbered in the “tens of thousands…”In 2005 Exodus said exgays numbered in...
- [Socarides Article in Boston Phoenix](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/socarides-artic/): An article by Michael Bronski in the Boston Phoenix is a well written concise recap of Dr. Charles Socarides and how he came to influence...
- [Focus on the Family’s Morally Superior Attitude](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/focus-on-the-fa-19/): Focus on the Family’s Gary Schneeberger has been feeling morally superior to gay people since he saw Brokeback Mountain.
- [Open Forum: From Meep Meep to Mahna Mahna](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/open-forum-from/): Talk about anything. About television: I really dislike Santino — what greater vice is there than arrogance? Nick’s designs are gorgeous — so where’s his...
- [Exgay D.L. Foster: One-Way Dialogue About Native Americans](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/exgay-dl-foster-2/): Exgay activist D.L. Foster is challenging remarks made here at XGW by Regan DuCasse (e-mail). But Foster is denying DuCasse the opportunity to respond to...
- [Another Youth Blogger Pressured Toward Exgay ‘Counseling’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/another-youth-b/): In 2005, the parents of a teen-aged blogger named Zach forced him to attend more than a month of live-in exgay conditioning at Memphis, Tenn.-based...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 01/09/06](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/stephen-bennett-16/): Stephen Bennett’s guest today was straight talking Linda Harvey of Mission America who straight-up pulled a real gem of a statistic out of her ass...
- [Exodus President Joins Another Anti-Gay Effort](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/exodus-presiden-4/): First, all-a-y’all should know I’m on sabbatical this month since I’m taking one of the graphical sections of the architectural registation exam (Site Planning) at...
- [‘It’s Not Gay’: Exgay Video Available Via Live Stream](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/its-not-gay-exg/): Updated An online religious webcam station, 24/7 WWJD, is hosting a free video stream of “It’s Not Gay,” a 28-minute video that has been sold...
- [Exgay Billboards in Spartanburg, S.C.](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/exgay-billboard/): From the Spartanburg Herald-Journal via an XGW reader and also blogger Pam Spaulding: Spartanburg, S.C.-based Truth Ministry (an Exodus affiliate) has posted three antigay billboards...
- [Alan And Leslie Chambers Purchase New Home](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/alan-and-leslie/): While poking around public records (which I’m not going to specify in the interest of Alan’s privacy) I found last August Alan and Leslie Chambers...
- [Open Forum: Evangelism, Or Lifestyle Recruitment?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/open-forum-evan/): If an exgay activist posts a profile on the youth-oriented Myspace web site, this is euphemistically called “evangelism.” If a gay Christian posts a profile...
- [Socarides: ‘Legacy of Prejudice Wrapped in Pseudo-Science’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/01/socarides-legac/): Upon the death of psychiatrist Charles W. Socarides two weeks ago, Van of Head of the KweerWolf wrote a thoughtful and personal analysis. Van encountered Socarides’ book,...
- [Focus To Girlfriend Of Exgay: Dump Him](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/focus-to-girlfr/): Focus runs a number of other websites besides Family.org. In this case they have a site called Boundless.org which has an advice column written by...
- [Receive Ex-Gay Watch Via E-mail](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/receive-ex-gay/): If you are too busy to visit the site every day, and if mumbo-jumbo about “RSS/Atom feeds” makes no sense to you, our e-mail delivery...
- [A Deeply Insecure Faith](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/a-deeply-insecu/): Singer/songwriter Steve Schalchlin has lived out a 20-year journey away from superstition, insecurity, hubris, and stymied communication among antigay friends in east Texas. Steve was...
- [Parody Overkill](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/parody-overkill/): Inspired by Justinsomnia, who just found the Church Sign Generator.
- [Exodus Board Member Wants Condoms Locked Away](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exodus-board-me/): In an article today in The Washington Post, Exodus board member and Ohio antigay activist Phil Burress argues that drugstores should lock up condoms. Citizens...
- [Left-Handedness, Gay People, And the Gene Pool](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/left-handedness/): Joe Riddle comments. (March 27)
- [Garry Wills: Christ Among the Partisans](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/garry-wills-chr/): Utilizing a wealth of New Testament verses quoting Jesus of Nazareth, writer Garry Wills on Sunday reminded Americans that God is neither a Democrat nor...
- [Focus/Family Trivializes Exgay Struggle](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/focusfamily-tri/): From Good As You: In a review of Lucky Number Slevin, Focus on the Family refers to a rabbi’s son not by his sexual attraction,...
- [AFA Dehumanizes Same-Sex-Attracted Persons And Strugglers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/afa-dehumanizes/): The American Family Association periodically employs exgay Stephen Bennett as a writer and activist, and supplies Exodus International with much of its antigay “news” through...
- [Blogroll Lost: Help Us with Links to Other Web Sites](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/blogroll-lost-h/): Our listing of related web sites, located in the far right column of the front page, has been damaged. Lost were links to religious, social-reform,...
- [Personal Update](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/personal-update/): Hey kids, sorry I didn’t post much last week but I have some good news to report (having nothing to do with exgays). In my...
- [Evangelist’s Wife Cheers Gay Christians, Reunites Families](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/evangelists-wif/): Peggy Campolo, wife of Christian evangelical speaker Tony Campolo, wrote a long, undated article about her ties to the GLBT Christian movement. It is in...
- [Ex-Bisexual Ex-Porn Star Tom Katt Preaches the Bible…](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/ex-bisexual-ex/): …But antigay opportunists might not like this born-again Christian’s message. From The Dallas Voice, Feb. 23, 2006 (I’m still behind in my e-mail): For a...
- [Open Forum: Tom DeLay, Agent of Satan?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/open-forum-tom/): Tom DeLay, perhaps the most corrupt politician to walk the halls of Congress in a quarter-century, recently told his pastors that he is the Antichrist...
- [Fristgate](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/fristgate/): Thanks to Good As You for bringing the following to our attention According to a Washington Post article, Bill Frist, the Senate Majority Leader (and...
- [Gay Couples May Pay Higher Taxes](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/gay-couples-may/): It’s tax season. At this time of the year we are reminded that regardless of how many years you’ve been together and whether you are...
- [Gay Duck Lifemates](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/gay-duck-lifema/): OK, this is a fluff piece. But it’s a sunny Friday and there’s not much ex-gay news going on, so this is for those who...
- [Focus/Family Misinforms Public About California Education Bill](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/focusfamily-mis-2/): California Senate Bill 1437 begins: Existing law prohibits instruction or school sponsored activities that reflect adversely upon persons because of their race, sex, color, creed,...
- [Everstraight, Gay, Ex-Gay And Ex-Ex-Gay Families Welcome At White House Egg Roll](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/everstraight-ga/): “Mrs. Bush is the overseer of the event, and all families are welcome to attend” Spokesman to Mrs. Bush, Peter Watkins told Detroit News columnist...
- [Exgay Critic of NGLTF Report on Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exgay-critic-of/): The exgay blog Disputed Mutability posted some criticisms of the NGLTF’s recent report on the exgay movement. I haven’t read the report, so I don’t...
- [PFOX Defends Legal Threat Against Wisconsin Diversity Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/pfox-defends-le/): Legal threats from the fundamentalist, anti-diversity Liberty Counsel recently forced the cancellation of Diversity Day at a Wisconsin high school. In response, a columnist for...
- [PFOX Confuses Pro-Ex-Gay with Anti-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/pfox-confuses-p/): PFOX may be having difficulty distinguishing between support for ex-gays and hostility to gays. According to a WorldnetDaily article, PFOX was evicted from another educational...
- [Stephen Bennett Anecdotes](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/stephen-bennett-19/): I watched the video of Stephen’s September, 2004 sermon (a link is posted towards the bottom of the SBMinistries home page) and it struck me...
- [PFOX Reacts to Alleged Ouster From Virginia Educators Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/pfox-reacts-to/): As Timothy Kincaid notes, the less-than-objective WorldNetDaily and Warren Throckmorton say the antigay parents group PFOX was asked last week to leave a conference of...
- [Exgay Advocate, Pundit Defend Mutual Tolerance Framework in Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exgay-advocate/): The First Amendment Center, along with BridgeBuilders, school administrators, conservative Christians, and pro-tolerance advocates, recently drafted a framework within which local communities can discuss sexual...
- [Richard Cohen’s Vanishing Act… Well Sort Of](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/richard-cohens/): Update: PFOX assures me Richard Cohen is still their president. Hi Daniel, Your link didn’t work, but yes, Richard Cohen is still PFOX President. Thanks...
- [Alan Chambers Gives Insight In To Exodus’ Queer Statistics Collection](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/alan-chambers-g-2/): Recently I’ve called and emailed Alan Chambers several times asking him to elaborate on his claims exgays now number is the “hundreds of thousands” but...
- [Joe Kort to Appear on Montel Williams Show 4/11/06](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/joe-kort-to-app/): Hi Everyone, I just wanted to share with you that on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 I will be the expert psychotherapist on the Montel Show...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Mission Accomplished](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/ex-gay-watch-mi/): Exgay movement leader Alan Chambers announced today that exgays had been betrayed by the religious right. “Today I join Anthony Falzarano, an exgay who years...
- [Advice for Tim Wilkins](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/advice-for-tim/): The last we heard of Tim Wilkins of Cross Ministry fame he had agreed to take a polygraph test for gayasyou.org (I never heard how...
- [Bennett Opposes HIV Prevention](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/bennett-opposes/): Stephen Bennett’s latest press release is so chock-full of bizarreness that I hardly know where to start. But here goes:
- [Open Forum: I Have One Hour Today. What to Do?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/open-forum-i-ha/): 6 p.m. Read the new 300-page book “Ex-Gay Research” and write review. 6:17 p.m. Watch the 48-minute ex-gay video “I Do Exist” by Chad Thompson,...
- [Baptist Kids Reject Abstinence](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/baptist-kids-re/): Some conservative activists believe that if “abstinence only” is taught in schools it will eliminate the need for sex education and information on sexually transmitted...
- [Alan Chambers Trashes Gay Papers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/alan-chambers-t/): A library trustee in Ohio doesn’t want the Upper Arlington Public Library to carry the local free gay newspaper, the Outlook Weekly. In a Focus...
- [Ohio Constitutional Amendment Promotes Domestic Violence; Antigay Activist Fuels Spread of AIDS](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/ohio-constituti/): Brady at Some Guys Are Normal notes that Ohio’s antigay constitutional ban on nonmarital unions and any rights or services associated with such unions has...
- [Discredited Exgay Video Hits the Discount Bin](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/discredited-exg/): Activist/author Wayne Besen has picked up on the news, also noted on March 25 by XGW commenter Chalker Cross, that the antigay video “It’s Not...
- [Exgay Supports Minnesota Rally to Ban Gay Unions](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exgay-supports/): Eleventh Avenue South has a picture of the Minnesota “Family” Council using exgay activist Janet Boynes to decorate its booth at a March 21 antigay...
- [Melissa Fryrear Says ‘Everyone Is Created Heterosexual’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/melissa-fryrear-4/): As reported by the TimesLeader, in a speech to a Pentecostal church in Pennsylvania, Melissa Fryrear went beyond “no one is born gay”: Fryrear said...
- [Origins of ‘Live Out Loud’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/origins-of-live/): I was feeling snarky after Exodus dropped its recent copyright and trademark case against Ex-Gay Watch and blogger Justin Watt. And so I challenged Exodus’...
- [New TV Ad for Inclusive Churches](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/new-tv-ad-for-i/): Street Prophets and United Church of Christ blogger Chuck Currie report on a TV ad unveiled March 27 by the United Church of Christ. The...
- [Another Survivor of ‘Love In Action’ Speaks Out](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/another-survivo/): Performance artist Peterson Toscano, who survived a long residency at exgay live-in program Love In Action, reports that another LIA survivor named J has begun...
- [Illinois Family Activist LaBarbera Solidifies Ties to Constitution Party](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/illinois-family/): The Illinois Family Institute is a state-level family policy council that claims independence from, but closely coordinates its activities with, Focus on the Family. Last...
- [Off-Topic/Open Forum: War Vs. Peace](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/off-topicopen-f-2/): While Focus on the Family and ideological allies such as Cal Thomas wage a cultural war against Christians and against other faiths, Christian Peacemaker Teams...
- [Focus Misstates Facts Behind Colorado Marriage Ban](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/focus-misstates/): Back on March 8, They Get Letters (via Mike Ditto) found James Dobson misinforming recipients of a fundraising letter that advocates amending the Colorado constitution...
- [Did Exodus Borrow ‘Live Out Loud’ Theme From Gay Group Without Permission?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/did-exodus-borr/): Live Out Loud is a New York organization whose goal is to “create a safe space for LGBT youth to learn about powerful and passionate...
- [Exodus Excommunicates Soulforcers, Misdirects Blame for Antigay Vandalism](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exodus-excommun/): The Soulforce Equality Ride brought its nonviolent call for fairness for gay Christian students to Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, in mid-March. (Here are first-person...
- [Practicing for Future Exodus Speech? Falwell Damns Jews to Hell](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/practicing-for/): In July 2005, Jerry Falwell was the keynote speaker at an Exodus conference. During his appearance, he approved of parents jailing their children at exgay...
- [Pew Research Center Poll on Attitudes About Gay Rights](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/pew-research-ce/): The Pew Research Center has released a new poll that seems to show a favorable shift in attitudes relating to the rights of gay people.
- [Exodus Offices: Small Space, Big Reach](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exodus-offices/): In a suburb of Orlando, Florida, there is a small office building near the airport where six offices share 6,000 square feet of office space....
- [Exgay Group Drops Case Against Parody Blogger](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exgay-group-dro/): According to USA Today, Exodus has dropped its complaint against blogger Justin Watt, after Watt removed the Exodus logo watermark from his parody of Exodus’...
- [AFA Makes Baseless Claim About Ford](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/afa-makes-basel/): In a press release claiming that Ford ‘Proves’ Commitment To Homosexual Agenda, the American Family Association claims that Ford Motor Company “proved to the homosexual...
- [Parody: The Exodus Self-Contradiction](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/parody-the-exod/): Some friendly exgay advice from the desk reference that you’ve been using since you were eight years old. From Justinsomnia, inspired by Zortnac.
- [Ex-Gay Watch Defends Itself Vs. Exodus, Liberty Counsel](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/ex-gay-watch-de/): In September 2005, blogger Justin Watt published a parody of an Exodus exgay billboard and encouraged other web sites to republish it. On Feb. 27,...
- [ACLU Defends Blogger’s Right to Parody ‘Ex-Gay’ Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/aclu-defends-bl/): The ACLU announced its assistance today to blogger Justin Watt, who received a cease-and-desist letter this month after Exodus became aware of his parody of...
- [Exgay Leadership Tip of The Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exgay-leadershi/): Beginning any sentence with the phrase “every homosexual I’ve ever met…” is just a bad idea. Example 1 Example 2 Readers are welcome to submit...
- [Alan Chambers Claims Every Exgay He’s Met Has A Lack Of Relationship With Same-Sex Parent](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/alan-chambers-c/): Today (03/21/06) Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International, was the guest on Stephen Bennett’s Straight Talk Radio. Alan had something very interesting to share with...
- [Death Penalty for Christians? Obviously Bad. Execute the Gays? No Comment](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/death-penalty-f/): The Family Research Council is justifiably outraged that in U.S.-liberated and U.S.-subsidized Afghanistan, people can be put to death for converting to Christianity. But the...
- [Thoughts on Liberty Counsel to School: Include Exgays in ‘Diversity Day’ Or Else](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/thoughts-on-lib/): It’s quite likely the only place many gay people will see the diversity day story is in 365gay.com. Mike covered the story in a previous...
- [Liberty Counsel Complaint Over Exgays Cancels School’s Diversity Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/liberty-counsel/): From the La Crosse Tribune, La Crosse, Wisconsin, March 21: In 2004, about 400 people signed a petition asking that speakers on gay, lesbian and...
- [Exodus Choses HRC’s #1 Most Gay Friendly Airline For Annual Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exodus-choses-h/): The website for this year’s Exodus conference touts discounted rates offered with American Airlines. HRC gives American a perfect score in their index of corporate...
- [Question Homosexuality, But Don’t Question Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/question-homose/): Two days ago I posted a comment to a post by straight white male Alan Chambers on the Exodus Live Out Loud blog where he...
- [Exodus Promotes Blog of Stacy L. Harp, Contributor to ‘Alains Newsletter’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exodus-promotes-2/): Google News has rejected a request to carry Alains Newsletter because they consider it hate speech. (Big surprise, I know.) Alains Newsletter tends not to...
- [FRC Rips Gay ‘Free Speech’ Agenda, Excuses St. Pat’s Parade Leader’s Namecalling](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/frc-rips-gay-fr/): The chairman of the New York St. Patrick’s Day parade used his leadership position this week to compare gay Irish Americans to the Ku Klux...
- [Focus Shifts Attention From A Detail of Its Role in Abramoff Scandal](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/focus-shifts-at/): The Campaign to Defend the Constitution last week accused Focus on the Family of lobbying on behalf of the Louisiana gambling industry. As Ex-Gay Watch...
- [Off Topic/Open Forum: Squelching the Moderates](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/off-topicopen-f/): Christian and Muslim peacemakers have both come under recent attack from Islamic fundamentalists. Meanwhile, Focus on the Family has been strangely silent about these threats....
- [Parody Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/parody-watch/): Lobal Warming has been keeping a list of web sites that have posted copies of Justin Watt’s parody of an Exodus antigay billboard. To its...
- [Bennett Claims Children Being “Used” By Gays, Ignores Right’s Use of Chase Harper](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/bennett-claims/): Today’s extra-special guest on Straight Talk Radio (03/15/06) was Michael Johnson of ADF talking about their upcoming event, The Day Of Truth. Johnson kept a...
- [GLSEN And Christian Educators Agree on Framework for Debate](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/glsen-and-chris/): The First Amendment Center along with BridgeBuilders and others have drafted a framework within which communities can discuss issues of sexual orientation within the public...
- [AFA’s Ford Boycott Is Back On](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/afas-ford-boyco/): AFA has declared that it is boycotting Ford for a year because Ford advertises to gay people, has a non-discrimination policy, and supports organizations that...
- [Ex-Gay Movement: Time for Reinvention And A New Vision](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/ex-gay-movement/): Wanted: Suggestions and volunteers to take the concept currently known as Ex-Gay Watch in new and distinct directions. Future affiliation with Ex-Gay Watch not required....
- [Vote for Best Single Issue Blog](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/vote-for-best-s/): Voting is coming to a close at the 2005 Koufax Awards for Best Single Issue blog. Ex-Gay Watch is among the nominees. Please consider voting:...
- [The Questions That ‘Love In Action’ Should Have Asked](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/the-questions-t/): Former Love In Action live-in patient Peterson Toscano asks the questions that Love In Action’s intake staffers should have asked — and might have asked...
- [Linda Nicolosi Talks About Exgays In Debate Having Nothing To Do With Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/linda-nicolosi/): (Part 1 of 2) These posts detail how my 4th year of college (2002) an incident of anti-gay vandalism prompted a civil debate on campus....
- [Nicolosi Asked Me To Lie To Spitzer - A Consistent Public Record](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/nicolosi-asked/): (Part 2 of 2) These posts detail how my 4th year of college (2002) an incident of anti-gay vandalism prompted a civil debate on campus....
- [Dobson Aims to Add Job-Benefit Discrimination to Alaska Constitution](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/dobson-aims-to/): Not content with its injection of partisan politics and religious bias into Alaska marriages, Focus on the Family is campaigning to add job-benefit discrimination against...
- [Read the Fine Print: Dobson Admits Aiding Abramoff’s Louisiana Gambling Interests](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/read-the-fine-p/): On March 8, the Campaign to Defend the Constitution launched an ad campaign including a full-page ad (PDF ad) in the New York Times. The...
- [How Separation of Church And State Saved Evangelical Christianity](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/how-separation/): Writing for the Washington Monthly, Stephen Waldman notes that 18th-century evangelicals sought out, and benefited greatly from, the separation of church and state at a...
- [‘Brokeback’ Prompts Man to Come Out — As Exgay](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/brokeback-promp/): My Dirty Little Former Secret God used a movie about gay cowboys to release me from the burden of my past. By Dennis Belkofer Christianity...
- [Attention Subscribers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/attention-subsc/): If you subscribe to Ex-Gay Watch via RSS or Atom feed, you may not see this site’s most recent infographics from within your newsreader at...
- [Exgay Activist Says He Warned School About Alleged Molester](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exgay-activist/): Exgay activist and parent Anthony Falzarano says he sensed trouble at a Florida Christian school with a 29-year-old teacher now accused of unlawful sexual activity...
- [Profile: Anthony Falzarano](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/profile-anthony/): According to his online testimony, Anthony Falzarano was molested by an older brother at age 12. He became a male prostitute, eventually catering to closeted...
- [Alleged Molester Attended Exgay Live-In Program](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/alleged-moleste/): According to WPTY Memphis: A Florida teacher accused of molesting young boys is behind bars after police say he confessed while staying at Love in...
- [Mr. Hetero Pastor Sues City](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/mr-hetero-pasto/): The pastor who officiated at a “Mr. Hetero” contest in Worcester, Mass., which featured the testimony of an ex-gay and several silly contests, has sued...
- [Discussion: Gay Sex in the ’70s](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/discussion-gay/): ”One for gay sex please…” It’s not often you walk up to a ticket booth and a legitimate theater and say that. I went to...
- [Besen to Exodus: Time to March Your Masses to Washington](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/besen-to-exodus/): According to activist/author Wayne Besen, it’s time for Exodus to put up or shut up. If “hundreds of thousands” of exgays really exist then, as...
- [Exgay Billboard Parody Revisited](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/exgay-billboard-2/): The following postcard is based on this parody of this exgay billboard, which prompted this threat against Ex-Gay Watch by the fundamentalist Liberty Counsel. People...
- [New York Times: Gay Men with Straight Wives](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/new-york-times/): Today’s New York Times Health section features an article by Katy Butler titled, Many Couples Must Negotiate Terms of ‘Brokeback’ Marriages. Author, therapist, and Ex-Gay...
- [SCOTUS: Universities Must Accept Antigay Military Recruiters Along with Taxpayer Funding](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/scotus-universi/): On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled unanimously that law schools could not bar military recruiters from their campus. The Cato Institute...
- [Heterosexuals Only Bumper Sticker Protest](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/heterosexuals-o/): It’s about time somebody does a protest with this concept. Of course I have to question how difficult the stickers are to remove since if...
- [TVC Supports Its Internet Consultant’s Extremist Site; NARTH, Stephen Bennett Guest Also Linked](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/tvc-supports-it/): Update: Most of the TVC associated sites in this post have now been substantially altered or no longer accept referral traffic from Ex-Gay Watch. In...
- [TVC-Affiliated Newsletter Supports Constitution Party](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/tvc-affiliated/): “Alain’s Newsletter” receives logistical support from the Traditional Values Coalition — specifically, the TVC sends the newsletter to its e-mail subscribers, whether they asked for...
- [A Constitutionalist’s World](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/a-constitutiona/): When I was about 8 years old, the moon landings were still fresh and fascinating. Like many kids from that time, a couple of my...
- [Open Forum: Got Nuke?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/open-forum-got/): Fans used to tune in by the millions each week to watch government agents in La Femme Nikita who would resort to unethical means (such...
- [Bill Maier Turns Unproven Suspicions Into Fact](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/bill-maier-turn/): In Wednesday’s Focus on the Family broadcast (03/01/06) Vice President Bill Maier claims links between protests at Love Won Out and unknown vandals who threw...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 03/01/06](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/stephen-bennett-3-2/): In an stunning display of circa-1984 logic, today’s guest Peter LaBarbera pretends closing the baths will keep gay men from doing unsafe things. In the...
- [If Exodus Outsourced Their Call Center…](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/if-exodus-outso/): Since Exodus claims to be “contacted” over 400,000 times every year (that’s about once every 30 seconds during normal business hours) Peterson decided they will...
- [Stephen Bennett’s “Straight Talk Radio” Program 02/28/06](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/stephen-bennett-4-2/): Today’s guest is Jerry Leach, a former pre-op MTF transsexual. Translation: He was about to have gender reassignment surgery but decided not to and now...
- [Youth in the Ex-Gay Crosshairs](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/youth-in-the-ex/): The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has released a report entitled Youth in the Crosshairs: The Third Wave of Ex-Gay Activism A key finding...
- [Liberty Counsel Threatens to Sue Over Exodus Parody](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/liberty-counsel-threatens-to-sue-over-exodus-parody/): Ex-Gay Watch this morning received a letter from Mathew D. Staver of the Liberty Counsel, a religious-right legal assault team based at Jerry Falwell’s fundamentalist...
- [Infographic: Alan Chambers Claims To Represent Ex-Gays, However Many There Are](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/03/infographic-ala/): Click Image To View Full Size If you can’t think of anything else to comment on, try and guess where I got the idea for...
- [X-Men: Looking Back At the Trilogy](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/x-men-looking-b/): Howl of the Kweerwolf looks back at the X-Men trilogy and hopes that teen-agers watching X-Men: The Last Stand will discover the dignity and value...
- [On Video: Exodus Exgay Youth Recruiter](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/on-video-exodus/): Current.tv hosts a video interview with Exodus exgay youth recruiter Mike Ensley. From Current.tv’s description of the video: Can God really do anything? Mike Ensley...
- [Focus/Family Times D.C. Exgay Roadshow to Coincide with Pride Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/focusfamily-tim/): From The Washington Blade, May 26: Love Won Out, a controversial religious conference that espouses reparative therapy and encourages gays to change their sexual orientation,...
- [Peaceful Pro-Tolerance Vigil Planned As Exgay Boot Camp Escalates Talk of War](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/peaceful-pro-to/): The Queer Action Coalition of Memphis, Tenn., plans a June 5 vigil at Love In Action, marking one year since LIA’s involuntary detainment of sexually...
- [Focus on the Family’s New Ad Campaign Exploits Sad Kids](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/focus-on-the-fa-21/): A Tenable Belief and Good As You assess Focus on the Family’s latest ad campaign, which exploits stock photos of unhappy children. The ad campaign’s...
- [Funny And True For Your Friday](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/funny-and-true/): An Ex-Gay Watch operative called NARTH earlier this week to determine if Bill Curnow’s western Michigan based LIFE Coaching International is a member. I pray...
- [Congratulations to Pam Spaulding](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/congratulations-2/): Katherine Volin of the Washington Blade wrote a wonderful profile of Pam Spaulding’s work as a black lesbian blogger who specializes in monitoring the religious...
- [PFOX Moms Applaud Cohen Performance on CNN](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/pfox-moms-appla/): Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays operates a Yahoo group for antigay parents and relatives of adult gay persons. The e-mail discussions are tightly moderated by...
- [Video “It’s Not Gay” Only Serves To Further Reinforce Idea Of “Exgay For Pay”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/video-its-not-g/): Since 2000 the American Family Association has been peddling a video about exgays titled “It’s Not Gay.” Ex-Gay Watch reader Jim Burroway recently threw $10...
- [Gay And Lesbian Couples As Good Parents As Other Storks](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/gay-and-lesbian/): An all male stork couple and an all female stork couple at a Dutch zoo in Overloon were each given an egg. Zoo spokeswoman, Esther...
- [Richard Cohen on CNN; Exgay Leaders React](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/richard-cohen-o/): The Malcontent has video of Richard Cohen’s appearance on CNN. CNN’s website also has video. Pam Spaulding offers background on Cohen, and Steve at A...
- [Exodus Board Member: Wear Intolerance As A Badge of Honor](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/exodus-board-me-2/): “They feel like we’re intolerant. So I guess we should wear that as a badge of honor.” — Phil Burress of the Cincinnati-based anti-gay Citizens...
- [Cohen on CNN](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/cohen-on-cnn/): [Editor’s Note: The content of this entry has been incorprorated into a more recent post.]
- [In Case There Are Still Any Doubts X-Men 3 Is About Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/in-case-there-a/): In case there are still any doubts X-Men 3 is about exgays: [Ian McKellen] has been openly gay since the 1980s, and he takes exception...
- [Where Do You Stand on The Political Compass?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/where-do-you-st/): There are no true “liberals” or “conservatives,” no simple “leftists” or “rightists.” As The Political Compass indicates, these labels are only somewhat accurate in describing...
- [Peace And Good Will From Both Gay-Affirming And Ex-Gay Advocates?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/peace-and-good/): From A Tenable Belief: I wish that anyone struggling with sexual orientation and religious issues could get a clear message from ex-gay ministries and gay-affirming...
- [What Forms Our Attraction to Gender Vs. Religion?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/what-forms-our/): Willful Grace asked last week: Here’s a question. Please comment. Let me know what you think about this. What if…..we are born not really sexually...
- [CNN / Paula Zahn To Air Piece On Richard Cohen](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/cnn-paula-zahn/): It appears the Paula Zahn show will air a segment on Richard Cohen this week, possibly Monday night unless it gets bumped by something constituting...
- [Exgays Share Common Cause with Sex Party: Opposition to Condoms](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/exgays-share-co/): Exodus board member Phil Burress wants drugstore condoms locked away to discourage their purchase. Focus on the Family disapproves of condoms as a fallback when...
- [Fun With Captions - By Peterson](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/fun-with-captio/): Peterson Toscano wrote some amusing ex-gay themed captions for this animation taken from Battle Cry‘s website. Peterson describes Battle Cry as “a conservative Christian youth...
- [Black Churches And Homophobia](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/black-churches/): Last night on NPR’s Talk of The Nation the guest was gay Christian activist and author E. Lynn Harris. The full program is available on...
- [“Heterosexual Questionnaire” Creates a Stir](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/heterosexual-qu/): Just prior to the last Day of Silence, two teachers at Port Washington High School (Wisconsin) distributed a questionnaire meant to give students an inkling...
- [Dear Abby Weighs In](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/dear-abby-weigh/): I’m quite late to report this, but on April 21 “Dear Abby” gave her opinion about Dr. Dobson’s theories on the origins of sexual orientation....
- [FRC President Tony Perkins on O’Reilly Factor Tonight](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/frc-president-t/): Family Research Council President Tony Perkins will be on The O’Reilly Factor this evening (May 17) to discuss “Presidential leadership on protecting marriage” i.e. the...
- [Limbaugh Factually Ignorant](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/limbaugh-factua/): OK, that’s probably not the most surprising title for an entry, be it either Rush or David Limbaugh. And this isn’t really much of a...
- [X-Men Movie’s Mutant ‘Cure’ A Metaphor for Exgay Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/x-men-movies-mu/): At the suggestion of Scott of Reality Cubed, I watched the seven-minute movie trailer for X-Men: The Last Stand. The movie’s story line appears to...
- [Open Forum: Exgay News Roundup](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/open-forum-exga/): What does ex-gay mean? Is the term offensive? Thoughtful discussions by two exgay/gay-celibate bloggers, Rainbow Unbroken and Disputed Mutability Exodus condones homophobia,criticizes Fall Out Boy’s...
- [AFA Claims Ford Is Just This Side of Bankruptcy Due to Boycott](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/afa-claims-ford/): Despite the overwhelming defeat of the recent shareholder introduced, AFA backed anti-gay family resolution (95-5% against), the AFA continues to send out alerts claiming that...
- [Attention LA Readers: Peterson Toscano Is Coming](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/attention-la-re/): Love In Action graduate and queer performing artist Peterson Toscano is coming to LA: Friday June 2, and Sunday June 4, 2006 at 8:00 PM...
- [Thank God You Are Straight](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/thank-god-you-a/): In his Good Friday sermon, Bishop Alfred A. Owens Jr., pastor of Greater Mount Calvary Church in Northeast D.C., screamed that “it takes a real...
- [AP Parrots Exodus, Misreporting Number of Exgays And Extent of Change](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/ap-parrots-exod/): An article by Travis Reed of the Associated Press today misreports numerous facts about the exgay movement and its critics. The story was carried by...
- [Exgay Calls for Starbucks Boycott](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/exgay-calls-for/): In a press release fashioned as an AgapePress “news” story, San Diego exgay activist James Hartline calls upon “Christians” (by which he means antigay social-conservative...
- [Practice Guidelines: A First Step By Throckmorton And Yarhouse](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/practice-guidel/): Warren Throckmorton has just published a preliminary document developed by himself and Mark Yarhouse. Titled Sexual identity therapy: Practice guidelines for managing sexual identity conflicts...
- [PGN Article Quotes Daniel Gonzales](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/pgn-article-quo/): An article in the Philadephia Gay News profiles an ex-ex-gay couple, Stephen Parelli and Jose Ortiz, that will be speaking to a Baptist group this...
- [Comment Security](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/comment-securit/): I have added some security measures to prevent spammers from posting ads for poker, pills, and porn to this site. In the past, these ads...
- [Focus Uses “National Day Of Prayer” To Push Marriage Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/focus-uses-nati/): (May 11, 2006) The title of today’s Focus on the Family broadcast was “National Day of Prayer 2006: America, Honor God (Part 2 of 2).”...
- [New Book Records the Rise of National Christianist Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/new-book-record/): Salon.com has printed a lengthy and worthwhile excerpt from the new book Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. The excerpt is too long and...
- [Misquoting John Stossel, Exgays Protest Recognition of Ex-Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/misquoting-john/): Libertarian pundit and veteran ABC investigative reporter John Stossel upset the nation’s handful of exgay activists in 2004 when he interviewed both exgays and ex-exgays,...
- [Ford Shareholders Overwhelmingly Reject Anti-Gay Resolution](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/ford-shareholde/): A shareholder of Ford Motor Company introduced a resolution to have the company remove sexual orientation as a category against which employees could not be...
- [Straight Talk Radio Dramatically Slows Down](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/straight-talk-r-2/): Seems there’s a whole lot of white space on the Straight Talk Radio website these days. As far as Joe Brummer and I can recall,...
- [Melissa Fryrear Offers Explanation Of Her Ex-Gay Statistics](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/melissa-fryrear-5/): Last weekend Melissa Fryrear was quoted in the Miami Herald: ”You can’t make people want to overcome their sexuality. It must be an individual decision,”...
- [Silencing Fred Phelps](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/silencing-fred/): I believe that the men and women in uniform fighting for us in Iraq are honorable and are serving a cause that they believe is...
- [Whoops](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/whoops/): Today’s Family News In Focus referred to Randy Thomas as the president of Exodus International. Congrats to Randy on his unexplained and no-doubt brief promotion!
- [Open Forum: ‘Poseidon’ As ‘Death Porn’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/open-forum-pose/): Michael Atkinson of The Village Voice: A supposedly fun thing I may never want to do again after 9-11, disaster films are simple death porn…....
- [Dobson Recalls Pivotal Transition Towards Formation Of Heterosexuality At Age 2-3](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/dobson-recalls/): In Monday’s (05/08/06) Focus On The Family broadcast Dobson throws out a new term not even Google has a clinical definition for called “detachment and...
- [Throckmorton Quoted on Lesbian Pheromone Study](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/throckmorton-qu/): Dr. Warren Throckmorton was quoted in an article at HealthCentral.com about the just-released study identifying different brain processing of certain smells (potentially pheromones) between heterosexual...
- [TVC Complains About CBS PSA](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/tvc-complains-a/): Today, millions of young people fear that they will be rejected by family and friends simply because they are gay. But you have the power...
- [Exodus: Stop the Ministry, Resume the Sexual Peer Pressure](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/exodus-stop-the/): Elizabeth McClung observes that Exodus has largely abandoned its ministry to gay youths, and replaced that effort with a program to teach heterosexual antigay “Christian”...
- [Study Gets 2nd Look: Exgays Harmed By Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/study-gets-2nd/): From Screw Bronze via A Tenable Belief via Some Guys Are Normal: In 2001, a peer-reviewed study by Drs. Ariel Shidlo and Michael Schroeder measured...
- [Study: Lesbians’ Brains Respond Like Straight Men](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/study-lesbians/): From AP/CNN: WASHINGTON (AP) — Lesbians’ brains react differently to sex hormones than those of heterosexual women. An earlier study of gay men also showed...
- [Leading Evangelical’s Change of Heart: Some Are Skeptical](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/leading-evangel/): Incite the slaughter of Muslims, imprison the homosexuals, and prosecute any religious or human-rights activists who seek to help the faggots: That’s been the policy...
- [Besen: Religious-Right War Against Sex](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/besen-religious/): The battle to ban gay civil unions — and to subject all same-gender sexual partners to possible prosecution and imprisonment under sodomy laws — could...
- [Sun-Sentinel Fails to Look Below the Surface of Exgay Claims](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/sun-sentinel-fa/): An article published today in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel repeats many of the May 6 mistakes of The Miami Herald in covering rival exgay and...
- [Vatican Astronomer: Creationism ‘A Kind of Paganism’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/vatican-astrono/): From The Scotsman via Andrew Sullivan: Believing that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy...
- [Exgay Says Same-Sex-Attracted Soldiers, ‘Perverted’ Bisexuals Threaten National Security](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/exgay-says-same/): From Pam Spaulding: In a newsletter article reprinted at Free Republic, San Diego exgay activist James Hartline describes gay former U.S. members of the armed forces...
- [Propaganda Won Out: Miami Herald Parrots Exgay Activists](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/propaganda-won/): Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is a logical choice of venue for the exgay Love Won Out roadshow: the church and its...
- [Exodus Conference Schedule Announced - Both Politically Oriented Workshops Run By Focus](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/exodus-conferen/): Exodus has announced workshops being held at this year’s conference. Not surprisingly there are twice as many workshops designed to prevent male-on-male sex than those...
- [Traditional Values Coalition Allies with Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/traditional-val-4/): GLAAD has joined with CBS to prepare a public service announcement (PSA) which will air during the As the World Turns soap opera on May...
- [Shawn O’Donnell Speaks At Northwestern University](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/shawn-o%e2%809/): Shawn O’Donnell, whose picture was included for a long time on the home webpage of Exodus International, spoke at the University Christian Ministry at Northwestern...
- [Virginity Pledges May Not Hold](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/virginity-pledg/): Abstinence-Only education is flawed in its approach to gay and lesbian students. Rather than set reasonable expectations on these youth regarding responsible sexuality, it tells...
- [T-Shirt Wars](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/t-shirt-wars/): According to a story in the Roseville Press-Tribune, on Tuesday, April 25, one day before the Day of Silence, between 20 and 25 students arrived...
- [Alabama School Distributes Sex-Ed Pamphlets Promoting Exgay Organizations](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/alabama-school/): In Alabama (via Good As You): The lesbian mother of a 12-year-old girl has objected to a sex education pamphlet handed out at a Dothan...
- [Linda Harvey Opposes Youth Access to HIV Testing](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/linda-harvey-op/): Former Stephen Bennett guest Linda Harvey of Ohio-based Mission America had this to say on AlainsNewsletter.com: Before… and After (Permission to distribute and repost is...
- [ATB: While Gay Couples Want Marriage, Antigay Couples Avoid Covenant Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/atb-while-gay-c/): From A Tenable Belief: In an April 29 column in The Washington Post, William Saletan “notes that 6,000-7,000 couples have taken up covenant marriage since...
- [ATB: Exgay Stephen Bennett Loves Rosie O’Donnell](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/atb-exgay-steph-2/): Upon the news of Rosie O’Donnell agreeing to co-host ABC’s daytime TV program The View, Steve Boese’s blog A Tenable Belief observes: Stephen Bennett touted...
- [ATB: Exgay Stephen Bennett Said God Is ‘Very Bigoted’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/atb-exgay-steph/): Blogger Steve Boese at A Tenable Belief has been spending too much time digging through the archives of exgay performer and activist Stephen Bennett. In...
- [Business to the Rescue](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/business-to-the/): Historically, the gay community has been associated with left-leaning politics and has been suspicious of “big business” and capitalism. Some of this is the result...
- [ADF Pres. Alan Sears Spouts “Day of Truth” Hypocrisy In Baptist Press - Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/adf-pres-alan-s/): Permission to reprint is granted to all. From Alan Sears, president of the Alliance Defense Fund: “Day of Truth” participants will hand out cards of...
- [Exodus’ Message to the Caribbean](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exodus-message/): For many years the Caribbean has had a culture that encourages abuse towards gays. This has been most visible in Jamaica where a popular style...
- [20 West Point Cadets Donate Money In Support Of Equality Ride](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/20-west-point-c/): This morning a donation appeared on Equality Rider Monica Carmean’s page from “friends of cadets” in the amount of $670. This hardly a coincidence since...
- [Homosexuality Isn’t Really the Problem Here](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/homosexuality-i/): In his latest newsletter, Exodus Youth Staffer Michael Ensley has some interesting things to say. I thought I would share some of them along with...
- [Liberty Counsel’s Motivation Behind Campaign](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/liberty-counsel-2/): I have long suspected that the primary motivation behind the championing of the ex-gay movement by religious conservative groups has more to do with justification...
- [Exodus Takes Credit for Equality Ride Bus Clean-Up](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exodus-takes-cr/): When the Equality Riders (a group of students traveling to anti-gay schools to present an inclusive message of Christ) went to Lee University in mid-March,...
- [Ex-Ex-Gay Becomes Assistant Pastor in Portland](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/ex-ex-gay-becom/): Out of Oregon, via the Willamette Weekly, comes the tale of a 25 year old double-ex who has just become the assistant pastor at Metropolitan...
- [Bus Driver Suspended, Not Fired; Will Return to Work](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/bus-driver-susp/): The Washington Blade reported April 14 about a bus driver who was fired for telling a passenger to go to the back of the bus...
- [XGW Invites Readers To Submit Their Own “Silenced” Photos](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/xgw-invites-rea/): Inspired by this photo from Quest, a Wisconsin gay news site, I invite all our readers to submit similar photos of themselves to be posted...
- [Anti-Gay T-Shirts Not Allowed - For Now](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/anti-gay-t-shir/): The AP is reporting that ADF’s cover-twink, Tyler Chase Harper, can be restricted from wearing a shirt that says “homosexuality is shameful” to school –...
- [Anti-Gay Confusion](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/anti-gay-confus/): The anti-gay right is waging a campaign to make them seem the victims of homosexual militant extremists. Sometimes in their efforts to seem reasonable average...
- [Randy Thomas’ Defines Homophobia For Readers And Covers For Falwell](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/randy-thomas-de/): Professional heterosexual Randy Thomas was kind enough to define “homophobia” for us today over at the Exodus: Live Out Loud blog. Homophobia is not some...
- [Ft. Lauderdale LWO Billboards Go Up!](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/ft-lauderdale-l/): Any XGW readers live in Ft. Lauderdale? I would just love to have some high-res photos of the billboards. South Florida motorists have already been...
- [School Board’s Club Ban Would Include PFOX Type “Gay To Straight” Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/school-boards-c/): From Sovo.com: The school board voted 7-0 April 10 to create a policy that would ban all “sexually oriented clubs, gay or straight or otherwise.”...
- [Wikipedia Page on Exodus Flagged After Changes Made By Exodus Staff](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/wikipedia-page/): After recent changes made to Wikipedia’s entry on Exodus International by Exodus staffers, the page has been flagged as “disputed” with the message seen above....
- [Mixed Orientation Marriages On Montel](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/mixed-orientati/): XGW contributing author, Joe Kort, was a guest on Montel last week and the boys over at The Malcontent have been kind enough to get...
- [Open Forum: A Message to Duke University](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/open-forum-a-me/): Men can stop rape. Men’s strength is not for hurting.
- [Warring Christian Lawyers?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/warring-christi/): Are two different anti-gay activist law groups using school children as pawns in a war over dominance, message, or contributions? For several years the Gay...
- [Another Anti-Gay Day At AgapePress](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/another-anti-ga/): Sometimes it seems that without gay folk to demonize, the conservative Christian press would have nothing to say. When AgapePress runs out of news on...
- [Bad Parenting And James Dobson](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/bad-parenting-a/): Discipline run amok: Christine of Rising Up Whole shares memories of a childhood tainted by parental abuse that she says was learned, in part, from...
- [Exgay in the Heart of Texas](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exgay-in-the-he/): From the Dallas Voice, April 13 No matter what causes a person to be gay, Living Hope Ministries, which is based in Arlington, has one...
- [Bioscience Journal Gives Paul Cameron a New Soapbox](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/bioscience-jour/): From Jim Burroway: Paul Cameron’s article, “Children of homosexuals and transsexuals more apt to be homosexual,” has just appeared in the May 2006 issue of...
- [Exgay Prayer Power in San Diego?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exgay-prayer-po/): From CityBeat, San Diego, April 12: After a 27-year run, San Diego’s oldest newspaper catering to the gay community, The Update, announced on March 29...
- [Exgay Clubs, Differing Opinions](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exgay-clubs-dif/): Although I recently poked fun at the lameness and PFOX’s hypocrisy in calling for a high school ex-gay club, I wouldn’t suggest students should be...
- [Traditional Values Coalition Still Uses Studies It Acknowledged As Wrong](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/traditional-val-3/): Lou Sheldon proves that ‘preachers do lie’ By Alvin McEwen. Reprinted with permission. April 8, 2006 — Recently, Traditional Values Coalition head Lou Sheldon gave...
- [Exodus Lobs Rotten Eggs At Easter Kids](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/exodus-lobs-rot/): Much like Las Vegas, modern antigay religion is an industry of sin. It builds much of its business upon the profitable violation of the Ten...
- [PFOX Q & A](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/pfox-q-a/): PFOX now has a new leaflet designed for ex-gay strugglers to provide to their friends to help answer questions they may have. Unfortunately, PFOX’s leaflet...
- [Chrysler’s Silly Little Fairy](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/chrysler-silly-little-fairy/): Unlike most of my friends, I’m not a car guy. When they tell me about the newest hottest BMW, or whatever, my eyes glaze over....
- [“Vagina” A Dirty Word Over At Agape](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/vagina-a-dirty/): A recent article over at the Agapepress about the Vagina Monologues did not once spell out the full word “vagina,” instead substituting the letter “V”...
- [Homos to the Back of the Bus in D.C.](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/homos-to-the-ba/): Exodus president Alan Chambers occasionally — and illogically — boasts that homosexual persons should not be entitled to constitutional rights because homosexuals and their allies,...
- [Robert Spitzer on “Choice”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/robert-spitzer/): ScienCentral News has a good piece up today summarizing the current scientific debate about the origins of homosexuality–and the political controversies attendant to it (I...
- [PFOX / Liberty Counsel Urge Kids To Form “Gay To Straight Clubs” Infographic](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/pfox-liberty-co/): Having grown weary of picking on internet satirists, Liberty Counsel has paired with PFOX to kick off the “Change is Possible Campaign.” PFOX’s press release...
- [Some Thoughts on Easter, Inclusion And Exclusion](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/04/some-thoughts-o-2/): This Easter season has caused me to think some about the distinction between limited inclusion and exclusion.
- [Vigil At Conference for Celibate, Antigay Catholics](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/vigil-at-confer/): The U.S. antigay Catholic group Courage, which contends there is a “homosexual identity” and then coaches same-sex-attracted Catholics to reject that identity in favor of...
- [Tim Wilkins: Talk Is Cheap, But Pardon Me While I Talk Up ‘Gay Theology’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/tim-wilkins-tal/): Exgay activist Tim Wilkins held a one-day conference titled “More Than Words” in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 8. He plans another one August 12 in...
- [‘Cultural Warfare Updates’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/cultural-warfar/): Solarbird.livejournal.com has been summarizing the day-to-day activiities of numerous religious-right organizations in the United States and Canada. Worth tracking….
- [Oh, Really? Rocker Accused of Threatening to Kill ‘Ex-Gay Lover’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/oh-really-rocke/): Corrected to indicate that the former boyfriend was erroneously described as “ex-gay lover.” From Gay Celebrity News, a story about former celebrity Pete Burns: The...
- [Top 10 Power Brokers of the Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/top-10-power-br/): AlterNet on July 7 reprinted Top 10 Power Brokers of the Religious Right, published in June by Americans United for Separation of Church and State....
- [Exgay NEA Activist Turns Out to Be Anti-NEA](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/exgay-nea-activ/): Corrected to reflect Jeralee Smith’s exgay identity. Exgay activist Jeralee Smith formed the NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus in early 2004, ostensibly to educate teachers and...
- [Schism in Australia’s Uniting Church](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/schism-in-austr/): The Uniting Church, Australia’s third largest Christian denomination, was formed in 1977 by the union of the Congregational Union, the Methodist Church, and the Presbyterian...
- [Who’s Secular Now? Take the Quiz](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/whos-secular-no/): From Talk To Action: Test your knowledge! Here are ten quotes from a pool of 20 well-known Democrats and Republicans, and leaders of the religious...
- [Dobson, the Slave Trade, And Antigay Cross-Burnings](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/dobson-the-slav/): James Dobson of Focus on the Family unfavorably compares the love and faith of gay couples to the slave trade. Meanwhile, Dobson’s unholy culture-war allies...
- [Exodus Promotes Schoolyard-Brawl Myth — But Antigay Parent Admits Story Is False](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/exodus-promotes-3/): The exgay network Exodus International on July 1 joined other religious-rightists in parroting a political scandal over an ordinary schoolyard fight that occurred May 17...
- [Antigay Group Demands Medal of Honor: Will Exgays Provide It?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/antigay-group-d/): Repent America, as we’ve noted many, many times, is a Philadelphia-area group that illegally commandeers town council meetings, storms gay-friendly entertainment festivals, shouts down authorized...
- [Dobson And HRC: Both Secularist, Eager to Shun Gay People’s Faith And Morality](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/dobson-and-hrc/): In their CNN to-and-fro last week, Focus on the Family’s James Dobson wagged his finger at the media for not demonizing and ostracizing homosexuals —...
- [NARTH Responds Irresponsibly to the Birth Order Study](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/narth-responds/): Updated for NARTH reponse (see below) In the 1990’s, Anthony Bogaert released a study in which he and his fellow researchers had determined that birth...
- [Exgay Convicted Teen-Molester Offers Rosy Picture of Recidivism](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/exgay-convicted/): An article about sex offenders in today’s Washington Post cites an unspecified Danish study which found a recidivism rate of 80 percent among sex offenders...
- [Dan’s on Vacation](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/dans-on-vacatio/): I’m off on a family vacation through the 13th so please send tips and leads to your second favorite XGW authors in my absence. I...
- [Exgay Group JONAH Goes on Right-Wing Zionist Internet Radio Station](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/exgay-group-jon/): Despite the fact he no longer has any relevance or credibility, DL Foster brought attention to two interviews JONAH recently gave to an extremist Israeli...
- [Truth Wins Out Press Conference At NEA Convention](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/truth-wins-out-2/): WHO: — Joe Saunders, Central Florida field organizer, Equality Florida— Wayne Besen, executive director, Truth WinsOut — Jim Merritt, ex-gay survivor— Pat Padilla, Parents, Families...
- [PFOX’s Richard Cohen on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/pfoxs-richard-c/): Richard Cohen is scheduled to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight. Update: Just watched it here in the Pacific time zone and was laughing so...
- [Protest At 2006 Exodus Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/protest-at-2006/): From the Marion Chronicle Tribune: As the annual Exodus Freedom Conference began in the Phillippe Performing Arts Center auditorium, a group of about 12 people...
- [Agape Story: A Small Irony](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/agape-story-a-s/): A story I came across today began thus: Former Lesbian Brings Ex-‘Gay’ Message to 2006 NEA Annual Meeting By Jim Brown June 26, 2006 (AgapePress)...
- [Open Forum: Best D.C. Casual Restaurants](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/open-forum-best/): Interested in D.C.-area restaurants? Check out the comments below….
- [Episcopals to Be Ejected From the Anglican Communion?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/episcopals-to-b/): The London Times is reporting that the Archbishop of Cantebury, Rowan Williams, is drawing up plans to remove the Episcopal Church – and other nonconforming...
- [Religious-Right Media Ignore National HIV Testing Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/religious-right-12/): You wouldn’t know it from the religious-right media but today is National HIV Testing Day. News sites which ignore this include: FreeRepublicTownhallFamily News In FocusWorldNetDaily...
- [Exodus Board Member, ‘Free From the AIDS Virus,’ Died in 2004](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/exodus-board-me-3/): While researching the above post I came to learn the former Exodus board member who said: “Today with God’s abundant grace and His miraculous power...
- [‘Pro-Family’ Group in a Tizzy Over Schwarzenegger’s Gay Dinner](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/pro-family-grou/): The GOP governors just aren’t living up to the Hate the Gays promise that the right wing has in mind. First, Maryland Gov. Robert L....
- [Ex-Gay Message to NEA: Gays Choose Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/ex-gay-message/): AgapePress reports that the ex-gay movement will be trying to influence the NEA at their upcoming conference. Something called the NEA Ex-Gay Educators Caucus will...
- [Men with Older Brothers More Likely to Be Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/men-with-older/): I can’t wait for the religious right to make up their own explanations for this. ::cough:: Fryrear
- [Chambers Discusses Motivation for Focus on Youth](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/chambers-discus/): In an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Alan Chambers discussed the motivation behind Exodus International’s focus on youth. “There’s definitely an absolute push in...
- [Grove City Communications Student Continues Innuendo Campaign](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/grove-city-comm/): EDITED: I’ve edited this posting to narrow my focus of criticism. Addendum, July 7: CWFA has revoked intern Sarah Kuziomko’s original press release without explanation...
- [Former Exgay Mormon Takes One-Man Play to Atlanta](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/former-exgay-mo/): The arts publication David Atlanta profiles thirtysomething Steven Fales, an excommunicated Latter Day father of two who, after a successful run in New York, opened...
- [Eve Tushnet, Readers Discuss ‘Love Won Out’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/eve-tushnet-rea/): Eve Tushnet has posted a variety of reader reactions (along with her own responses) to her National Review Online article about Focus on the Family’s...
- [Anti-Gay Delegates Lose Church Battles](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/anti-gay-delega/): Conservative delegates to two national denominational conventions lost battles to either hold the line against gay ministers or to move it back. The Presbyterian Church...
- [Throckmorton Splits with PFOX](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/throckmorton-sp/): The AgapePress is reporting that Dr. Warren Throckmorton has expressed concerns about Richard Cohen and his unorthodox reparative therapy practices. Psychologist Dr. Warren Throckmorton, director...
- [Colbert Report on Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/colbert-report/): Click image see it on YouTube.com. The Malcontent also has a copy.
- [Spitzer Says Focus on the Family Misused His Research](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/spitzer-says-fo/): “Although a third of the subjects in my study reported having had serious thoughts of suicide related to their homosexuality, not one of them blamed...
- [APA Director Scolds Military for Classifying Homosexuality As Disorder](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/apa-director-sc/): As reported by the AP: A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position. The document outlines...
- [Focus/Family Adds to Its Distortion of Lesbian Teen-Suicide Research](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/focusfamily-add/): The Canadian Press — the Canadian branch of AP — has picked up and expanded upon the story first reported by Truth Wins Out last...
- [AFA Spreads Half-truth And Falsehood About Playground Assault](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/afa-spreads-hal/): Late this afternoon, the American “Family” Association’s AgapePress repeated an already disproven allegation about a playground altercation in Lexington, Mass., that is being promoted and...
- [Website Publishes Florida Petition Signers’ Identities](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/website-publish/): In Florida, one can vote to change the Constitution every two years. It takes approximately 600,000 signatures to get a proposed change on the ballot,...
- [Out And Cowed? Ex-Gay in the UK](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/out-and-cowed-e/): This article was originally published in Third Way magazine, June 2006 I ONLY had to say three syllables, and yet the simplest words turned out...
- [Nicolosi Offers Anger, Not Inspiration, to Antigay Families](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/nicolosi-offers/): The widely assumed intent of Focus on the Family’s exgay road show, titled “Love Won Out,” is to inspire compassionate conservatism and sexual purity in...
- [Study Author Criticizes Fryrear’s Distortion of Research on Lesbian Youth Suicide](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/study-author-cr/): Last week Focus on the Family published an article in which gender issues analyst and “former homosexual” Melissa Fryrear blames “pro-gay advocates” for high suicide...
- [In-Depth Observations From Inside ‘Love Won Out’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/in-depth-observ/): Steve Boese of A Tenable Belief attended the antigay/exgay roadshow Love Won Out near Washington, D.C., last weekend. He has written (as of now) three...
- [Danforth Advises Against Episcopal Divisiveness](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/danforth-advise/): John Danforth, Episcopal priest and previous Republican Senator and Ambassador to the United Nations spoke this week to the national convention of the Episcopal Church....
- [Rhetoric And Reality of the Ex-gay Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/rhetoric-and-re/): Eve Tushnet makes an interesting observation in her recent article in the National Review: During the entire nine hours of the conference, none of the...
- [Friday Tangent: Getting Tested](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/friday-tangent/): I loathe having to get tested. I haven’t been ho’ing around and I haven’t even done anything risky since I was tested last but I...
- [Must-Read Conservative Insight Into Exgay Ideology](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/must-read-conse/): Writer Eve Tushnet is a conservative Roman Catholic. Tushnet, whose article on the exgay roadshow Love Won Out appeared at National Review Online today, accepts...
- [Exgay Thoughts](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/exgay-thoughts/): A few days ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with local journalist Eve Tushnet, for her article on the ex-gay movement, for National Review...
- [REFUGE: No Law Against Forcing Your Child to Attend](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/refuge-no-law-a/): REFUGE, the new name for Love In Action, Memphis Tennessee, is a daughter ministry of Love In Action International, the largest member ministry of Exodus...
- [Exodus Begins to Distance Itself From Rev. DL Foster](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/exodus-begins-t/): Wayne Besen is reporting the following email reply from Alan Chambers of Exodus International concerning the recent posts by DL Foster. I just emailed DL...
- [White Ravens And Hair Care in the Ex-Gay Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/white-ravens-an/): An article by Rita Price in the Columbus Dispatch is either a very clever swipe at the ex-gay movement or an unintentionally hilarious sincere effort...
- [Boston Globe Article on New Hope](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/boston-globe-ar/): The Boston Globe published an article on Sunday by Tanya Erzen about the ex-gay movement. Erzen focused her observations on New Hope Ministry in San...
- [Religion And Sexuality Week](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/religion-and-se/): This week will be very important in ongoing efforts of mainline denominations to determine the appropriate response to gay Christians within their family. The Episcopal...
- [Who Are the Real Successors of Hitler?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/who-are-the-rea/): So Wayne Besen has been likened to Adolf Hitler by a notoriously extreme ex-gay proponent for whom the extra attention of mentioning his name would...
- [Oh the Pain, the Pain](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/oh-the-pain-the/): It should not be surprising that those who describe themselves as former homosexuals would have a negative view of “the homosexual lifestyle”. The testimonies on...
- [Exgay DL Foster Not a Big Fan of Anti-Fraud Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/exgay-dl-foster-3/): On the DL Foster has come completely unhinged over Truth Wins Out and posted this photo to his blog. Oh yes, that’s exactly what you...
- [Guidelines for Civility Among Commenters](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/guidelines-for/): Comments at XGW may be immediately deleted, or commenters may be banned, for the following reasons: Libel Slander Copyright violations Link spam Profanity Threats Namecalling...
- [Love Won Out - Washington DC](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/love-won-out-wa/): As people begin to post about their experiences at Love Won Out this weekend, I’ll continuously update this post. Steve Boese went inside the conference....
- [Attention “As the World Turns” Fans](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/attention-as-th/): AfterElton.com has this about an ex-gay camp plot: SPOILER ALERT Luke’s birth father (don’t ask–it’s a long story) recently reappeared, and next week will try...
- [Only “Ex-Gays For Pay” Callers Make It Past Alan Colmes Show Screener](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/only-ex-gays-fo/): [This post has been pulled so I can verify the extent to which David Blakeslee practices exgay therapy.]
- [We Love Bob Knight](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/we-love-bob-kni/): Can I just say I love the photo of Wayne Besen concerned woman Bob Knight is running in his story on Truth Wins Out. Watch...
- [Alan Chambers: One Week, Two Deceptive Figures](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/alan-chambers-o/): It’s been a schizophrenic past couple years for Alan Chambers. He never seems sure of how many queers his ministries have straightened out. On Monday...
- [XGWers At Los Angeles Pride](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/xgwers-at-los-a/): This upcoming weekend is Los Angeles Pride. Since I missed Peterson’s event, it would be great to have a chance to meet all of you...
- [A Look Back At Alan Chambers’ Political Motivation](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/a-look-back-at/): Randy Thomas and Alan Chambers recently went to Washington DC to lobby for the marriage amendment. Ex-Gay Watch readers have likely thought many different things...
- [Former Exgays Launch ‘Truth Wins Out’ in D.C.](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/former-exgays-l/): Corrected to reflect Nick Cavnar’s biographical details. Truth Wins Out launched today with a press event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Here...
- [Article 8 Complaint Depends on Relativist Standards of Gender Expression](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/article-8-compl/): Lungi Offending mannequins Article 8’s two primary gripes with the Macy*s mannequins appear to be: “Very bizarre. One mannequin is wearing what looks like some...
- [Anti-Gay Constitutional Amendment Defeated](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/anti-gay-consti/): The Constitution of the United States of America, Amendment XIV, Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the...
- [FRC President Tony Perkins on MSNBC’s Hardball Tonight](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/frc-president-t-2/): It’s supposed to air at 5 p.m. (ET) so this is short notice.  He is there to discuss today’s US Senate vote on the “Marriage...
- [Maryland Coalition Challenges Exgay Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/maryland-coalit/): (Sorry for the delay in posting this. Better late than never….) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, June 1, 2006 BROAD COALITION COUNTERS DAMAGING RHETORIC OF “CONVERSION...
- [Ex-gay in the UK - a Related Practical Question](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/ex-gay-in-the-u-2/): Group A is a conservative Christian “ex-gay” ministry. It does not encourage people to expect a change of orientation, and is critical of groups that...
- [Ex-gay in the UK](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/ex-gay-in-the-u/): The main difference between the ex-gay movement in the UK and the US is that, well, that there isn’t really much of an ex-gay movement...
- [Truth Wins OUT Website Is Up](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/truth-wins-out/): In Wednesday’s press conference, founder Wayne Besen will present a slide show (which can be found here) and Love In Action survivor Lance Carroll’s story...
- [From Peterson’s Show on Sunday](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/from-petersons/): (Sorry bout the funky colors, theater lighting is beyond even photoshop.)
- [A Christian Look At the Marriage Protection Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/a-christian-loo/): Alan Chambers, Randy Thomas, and many other anti-gay leaders of the ex-gay movement are in Washington, D.C. lending their support to efforts to exclude gay...
- [Exgays Exploited](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/exgays-exploite/): Steve Schalchlin, a co-founder of the online gay/exgay bridge-building project Bridges Across the Divide, comments on the political exploitation of exgays by Focus on the...
- [Pictures of Us](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/pictures-of-us/): Performance artist and former exgay Peterson Toscano was performing in Southern California last weekend. He has posted pictures of Ex-Gay Watch participants Daniel Gonzales, Regan...
- [Truth: Mike Haley V. Wayne Besen](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/truth-mike-hale/): I don’t know what they are proclaiming the truth to be — they like to claim that all the medical organizations are against reparative therapy...
- [Randy Thomas Ignores The Sacred Bond Of Marriage To Suit His Point](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/randy-thomas-ig/): Professional “former homosexual” and white male Randy Thomas had this to say over at his blog today: At today’s press conference one of my heroes,...
- [DL Foster, Lesbians And Logic](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/dl-foster-lesbi/): According to DL Foster, this statement – From what I know I believe there’s 80% of women, between 80 and 85% of women that are...
- [About Dave Rattigan](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/about-dave-ratt/): Glad to be here as a contributor to a blog of which I’ve been an avid reader for over a year. I am British-Canadian, and...
- [Love in Action Survivor Speaks to Protesters](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/love-in-action-11/): Lance Carroll spent last summer at Love in Action. He came back today to join Queer Action Coalition and the protesters outside. While Carroll’s prepared...
- [Exodus Goes to the Rose Garden](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/exodus-goes-to/): OOOPS… I didn’t see that Daniel had already posted about this before I posted. Sorry Daniel. But here’s my take on it: According to writer...
- [Randy Thomas And Alan Chambers Invited To White House, Lobby For Marriage Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/randy-thomas-an/): Randy Thomas and Alan Chambers are in DC to lobby for the Federal Marriage Amendment. (I refuse to use the various names for such an...
- [Ex-Gay TV Ad Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/ex-gay-tv-ad-wa/): A couple of hours ago I caught a portion of a TV commercial run by the Arlington Assembly of God. It’s not clear to me...
- [Nullifying Tolerance](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/nullifying-tole/): The leaders of the political religious right frequently criticize pro-tolerance advocacy: They protest that tolerance advocates are not tolerant of intolerance. They assert that it...
- [Exgay ‘Freedom From Freedom’ Campaign (Open Forum)](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/exgay-freedom-f/): Exodus has for years graced the world with an innovative plan for “freedom.” Exodus was first to offer the world a “Freedom from Homosexuality” campaign....
- [Stephen Bennett to Evangelize WorldPride in Jerusalem](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/stephen-bennett-20/): August has been evangelism season for Stephen Bennett Ministries: In 2003, he took a group to Provincetown and met with resistance from gays, some of...
- [Love In Action Survivor One Year Later](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/love-in-action-10/): One year ago next week the gay community, and many straight supporters, were energized by the story of a teenager named Zach who was being...
- [Wayne Besen Announces Launch Of New Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/wayne-besen-ann/): Posted today on Wayne’s site: ‘Truth Wins Out’ to Take on Key Issue In Anti-Gay Campaigns Washington, DC — As President Bush and Congress prepare...
- [Minnesota Methodists Support Inclusion](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/minnesota-metho/): From WCCO Methodists in Minnesota have approved ordaining gay clergy and accepting gay marriage at the state convention in St. Cloud. The annual convention will...
- [Exgay Ministries Move to Stifle Dissent On Discussion Forums](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/exgay-ministrie/): Last week I received a rather bizarre email from a woman identifying herself as Carrie informing me DesertStream.org (an exgay ministry) had shut down their...
- [Two Anti-Gay Media Outlets Go Down](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/06/two-anti-gay-me/): Alain’s Newsletter, classified as hate speech by Google and supported by the TVC, recently discontinued publishing and put up a splash page on the domain’s...
- [Dobson: “Marriage Is Under Vicious Attack…From The Forces Of Hell”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/dobson-marriage/): Today’s Focus on the Family broadcast was the first in a series designed to whip up hysteria over gay marriage and try an convince black...
- [Audio: Ex-Lesbian Janet Boynes Gives Questionable Statistics](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/audio-ex-lesbia/): In a podcast interview with Kim Jeffries, ex-lesbian Janet Boynes cites makes up some interesting statistics: Jeffries: I understand that’s not uncommon that there has...
- [Villain in X-Men 3 Parallels Reparative-Therapy Movement Founder](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/villain-in-x-me/): I saw X-Men 3 at the Hollywood & Highland Chinese today and noticed some things I didn’t get from the previews… Charles Socarides, founder of...
- [Creepy ‘Christian’ Website: Parody Or Hate?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/creepy-christia/): When I originally wrote this post, I assumed that Jesus Loves Everything was a hate site — hate gays, hate China, hate freedom for anyone...
- [True Prophet Vs. Servant to Worldly Powers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/true-prophet-vs/): Feminary is a “socially liberal theologically orthodox inclusive tolerant feminist Episcopalian (who) goes to one of the world’s top evangelical seminaries.” Feminary’s preaching class recently...
- [SNL’s ‘Heteroy’ Changed Homosexuals Into Bible-Thumpers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/snls-heteroy-ch/): In October 1998, Saturday Night Live‘s animated TV Funhouse skit invented an exgay superhero. Watch the video: Heteroy has real-world counterparts: LiveJournal blogger Keith recently...
- [LA Times: ‘Ex-Gays’ Seek a Say in Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/la-times-ex-gay/): The Los Angeles Times reports that antigay Christians and Jews are challenging and sometimes suing school districts: If proponents of tolerance and opponents of bullying...
- [Divinity Student Says ‘Love In Action’ Resembles Canaanite Child Sacrifice](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/05/divinity-studen/): Blogger Brian Rainey is pursuing a Master of Divinity degree at Harvard Divinity School. He is currently focusing in Hebrew Bible and Political Theology. He...
- [Open Forum: The New Name for Ex-Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/open-forum-the-2/): People Formerly Identified as Formerly-Gay-Identified.
- [Exgay TV Show to Air on ‘Christian’ Networks](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/exgay-tv-show-t/): From The Advocate: A television show hosted by and featuring “ex-gays,” including a former prostitute and a self-confessed thief, is preparing for its launch on...
- [New Blog Aims to Track Deceptions of the Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/new-blog-aims-t/): In anticipation of his upcoming book, Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters, Alvin McEwen has begun a weblog that itemizes the day-to-day and strategic deceptions of...
- [Dos Cristianos Escriben Sobre Su Fe Y Sus Deseos Homosexuales](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/dos-cristianos/): In August 2006, Peterson Toscano and a friend nicknamed Ariadna launched a Spanish-language blog, Dos Equis, that looks at the ex-gay movement as well as...
- [Note From Dan](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/note-from-dan/): I’ll be in Austin, TX through Tuesday night so in the meantime send urgent news and story tips to one of your other favorite XGW...
- [Open Forum: A Comment on Mormons And Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/open-forum-a-co/): From a comment to XGW today: …I feel this information might be important: The Mormon/LDS Church has published on their news-web a pseudo-interview with two...
- [Archbishop’s U-turn: Gays Must Change?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/archbishops-u-t/): Archbishop Rowan Williams’s most recent remarks about homosexuality have been widely interpreted as “gays must change”. Speaking in the Sunday Telegraph last month, ++Rowan said:...
- [Thoughts for Peterson](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/thoughts-for-pe/): I’m sure readers and authors alike would like to join me in sending some love Peterson’s way today.
- [Palm Springs Rally Organizers Charter Bus to Indian Wells](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/palm-springs-ra/): I just spoke with a delightful woman from Palm Springs N.O.W. who explained why the Unity Rally organizers have chartered a bus to take participants...
- [Seeking Reformists (and A Social Life) in New England](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/seeking-reformi/): If you live in the northeastern United States, I’d like to hear from you. I have just moved to Hartford, Connecticut — lured north from...
- [NARTH Quietly Revises History Concerning Berger Comment](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/narth-quietly-r/): As you may have read recently, NARTH has received a lot of criticism over the callous advice of one of their committee members, Joseph Berger,...
- [Palm Springs Mayor to Attend LWO](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/palm-springs-ma/): Gay Palm Springs mayor Ron Oden announced at a press conference today he: …would accept Thursday’s invitation from Focus on the Family to attend the...
- [Palm Springs’ Gay Mayor Welcomes Upcoming Love Won Out](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/palm-springs-ga/): After being contacted by friend of XGW Scott H, openly gay mayor of Palm Springs Ron Oden rolled out the welcome mat in The Desert...
- [NARTH Scientific Advisory Committee Member Joseph Berger Advocates Children Teasing Gender-nonconforming Peers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/narth-scientifi/): From PinkNews.co.uk: Gay pressure groups have accused an “ex-gay” organisation of “inviting child abuse” after claiming children with gender identity issues should be exposed to...
- [Alan Chambers Turns Domestic-Violence Fact Into Fiction](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/alan-chambers-t-2/): In another dazzling display of deception that borders on the unethical, Exodus President Alan Chambers and Focus on the Family News have taken a Department...
- [Anti-Gay Activist in Charge of Screening Minnesota Police Officers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/anti-gay-activi-2/): Michael A. Campion gets to make decisions as to whether applicants are psychologically fit to be police officers at a number of departments in Illinois....
- [AGLP Film Project on Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/aglp-film-proje/): The Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists has a new film project underway about reparative therapy: Abomination: Homosexuality and the Ex-Gay Movement. Abomination focuses on...
- [Alan Chambers’ Personal Reference for Truthfulness](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/alan-chambers-p/): In responding to comments on the thread below about whether the use of the term “the homosexual” was intentionally offensive, Alan Chambers said the following:...
- [Exodus Has A New Book Out](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/exodus-has-a-ne/): Alan Chambers and the “leadership team of Exodus” have a new book out titled “God’s Grace And the Homosexual Next Door: A Guide to Overcoming...
- [Photos - Truth Wins Out Protest At Dallas Exgay Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/photos-truth-wi/): Voila! Photos from the Truth Wins Out protest in Dallas over the weekend. Lots more images after the jump…
- [Report From TWO Protest At Dallas Exgay Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/report-from-two/): When I was putting this together a week ago I thought it’d just be me out there.-Wayne Besen Hearing that Wayne needed help as well...
- [Friday Musings on Faith](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/friday-musings/): The following are a few of my musings on faith and religion. If that’s not your thing, you may want to skip this thread.
- [AgapePress Describes Attendees of San Diego Pride As Sodomites](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/agapepress-desc/): Really now, who uses the term “sodomite” anymore except maybe Fred Phelps? The AgapePress, that’s who: Hartline says last year the not-for-profit San Diego Pride...
- [Would That Be a Money-Back Guarantee?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/would-that-be-a/): On an Australian radio program ex-gay Richard Cohen may have said the stupidist thing to date about ex-gay ministries: RICHARD COHEN: I was exclusively homosexual....
- [Truth Wins Out Seeks Participants for Response to Exodus Event in Texas](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/truth-wins-out-4/): On Saturday August 26th Living Hope Ministries is having an exgay conference at Vista Ridge Baptist Church in Carrollton, TX. Wayne Besen of Truth Wins...
- [Infographic: Exgay Groups Pose As Moderates for APA Protest](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/infographic-exg/): I knew something had to be done with the images from the recent exgay protest at the APA convention. The two groups who organized the...
- [NARTH And TVC Use Pejorative Term ‘Shemales’ in Article About Gender-Queer](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/narth-and-tvc-u/): Both NARTH and the Tradititional Values Coalition have published summaries/reactions to a story in The Advocate titled “Life in the T Zone – With the...
- [Oregon Christian Coalition Leader Admits Molestation](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/oregon-christia-2/): We briefly discussed the accusations against Lou Beres, previous leader of the Oregon Christian Coalition and a long-time anti-gay activist, relating to inappropriate behavious with...
- [Fools At AFA, Christian Post Continue to Count on Paul Cameron](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/fools-at-afa-ch/): Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute has been completely discredited. After being expelled from the American Psychological Association and condemned by resolution of the...
- [Ex-Gay Champions Homophobia](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/ex-gay-champion/): It is true that sometimes the gay community will make misplaced accusations of homophobia. Sometimes those who may not support full equality for gay people...
- [Peter LaBarbera Resigns From Illinois Family Institute](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/peter-labarbera-2/): “Porno-Pete” LaBarbera has resigned his position as Executive Director of the Illinois Family Institute to: …pursue his goal of creating a national organization dedicated to...
- [W. W. Finlator, Early Southern Baptist Preacher to Oppose Discrimination, Died](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/w-w-finlator-ea/): According to the Associated Baptist Press, W. W. Finlator, longtime pastor of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, died of pneumonia July 3. He was...
- [Exodus’ Changed Priorities](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/exodus-changed/): In Straight to Jesus, Tanya Erzen notes that after Alan Chambers took the helm of Exodus International in 2001 the organization became much more political....
- [Just for a Chuckle](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/just-for-a-chuc/): Perhaps it was intentional, perhaps it was a matter of two countries separated by a common language, but I had to chuckle at this headline...
- [Upcoming NPR Program](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/upcoming-npr-pr/): NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross has an upcoming piece on the ex-gay movement. Those interviewed include Tanya Erzen, Alan Chambers, and an ex-ex-gay New...
- [Attraction And Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/attraction-and/): In reading Tanya Erzen’s Straight to Jesus (get this book) a number of things jumped out at me as being relevant to our discussions here....
- [Straight to Jesus](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/straight-to-jes/): I’ve finally read Tanya Erzen’s Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a...
- [AP Reports NARTH’s APA Protest](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/ap-reports-nart/): An AP article reports on the two dozen protesters that NARTH and FOTF shipped in to protest the APA’s position on reorientation. The group, which...
- [Photos From the NARTH/Exodus Protest At APA Convention](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/photos-from-the/): Wayne has posted some photos from yesterday’s NARTH/Exodus protest. They’re kind of blurry but I swear that’s Randy “boy wonder” Thomas in the orange. Alan...
- [Friday Free-For-All](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/friday-free-for/): Here’s a chance to do some off-subject commenting. Try to keep it at least somewhat relevant to the site and, as always, follow the guidelines....
- [Wishing Ben Well](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/wishing-ben-wel/): For about two years, Ben, a early-20’s guy struggling to reconcile his sexual orientation and his religious faith, blogged on a site called Scattered Words....
- [APA Releases Statement on Conversion Therapy Following Protest](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/apa-releases-st/): “For over three decades the consensus of the mental health community has been that homosexuality is not an illness and therefore not in need of...
- [Texas Ford Dealers Don’t Want Gay Customers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/texas-ford-deal/): This is a very late response to a letter written on June 23, 2006. The board of the Greater Texas Ford Dealers Advertising Fund which...
- [Truth Wins Out to Counter Antigay Coalition’s ‘Subversion of Science’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/truth-wins-out-3/): FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 10, 2006 TRUTH WINS OUT TO COUNTER ANTI-GAY COALITION’S ‘SUBVERSION OF SCIENCE’ AT AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION’S CONVENTION Religion-Based Bigots Cloak Scripture...
- [Pot Calls Kettle Black: Exodus Criticizes APA for Informing Public Policy](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/pot-calls-kettl/): This press release from Exodus caused me to laugh out loud: Exodus International will join several other national organizations to protest the American Psychological Association’s...
- [To Thine Own Self](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/to-thine-own-se/): Michael McManus (not the “marriage-protecting” conservative commentator) discusses in the student newspaper of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, how he stopped being a people-pleasing pushover:...
- [Stephen Bennett’s WorldPride Blog](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/stephen-bennett-21/): In case you forgot, Stephen Bennett is currently conducting an “outreach” at WorldPride 2006. He’s got a special blog to detail their activities here. I’d...
- [Diagram: What Is An Ex-Gay?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/diagram-what-is/): There’s been a great deal of discussion recently at Warren Throckmorton’s site regarding Alan Chambers’ possible retirement of the term “ex-gay.” Although I didn’t join...
- [Mixed Orientation Mormon Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/mixed-orientati-2/): There is an article in the Salt Lake Tribune about gay/straight married Mormons. These are relationships in which straight women knowingly marry gay men. While...
- [Focus Strikes Out With Atlanta Braves](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/focus-strikes-o/): According to the Southern Voice, The Atlanta Braves have asked that anti-gay Focus on the Family not be included in future Faith Days events.  “We...
- [Visitor/Commenter Adam Kautz Banned](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/visitorcommente/): An infrequent visitor/commenter named Adam Kautz has posted 12 comments at Ex-Gay Watch in the past three years. One prior comment was deleted because Kautz...
- [Beat Him Straight: Do Ex-Gay Ministries Have Blood on Their Hands?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/beat-him-straig/): This past weekend in El Paso, three young men kidnapped a gay teen, tied him up, and beat him all night. the attackers told the...
- [Anti-Gay “Love” Seems More Like Hate](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/anti-gay-love-s/): Anti-gay activist often claim to “love the sinner, hate the sin”. A recent example is Guy Adams of Renew America who (in the midst of...
- [Renaming Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/renaming-ex-gay/): According to Michael Bussee at Warren Throckmorton’s site, Alan Chambers seeks to do away with the term “Ex-Gay”. Michael Bussee quoted Alan Chambers, Ex. Dir....
- [Ex-Gay Minister Became a Supporter](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/ex-gay-minister-3/): There is an article in the Washington MetroWeekly about a gay-supportive African American minister that is leaving DC and going to a church in New...
- [Guy Adams of Renew America Says “Gays Having Sex With Infants” Is New Trend](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/guy-adams-of-re/): Guy Adams recently spoke with Stacy L. Harp on her podcast, The Right View.  Incredibly, during the interview he claimed that the new trend among...
- [Jeffrey John: Ex-gay of Sorts](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/jeffrey-john-ex/): I challenged a blogger the other day on his consistent use of the most juvenile, sophomoric insults to express his belief that homosexuality is a...
- [On a Personal Note](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/on-a-personal-n/): I need to gloat for a moment. I just passed my ninth architectural registration exam. If I lived in any other state besides CA or...
- [Exodus Blog Reprints Article Containing Known Factual Errors](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/exodus-blog-rep/): Here Exodus blogger Nancy Brown reprints an aricle from the Agapepress so poorly written it confuses the difference between sex and gender as well as...
- [Anti-Gay T-Shirt Update](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/anti-gay-t-shir-2/): As discussed before, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that anti-gay activists do not have a constitutional right to go into the classroom...
- [CWA Intern Repeats LaBarbera’s Deceptions](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/cwa-intern-repe/): UPDATED Concerned Women for America has an internship program in which they train young women to be culture warriors against those who don’t share CWA’s...
- [Exodus Staff And the Florida Marriage Amendment Petition](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/08/exodus-staff-an/): KnowThyNeighbor.org, which is a website which publishes the names of everyone who signed the petition to amend the Florida state constitution defining marriage. I naturally...
- [Hartline Comments on Bathhouse Protest](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/hartline-commen/): As we’ve discussed before, the IFI protest at the Gay Games in Chicago were highly ineffective. The protesters were outnumbered and then rain washed them...
- [XGW At San Diego Pride](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/xgw-at-san-dieg/): I’m in San Diego this weekend for San Diego Pride and was lucky enough to meet friend of Ex-Gay Watch Autumn Sandeen.
- [Protest At Courage Meeting in St. Louis](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/protest-at-cour/): The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an article about Courage, the Catholic ex-gay group, meeting there and a protest held by Catholic Action Network for Social...
- [Is Exodus Complying with Tax Law?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/is-exodus-compl/): The Internal Revenue Code has a long history of favorable tax treatment for “ministers of the gospel”. I do not prepare income tax returns for...
- [A Post Revisited](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/a-post-revisite/): Last month when I wrote about the death of HIV+ Exodus board member Michael Lumberger, the post generated a great deal of comments and discussion....
- [Nancy Heche’s “Love” Shows Its True Colors](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/nancy-heches-lo/): Focus on the Family’s ex-gay roadshow, Love Won Out, has presented Dr. Nancy Heche (doctorate in pastoral counseling) as an authority on sexual orientation issues....
- [Good Times This Weekend](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/good-times-this/): I’m headed to San Diego pride this weekend. Does anyone know if James Hartline has anything festive planned?
- [Chad Thompson Provides An Ex-Gay Angle on X-Men 3](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/chad-thompson-p/): Chad Thompson, one of the most fair-minded exgay activists I know just wrote a piece on X-Men 3. (I know he’s a wee bit late.)...
- [Alan Chambers: Gays Trying to Portray Themselves As Equals](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/alan-chambers-g/): From Family News In Focus today: Some think the ads [on gay marriage] having nothing to do with marriage. Alan Chambers is with Exodus International....
- [LaBarbera’s Bathhouse Visit - One More Thread](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/labarberas-bath/): We now have a report from the Windy City Times about Peter LaBarbera’s outreach to Steamworks, a gay bathhouse in Chicago on the final Saturday...
- [Why the Ex-Gay Debate Is So Important](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/why-the-ex-gay/): Anti-gay activists spend millions of dollars every year to promote the idea that “change is possible”. Although there is no empirical evidence to support their...
- [The Proper Response to Bashing](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/the-proper-resp/): Papers around the country are picking up an AP article by Ling Liu in which heterosexuals complain about mistreatment in Provincetown, Mass., a gay resort...
- [AgapePress’ Jim Brown Fails to Open Dictionary to “transgender”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/agapepress-jim/): From Jim Brown over at the Agape today: Transgenders are individuals who have changed their sex through surgery, or at least have tried to. Hmm…...
- [AgapePress / Bob Knight Confuse Sex And Gender](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/agapepress-bob/): The AgapePress begins with apples: Students looking to enter the Harvard Business School MBA program are asked to fill out an online profile that offers...
- [Haley’s Claims Contrast with Reporter’s Experiences](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/haleys-claims-c/): Cindy Rodriguez, columnist for the Denver Post, attended the peace vigil that Soulforce organized to pray for the end of James Dobson’s persecution of gay...
- [Ex-gay Protest of Gay Games Comes to an End](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/ex-gay-protest/): With the culmination of the Gay Games VII in Chicago, so too ends the protest led by IFI’s LaBarbera and his crew of less-than-reputable ex-gays....
- [Water: a Deepa Mehta Film](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/water-a-deepa-m/): My family came to town for my birthday and we saw the Indian film Water. (official site / apple.com trailer) It’s the story of 8-year-old...
- [LaBarbera’s Ex-Gay Message to Chicago’s Gay Games](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/labarberas-ex-g/): We reported earlier that Peter LaBarbera was to be in town to “counter the upcoming Gay Games events in Chicago with a ‘Truth and Love...
- [Articles Unpublished](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/articles-unpubl/): I’ve unpublished three recent articles: 1. My item on the Taiwan hospital and parents that incarcerated a gay youth for 56 days on false claims...
- [New England Says “NO” to Anti-Marriage Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/new-england-say/): Marriage equality has been legal now in the State of Massachusetts for over two years. In Vermont, civil unions have been open to gay couples...
- [Leaving Ex-Gay Efforts Turned Latvian Priest Christian](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/leaving-ex-gay/): In an ironic twist, a priest in Latvia tells of his efforts to become ex-gay and how after they failed he found acceptance from God....
- [LeVay Exposes Evergreen’s Deception](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/levay-exposes-e/): On July 8, David Clarke Pruden, the executive director of Evergreen International, an ex-gay group for Mormons, wrote an opinion piece in the Salt Lake...
- [NARTH Enters the Blogosphere](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/narth-enters-th/): Yes, NARTH has entered the blogosphere. Alas, there’s still a long way to go before they truly enter the 21st century.
- [Numerous Inaccuracies in Focus’ Attack on Transgendered Child](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/numerous-inaccu/): When Focus goes after transgender issues it’s both sad and comical how little they appear to know. This time they’re all worked up about a...
- [Dan’s Over LA](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/dans-over-la/): I’m currently exploring my options for moving to a gay-friendly city with more affordable housing than exists in southern California. Cities must have at least...
- [Ex-Gays At the Gay Games](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/ex-gays-at-the/): Athletes from around the globe are converging on Chicago for Gay Games VII. But they will not be alone. Also in attendance will be ex-gays...
- [Do You Moo?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/do-you-moo/): Borndifferent.org is seeking to let Colorado Springs meet Norman, a dog that says “Moo”. It’s part of an effort to encourage discussion about the biological...
- [Unrealized Expectations](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/unrealized-expe/): People Can Change, a seminar series that purports to help people reorient, has polled participants on their website. Although only a small percentage took the...
- [Dan’s Roommate From the Nicolosi Years](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/dans-roommate-f/): As I detail in my bio I saw Joe Nicolosi for exgay therapy during my freshman and sophomore years of college. Both years I had...
- [Lowest Divorce Rates in States Favorable to Gay Partnerships](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/lowest-divorce/): Christian Right Wrong On Gay Marriage in Massachusetts:Mass Likely To Retain Lowest Divorce Rate Spot In 2005,States Hostile to Gay Marriage Lag by Bruce WIlson,...
- [Christians Should Not Wish for a Theocracy](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/christians-shou/): There is an excellent article in the most recent issue of Christianity Today entitled “The Lure of Theocracy.”  It is a great illustration of why...
- [Exodus’ Home County Blocks Antigay Discrimination in Housing](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/exodus-home-cou/): (Most of the Orlando Sentinel articles linked in this post are behind a paywall.) While Exodus 2005 keynote speaker Jerry Falwell claims to support equal...
- [Exgay Mormon Leader Twists Science to Accuse Others Of… Twisting Science](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/exgay-mormon-le/): Writing in the Salt Lake Tribune, Mormon exgay activist David Clarke Pruden — head of Evergreen International — misrepresents gay activist claims about scientific research...
- [PFOX President Lashes Out At Critic of Exgays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/pfox-president-2/): From Wayne Besen: Today, disgraced “counselor” Richard Cohen has once again gone off the deep end with insane attacks against me. My crime – informing...
- [Salon.com Reviews ‘Straight to Jesus’ About Exgay Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/saloncom-review/): Read Gay, godly and guilty, written by Laura Miller for Salon.com. Miller interviews Tanya Erzen, author of the new book Straight to Jesus. Then read...
- [It’s Hard to Hate a Clown](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/its-hard-to-hat/): Gay Pride in Kansas City was invaded by an anti-gay clown. And this one was dressed up in clown make-up. It was a busy busy...
- [Open Forum: Eerie Look Into the Past Reveals That Some Lies Haven’t Changed](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/open-forum-eeri/): While browsing the blog Two World Collision, I found the following video clip from the 1950’s.  It was apparently produced as a joint project between...
- [‘We Are Thinking’: Exgay PAC Seeks to Splinter Civil-Rights Movements](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/07/we-are-thinking/): Updated to reflect the location of WeAreThinking PAC. There has never been just one civil rights movement; there have been numerous movements: for Jews and...
- [Barry Goldwater, 1981: Resisting the Arrogant Power of the Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/barry-goldwater/): From Barry Goldwater via Wikipedia via Andrew Sullivan: “On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people...
- [From Focus on the Family: Yours Free for a Required Donation?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/from-focus-on-t/): Apparently too many people have been requesting antihomosexual and exgay resources from Focus on the Family while offering less than the organization’s “suggested donation.” So...
- [Dobson Invites Ann Coulter to Rally His ‘Values Voters’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/dobson-invites/): Karl Rove called him “nuts.” Former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey called him a threat to religious liberty. And evangelical voters and Baptist leaders...
- [Open Forum: Your Favorite Exgay Blogs](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/open-forum-your/): Tell us about exgay blogs that dare to think outside the box of the political religious right.
- [Open Forum: Name Your Favorite Exgay Or Former-Exgay Music, Books And Movies](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/open-forum-name/): What should Ex-Gay Watch review or advertise in the future?
- [Exodus Lobbyist: Fairness in Journalism for Me, Maybe Not for Thee](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/exodus-lobbyist-2/): Lobbyist Randy Thomas complains on the Exodus blog that, at the Family Research Council’s misnamed “Liberty Sunday” event last weekend, a reporter for the Boston...
- [Former Exgay Educates Illinoisans About Sexual, Spiritual Struggle](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/former-exgay-ed/): From the Daily Egyptian, the student newspaper at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale: You can’t make fish fly, but you can chuck them across the...
- [Ex-gay Lobbyist Thomas Claims Gays Mortified At Gay Activism](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/ex-gay-lobbyist/): The leadership at Exodus seems to have come up with a bizarre and totally unsubstantiated new talking-point claiming “most” gay people don’t care much for...
- [Exodus Board Member Undermines Ohio Domestic-Violence Law](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/exodus-board-me-4/): Exodus board member Phil Burress is the president of Ohio’s misnamed Citizens for Community Values, which identifies itself as “Officially Associated with Focus on the...
- [Did Alan Chambers Follow His Book’s Advice to ‘Stand Up for Gay People’ After Liberty Sunday Profanities?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/did-alan-chambe/): “God’s Grace and the Homosexual Next Door” is a new book written by several senior leaders at Exodus International. On page 115: Stand up for...
- [Transglobal Ethnic Profiling At Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/transglobal-eth/): From Wayne Besen, Sept. 27: The ex-gay group Exodus International got into the ethnic profiling game this week by claiming Thai students become hookers because...
- [Academics Refute FRC’s Pedophile-Pandering](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/academics-refut/): Tony Perkins, leader of the Family Research Council, is a former Louisiana lawmaker with fundraising ties to the KKK dating to 1996 and political ties...
- [Speaker Uses FRC Podium to Voice Bigoted Rape Fantasies](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/speaker-uses-fr/): Last weekend at a Family Research Council event — a gathering of politicians and religious power-seekers that was misnamed “Liberty Sunday” — Bishop Wellington Boone...
- [Dobson’s Quest for Power](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/dobsons-quest-f/): As if to prove Dick Armey right, James Dobson is scrambling to shore up his own power in the Republican Party. Speaking in Tennessee, Dobson...
- [Dick Armey: James Dobson Is Imperiling Religious Freedom](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/dick-armey-jame/): Commentaries on Dick Armey’s Oct. 12 statement against Focus on the Family are available from: Andrew Sullivan Jesus Politics via Will Hinton Malcontent Andrew Sullivan...
- [Religious-Right Correctness: An Effort to Rebuild Tower of Babel?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/religious-right-13/): From Dwight at A Religious Liberal Blog: This was a quote I gleamed off of Fr Jake’s site. It identifies a problem with the drive...
- [Thoughts on “God’s Grace And the Homosexual Next Door”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/thoughts-on-god/): “God’s Grace and the Homosexual Next Door” is a new book written by several senior leaders at Exodus International. On page 69: “Some Christians believe...
- [‘Identities’ That Are ‘Contrary to Christ’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/identities-that/): Exodus President Alan Chambers and staffer Mike Goeke pass judgment against “identities” that are “contrary to Christ.” They also slap Roman Catholics in the face...
- [NARTH Introduces Reprint/Synopsis Series Because…?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/narth-introduce/): The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) has announced that it is going to begin a reprint and synopsis series. Included in...
- [LA Times Picks Up On NARTH’s Berger & Schoenewolf Statements](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/la-times-picks/): “Its statements routinely outrage gay-rights activists. But two commentaries posted online in recent months by members of NARTH’s scientific advisory committee have raised concerns among...
- [UK: Anti-Gay “Pure” University Course](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/uk-anti-gay-pur/): The Times Online and PinkNews are reporting that UK students nationwide have joined an online protest (on Facebook) against a campus based Christian course —...
- [Civil Rights Movement: Political Correctness Or Moral Decency?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/civil-rights-mo/): Sexual Identity Therapist Dr. Warren Throckmorton, who recently pulled out of the NARTH conference program over their handling of Dr. Gerald Schoenewolf’s justification of slavery,...
- [New Book By Exodus Leadership Calls ‘Celibate Gay Life’ A Sin](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/new-book-by-exo/): Pro-exgay blogger Disputed Mutability calls the Exodus leaders’ new book, God’s Grace and the Homosexual Next Door, “profoundly alienating.” DM is especially dismayed at Exodus...
- [Wayne Besen Speaking in Long Beach](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/wayne-besen-spe/): Wayne Besen will be speaking at Glory Tabernacle Christian Center in Long Beach, Calif., this Saturday, Oct. 14, at 11 a.m.
- [If You Own a Blog Or Personal Web Site…](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/if-you-own-a-bl/): If you write a blog or own a personal web site, and you’d like to track XGW’s latest headlines, please feel free to add the...
- [NARTH & Dr. Schoenewolf Respond to Southern Poverty Law Center](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/narth-dr-schoen/): Last week, the Southern Policy Law Center posted an article about the controversial paper (pdf) written by Dr. Gerald Schoenewolf, a member of the NARTH...
- [The Politicized Vs. The Personal](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/the-politicized/): From Focus on the Family’s ‘Love Won Out’ Conference Comes to Woodstock; Message That ‘Change is Possible'” to Be Shared in Georgia on Nov. 4:...
- [Exodus’ Healing Message to Homosexuals: You Don’t Exist](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/exodus-healing/): Pure Passion is a new weekly television series endorsed and promoted by Exodus International and co-hosted by Exodus President Alan Chambers. David Kyle Foster produced...
- [Exodus President Alan Chambers Tells NPR Most Gays Aren’t Interested in Anti-Discrimination Laws](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/exodus-presiden-6/): Chambers made that bizarre statement on NPR’s Fresh Air this morning (alternate link 1 / alternate link 2). I created the following video to document...
- [The Qualifications to Advise NARTH: Burtoft](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/the-qualificati-2/): NARTH presents itself as a secular organization whose “primary goal is to make effective psychological therapy available to all homosexual men and women who seek...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Author Responds to “I Hate Being Gay” Article in the Advocate](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/ex-gay-watch-au/): On September 15, a young man named Kyle Rice wrote a “first person” article in the Advocate titled I Hate Being Gay. Kyle described how...
- [Scouting For All Rally in San Diego](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/scouting-for-al/): NARTH, PFOX, the CWA — these folk all find the Boy Scouts among their issues. Well, the San Diego chapter of Scouting For All held...
- [Video Clip: My Exodus From Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/video-clip-my-e/): Created by Dan Rickard, this appears to be a sincere and heartfelt presentation of one young man’s experience with anti-gay shame imposed by both family...
- [Wayne Besen Hospitalized](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/wayne-besen-hos/): Clearly displeased with his work,Earlier this week God struckWayne Besen suffered with a stomach ailment that briefly hospitalized him. XGW invites readers, who are so...
- [Holy Potpourri, Batman!  Dobson Decries Any Evangelical-Foley Link](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/holy-potpourri/): I don’t know what disingenuous smells like, but I’m guessing disingenuous smells something quite the opposite of potpourri. From Dr. Dobson Responds to Liberal Attacks...
- [Southern Poverty Law Center Weighs in on NARTH’s Schoenewolf Article](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/southern-povert/): Yesterday (Oct. 6) the Southern Poverty Law Center weighed in on the NARTH Schoenewolf controversy with an Intelligence Report article “Ex-gay” psychologist claims Africans “better...
- [Former Exgay to Appear on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/former-exgay-to/): Former exgay Shawn O’Donnell will be interviewed by Terry Gross of National Public Radio’s Fresh Air program on Monday, October 9. Visit www.freshair.com to find...
- [Exgay Stephen Bennett Appeals for Foley Media Attention](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/exgay-stephen-b-2/): Stephen Bennett of Stephen Bennett Ministries is available for comment on the Foley scandal. From the “Foley, Molestation and Homosexuality — Expert Available for Comment”...
- [Men Can Stop Rape: Masculinities in Media](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/men-can-stop-ra/): Nine years ago, I co-founded the Men’s Rape Prevention Project (archive link), the predecessor organization to Men Can Stop Rape. MCSR assists high schools and...
- [Question for Readers: What’s the Name, Location of Foley’s Rehab Center](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/question-for-re/): We’d like to know. If you know, please tell us via e-mail — and include the source of your information.
- [Exodus Reacts to Foley Teen Sex-Messaging Scandal](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/exodus-reacts-t-2/): On Sept. 29, Exodus’ resident lobbyist Randy Thomas employed admirable restraint in his personal blog by offering a politically neutral focus on the charges against...
- [A Look At the Science: Are Homosexual Men More Or Less Likely to Molest?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/a-look-at-the-s/): In former Rep. Mark Foley of Florida, the underwriters political partners of the exgay movement see both a threat to their growing influence in Congress,...
- [Peter LaBarbera: There Is a Higher Element of This…the Word Is Pederasty…](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/peter-labarbera-3/): I loathe the idea of commenting on the Foley scandal here in the XGW; however; Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth commented on the scandal,...
- [NARTH’s Changing Disclaimer: The Buck Doesn’t Even Pause Here](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/narths-changing/): During the past few weeks, NARTH has made quiet changes to their disclaimer concerning the views voiced on their blog. This includes the blog administrators...
- [Resignations Mark Disbelief Over NARTH’s Lack of Accountability](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/resignations-ma/): Source: wthrockmorton.blogspot.com Late this afternoon, Dr. Warren Throckmorton wrote in his blog: Call me crazy but I have decided not to present the Sexual Identity...
- [July’s ‘City of Sodom’ Pride Event Still a Fresh James Hartline Topic](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/julys-city-of-s/): Maybe it’s because I still live in San Diego/Sodom that I care about all things James Hartline — my city’s perennial ex-gay activist. Here it’s...
- [“The Heterosexual Agenda” - What the Sex Studies Used Against Gays Say About Straights](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/the-heterosexua-2/): Friend of Exgaywatch Jim Burroway describes it this way: I’ve spent the better part of the past year or more looking at how the far...
- [Exodus Member Ministry in Wisconsin Enters Marriage Debate](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/exodus-member-m/): Someone who appears to be an ex-gay wrote an editorial in the Oshkosh Northwestern in favor of the Wisconsin marriage amendment: …many people with homosexual...
- [“Allow Myself to Introduce… Myself!”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/allow-myself-to/): To quote Austin Powers…”Allow myself to introduce… myself!”
- [TVC: “Will Cross-Dressing Activists Come To Your School?”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/tvc-will-cross/): The Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) released a press release and report on September 26th entitled Will Cross-Dressing Activists Come To Your School?. (Off-TVC Link to...
- [Open Forum: Project Runway’s Exgay Success Story](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/open-forum-proj-2/): It’s Nazri. How so? Whether she’s wearing salt ‘n’ pepper or a tie dye, Nazri is sexy enough to turn a gay man straight. Uh...
- [Author Tanya Erzen on Public Radio](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/author-tanya-er/): Tanya Erzen, author of “Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement” was recently on Orange County’s NPR affiliate KPCC discussing her...
- [Sex, Lies, And Oprah](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/sex-lies-and-op/): Peter LaBarbera’s anti-gay group, Americans For Truth, delighted in today’s Oprah show. He posted this article: Oprah Exposes NAMBLA: Homosexual Pedophiles Online …Mr. Eisenwald [sic]...
- [NARTH & Focus on the Family Cooperate on DVD Presentation](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/narth-focus-on/): Focus on the Family’s Mike Haley and National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality founder and president Joseph Nicolosi have participated in the making...
- [Schoenewolf Defended By NARTH’s Blog Administrator on NARTH’s Blog Site (UPDATED)](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/schoenewolf-def/): The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is not pleased that they are being perceived as an organization that endorses slavery and...
- [Gay Brothers Study](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/gay-brothers-st/): There is an article today in the Chicago Sun-Times that profiles an effort by Researchers from the Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute, Northwestern University, University...
- [A Satirical Seven-Point Plan to Protect GAY YOUTH Against OPPRESSION](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/a-satirical-sev/): In response to Linda Harvey’s “A Seven-Point Plan to Protect Christian Youth Against Homosexuality,” I present this satire. But first, I just want to remind...
- [Linda Harvey: Hatred Or Fear?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/linda-harvey-ha/): Recent discussions on this site and others have revolved around whether Christians who are parents, pastors, grandparents or friends of gay people and that attend...
- [Added to the Blogroll](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/added-to-the-bl/): Some of these have been on the blogroll before, and I have no idea how they got dropped. Anyhow, here goes: Newly Noted Accidental Christian...
- [German Fashion Magazine to Exgay Movement: “You’re In”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/german-fashion/): Exgay movement leader Alan Chambers and former exgay Peterson Toscano are both featured in the October 2006 issue of Maxi, a German women’s fashion magazine....
- [The Difference Between Me And Exgay](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/the-difference/): While summarizing more than two-dozen recent news stories involving mostly antigay and exgay activists on Sept. 22, QueerlyKos (TerranceDC) observed: When I weigh in one...
- [Send Us Ideas for Response to Upcoming LWO Atlanta](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/send-us-ideas-f/): It looks like I might be collaborating with various Atlanta based organizations in planning a response to the Love Won Out there on November 4th....
- [Love Breaks Out (UPDATED)](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/love-breaks-out/): From an article in the Desert Sun, it seems that a minister in Palm Springs is planning a conference called Love Breaks Out. I don’t...
- [Yo! That Definition’s Wicked Clear](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/yo-that-definit/): The ex-gay movement’s favorite verses of the Bible are 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of...
- [Open Forum: ‘The Big Voice: God Or Ethel Merman?’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/open-forum-the-3/): A New England theater describes The Big Voice, an award-winning musical, like this:
- [Blogging Exgays: A Snapshot of the Blogosphere](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/blogging-exgays/): How do you challenge ‘Satan’? Good As You, September 25 Focus on the Family accused of breaking IRS laws MLM Liberal, September 25 (reprint from...
- [Sweden: Publicity for Former Exgay Is Good — But Inaccurate](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/sweden-publicit/): Performance artist Peterson Toscano, a former exgay from the Love In Action program in Memphis, recently performed “Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway...
- [NARTH Disavows Its Own Web Site](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/narth-disavows/): Several days after it came to light that the antigay National Association of Research and Therapy of Homosexuality was hosting racist content on its web...
- [Love Won Out/Palm Springs Protest - Dan’s Account And Photos](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/love-won-outpal/): We got to the protest site (at Southwest Community Church) around 6:45 since check-in for Love Won Out began at 7 a.m. We were there...
- [Focus Misrepresents Antigay Political Objective At ‘Love Won Out’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/focus-misrepres/): Scott and I were walking down Arenas in Palm Springs this morning in search of a postcard to send our friends at Exodus but instead...
- [Media Coverage of Exgay Roadshow in Southern California](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/media-coverage-3/): Google News lists numerous stories this morning about yesterday’s antigay conference hosted by Focus on the Family and Exodus near Palm Springs, Calif. The most...
- [Error on Unity Rally Web Site Against ‘Love Won Out’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/error-on-unity/): The Unity Rally is a response by pro-tolerance religious and secular organizations to the antigay “Love Won Out” roadshow being hosted by Focus on the...
- [In Europe, Former Exgay Peterson Toscano Falls in Love](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/in-europe-forme/): He has fallen for a “Swede”.* I am shocked — is this a drastic overreaction to being attacked by a pit bull? Scandalous. * The...
- [National Black Justice Coalition Asks NARTH to Apologize](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/national-black/): From the National Black Justice Coalition via Wayne Besen: Friday, Sept. 22, 2006 National Association of Research & Therapy of Homosexuality Attn: Dr. Joseph Nicolosi,...
- [Exgay Tim Wilkins: ‘Temptation,’ Not ‘Sexual Orientation’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/exgay-tim-wilki-2/): Wayne Besen assesses a speech by exgay activist Tim Wilkins to 200 2,000 conservative Christians in North Carolina earlier this month: In his sermon, Wilkins...
- [Truth Wins Out Asks Exgays to Cancel Keynote Speaker Over Racist Incident](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/truth-wins-out-5/): Excerpt from Truth Wins Out press release via Wayne Besen: In Letter, National Black Justice Coalition Urges Dr. Joseph Nicolosi To Apologize For His Organization’s...
- [Focus’ Double Standard on Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/focus-double-st/): This weekend in a church near Palm Springs, speaker after speaker from Focus on the Family will tell ministers and family members that gay people...
- [If You Could Ask a Question At Love Won Out’s Press Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/if-you-could-as/): Love Won Out will be holding a press conference at noon on Saturday and I plan compiling a list of suggested questions to be given...
- [NARTH Responds to Criticism of Schoenewolf Article](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/narth-responds-2/): An April 2005 article on NARTH’s website that defends slavery was recently brought to light by various websites including Ex-Gay Watch. Update: The article, authored...
- [For Fear Or Loathing, Exodus Censors Contrasting Views](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/for-fear-or-loa/): Someone recently brought up the subject of trackbacks and why we don’t routinely send them when authoring posts which link to ex-gay or anti-gay websites. ...
- [NYC Study: “Straight Men” Not So Straight](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/nyc-study-strai/): In the category of “What Does This Mean” comes a new report out of New York City that highlights the difficulties of self-identification. Just as...
- [Paul Cameron on The Daily Show](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/paul-cameron-on/): I’m not kidding, you’ll be on the floor laughing at this piece. (via Good As You)
- [Maier Abandons Truth Entirely](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/maier-abandons/): In a letter to the Palm Springs Desert Sun about the Love Won Out conference in Indian Wells, Focus on the Family’s Bill Maier managed...
- [One Can Be Gay And Christian? Exodus Staffer Randy Thomas Doesn’t Seem to Think So](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/one-can-be-gay/): In a recent post on the Exodus blog, Randy Thomas responded to the GLSEN quote covered in a recent article here. Wait just a minute…...
- [Parrtay!](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/parrtay/)
- [Exgay Terms Added to UrbanDictionary.com](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/exgay-terms-add/): ex-ex-gay exgay / ex-gay ex-gay for pay Phallic Fruit Fetish Sadly “Porno Pete” was not approved the first time I submitted it so I’ve made...
- [Response to Focus on the Family’s Op-Ed in The Desert Sun](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/response-to-foc/): An op-ed by Bill Maier of Focus appeared in Monday’s edition of the Palm Springs Desert Sun. This is my response which was sent to...
- [Is Chambers Recognizing the Flaws in the “Nurture Only” Arguments?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/is-chambers-rec/): In an article about the Evergreen conference held for LDS members dealing with the conflict between same-sex attracted persons and the teachings of the Mormon...
- [Agape (Mis)quotes Throckmorton](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/agape-misquotes/): AgapePress wrote an article titled Psychologist Says Gender-Dysphoric Kids Need Case-by-Case Intervention in which they claim However, noted mental health counselor Dr. Warren Throckmorton of...
- [Open Forum: Sexual Fluidity And the Postgay Identity](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/open-forum-sexu/): A continuation of off-topic discussions from this page. Are exgay/postgay ideologues true champions of “sexual fluidity,” or does that title belong to honest bisexuals, or...
- [Exgays Spin GLSEN Definitions of Sexual Orientation And Identity](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/exgays-spin-gls/): A three-year-old glossary on the web site of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network defines sexual orientation and identity as follows: Sexual Orientation: This...
- [Unrealism And Fear Corrupting Conservative Christianity?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/unrealism-and-f/): Fear, individualism and consumerism: Have they replaced realism among American Christians? Peter Laarman thinks so. He urgently calls for a renewed commitment to realism. I...
- [Which God Does Exodus Worship?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/which-god-does/): A recent Baylor University religion survey finds U.S. Christians worshipping different gods. Those gods are identified as the Authoritarian God, the Benevolent God, the Critical...
- [Christian Rightist Repudiates Falwell, Bush](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/christian-right/): Christian rightist Chuck Baldwin is criticizing the immoral and self-serving politics of Jerry Falwell and George Bush — and, by extension, the acolytes of Falwell...
- [GOP’s Danforth Stands Up to Party Theocracy](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/gops-danforth-s/): A new book by Republican former U.S. senator John Danforth criticizes the GOP’s growing corruption by the Christian Right, and he speaks some difficult truths...
- [Antigay Group PFOX Projects Its Own Confusion Onto National Pro-Family Group PFLAG](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/antigay-group-p/): Regina Griggs, the antigay executive director of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays, recently projected her own parental and political confusion over her gay son upon...
- [Evergreen Convenes Meeting of Antigay Mormons](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/evergreen-conve/): Source: Salt Lake Tribune, September 15, 2006
- [NARTH’s Justification of Slavery](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/narths-justification-of-slavery/): The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) has been criticized on this site for the views espoused on their site by members...
- [The Qualifications to Write for NARTH](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/the-qualificati/): The National Association for the Research and Treatment of Homosexuality (NARTH) claims to represent that segment of the mental health community that believes that sexual...
- [Bearman And Bruckner’s Incredible Findings](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/09/bearman-and-bru/): The past few years have given us several reports that suggest a pre-natal basis for sexual orientation. Such studies have included observations about gay people...
- [Statements of Conversion: Student ‘Trans’-formed By Christ](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/statements-of-c/): Here on the Ex-Gay Watch I know I frequently point out logical fallacies in logical (or perhaps better said illogical) arguments, and my peers here...
- [FOTF On Dobson’s Time Article: “None Of Their Charges Are Sticking”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/fotf-on-dobsons/): Michelle Goldberg, famous for her work at salon.com work and her book Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism said the following in the interview...
- [Third Researcher Tells Dobson to Quit Misquoting Her](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/third-researche/): Writer Angela Phillips believes, and I agree, that the high incidence of homosexuality occurring in Western nations is related, at least in part, to the...
- [Truth Wins Out: James Dobson Rebuked By Researcher On Video](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/truth-wins-out-2-2/): Related XGW article: Dr. Dobson’s Abusive and Factually Untrue “Truth”. Related Truth Wins Out Press Release: James Dobson Rebuked On Video For Distorting Research Of...
- [Blocking LGBT Websites On Public School Computers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/blocking-lgbt-w/): One of the things that has become a boon for the transgender community was the coming of the internet. I’ve no empirical data to back...
- [Circumcision And AIDS](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/circumcision-an/): Apostle Paul once famously said Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and...
- [Dr. Dobson’s Abusive And Factually Untrue “Truth”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/dr-dobsons-abus/): I remember an incident from my teenage years: I was at a church youth camp where an uncle of mine, a respected foreign missionary, was...
- [Father John Harvey Interview](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/father-john-har/): The Denver Catholic Register interviewed Father John Harvey, the founder of Courage, the Catholic Ex-Gay Ministry. Unlike Exodus, Courage places more emphasis on physical acts...
- [Jay Bakker’s Revolution - One Punk Under God](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/jay-bakkers-rev/): A year and a half ago we reported that Jay Bakker, the son of Jim and Tammy Faye, had been deleted from the speaker schedule...
- [Left-Handedness And Fraternal Older Brothers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/left-handedness-2/): Both left handedness and having older brothers have been seen to correlate with male homosexuality. A forthcoming study reanalyzes previous studies to see if these...
- [Ambidextrous Bisexuals?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/ambidextrous-bi/): The Redding Record-Searchlight (or Wretched Flashlight, as I called it when I was a kid and it was my local paper) reports a finding by...
- [Open Forum: NYT Article “Gay And Evangelical”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/open-forum-nyt/): In some ways this subject is outside our normal scope (hence the open forum designation), but I feel there is a tie to the ex-gay...
- [Alan Chambers: Transgender Issues Subject Matters Expert?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/alan-chambers-t-3/): What makes one an expert in a subject? Often it’s credentials, such as degrees or certificates. Often it’s position, such as being the executive in...
- [It’s the Soy, I Tell Ya](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/its-the-soy-i-t/): Because WorldNetDaily has never found anything anti-gay that is just too crazy to print, we bring you this amazing new revelation about the cause of...
- [Another Pastor Falls](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/another-pastor/): Yet another evangelical pastor of a mega-church in Colorado has been shown to have a double life, publicly happily married – but privately engaging in...
- [Florida Ex-Gay Group Profiled in New Man Magazine](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/florida-ex-gay/): Exchange, the ex-gay ministry of an Assemblies of God Church in Winter Park, FL which seats about 5,000, was profiled in New Man Magazine, a...
- [Saddleback Church AIDS Conference Quote](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/saddleback-chur/): From a story by the Orange County Register: “The term `ex-gay’ is so offensive to the gay community,” Kuhn says. “Just telling them, `Don’t have...
- [My Video Testimony Of Trying To Go From Gay To Straight](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/my-video-testim/): I originally wrote this testimony/speech for the press conference at Love Won Out Atlanta, and realizing it was pretty good I figured I should show...
- [Exodus Executive Vice President Mike Goeke Resigns](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/exodus-executiv/): The latest edition of the Exodus newsletter Impact reports that Executive Vice President Mike Goeke has resigned and plans to immediately move his family back...
- [What We Can Learn About Marriage From the Bible](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/what-we-can-lea/): On a previous thread on this site, there was a discussion about the Biblical model for marriage. While the question of Biblical marriage models may...
- [Exodus European Member Ministries Secede](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/exodus-european/): Ex-Gay Watch reader Noa from Sweden (of “Alex and Noa” as mentioned on Peterson Toscano’s weblog) sent us this news from the website of Swedish...
- [Box Turtle Bulletin Nominated for 2006 Weblog Awards](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/box-turtle-bull/): Congratulations to Jim Burroway, creator of the Box Turtle Bulletin — an invaluable resource for in-depth information refuting antigay distortions of science and health. Box...
- [Ex-Gay Lobbyist Randy Thomas Dates Another Ex-Gay Activist](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/ex-gay-lobbyist-2/): Last December a broad coalition of anti gay organizations ran this newspaper ad featuring “ex-gays” in opposition to hate crimes legislation. The ad failed to...
- [Where Are Exodus’ Guidelines to Protect Youth?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/where-are-exodu/): As we previously reported here, Exodus president Alan Chambers writes in his new book: Anyone, no matter his or her background, should be carefully screened...
- [How “Judeo” Is That Judeo-Christian Value? - UPDATED](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/how-judeo-is-th/): Many in the anti-gay movement like to use the phrase “Judeo-Christian”. This phrase makes it seem less like they are trying to push their doctrine...
- [Thinking About The “The” In “Homosexuality Isn’t The Answer”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/thinking-about/): Jesus is the answer for the world todayAbove him there’s no other, Jesus is the way… If you have some questions in the corners of...
- [Posting Issue: New Security Measures](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/posting-issue-n/): As everyone who comments has already noticed, typing a displayed security code is now necessary when submitting a comment. This was installed as part of...
- [Alan Chambers - Gays Should Not Teach Sunday School, No Verdict on Other Unrepentant Sinners](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/alan-chambers-g-3/): From page 215 of Exodus’ new book “God’s Grace and the Homosexual Next Door:” [From the chapter “25 Questions and Answers About Gay Ministry”] 17....
- [Family Research Council Cites Absurd “Research” in Court Brief](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/family-research-3/): Jim Burroway of the Box Turtle Bulletin has created an excellent point by point analysis of the Amicus Curiae (friend of the court) brief from...
- [In Defense of Harassment: Ex-Gay Opposes Unisex Rest Rooms](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/in-defense-of-h/): On July 29, 2001 in Nashville, Tennessee, 38-year-old Willie Houston was celebrating his recent engagement with his fiancée and friends; he and his fiancée had...
- [Ex-Gay Stephen Bennett Demands $100K in Holiday Donations](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/ex-gay-stephen-5/): A Tenable Belief analyzes ex-gay activist Stephen Bennett’s holiday fund-raising appeal. On his home page, Bennett claims an immediate need for $25,000 to repay debts...
- [Do You Want to Heal Or Do You Want to Blame?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/do-you-want-to/): Very often in life we face this question – though we may not recognize it in those terms. When a friendship or relationship has had...
- [Ex/Anti-Gay Activist Claims Divine Healing](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/exanti-gay-acti/): James Hartline is an ex-gay gadfly who lives in San Diego and spends his remaining days fighting against the “evils of homosexuality”. Hartline has a...
- [A Sudser Has A New Transgender Character](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/a-sudser-has-a/): Normalizing the behavior has always been the crux of the gay agenda. Part of the process involves mainstreaming the lifestyle through entertainment. –Unattributed quote, Transgender...
- [A Former Love Story](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/a-former-love-s/): Once upon a time Lisa and Janet fell in love. They were so in love that they decided to get married and start a family....
- [Real World’s Gay Guy](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/real-worlds-gay/): Real World is a long running series on MTV in which seven young adults who don’t know each other are placed together in a house...
- [Human Sexuality Curriculum In Montgomery County Public Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/human-sexuality/): The Citizens For Responsible Curriculum (CRC) don’t like the newly proposed human sexuality curriculum for Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools, specifically as how it approaches...
- [Christian Camps to Feature Exodus Speakers](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/christian-camps/): After I was initially creeped out by camp spokesman cum organizer “Justin Lookadoo” I quickly noticed Exodus has their hands all over this series of...
- [Who Does (Or Could Possibly ) Identify As “Ex-Trans”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/who-does-or-cou/): This is the third part of a multiple part series about the term gender. Conservative religious organizations and ex-gay organizations use the term gender —...
- [An Alternative to Love Won Out](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/an-alternative/): Last year the LoveWon Out traveling conference came to Boston to reassure anti-gay Bostonians that homosexuals could reorient to heterosexuality and that their efforts to...
- [Dobson on Haggard](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/dobson-on-hagga/): In yet another edition of the story that won’t go away, the Rocky Mountain News brings us James Dobson’s musings on the Ted Haggard scandal....
- [Update: Link Changed on Recent Video](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/update-link-cha/): Some of you have graciously embedded on your own sites the recent video presentation Daniel created. We were uncertain about the licensing of the music...
- [Giving Thanks 2006](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/giving-thanks-2/): There are many things that have happened within the past year for which I am grateful. I have met wonderful people, some I spend time...
- [Nicolosi Steps Aside, Mormons Take Charge At NARTH](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/nicolosi-steps/): Pro-exgay pundit and college professor Warren Throckmorton reports today: NARTH has had some changes in recent days. A. Dean Byrd, PhD, CEO of the LDS...
- [Israel to Recognize Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/israel-to-recog/): The Supreme Court of Israel has ordered the government to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other countries. This may appear to be unusual in that...
- [Reply to Adam Carolla / Randy Thomas Video Posted on Exodus Blog](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/reply-to-adam-c/): To quote ‘W’ we’ve smoked Exodus out of their hole. Randy Thomas finally responded this morning to concerns over his statements made on the Adam...
- [A Note to the Gays of Tupelo, MS](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/a-note-to-the-g/): It looks like you can go to your local Wal-Mart this weekend and not worry about running into Don Wildmon.
- [But They Really Don’t Want To… Really](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/but-they-really/): Those wacky gays and lesbians are at it again; they’re doing things that they don’t want to do – making huge sacrifices – all so...
- [The PFOX Handout](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/the-pfox-handou/): We have now been able to ascertain exactly what PFOX distributed to the high school students of Montgomery County, Maryland. A public school parent provided...
- [Ex-Gay Greg Quinlan Stirs Up Anti-Gay Passions for Political Purposes in New Jersey](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/ex-gay-greg-qui-3/): For the past few decades conservative evangelical leaders have become increasingly focused on politics. And while there are some from this branch of Christianity are...
- [XGW Original Video: “Does Exodus Sanction Forcing People Into ‘Ex-gay’ Programs?”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/xgw-original-vi/): Randy Thomas (membership director for Exodus International, the largest “ex-gay” group in the country) was interviewed recently on the Adam Carolla radio show and claimed...
- [Trans And Gay: The GID Diagnoses And “Gender Confusion”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/trans-and-gay-t/): This is the second part of a multiple part series about the term gender. Conservative religious organizations and ex-gay organizations use the term gender —...
- [Homosexuality In DOD’s “Conditions, Circumstances & Defects” List](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/homosexuality-i-2/): One of the difficulties with the US Government’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy is that when the Department Of Defense (DOD) discharges someone who has...
- [Exodus’ Nancy Brown Uses White Supremacist, Paul Cameron, And Non-Existent Tome to Support Hateful Claim About Life Expectancy](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/exodus-nancy-brown-uses-white-supremacist/): There are some FAQ’s on the Exodus International website that are written with a reasoned approach and present their case without resorting to histrionics and...
- [Is Slander Against Gays OK, Nancy Brown?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/is-slander-agai/): In reviewing the Exodus website, especially that portion written by Nancy Brown, you will see a wild arrangement of falacies, bogus statistics, and claims without...
- [Ex Marks His Spot!](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/ex-marks-his-sp/): Here is a typical letter I receive from those who have “successfully” completed Nicolosi’s Reparative Therapy. This just came into my box today from an...
- [Exodus’ Nancy Brown Makes Wild Claims About Your Relationship](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/exodus-nancy-br/): Exodus International has turned much of their public voice over to Nancy Brown. In addition to being the principal writer on Exodus Media Blog, she...
- [Griggs Defends PFOX’s Anti-Gay Handout](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/griggs-defends/): In an article at AgapePress, PFOX’s executive director Regina Griggs defends her anti-gay handout to school children in Maryland. We still are uncertain as to...
- [Chambers Declares Homosexuality to Be “Multicausal”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/chambers-declar/): In the middle of an article on November 12th in the Denver Post about Christian response to revelations about Ted Haggard is a sign of...
- [NARTH’s Nicolosi Respects Self-Abhorrence](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/narths-nicolosi/): In yet another example of the type of thinking that alienates reasonable people, NARTH’s Dr. Joseph Nicolosi had this to say about fallen evangelist Ted...
- [South Africa Legalizes Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/south-africa-le/): Much of the political efforts taken up by ex-gay seminars has focused on activism to oppose any recognition of same-sex couples. According to Alan Chambers,...
- [Catholic Diocese Cancels Unitarian Lease After Gay Outreach](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/catholic-dioces/): Yes, it’s me, ExGayWatch’s lone UK correspondent, amazingly still breathing. 😉 Despite my infrequent articles, I intend to remain a contributor to the blog, and...
- [PFOX Annoys High School with Court-Mandated Lies](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/pfox-annoys-hig/): PFOX has distributed an ex-gay flyer to students at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. I don’t recall PFOX winning direct access to...
- [A Brief Juxtaposition](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/a-brief-juxtapo/): From John 13:34-35 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this...
- [Producer of 1950s Anti-gay “educational” Films Dies](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/producer-of-195/): From the LA Times: Sid Davis, an educational filmmaker in the 1950s and ’60s who specialized in dark, cautionary tales crafted to frighten captive classroom...
- [Focus / Exodus’ Actions Send Message to Gay Community: Your Media Are Illegitimate](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/focus-exodus-ac/): Focus on the Family refuses to treat gay bloggers as journalists, which is hardly unexpected. What is surprising is how a reporter from the Southern...
- [The Insanity of Activist Organization Names](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/the-insanity-of/): Over the weekend I was at a pro-gay conference called Love Breaks Out which is a response to the ex-gay conference Love Won Out in...
- [Photo From “Love Breaks Out”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/photo-from-love/): I just got back from Love Breaks Out, a pro-gay response to Focus on the Family and Exodus held in Palm Springs Saturday. From left...
- [Transgender / Ex-Transgender Glossary](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/transgender-ex/): This is the first of a multiple part series about the term gender. Conservative religious organizations and ex-gay organizations use the term gender — and...
- [Sheldon Implies That Haggard Is Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/sheldon-implies/): Rev. Lou Sheldon, the founder and chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition was interviewed by The Jewish Week about the results of Tuesday’s election. Considering...
- [Another Illustration That There Is No “Homosexual Lifestyle”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/another-illustr/): Ex-gays and other anti-gays like to portray all gays and lesbians as a living some “homosexual lifestyle”. Naturally, this lifestyle has every negative attribute that...
- [Two Evangelicals: Change Is Possible… No It Isn’t](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/two-evangelical/): Kyra Phillips host of CNN Newsroom, today interviewed moderate evangelical author Tony Campolo on the Rev. Ted Haggard’s upcoming “restoration.” Here’s a transcript: CAMPOLO: [Haggard...
- [Dobson Withdraws From Haggard’s ‘Restoration Panel’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/dobson-withdraw/): From the Colorado Springs Gazette: “It is with great regret — and after much prayer and discussion with friends and family — that I have...
- [Post-Election Recommendation](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/post-election-r/): During the past few election cycles there has been much discussion about the lives of gay individuals and couples. And sadly some of this has...
- [New Exodus Youth “Outreach Guide”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/new-exodus-yout/): Exodus has a new youth outreach guide and lord knows I’ll never receive a copy if I request it so I’d encourage all XGW readers...
- [Haggard: Ex-Gay Therapy Didn’t Work, Maybe Dobson Can Help Me](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/haggard-ex-gay/): The Colorado Springs Gazette reprinted the full text of Rev. Ted Haggard’s letter of apology to the church that dismissed him on allegations of improper...
- [Conference Divided Family…](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/conference-divi/): The headline reads Conference on Gays Divides Family. Did the Love Won Out conference divide this highlighted family? Not really. What divides Brenda and Brandon...
- [Love Won Out - Atlanta Protest Photos](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/love-won-out-at/): Setting up for the press conference the day before Love Won Out. I don’t have any pics during the event since all the speakers were...
- [Commenting Restored After DoS Attack](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/commenting-rest/): As many have noticed, we had to turn off the ability to comment on posts for the past few days. This was necessary to reduce...
- [Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Half-Truths About Ex-Gays, Or Just Shallow Reporting?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/atlanta-journal/): Today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (free subscription required): About 1,000 people, from 22 states, paid $60 a piece to attend the “Love Won Out” convention that...
- [Former Ex-Gays Counter Atlanta Religious-Right Roadshow](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/former-ex-gays-2/): WXIA-TV, Atlanta, televised a report tonight (Windows Media video) about former ex-gays, clergy, doctors, and parents who are protesting against Focus on the Family’s “Love...
- [The Rev. Ted Haggard’s Lesson for Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/the-rev-ted-hag/): The Ledger of Lakeland, Fla., is succinct in summarizing the situation: Why can’t preachers always practice what they preach? Because they’re all sinners, just like...
- [Ex-Gay’s Reaction to Ted Haggard: An Incomprehensible Mess](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/ex-gays-reactio/): You try to make sense out of Stephen Bennett. I can’t — every paragraph contradicts every other paragraph. The one consistent element: Self-promotion.
- [Sorry for the Lack of Comments](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/sorry-for-the-l/): We hope to have the site operating on a new and secure platform early next week. Please feel free to contact us via e-mail in...
- [Not A Gay Sex Scandal, But One of ‘Identity’ And Bisexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/not-a-gay-sex-s/): Edited from the original, with changes marked. The major news media have uniformly marched behind a “gay sex scandal” label for the sex-and-drug allegations against...
- [Leading Evangelical Resigns Over Accusations of Sex And Drugs with Gay Hustler](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/leading-evangel-2/): Father, give us grace and mercy. Father, help us this next week and a half as we go into national elections, and Lord we pray...
- [Event Schedule for Love Won Out, Atlanta](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/event-schedule/): Ok kids, I’m off to Atlanta to speak at the joint press conference being thrown by Wayne Besen and Soulforce. Here’s their press release. FRIDAY...
- [“Homophobia At Hell House” A Report By the Gay And Lesbian Task Force](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/homophobia-at-h/): “This is Steve,” the demon says. “He thought his homosexual lifestyle was everything a real man could want, but now he’s dying of AIDS.” The...
- [Subconscious Orientation](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/11/subconscious-or/): Several years ago there were urban legends about subliminal messages. They ranged from secret advertising in the muzak played in department stores to satanic messages...
- [Catholic Bishops’ New Guidelines](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/catholic-bishop-2/): The Catholic Bishops will be voting on guidelines for ministry to gay parishioners. And the drafted guidelines show both the difficulty with the church’s conflicting...
- [Love In Action Settles Lawsuit With Tennessee](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/love-in-action-12/): This is a follow-up to Love In Action’s Day in Court. Love In Action Settles Lawsuit With Tennessee. Excerpt: On Friday, Love in Action announced...
- [All the Rights - But Not Quite Equal](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/all-the-rights/): The Supreme Court of New Jersey has just decided that gay couples are entitled to all the rights that heterosexual couples have… but do not...
- [Nothing To Do With Any Social Issue Other Than Same-Sex Attraction?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/nothing-to-do-w/): From NARTH’s Political Correctness Gone Amok: The Latest Controversy (October 10, 2006): “The bottom line,” said NARTH President Joseph Nicolosi, “is that NARTH’s mission has...
- [Apologies](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/apologies/): I failed to notice that I had made this page an open forum. So the protest of Ex-Gay Watch’s policy against using quotation marks around...
- [PFOX: “We Want Mr. Foley to Know That Help Is Available”](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/pfox-we-want-mr/): Which was going to be the first ex-gay group to come out and suggest Mark Foley enter a conversion program? We finally have our answer,...
- [Ten Beliefs of an Unhealthy Faith](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/ten-beliefs-of/): From Pastor Brenda: God’s love and favor depends on my behavior. All ministers are people of God and can be trusted. Material blessings are a...
- [Pastor Advocates for Charity, Not Nationalism](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/pastor-advocate/): Katherine Hawker is pastor at Evangelical United Church of Christ in Webster Groves, Missouri. Writing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last month, Hawker contrasted local...
- [Sin Is ‘Neither Republican Nor Democratic’](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/sin-is-neither/): From BeliefNet author Diana Butler Bass via Straight, Not Narrow: “Making sexuality a political issue, as much of the Religious Right has done, distracts from...
- [Why Do Pro-Family Movement Followers Vote Against Their Families?](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/why-do-pro-fami/): Denver Post columnist Cindy Rodriguez discusses some reasons why followers of Focus on the Family obey the organization’s advice — and vote against their own...
- [Wanting to Start an Ex-Gay Ministry, But Skeptical of Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/10/wanting-to-star/): From Peterson Toscano: Having experienced victory, aspiring ex-gay minister “Marvin” now voices hesitation about joining the world’s largest ex-gay organization. Marvin asks: Does a local...
- [NARTH’s Rosik On Trans-Affirmative Public Policies](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/narths-rosik-on-trans-affirmative-public-policies/): The National Association For Research And Therapy Of Homosexuality (NARTH) is again commenting on transgender issues, although their mission, vision, and previous leadership statements have...
- [Peterson Toscano Behind the Scenes on Latest Montel](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/peterson-toscano-behind-the-scenes-on-latest-montel/): fsYsusY1ALQ Update: Here are some clips of what did air. Clip 1 and Clip 2 From Peterson Toscano’s A Musing: One thing that got cut...
- [The Montel Williams Show - Reminder](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/the-montel-williams-show-reminder/): Just a reminder today’s episode of the Montel Williams Show deals entirely with ex-gays and features Alan Chambers, Peterson Toscano, Lance Carroll, Richard Cohen and...
- [Don’t Ask - Don’t Tell Alan Chambers](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/dont-ask-dont-tell-alan-chambers/): When Bill Clinton won the presidency in 1992, he made the mistake of assuming that this meant the country, and it’s elected officials, had endorsed...
- [Willful Grace (Pam Ferguson) Comes to Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/willful-grace-pam-ferguson-comes-to-ex-gay-watch/): Grace (as in Willful) is writing for Ex-Gay Watch now? What next, my own reality show? What should we call it; “The Gay Whisperer?” Ok,...
- [WeAreThinking, PFOX And Anti-Gay Ads](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/wearethinking-pfox-and-anti-gay-ads/): PLvHA18stY8 The anti-gay website WeAreThinking.com has posted a number of “future television spots” including the one seen above. These same spots appear on YouTube with...
- [Danish Faith Based Group Under Investigation For Promoting Ex-Gay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/danish-faith-based-group-under-investigation-for-promoting-ex-gay-therapy/): XGW reader Noa brought my attention to (and translated) Swedish gay news/entertainment site homOnline.se: Evangelical group in Denmark loses governmental funding while allegations of conversion...
- [Reaction to Chad Thompson’s UCSB Speech From A Gay Student](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/reaction-to-chad-thompsons-ucsb-speech-from-a-gay-student/): I just had a long conversation with Christopher Eberz from the Queer Student Union at the University of California at Santa Barbara where ex-gay Chad...
- [Sex God’s Way - As a Duty](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/sex-gods-way-as-a-duty/): In an article on the Christian webzine Boundless, Exodus Youth’s Mike Ensley offers advice to those who “struggle with same-sex attraction” but who do not...
- [Exodus, Former Ex-Gays to Appear March 15 on Montel](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/montel-show-to-host-exodus-former-ex-gays-on-march-15/): Exodus president Alan Chambers, ex-gay “therapy” survivors Peterson Toscano and Lance Carroll, and former male prostitute Mike Jones — who exposed a three-year relationship with evangelical...
- [God’s Grace And The Transsexual Next Door](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/gods-grace-and-the-transsexual-next-door/): David Roberts recently wrote a short piece entitled Exodus President Alan Chambers is Clear About Coulter Comment. David praised and thanked Alan Chambers for making...
- [New York Blade on Venus Magazine’s Ex-Gay Conversion](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/new-york-blade-on-venus-magazines-ex-gay-conversion/): From the New York Blade: What Cothran isn’t telling us is that not only is she getting financial support from black churches, but they have...
- [Exodus President Alan Chambers Is Clear About Coulter Comment](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/exodus-president-alan-chambers-is-clear-about-coulter-comment/): Instead of the shameless psuedo-defense coming from some other ex-gay groups, Exodus president Alan Chambers was unambiguous in his admonition of Ann Coulter over her...
- [Another Site Update](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/test-post/): That’s right, another face lift. The previous design, while minimalist on the outside, was nearly impossible to customize on the inside. The author is either...
- [2007 Equality Ride Launches With Ex-Gay Survivors](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/2007-equality-ride-launches-with-ex-gay-survivors/): On Thursday the 2007 Soulforce Equality Rides will arrive at their first destinations. Yes, you heard me right, there are two buses this year, one...
- [PFOX on Ann Coulter - “Edwards Did It First”](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/pfox-on-ann-coulter-edwards-did-it-first/): PFOX has responded to Ann Coulter’s recent use of the word “faggot” in a joke about Democrat presidential hopeful John Edwards. While they briefly acknowledge...
- [Peterson And Love In Action on Current.tv](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/peterson-and-love-in-action-on-currenttv/): Just a quick reminder, if this video gets enough votes it’ll air on Current.tv’s actual TV station. A while back Mike Ensley of Exodus had...
- [Peterson on Ex-Gay Program Follow-Ups](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/peterson-on-ex-gay-program-follow-ups/): From Peterson Toscano: In speaking with some ex-gay leaders recently, I see the desperate need they have to hear some of our stories. Never once...
- [A New Approach for Exodus to Consider](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/a-new-approach-for-exodus-to-consider/): The Catholic World News brings us a story of a former homosexual in Italy. He says that his sexual impulses were healed as a result...
- [More About Ex-Gays on Public Radio](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/more-about-ex-gays-on-public-radio/): Peterson Toscano and Jack Drescher will be guests on Thursday’s broadcast of “To The Point” which comes from my local NPR station KCRW. Catch it...
- [Focus Reports Half The Story On APA’s Re-Evaluation of Position On Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/focus-reports-half-the-story-on-apas-re-evaluation-of-position-on-reparative-therapy/): Focus on the Family recently claimed gay activists (NGLTF and PFLAG) have “pressured” the APA to re-examine it’s position on allowing members to practice gay...
- [Alan Chambers on Montel Williams Show](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/alan-chambers-on-montel-williams-show/): Exodus sent out a press release encouraging people to “tune-in” to the Montel Williams show today to see guest Alan Chambers.  This may confuse those who...
- [Analysis of Alan Chambers on CNN - XGW Original Video](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/analysis-of-alan-chambers-on-cnn-xgw-original-video/): Earlier this month Alan was on Anderson Cooper 360 and made some very interesting statements about “change” in three weeks, gay Christians, and his own...
- [End of Week Silliness](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/end-of-week-silliness/): On Wednesday, in their infinite wisdom, the state legislature of Utah has passed a law intended to shut down clubs that teach tolerance of other...
- [A Sign of Changing Attitudes](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/2299/): Those who claim to speak for “American Values” would often have us believe that a core American value is discrimination against gay people. Increasingly, however,...
- [Desert Stream Protest in San Francisco](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/desert-stream-protest-in-san-francisco/): The San Francisco Chronical has an article about a protest of ex-gay ministry Desert Stream and their seminar in the heart of San Francisco. An...
- [A Story of Cruelty](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/a-story-of-cruelty/): Here’s a story about Cheryl and Keri. Once upon a time they met and fell in love and decided to get married, start a family,...
- [Survivors of Ex-Gay Ministry on Montel](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/survivors-of-ex-gay-ministry-on-montel/): Peterson Toscano and Lance Carroll — both survivors of Exodus’ flagship live-in boot camp, called Love In Action — were on Montel yesterday (02/20/07) each...
- [Destroying the Enemy](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/destroying-the-enemy/): By Timothy Kincaid One aspect of war is dealing with enemies, those who seek to do you harm. And we all know that in war,...
- [Can One Be A Transgender Christian?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/can-one-be-a-transgender-christian/): Julie Marie Nemecek, formerly known as John Nemecek, has recently filed a suit against Spring Arbor University (SAU). The University is firing the transgender professor/Baptist...
- [Focus on the Family Protests Free Speech Rights of Billboard Owners](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/focus-on-the-family-protests-free-speech-rights-of-billboard-owners/): Prior to the recent Love Won Out conference in Phoenix, Focus on the Family tried to purchase space on billboards owned by media communications company...
- [Daniel Gonzales of Ex-Gay Watch in People Magazine](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/2291/): There’s a two page article on ex-gay stuff in the current issue of People Magazine which hit newsstands today (Friday) and will arrive in mailboxes...
- [Video: Dr. Spitzer Speaks Out About Distortion Of His Work](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/video-dr-spitzer-speaks-out-about-distortion-of-his-work/): A video interview with Dr. Robert Spitzer was released today by Truth Wins Out. In it he explains in detail how groups such as Focus...
- [More Math Magic](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/more-math-magic/): We have long noted the fondness that Exodus President Alan Chambers has for claiming that “hundreds of thousands of us have found freedom from the...
- [PFOX Video Distorts Spitzer’s Views on Orientation Change](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/pfox-video-distorts-spitzers-views-on-orientation-change/): The front page of a newly renovated PFOX web site features a video clip of ex-gay researcher Dr. Robert L. Spitzer that loads automatically, whether...
- [Truth Wins Out: Ex-Gay Marriages Make Lousy Valentines](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/truth-wins-out-ex-gay-marriages-make-lousy-valentines/): A new video by Truth Wins Out demonstrates that ex-gay activists’ efforts to coerce ex-gays into heterosexual marriage erode family values and lead to divorce....
- [The Scientific Problem With Sex Dichotomies](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/the-scientific-problem-with-sex-dichotomies/): Recently, I wrote a piece on Mike Ensley’s take on gender fluidity. He responded in his personal blog with an article entitled What do I...
- [Dan Gonzales on American Public Media’s “Weekend America”](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/dan-gonzales-on-american-public-medias-weekend-america/): I was interviewed Thursday night (before flying to Phoenix) for American Public Media’s “Weekend America” which was broadcast on many NPR stations across the nation...
- [Ex-Gay Watch At Love Won Out Phoenix](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/2270/): Every local news station in Phoenix came to the press conference today in opposition to Love Won Out. Video of the entire press conference will...
- [Publisher of Venus Magazine Now Ex-Lesbian](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/publisher-of-venus-magazine-now-ex-lesbian/): Charlene Cothran, the publisher of Venus, a magazine targeting black same-gender-loving people, recently determined that she was no longer a lesbian and has changed the...
- [Randy Thomas Weighs in on Haggard’s Three Month Recovery](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/randy-thomas-weighs-in-on-haggards-three-month-recovery/): The Associated Baptist Press reports that both those who favor and those who doubt reorientation effectivity are skeptical about Ted Haggard’s newfound heterosexuality. On the...
- [The Onion On Haggard](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/the-onion-on-haggard/): The satire website/newspaper The Onion takes on Haggard’s 3-week “cure.” Hat tip Scott H.
- [Mike Jones Responds to Haggard’s Three Week Cure](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/mike-jones-responds-to-haggards-three-week-cure/): PageOneQ has the response of Mike Jones, the escort who exposed mega-church pastor Ted Haggard’s same-sex philandering. Jones responds to two claims made by Rev....
- [Boston Legal’s Ex-Gay Suit](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/boston-legals-ex-gay-suit/): I missed Tuesday’s episode of Boston Legal about a man suing to recover moneys spent in failed reorientation efforts. But AfterElton has comments here …in...
- [Newsweek Interviews Chad Allen About Ex-Gay Film](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/newsweek-interviews-chad-allen-about-ex-gay-film/): Newsweek interviewed actor Chad Allen about Save Me, his movie about one gay man’s experience with an ex-gay ministry. Your character in “Save Me” struggles...
- [Pardon the Dust](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/pardon-the-dust/): We continue our site renovation behind the scenes, and one of our upcoming tasks is to upgrade our old table of contents. While that work...
- [Video: Yale Professor Says ‘Focus On The Family’ Distorts Science](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/video-yale-professor-accuses-dobson-of-distorting-science/): KPuTQAoO7qo Truth Wins Out said today: Truth Wins Out unveiled a new video today on YouTube featuring a Yale professor who claims Focus on the...
- [Transcript of Alan Chambers on CNN Discussing Haggard’s “Transformation”](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/transcript-of-alan-chambers-on-cnn/): Hopefully I’ll have video up by this weekend at the latest. Here’s a link to the transcript. Alan Chambers appeared opposite Mark Shields of HRC....
- [Heads Up - Alan Chambers on CNN Tonight Talking About Haggard](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/heads-up-alan-chambers-on-cnn-tonight-talking-about-haggard/): From the Orlando Sentinel: Alan Chambers will discuss “the topic of change in homosexuality, faith and the ex-gay movement.” Cooper’s program airs at 10 on...
- [“Boston Legal” Episode To Have Ex-Gay Theme](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/boston-legal-episode-to-have-ex-gay-theme/): The plot summary of tonight’s Boston Legal:  “Selling Sickness” Tuesday, February 6 @ 10/9c Alan Shore, Denny Crane and Bethany Horowitz are hired to represent...
- [“Haggard Says He’s Not Gay,” Smells Strongly Of Nicolosi](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/haggard-says-hes-not-gay-smells-strongly-of-nicolosi/): From today’s Denver Post: The Rev. Ted Haggard emerged from three weeks of intensive counseling convinced he is “completely heterosexual” and told an oversight board...
- [An Unsatisfying Experience](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/an-unsatisfying-experience/): Geico, an insurance company, has an advertising campaign that is not only memorable but tells an important message. The tag line is “Geico.com. So easy...
- [An Ex-Gay Watch Original Video - The Spitzer Study: Methodological Flaws And Abuse In Anti-Gay Politics](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/an-ex-gay-watch-original-video-the-spitzer-study-methodological-flaws-and-abuse-in-anti-gay-politics/): Here’s my latest video. A great deal has been said about the Spitzer Study but much of it is difficult to understand for people unfamiliar...
- [Protest Info - Love Won Out Phoenix](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/protest-info-love-won-out-phoenix/): Interested in protesting Love Won Out Phoenix? See the Arizona Human Rights Fund website for info.
- [Ex-Gay Pets!!](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/ex-gay-pets/): Charles Alexander at Between the Lines brings us news of an organzation that can help your pet fight its unwanted same-sex attraction. Think your own...
- [Conservative Jews Approve of New Gay Supportive Rules](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/conservative-jews-approve-of-new-gay-supportive-rules/): As we previously discussed, Conservative Jewish synagogues may now decide to accept gay rabbis and officiate at same-sex blessings if they so choose. As reported...
- [The Other Side of Values Determination](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/02/the-other-side-of-values-determination/): The San Jose Mercury News tells us of the intense pressures put on young gay Chinese Like many gay men in China, 22-year-old Chen Lei...
- [Anthony Castro](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/anthony-castro/): Some stories need to be told. One such story is the short life of Anthony Castro. As first reported by Outsports, Castro’s courage and determination...
- [Latest Salvo in the T-Shirt Wars](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/latest-salvo-in-the-t-shirt-wars/): Remember Tyler Chase Harper and anti-gay T-Shirts? Harper is the blond teen ADF model/activist-in-training who sued the Poway School District because they wouldn’t let him...
- [Kent Philpott’s Back](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/kent-philpotts-back/): Rev. Kent Philpott was a key player in the birth of the ex-gay movement. In the mid 70’s, there was a growing movement to recognize...
- [Values V. Change](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/values-v-change/): In an article in Crosswalk magazine, Dr. Warren Throckmorton has further demonstrated his shift in focus away from reorientation efforts and towards a values determination...
- [XGW, Youtube, And You (The Serious Reader)](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/xgw-youtube-and-you-the-serious-reader/): If you’re seeing this post over the weekend you must be a serious XGW reader. As a serious reader you should definitely subscribe to our...
- [Dr. Laura on Ex-gay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/dr-laura-on-ex-gay-therapy/): Dr. Laura Schlessinger has a syndicated daily radio show with 8.5 million daily listeners. She doles out advice on marriages, family and other personal relationships...
- [Ruling Undermines Ex-Gay Case Against Hate-Crime Laws](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/ruling-undermines-ex-gay-case-against-hate-crime-laws/): On Jan. 16, the national ex-gay umbrella network Exodus International declared its opposition to the inclusion of sexual orientation in federal hate-crime laws. Exodus President...
- [Cohen No Longer President of PFOX](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/cohen-no-longer-president-of-pfox/): While recently investigating two articles about or by PFOX, Ex-Gay Watch sought to determine if Richard Cohen remained president of the organization. Cohen is most...
- [Ex-Gay Movie “Save Me” Gets Favorable Reviews](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/ex-gay-movie-save-me-gets-favorable-reviews/): Chad Allen (Dr Quinn, End of the Spear), Robert Gant (Queer as Folk), and Judith Light (Who’s the Boss, Ugly Betty) star in Save Me,...
- [Articulating Hypocrisy: NARTH Professional On Empirical Research](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/articulating-hypocrisy-narth-professional-on-empirical-research/): Dr. Dea reports her four or five child-patients, all under the age of 15 living as the opposite sex, as being ‘much happier’ and having...
- [Christianity Today: Evangelicals Behaving Badly with Statistics](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/christianity-today-evangelicals-behaving-badly-with-statistics/): A well written article in Christianity Today begins: American evangelicals, who profess to be committed to Truth, are among the worst abusers of simple descriptive...
- [Transgender Religious Summit](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/transgender-religious-summit/): This weekend marks the first ever Transgender Religious Summit. The press release states the following about the event: Religious communities struggle with full acceptance of...
- [We’re Back!](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/were-back/): The upgrade too longer than expected, but we seem to be up and running. Look for changes and tweaks over the next few weeks. Also,...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Shutting Down](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/ex-gay-watch-sh/): Ok, I hope that got your attention. Sometime late tonight or early tomorrow morning, we will be shutting down for at least a few hours...
- [Levi Kreis’ Exodus Efforts](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/levi-kreis-exod/): Levi Kreis is an emerging gay musician. He’s appeared on an episode of The Apprentice, done a few indie films, and has had his music...
- [Complaint Filed Against Seller of Ex-Gay Video Featuring Fallen Ex-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/complaint-filed/): Earlier this week XGW’s Timothy Kincaid wrote about fallen ex-gay Michael Johnston’s appearance in the video “It’s Not Gay” which is still being sold by...
- [NARTH’s Rosik Comments On Apotemnophilia And GLBT Civil Rights](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/narths-rosik-co/): [O]pponents say the prospect of same-sex book-borrowing endangers the moral fiber of the country’s most sacred reading traditions. “What’s next—gay people at the DMV, being...
- [In Case You Question If “Love Won Out” Targets Youth](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/in-case-you-que/): If one reads the news coverage following pretty much any Love Won Out conference it quickly becomes obvious they are attended primarily by family, friends...
- [The Very Model of an Ex-Gay Individual](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/the-very-model/): On New Years Eve, 1879, W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan presented their comic opera The Pirates of Penzance. Although a social satire of English...
- [The Newly Refurbished Michael Johnston](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/the-newly-refur/): In 1988 Michael Johnston became ex-gay. Almost immediately he became visable in the conservative anti-gay Christian movement. The following year he started his own ex-gay...
- [Exodus Youth Guidelines Posted](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/exodus-youth-gu/): As you may have read recently, much concern has been displayed for the apparent lack of standards under which Exodus youth member ministries operate.  Peterson...
- [Did Ex-Gay Contribute to Akinola’s Virulently Anti-Gay Activism?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/did-ex-gay-cont/): We have commented here about the extremist anti-gay political efforts of Nigerian Anglican Arch-Bishop Akinola including his support of a bill that would criminalize reading...
- [Ex-Gay Mother Demands Child Support From Her Lesbian Ex](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/ex-gay-mother-d/): While she has denied her lesbian ex-partner visitation that was ordered by Vermont courts, ex-gay biological mother Lisa Miller-Jenkins has apparently sought child support from...
- [Who Is Telling the Truth About Misconduct in the Exodus Programs?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/who-is-telling/): In December 2006, Ex-Gay Watch asked some questions about the lack of protections for youth in ex-gay programs. Alan Chambers, the President of Exodus International,...
- [Former Ex-Gay Says Exodus Admits Mistreatment of Youth But Stalls on Safeguards](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/former-ex-gay-s/): Note: In fairness to Exodus, I have changed my references to “abuse” to “misconduct.” Peterson Toscano, a survivor of the ex-gay live-in ministry Love In...
- [Phoenix “Love Won Out” Billboard Goes Up](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/phoenix-love-wo/): I really love how Focus always says “we hope the protesters will come inside and hear our message” when every Love Won Out conference follows...
- [Ex-Gay Featured in Video No Longer Part of Ex-Gay Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/ex-gay-featured/): In 2004, Dr. Warren Throckmorton produced I Do Exist, a video that profiled five individuals who identified themselves as ex-gay. One of these, Noe Gutierrez,...
- [PFOX on ‘Chastity’ And the Alleged Sameness of All Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/pfox-on-chastit/): Good As You comments on an endorsement by antigay relatives’ group PFOX of author Dawn Eden, whose recent book The Thrill of the Chaste discusses...
- [XGW Blogroll Goes on a Diet](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/xgw-blogroll-go/): When I founded Ex-Gay Watch in 2002, it was a personal experiment — one of the few web sites to document the “ex-gay” political movement’s...
- [For What Purpose Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/for-what-purpos/): Focus on the Family gave a loving interview with Alan Chambers relating to his book God’s Grace and the Homosexual Next Door. We’ve discussed the...
- [Mike Ensley On Gender Fluidity](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/mike-ensley-on/): Mike Ensley is in his mid-twenties, and is listed as the assistant for the Exodus International’s Exodus Youth department. Ensley, like many working for Exodus...
- [The Social Implications Of Studying Gay Sheep For A Gay Cure](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/the-social-impl/): If anyone saw the play Twilight of the Golds by Jonathon Tolins, they saw a play about what would happen if parents had an in...
- [Wayne Besen Among The Advocate’s 55 People Of The Year](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/wayne-besen-amo/): The headline pretty much says it all, here’s a link to the story.
- [Affected High School’s Student Publication On PFOX Handout](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/01/affected-high-s/): On December 31st, the student newspaper of Blair High School (Montgomery County, MD) posted an article about the PFOX Handout entitled Flier Sparks Controversy. (Previous...
- [Happy New Year](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/happy-new-year/): Here’s wishing each of you a joyous and safe celebration and a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year
- [Not Under My Roof, You Aren’t](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/not-under-my-ro/): Exodus and other ex-gay groups tell parents that they should love their gay children. And their resources are abundant with advice that if you reject...
- [Love In Action / Refuge’s Predecessors](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/love-in-action-2-2/): Reason Magazine, a periodical with a strongly libertarian bent, has an article by Maia Szalavitz that discusses the forebears of ex-gay live-in program Love In...
- [Aftermath From Colorado](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/aftermath-from/): Last week the Los Angeles Times presented an article that looked at conservative evangelical churches to see the result that the recent scandals in Colorado...
- [Good-Bye, Mr. President](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/good-bye-mr-pre/): In this age of Culture War and extreme partisanship it seems rare to find a politician whose positions are determined by principle rather than party...
- [One Punk Update](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/one-punk-update/): In the second episode of Jay Bakker’s serial documentary One Punk Under God, Jay dealt with his growing conviction that gay and lesbian Christians are...
- [Ex-Gay Ministries And the Episcopal Split](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/ex-gay-ministri-2/): I tend to think of ex-gay ministries as appealing primarily to fundamentalist evangelicals. But there are some “mainline” churches that also are conservative and that...
- [A Letter To Gay Youth In Crisis Through The Holidays](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/a-letter-to-gay/): To the young people who all too-often desperately stumble upon our website; Like us, you have no desire to attempt to “change” your sexual orientation....
- [Dan’s Annual Church Experience](https://exgaywatch.com/2006/12/dans-annual-chu/): Merry Christmas everyone. I’m back from my cruise to Mexico last week and now I’m at my parents’ place in Ventura for Christmas. I had...
- [Venus Magazine Editor Tells Her Story to Pat Robertson](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/venus-magazine-editor-tells-her-story-to-pat-robertson/): Charlene Cothran, the editor-in-chief of Venus Magazine who came out as an ex-gay earlier this year and proceeded to alienate her readers by turning her...
- [In Brief: Culture Warriors Berate Ex-Gay Leader Over Ease of ‘Change’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/in-brief-culture-warriors-berate-ex-gay-leader-over-ease-of-change/): Box Turtle Bulletin offers coverage-in-depth of this week’s angry war of words fired by far-right culture warriors Peter LaBarbera and Stephen Bennett against Exodus International...
- [Youth Project Vanishes From Ex-Gay Flagship Program’s Web Site](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/youth-project-vanishes-from-ex-gay-flagship-programs-web-site/): Peterson Toscano, a survivor of Exodus’ flagship residential ex-gay program called Love In Action, commended Exodus this week for what he perceives to be public...
- [Former Ex-Gays Invite Ex-Gay Leadership to Private Dinner](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/former-ex-gays-invite-ex-gay-leadership-to-dinner/): Christine Bakke and Peterson Toscano are co-founders of Beyond Ex-Gay and co-hosts (with Soulforce) of an ex-gay survivors’ conference scheduled to coincide with the Exodus...
- [In Brief: AFA Now the Stuff of Urban Legends](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/in-brief-afa-now-the-stuff-of-urban-legends/): The American Family Association (AFA) continues to sing in the chorus of propaganda against the pending Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HR 1592). Their email pleas...
- [Canada: Ex-gays Demand Hearing In Anglican Gay Debate](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/canada-ex-gays-demand-hearing-in-anglican-gay-debate/): Anglican ex-gay group Zacchaeus Fellowship is demanding its say when the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada meets to vote on whether to...
- [LA Times: Is ‘Change’ Bypassing Ex-Gay Leadership?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/la-times-is-change-bypassing-ex-gay-leadership/): With years of “therapy,” Exodus president Alan Chambers says, he has mostly conquered his own attraction to men. And he will no doubt emphasize his...
- [Born Gay? Ex-Gay Leader Offers CNN An Elliptical Response](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/born-gay-ex-gay-leader-offers-cnn-an-elliptical-response/): Inspired by an LA Times article about an upcoming professional convention that will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of ex-gay “therapies,” CNN’s Situation Room aired...
- [Sign Up for The Ex-Gay Survivor’s Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/sign-up-for-the-ex-gay-survivors-conference/): Time is running short to register for The Ex-Gay Survivor’s Conference to be held June 29-July 1, 2007, in Irvine, California. Why hold a conference...
- [Chambers on CNN Tonight](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/2492/): Alan Chambers will be appearing on CNN tonight. The Exodus President will be interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room, following an article in...
- [Ex-Gay Stephen Bennett Smears Adoptive Families Yet Again](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/ex-gay-stephen-bennett-smears-adoptive-families-yet-again/): Not long ago, the White House issued a picture of Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife holding their new grandchild, Samuel David Cheney. Samuel...
- [Exodus President Alan Chambers Addresses Concerns Over Radio Spots](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/exodus-president-alan-chambers-addresses-concerns-over-radio-spots/): A few days ago, we reported on radio spots released by Exodus to promote their upcoming Freedom Conference in Irvine, California. These spots implied that...
- [Change Of Orientation ‘Sufficiently Documented,’ Says Northern Ireland Church](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/change-of-orientation-sufficiently-documented-says-northern-ireland-church/): The Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the largest Protestant denomination in Northern Ireland, voted last week in favour of a new policy endorsing ex-gay therapy. The...
- [In Brief: Massachusetts Lawmakers Vote Down Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/in-brief-massachusetts-lawmakers-vote-down-anti-gay-marriage-amendment/): Source: Human Rights Campaign WASHINGTON — Today, during a joint session, Massachusetts lawmakers voted 151 to 45 to defeat a measure that would have placed...
- [Whose Right to Self-Determination Is Really In Question?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/whose-right-to-self-determination-is-really-in-question/): PFOX is back, this time speaking in defense of Surgeon General nominee Dr. James Holsinger. According to the group’s press release, “Gay rights groups are...
- [In Brief: Exodus Releases Anti-Bullying Statement](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/in-brief-exodus-releases-anti-bullying-statement/): We received this today from Alan Chambers, with a promise that it will be placed on their website by tomorrow. Exodus Position Statement on Bullying...
- [Who Da Man — Andrew Sullivan, Wayne Besen, Or XGW?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/who-da-man-andrew-sullivan-wayne-besen-or-xgw/): In a book review written last month, writer Jesse Monteagudo compared two gay activists: famous conservative Andrew Sullivan and not-so-famous liberal Wayne Besen, who is...
- [‘Mainstream’ UK Ministries Invite NARTH’s Nicolosi to Speak](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/mainstream-uk-ministries-invite-nicolosi-to-speak/): Ex-gay therapist Dr Joseph Nicolosi will be speaking in London, England, later this month, in an event sponsored by Anglican Mainstream, CARE and Living Waters...
- [Open Forum: Enrique Iglesias Shows Gay Fan He’s Class Act](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/open-forum-enrique-iglesias-shows-gay-fan-hes-class-act/): [myspace]https://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2034375544[/myspace] I noticed this posted at Box Turtle Bulletin and thought Jim wouldn’t mind if I shared it as an open forum post. During an...
- [Recommended Reading: Confessions of An Ex-Ex-Transgender](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/recommended-reading-confessions-of-an-ex-ex-transgender/): It’s not very often I just recommend a piece for reading without much commentary on my part, but comments on recent Ex-Gay Watch posts have...
- [Exodus Fails to Document ‘Sudden, Radical, Complete Change’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/exodus-fails-to-document-sudden-radical-complete-change/): Exodus International, the largest ex-gay organization and increasingly active anti-gay rights lobby, is now making a rather bold claim. Without any explanation, support or fanfare,...
- [Former Exodus Missionary Speaks Out](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/former-exodus-missionary-speaks-out/): Jose Luis Maccarone lived as an ex-gay for over 10 years. Peterson Toscano met him during his stay at Love in Action, an ex-gay residential...
- [Exodus President Alan Chambers Responds to Ex-Gay Stephen Bennett’s Smear of Adoptive Families](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/exodus-president-alan-chambers-responds-to-ex-gay-stephen-bennetts-smear-of-adoptive-families/): Self-proclaimed ex-gay Stephen Bennett has a habit of issuing questionable statements, apparently to gain news coverage. As he fades from his minor moment in the...
- [Screened Out: Gay Images In Film](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/screened-out-gay-images-in-film/): If you enjoyed the Celluloid Closet, you might want to set your Tivo for this. On Monday and Wednesday evenings, for the month of June...
- [Perfect Love](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/perfect-love/): Every time I recount the story of how I transitioned from a place of unquestioning acceptance of ex-gay ideology into the journey that I find...
- [EHarmony Sued for Excluding Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/eharmony-sued-for-excluding-gays/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgxOhG2nDOA eHarmony advertises that they want to “move beyond traditional online dating.” For some reason, that phrase strikes me as a bit ironic. It doesn’t...
- [Positive Portrayals of Transgender People Seen As Promoting Sin](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/positive-portrayals-of-transgender-people-seen-as-promoting-sin/): Federal legislation on expanding hate crimes to include violent attacks against individuals on the basis of “gender, sexual orientation and gender identity” is currently being...
- [XGW Website Improvements And Added Features](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/xgw-website-improvements-and-added-features/): We’ve added a few features you may want to know about. If you have any other suggestions or requests, please email us at editor@exgaywatch.com. Scripture...
- [AAPA Votes to Oppose Attempts to ‘Cure’ Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/aapa-votes-to-oppose-attempts-to-cure-homosexuality/): The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) issued a press release today announcing the results of Monday’s vote on a variety of issues. Among these...
- [Wrapping It Up: What I’ve Learned-Part III](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/wrapping-it-up-what-ive-learned-part-iii/): My experience with ex-gays, ex-gay ministry, and vicariously, with reparative therapy, changed me because it was a learning experience. I’ve always been honest about the...
- [Exodus VP Randy Thomas Upset Over ‘Alleged’ Life](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/exodus-vp-randy-thomas-upset-over-alleged-life/): On his personal blog, Exodus Executive Vice President Randy Thomas recently complained about an interview with a Florida newspaper. He took issue with the interviewer’s...
- [Zucker And Bradley](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/zucker-and-bradley/): Researchers Kenneth J. Zucker and Susan J. Bradley are names that every gay man and lesbian woman should know, especially if they were treated to...
- [Major Geneticist Francis Collins Responds to NARTH Article](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/major-geneticist-francis-collins-responds-to-narth-article/): Francis Collins is a respected geneticist most recognized for his leadership of the Human Genome Project. He has championed the free, open access of genomic...
- [New Book Puts a Focus on Antigay Activist Robert Knight](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/new-book-puts-a-focus-on-antigay-activist-robert-knight/): Activist Alvin McEwen has published an excerpt from his upcoming book, Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Exposing the Lies of the Anti-Gay Industry. In the...
- [‘Save Me’: New York LGBT Film Festival Closer Has Ex-Gay Theme](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/save-me-new-york-lgbt-film-festival-closer-has-ex-gay-theme/): At the 2007 NewFest: The 19th Annual New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, the closing film will be the New York City...
- [Commentator Glenn Beck Learns Not to Cross the Dobson](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/commentator-glen-beck-learns-not-to-cross-the-dobson/): Source: CitizenLink.com Nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck shared with his listeners today an allegation published in USA Today that Dr. James Dobson had said...
- [Why Is Change Necessary And At What Cost?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/why-is-change-necessary-and-at-what-cost/): Source: Peterson Toscano In a recent post on his blog, Peterson Toscano’s A Musing, Peterson asks these important questions. As has been noted before, often...
- [Shawn O’Donnell: My Ex-Gay Group Cruised the Mall](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/shawn-odonnell-my-ex-gay-group-cruised-the-mall/): Speaking of his four years attending New Hope Ministry, and Exodus International member ministry, Shawn O’Donnell describes how his group would go down to the...
- [Sexual Harassment, Civil Rights, And ENDA](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/sexual-harassment-civil-rights-and-enda/): I’ve been the victim of sexual harassment. Near the end of my 20-year, U.S. Navy career, a subordinate of mine decided I was gay and...
- [The Letter of the Law](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/the-letter-of-the-law/): Read through the materials of just about any Christian organization that speaks out against gay relationships, and you’ll almost certainly find reference to Leviticus 18:22....
- [We Interrupt for a Special Report From James Dobson](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/we-interrupt-for-a-special-report-from-james-dobson/): We don’t discuss politics at XGW and we don’t plan to start now, but one has to take note of such hubris. Today we received...
- [Jerry Falwell Dies At 73](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/jerry-falwell-dies-at-73/): A major figure in the Religious Right, Jerry Falwell was found unconscious in his office after breakfast this morning and was pronounced dead a few...
- [Paul Cameron’s World](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/paul-camerons-world/): Note: This is a cross post from Box Turtle Bulletin. If anyone has paid any attention to gay-rights debates over the past three decades, they...
- [NARTH Concerned About Their Media Image](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/narth-concerned-about-their-media-image/): Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, president of the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is concerned that the media isn’t reporting the details...
- [What Does Chuck Colson Know About It?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/what-does-chuck-colson-know-about-it/): Chuck Colson of BreakPoint Ministries has a very colorful history. The first member of the Nixon administration to serve prison time for the Watergate cover-up,...
- [Rev. Gregory Daniels](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/rev-gregory-daniels/): Reprinted with permission from the SPLC: Intelligence  Report Rev. Gregory Daniels By Brentin Mock CHICAGO — The Rev. Gregory Daniels walks into the South Side’s...
- [Peterson Toscano Asks, ‘What About the Parents?’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/peterson-toscano-asks-what-about-the-parents/): Source: Peterson Toscano’s A Musing No one has perfect parents, and parents and their adult children need to talk about past hurts and family issues,...
- [Reparative Therapy II:  You Want Me to Measure My What?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/reparative-therapy-part-2-you-want-me-to-measure-my-what/): When my husband began reparative therapy I was quite anxious. He was “prescribed” weekly individual and group sessions. Initially, it was the idea of group...
- [Guest Post: Hate Crimes Legislation And Why Wording Matters](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/guest-post-hate-crimes-legislation-and-why-wording-matters/): College Jay considers himself a “Side B” Christian, as defined by the folks at GCN. In short, those who view their same-sex attractions as a...
- [Make Plans Now for the Ex-Gay Survivor’s Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/05/make-plans-now-for-the-ex-gay-survivors-conference/): Source: eMediaWire Austin, TX (PRWEB) May 2, 2007 — This summer, on June 29-July 1, former ex-gays and their allies will have an unprecedented opportunity...
- [NARTH Web Site Promotes Discredited ‘Research’ of Paul Cameron](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/narth-web-site-promotes-discredited-research-of-paul-cameron/): Last week, we saw that Exodus was still promoting Paul Cameron’s junk science. Even though this wasn’t the first time an Ex-Gay Watch author raised...
- [What I’ve Learned From Ex-Gay Therapy/Ministry: Part One](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/what-ive-learned-from-ex-gay-therapyministry-part-one/): I’ve been encouraged to share personal narratives about what I’ve learned from ex-gay therapy/ministry. While I’ve never experienced being ex-gay personally, my unique perspective affords...
- [Exeter International Offers to Make the Gay Go Away](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/exeter-international-offers-to-make-the-gay-go-away/): Source: thisjustin.com If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video must be priceless. If only the damaged lives were equally humorous. Here’s...
- [Exodus Web Site Promotes Discredited ‘Research’ of Paul Cameron](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/exodus-web-site-promotes-discredited-research-of-paul-cameron/): Updated: Exodus President Alan Chambers responds. Amid recent warnings about the integrity of data used by antigay activists, Exodus International continues to air the distorted...
- [Stephen Bennett And Mission America Link to Racist Materials](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/stephen-bennett-and-mission-america-link-to-racist-materials/): Subject: Brainwashing children about homosexuality: YouTube The homosexual brainwashing of kids in schools… If you haven’t already seen these, get ready. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mil2ohzJ6gs&NR=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spz5yN5I2wU&NR=1 That was...
- [Drs. Warren Throckmorton, Morten Frisch Respond to Paul And Kirk Cameron](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/drs-warren-throckmorton-morten-frisch-respond-to-paul-and-kirk-cameron/): Since criticizing Drs. Paul and Kirk Cameron’s “Scandinavian Gay Lifespan” study, Dr. Warren Throckmorton has participated in an email exchange over his comments, first with...
- [Book Review: ‘Sex And the Single Savior’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/book-review-sex-and-the-single-savior/): For those wrestling with the question of what a Christian position on the issue of homosexuality should look like, Dale Martin’s new book Sex and...
- [Former Ex-Gay to Appear on ‘Good Morning America’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/former-ex-gay-to-appear-on-good-morning-america/): Christine Bakke, co-founder of Beyond Exgay and recently featured in Glamour Magazine, is scheduled to appear live on ABC-TV’s Good Morning America. Good Morning America...
- [Open Forum: (B.S.O.D.) Blue Screen of Death](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/open-forum-blue-screen-of-death/): Open Forums are where authors and commenters can talk about anything. Nothing is off-topic, but standard rules of civility and decorum still apply. Twice every...
- [Former Exodus Leader to Speak At Gay Christian Retreat](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/former-exodus-leader-now-ex-ex-gay-to-speak/): Ann Phillips, who is a former Exodus local group leader and former women’s program director at the Exodus flagship live-in program Love In Action, will...
- [Change Is Possible — for Exodus Exiles](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/change-is-possible-for-exodus-exiles/): The national leadership of ex-gay umbrella network Exodus International promises and fails to deliver heterosexual attraction to its Christian followers, even as it uses those...
- [Exodus’ Alan Chambers Joins Repent America’s Paranoia](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/exodus-alan-chambers-joins-repent-americas-paranoia/): Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International said: In Philadelphia, eleven Christians were jailed for sharing a message from the Bible to a crowd of people...
- [Nicolosi Is a No-Show At Omaha “Love Won Out” Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/nicolosi-is-a-no-show-at-omaha-love-won-out-conference/): Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, head of the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) did not appear in his scheduled time slot at...
- [Another “Love Won Out” Billboard Unwelcome](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/another-love-won-out-billboard-unwelcome/): Before every Love Won Out conference, Focus on the Family leases billboard space in the area where it will be held. Before the last conference,...
- [“We Can Overcome Our Genetics”: Alan Chambers & the Semantic Problem](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/we-can-overcome-our-genetics-alan-chambers-the-semantic-problem/): Following Al Mohler’s controversial article Is Your Baby Gay? last month, evangelical monthly Christianity Today enters the gay gene debate with Re-engineering Temptation. Of interest...
- [Latest Cameron Study “Severely Methodologically Flawed”](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/latest-cameron-study-severely-methodologically-flawed/): Source: wthrockmorton.com In an attempt to further evaluate the problems with Paul Cameron’s latest study, Dr. Warren Throckmorton asked Morten Frisch, Danish epidemiologist, to review...
- [What Is a Christian?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/what-is-a-christian/): Can a person be both gay and Christian? It’s an important question that has only begun receiving serious attention over the last couple of decades....
- [Dr. Nicolosi Getting in Touch with His Inner (Spoiled) Child](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/dr-nicolosi-getting-in-touch-with-his-inner-spoiled-child/): For those who didn’t get to see the CNN special last week, here is what can only be described as a minor temper tantrum from...
- [Eastern Psychological Association’s Statement on Paul Cameron](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/eastern-psychological-associations-statement-on-paul-cameron/): This is a quick follow-up to my earlier post on Paul Cameron’s “Scandinavian Gay Lifespan” study. Cameron purportedly presented the paper at a recent convention...
- [Ex-Gay John Paulk Undergoes Personal Makeover](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/ex-gay-john-paulk-undergoes-personal-makeover/): Before After Ex-Gay Watch congratulates John Paulk on his new look, which we trust matches his good cooking. We don’t know whether he learned to...
- [Christine Bakke: “They Tried to Cure Me of Being Gay”](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/they-tried-to-cure-me-of-being-gay-article-in-glamour-magazine/): Christine Bakke, of Rising Up Whole and Beyond Ex-Gay, has been featured in an article in Glamour magazine. I first “met” Christine when she emailed...
- [Exodus No Longer a Member of PATH](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/exodus-no-longer-a-member-of-path/): Source: wthrockmorton.com According to an email reproduced on Warren Throckmorton’s blog, Exodus has dropped it’s membership in PATH, a coalition of ex-gay organizations, effective today....
- [A Video Examination of the “Day of Truth”](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/a-video-examination-of-the-day-of-truth/): [googlevideo]https://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3501440730972344004 [/googlevideo]YouTube Link In response to GLSEN’s “Day of Silence” where gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth remain silent to protest the silencing effect...
- [Paul Cameron’s “Scandinavian Gay Lifespan” Study Debunked](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/paul-camerons-scandinavian-gay-lifespan-study-debunked/): In 1993, Paul Cameron, of the Family Research Institute, began touting a paper he said he presented at the Eastern Psychological Association entitled, “The lifespan...
- [Offend One Audience, Woo Another: Former Lesbian Magazine Gets A Boost From Religious Rightists](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/offend-one-audience-woo-another-former-lesbian-magazine-gets-a-boost-from-religious-rightists/): When she turned the Atlanta-area black gay and lesbian magazine Venus into an ex-gay publication, Charlene Cothran offended loyal subscribers and advertisers with antigay and...
- [University Provost Fired, Rehired Amid Dispute Over Origins of Sexual Orientation](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/university-provost-fired-rehired-amid-dispute-over-origins-of-sexual-orientation/): From Bill Berkowitz of Talk To Action: Within the space of 48 hours, Ave Maria University Provost JosephFessio was fired and then rehired. Ave Maria...
- [Ex-Gay Purge At NARTH, PFOX Compared to Stalinist Era](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/ex-gay-purge-at-narth-pfox-compared-to-stalinist-era/): Writing for Bay Area Reporter about the purge of ex-gay leader Richard Cohen from the web sites of NARTH and PFOX, Bob Roehr says: Some...
- [Previously Unreleased Spitzer Video Gives Candid Results](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/previously-unreleased-spitzer-video-gives-candid-results/): Source: wthrockmorton.com This is a well hashed subject but sexual identity therapist Dr. Warren Throckmorton has just posted some previously unreleased video of an interview...
- [Dave Rattigan Returns to Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/dave-rattigan-returns-to-ex-gay-watch/): After a hiatus of a few months, I am back on the Ex-Gay Watch team, and looking forward to bringing you a UK perspective on...
- [CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 to Feature Former Ex-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/cnns-anderson-cooper-360-to-feature-former-ex-gay/): Former ex-gay Shawn O’Donnell will be featured this week on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 as part of a two-part special titled, “What Is A Christian?”...
- [Former Ex-Gays on Tyra Banks Show, in L.A., Boston And Glamour Magazine](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/two-former-ex-gays-to-appear-on-tyra-banks-show/): From ex-gay program survivor Peterson Toscano: I went to Los Angeles to be a guest on the Tyra Banks Show. The show will air on...
- [Ex-Gay Survivor Site Beyondexgay.com Launches Today, Conference Set for June](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/ex-gay-survivor-site-beyondexgaycom-launches-today-conference-set-for-june/): Performance artist Peterson Toscano and fellow blogger Christine Bakke announced today the launch of Beyondexgay.com, a new online community designed to provide support for “survivors”...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Author Daniel Gonzales Takes on New Goals](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/04/ex-gay-watch-author-daniel-gonzolez-takes-on-new-goals/): Almost two years after beginning my work at XGW I’m now leaving in my official capacity. In those two years my work has changed from...
- [NARTH And PFOX Quietly Rid Themselves of Richard Cohen](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/narth-and-pfox-quietly-rid-themselves-of-richard-cohen/): Over the past couple of days, The National Association for the Therapy of Homosexuals (NARTH), and Parents and Friends of Gays and Ex-Gays (PFOX), have...
- [More Ex-Gay Rhetoric in Schools From PFOX](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/more-ex-gay-rhetoric-in-schools-from-pfox/): PFOX has been at it again with the distribution of their fliers in schools. This time, the letters were passed out at Winston Churchill High...
- [Ex-Gay Roadshow Says Cultural Warfare = ‘Dialogue’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/ex-gay-roadshow-says-cultural-warfare-dialogue/): The title of a press release issued yesterday by Focus on the Family was cause for joy: “Love Won Out Looking Forward to Dialogue About Homosexuality”...
- [Eugene Wagner Joins Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/eugene-wagner-joins-ex-gay-watch/): After a decade of pursuing “change,” Eugene began to notice the holes and inconsistencies in ex-gay philosophy, and after taking Exodus’ advice to “question homosexuality”...
- [Ex-Gay James Parker & the UK Sexual Orientation Regulations](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/ex-gay-james-parker-the-uk-sexual-orientation-regulations/): Perhaps taking his cue from Exodus’s increasing involvement in US politics, British ex-gay James Parker has weighed in on the UK’s new Sexual Orientation Regulations....
- [Karen Booth Decides to Apologize to Mike Jones](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/karen-booth-decides-to-apologize-to-mike-jones/): Karen Booth is the leader of the Exodus member ministry Transforming Congregations who just recently led a charge to force eBay to remove the massage...
- [No Standards Of Care For SSAD](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/no-standards-of-care-for-ssad/): Whenever I discuss transgender medical or therapeutic treatments here at the Ex-Gay Watch, I always seem to go back to the Harry Benjamin Standards Of...
- [Exodus President Alan Chambers Resigns From PFOX Board](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/exodus-president-alan-chambers-resigns-from-pfox-board/): We recently discovered that Alan Chambers had joined the board of PFOX late last year. In an email reply, Alan said he did so as...
- [Randy Thomas on Richard Cohen’s “Spectacle”](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/randy-thomas-on-richard-cohens-spectacle/): Who says ex-gays don’t have a sense of humor? Just a warning: the above clip will probably make you laugh even though it is at...
- [NARTH Demands Right to Edit Wikipedia Article](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/narth-demands-right-to-edit-wikipedia-article/): The National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, NARTH, is upset about changes made to an entry about them in Wikipedia. For those...
- [Millions To Defeat Them, Nickels To Serve Them](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/millions-to-defeat-them-nickels-to-serve-them/): Karen Booth is the leader of an Exodus member ministry called Transforming Congregations. She was offended recently when Mike Jones, the man who outed Ted...
- [Jim Burroway Joins Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/jim-burroway-joins-ex-gay-watch/): Author Jim Burroway of Box Turtle Bulletin has a well deserved reputation for his intelligent, clear style of writing. His thorough research has been invaluable...
- [Truth Wins Out on The Daily Show](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/truth-wins-out-on-the-daily-show/): Updated: Truth Wins Out Executive Director Wayne Besen appeared on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” tonight (March 19) at 11 p.m. Eastern...
- [PFOX Webmaster Lobs Verbal Assault At Montel Guests](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/pfox-webmaster-lobs-verbal-assault-at-montel-guests/): In reaction to a video of former ex-gay Peterson Toscano’s appearance last week on the Montel Show, Gabriel Espinosa — webmaster for Parents and Friends...
- [What Gays Want From Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/what-gays-want-from-ex-gays/): Over at Warren Throckmorton’s web site, Karen Booth of Transforming Congregations asked: Other than shutting up and going away, what exactly do you want folk...
- [PFOX to APA: “Sexual Orientation Is a Matter of Self-affirmation And Public Declaration.”](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/pfox-to-apa-sexual-orientation-is-a-matter-of-self-affirmation-and-public-declaration/): In a letter to the American Psychological Association (APA), PFOX Executive Director Regina Griggs continues that organizations habit of coopting language from the gay rights...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Bids a Fond Farewell to Timothy Kincaid](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/03/ex-gay-watch-bids-a-fond-farewell-to-timothy-kincaid/): For the past couple of years XGW has been blessed with the talented writing of Timothy Kincaid. During that time his writing has been recognized...
- [Ex-gay Study Rigged to Achieve Desired Results?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/ex-gay-study-rigged-to-achieve-desired-results/): Mel Seesholtz assesses the weaknesses of the recent ex-gay study by Stanton Jones of Wheaton College and Mark Yarhouse of Regent University. The Thomas Project:...
- [Ex-Gays Mislead Christian Activists At ‘Family Impact Summit’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/ex-gays-mislead-youth-activists-at-family-impact-summit/): At the religious-right’s misnamed “Family Impact Summit,” two spotters for Right Wing Watch recorded their observations of Exodus youth activists Mike Ensley and Scott Davis,...
- [Dobson At Odds with Evangelicals And Fred Thompson](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/dobson-vs-evangelicals-and-fred-thompson/): Right Wing Watch is monitoring a growing rift between James Dobson, co-founder of Focus on the Family, and a faction of evangelical Christians over the...
- [Former Ex-Gays on ABC-TV And CNN](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/former-ex-gays-on-abc-tv-and-cnn/): Former ex-gay Peterson Toscano brings us up to date on the appearances of former ex-gays on ABC’s 20/20 and on CNN.
- [Maryland Schools Criticize Sloppy Work of PFOX](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/maryland-schools-slam-sloppy-legal-work-of-pfox/): In July, antigay political groups including Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) filed papers in Maryland state court to stop implementation of a board-approved and...
- [Republican Mayor Tearfully Supports Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/republican-mayor-tearfully-supports-gay-marriage/): https://youtube.com/watch?v=SnTwrnKb61Q There is nothing we could add to this except the hope that members of both parties would have such courage. Full Story in LA...
- [Christianity Today: Older And a Little Wiser, But Not Much](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/christianity-today-older-and-a-little-wiser-but-not-much/): True to its image as a more moderate voice in the evangelical community, Christianity Today has attempted to take a more nuanced approach in its...
- [ABC 20/20 Double Episode on LIA, Conversion Therapies](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/abc-2020-double-episode-on-lia-conversion-therapies/): We’ve been told that ABC will air two episodes of 20/20 tomorrow night, Friday, from 9 – 11 PM ET. They should focus partly on...
- [Evidence Still Scarce in Alleged PFOX Assault](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/evidence-still-scarce-in-alleged-pfox-assault/): This is a follow-up in our effort to separate fact from fiction in the alleged assault claimed by Parents and Friends of ExGays and Gays...
- [Technical Issues: XGW Feed Problems](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/technical-issues-xgw-feed-problems/): You may have noticed that our Atom/RSS syndication feeds have been interrupted recently. We’ve had problems before which seem to trace to Feedburner, so we...
- [PFOX Seeks Confrontation At Virginia Festival](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/pfox-seeks-confrontation-at-virginia-festival/): This past weekend, Nicholas F. Benton, owner and editor of the Falls Church News-Press, attended the Falls Church Festival, in Falls Church, Virginia. As the...
- [A Preliminary Review of Jones And Yarhouse’s ‘Ex-Gay? A Longitudinal Study’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/a-preliminary-review-of-jones-and-yarhouses-ex-gay-a-longitudinal-study/): Jim Burroway of Box Turtle Bulletin has written a lengthy and detailed analysis of the study’s methodology and conclusions. Check it out. Update: Dr. Stanton...
- [Exodus Puts Upbeat Spin on Ex-Gay Study Finding Little ‘Change’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/exodus-puts-upbeat-spin-on-ex-gay-study-finding-little-change/): An Exodus press release, not yet available online, tries to sound optimistic: Leaders of the world’s largest outreach to those dealing with unwanted homosexuality commended...
- [In Brief: Doctors’ Protest Leads Ex-Gay Therapist to Withdraw From Austrian Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/in-brief-doctors-protest-leads-ex-gay-therapist-to-withdraw-from-austrian-conference/): From the U.S.-based Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists: The Austrian Society of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (OEGPP) is a sponsor of an upcoming conference, “Religiosity...
- [In Brief: Sway Or Swagger: Does Body Language Give Away Sexual Orientation?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/in-brief-swish-or-sway-does-body-language-give-away-sexual-orientation/): From MSNBC: Is he gay or straight? At a glance, the key to telling might be in the way he walks. A swing of the...
- [Ex-Gays, Survivors, And Therapists Debate on Fox Morning Show](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/ex-gays-survivors-and-therapists-debate-on-fox-morning-show/): Update: Full transcript added. Peterson Toscano and Good As You set the scene: The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet hosted an ex-gay leader, a...
- [In Brief: Ex-Transsexual Sy Rogers Speaks At Sydney Megachurch](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/in-brief-ex-transsexual-sy-rogers-speaks-at-sydney-megachurch/): Ex-gay and ex-transexual Sy Rogers speaks at Hillsong Church, Australia, this week. The controversial Sydney Pentecostal church has titled the seminar Sense and Sexuality. Although...
- [Peterson Toscano On The Morning Show This Week](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/peterson-toscano-on-the-morning-show-this-week/): Ex-gay survivor Peterson Toscano will be appearing on The Morning Show With Mike and Juliet this Thursday, September 13 on a segment entitled “Can You...
- [At JONAH, Click ‘Lez’ for Lesbian](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/at-jonah-click-lez-for-lesbian/): Hey JONAH, is anyone at the helm of your website home? I have my doubts for a couple reasons. One is that it appears that...
- [Former Client Speaks Out About Dr. Chris Austin](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/former-client-speaks-out-about-dr-chris-austin/): Mike Airhart made a great point in the comments of the article about Dr. Austin. XGW did not decide Austin was guilty; a Texas jury...
- [Study of Exodus Participants To Be Released Next Week](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/study-of-exodus-participants-to-be-released-next-week/): A press release by InterVarsity Press gives specifics about the study on which we reported here and here. In September, InterVarsity Press will publish the...
- [Ex-Gay Counselor Chris Austin Convicted of Sexual Assault](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/ex-gay-counselor-chris-austin-convicted-of-sexual-assault/): Source: Truth Wins Out Truth Wins Out is reporting that Chris Austin, a longtime ex-gay counselor from Irving, Texas, was convicted today of sexually assaulting...
- [Arlington Fair Officials, Eyewitness Contradict PFOX Claims of Assault](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/arlington-fair-officials-eyewitness-contradict-pfox-claims-of-assault/): As a follow-up to our previous post on this matter, we have gathered more information in our investigation of claims made by Parents and Friends...
- [Exodus Staffer Responds to Ex-Gay Bible Comic](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/exodus-staffer-responds-to-ex-gay-bible-comic/): Exodus youth assistant Mike Ensley has responded on his personal blog to my protest of a comic strip that was published (in my opinion, sacrilegiously)...
- [Police Info Casts Doubt on Alleged Attack Against PFOX](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/police-info-casts-doubt-on-alleged-attack-against-pfox/): This past Tuesday, PFOX posted some disturbing news. While innocently offering “materials on same-sex attraction and tolerance for the ex-gay community to a hungry public”...
- [Evangelist Publishes Sacrilegious Ex-Gay Comics in Public-School Bibles](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/evangelist-publishes-sacrilegious-ex-gay-comics-in-public-school-bibles/): Tim Todd Ministries has recently distributed 48,000 New Testaments — altered to conform to religious-right political correctness — to public-school students in the United States....
- [Overseers Rebuke Rev. Haggard As Ex-Gay Recovery Goes Awry](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/overseers-rebuke-rev-haggard-as-ex-gay-recovery-goes-awry/): At a time when he should be getting a job, earning a wage from real labor, and focusing on his supposed “recovery” from lifelong homosexual...
- [Ex-Gay Live-In Program Says It Was ‘Exonerated’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/ex-gay-live-in-program-says-it-was-exonerated/): Ex-Gay Watch has asserted at various times that Exodus’ flagship live-in program, Love In Action, altered its web site, put new limits on its youth...
- [Open Forum: Sen. Larry Craig’s Alleged ‘Hypocrisy’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/open-forum-sen-larry-craigs-alleged-hypocrisy/): Both the news media and the blogosphere have been roaring their disapproval of Sen. Larry Craig’s “hypocrisy” after he was arrested for alleged lewd conduct...
- [Christianity Thinly Veiled At JONAH](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/christianity-thinly-veiled-at-jonah-or-how-greenberg-is-my-valley/): How “Greenberg” is my valley? You would think that an organization as professedly Jewish as JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality) wouldn’t need any...
- [Ex-Gay Live-In Program Leader Promotes Job Discrimination](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/ex-gay-live-in-program-leader-promotes-job-discrimination/): Steve Gallagher is president of Pure Life Ministries, a Kentucky-based live-in and at-home “ministry” for persons deemed to be sexual sinners. Gallagher’s organization may not...
- [African-American GLBT Leaders React to Ex-Gay Publisher](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/african-american-leaders-react-to-ex-gay-publisher/): We’ve commented occasionally about Charlene Cothran, the newly ex-gay publisher of Venus magazine who alienated her gay African-American readership with rhetoric of blame, self-pity and...
- [Too Quiet for Comfort At Focus on the Family?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/too-quiet-for-comfort-at-focus-on-the-family/): People for the American Way thinks that James Dobson of Focus on the Family has been unusually quiet of late. Health problems and foot-in-mouth disease...
- [Update: More on Ex-Gay Study, ‘The Thomas Project’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/update-more-on-ex-gay-study-the-thomas-project/): More information has come to light concerning the study we reported on here. An anonymous source said they have contact with someone participating in the...
- [Results of Secret Exodus Study Soon To Be Released](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/results-of-secret-exodus-study-soon-to-be-released/): Readers may have noticed the casual claims by Exodus president Alan Chambers and vice president Randy Thomas concerning the success rates of “change” and perhaps...
- [More Former Ex-Gay Leaders Apologize](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/more-former-ex-gay-leaders-apologize/): Beyond Ex-Gay has posted apology letters from Vonnie Pitts, Wendy Lawson and Kim Brett, former leaders of ex-gay ministries in Australia. According to the press...
- [A New Look - Work In Progress](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/a-new-look-work-in-progress/): We are trying a new look (yes again!) and there are some minor features missing (author listings on posts for one). This will be corrected...
- [Update: Omaha Responds Concerning Violent Messages](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/update-omaha-responds-concerning-violent-messages/): We recently reported about our serious concerns over the violent messages on a group of websites owned by Brian Wyant, GLBT Center Coordinator for Rainbow...
- [In Brief: Did InterVarsity Press Drop Richard Cohen?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/in-brief-did-intervarsity-press-drop-richard-cohen/): InterVarsity Press is a widely respected publisher of Christian themed books, so it struck us as rather amazing when we found a new edition of...
- [In Brief: Michael Glatze to Speak At NARTH Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/in-brief-michael-glatze-to-speak-at-narth-conference/): According to their conference schedule (PDF), the troubled former gay youth activist turned ex-gay Michael Glatze will be speaking at the next annual conference of...
- [Something’s Fishy At JONAH](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/somethings-fishy-at-jonah/): Many people, even those involved in countering the ex-gay movement, have probably never heard of JONAH (Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality). In a field...
- [SBC’s New Approach Same Old Ex-Gay Line](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/sbcs-new-approach-same-old-ex-gay-line/): Saturday’s edition of The Tennesseean features interviews with ex-ex-gays Darlene Bogle and Christine Bakke and with pastor Bob Stith, the Southern Baptist Convention’s first national...
- [Omaha-Area Gay Activist Ducks Concerns About Violence](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/omaha-area-gay-activist-ducks-concerns-about-violence/): A few days ago we reported on a website dealing with gay issues which included some very disturbing verbiage. Part of our report centered on...
- [The Spirit of the Law](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/the-spirit-of-the-law/): As I’ve discussed here before, strict adherence to the letter of the law can produce odd results.  By reducing the Bible to a rulebook, we...
- [PFOX Ruling Guarantees More Garbage in Backpacks](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/pfox-ruling-guarantees-more-garbage-in-backpacks/): As a public school teacher, I’ve been calling for the reversal of the “open forum” ruling on student backpacks for quite some time, including this...
- [Open Forum: Focus on the Family: Benefactor to Exodus Ex-Gays?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/open-forum-focus-on-the-family-benefactor-to-exodus-ex-gays/): I have often expressed my personal opinion that Exodus relies upon Focus on the Family as its primary “benefactor.” Specifically, I contend that Focus spends...
- [Exodus And Dr. Throckmorton Duped By Unknown Website](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/exodus-and-dr-throckmorton-duped-by-unknown-website/): Earlier today we received an email calling our attention to a website called GayStraightAlliance.org, specifically to the verbiage at the bottom of the main page:...
- [Holocaust Revisionism Supported to Further Jewish Ex-Gay Agenda](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/holocaust-revisionism-supported-to-further-jewish-ex-gay-agenda/): Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality (JONAH) appears to stand alone as the only Jewish ex-gay organization in the country. With a fairly substantial online...
- [Judge’s Ruling Exposes Ex-Gay Doubletalk About ‘Thought Crimes’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/judges-ruling-exposes-ex-gay-doubletalk-about-thought-crimes/): For all their protests about so-called “thought-crime laws,” Exodus president Alan Chambers and executive vice president Randy Thomas seem content to tolerate such laws, in...
- [HRC Interviews Producer of Film Featuring Former Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/2585/): The Human Rights Campaign’s XM Radio show, “The Agenda with Joe Solmonese,” has posted an audio clip about the documentary God and Gays. Film producer...
- [In Battle Against Sex Ed, Ex-Gay Group Loses One Legal Ally, Gains Another](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/in-battle-against-sex-ed-ex-gay-group-loses-one-legal-ally-gains-another/): The Washington Blade reports today that an outfit called the Thomas More Law Center has replaced the much stronger and better-known Liberty Counsel in pursuing...
- [Gay Bishop Describes Battle to Become Straight](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/gay-bishop-describes-battle-to-become-straight/): In a frank and moving interview last week, the Episcopalian Bishop of New Hampshire talked about his attempts to overcome his homosexuality. The Right Reverend...
- [Peterson Toscano Announces Retirement of ‘Homo No Mo’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/08/peterson-toscano-announces-retirement-of-homo-no-mo/): Since 2003, Peterson Toscano has put his quirky talent to use performing his original play, Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House–How I...
- [Open Forum: I’m Not Gay!](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/open-forum-im-not-gay/): The person in this video goes by the nickname RevolutionaryHorizon on YouTube. I don’t think this is a joke – he seems to be serious...
- [The Real Reason Focus On The Family Mocks Hate Crimes](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/the-real-reason-focus-on-the-family-mocks-hate-crimes/): This video was released almost two weeks ago by Focus on the Family through their political mouthpiece, CitizenLink, so you may have already seen it...
- [In Brief: I Am What I Am And It’s Not a Choice](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/in-brief-i-am-what-i-am-and-its-not-a-choice/): Ex-ex-gay activist Peterson Toscano writes about sexuality, choice and the ex-gay journey in the latest New Statesman (a broadly left-wing British political weekly). Peterson writes...
- [Open Forum: Drs. Throckmorton And McCommon on CNN](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/open-forum-throckmorton-and-mccommons-on-cnn/): This is a recent, brief interview of Dr. Warren Throckmorton and Dr. Benjamin McCommon on CNN regarding their views on the APA’s current re-evaluation of...
- [Tammy Faye Messner Remembered for Welcoming Spirit](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/tammy-faye-messner-remembered-for-welcoming-spirit/): In her final TV interview, taped Wednesday and aired Thursday on CNN, Tammy Faye Messner didn’t declare that she knew God’s will. She didn’t excuse...
- [Ex-Gay News Roundup](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/ex-gay-news-roundup/): Former ex-gay Peterson Toscano sums up the week in ex-gay news. Toscano has also posted new video from the Survivor Initiative press conference outside Love...
- [Researcher Seeks British Ex-Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/researcher-seeks-british-ex-ex-gays/): A researcher in the UK would like to speak to former ex-gays who have been through ex-gay therapy and/or ministry in Britain, or who received...
- [In Brief: Ex-Gay Proves Useful in Lobbying Against Equal Treatment of Hate Crimes](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/in-brief-ex-gay-proves-useful-in-lobbying-against-equal-treatment-of-hate-crimes/): WorldNetDaily cites the (alleged) Madison, Wis., arrest of ex-gay David Ott under local hate-speech laws as one of several cases where local misapplication of local...
- [In Brief: Focus on the Family, Ex-Gay Activist Join ‘Lesbian Gangs’ Scare](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/focus-on-the-family-ex-gay-activist-join-lesbian-gangs-scare/): Focus on the Family and Alan Keyes’ Renew America have joined ex-gay activist Linda Jernigan and Peter LaBarbera in spreading an already-disproven false report that...
- [Christian Post: The Ends Justify The Means](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/christian-post-the-ends-justify-the-means/): Adherence to what most evangelicals would regard as a false religion is apparently acceptable under some circumstances, according to the Christian Post: Christians need to...
- [Former Ex-Gays Tell of Harm At Exodus ‘Love In Action’ Program](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/former-ex-gays-tell-of-harm-at-exodus-love-in-action-program/): Two former clients — Brandon Tidwell of Memphis and David Christie of New York — spoke on July 18 in front of Love in Action,...
- [In Brief: Scientology America’s ‘Biggest Ex-Gay Movement’, Says Maupin](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/in-brief-scientology-americas-biggest-ex-gay-movement-says-maupin/): The gay author Armistead Maupin slammed Scientology at a book-signing in London last week: [The] Church of Scientology comes in very handy. It’s the biggest...
- [Questions For Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/questions-for-exodus/): Given the defensive, sarcastic, and even hostile reactions that Exodus and its political allies have offered in response to the Ex-Gay Survivors Conference and the...
- [Ex-Gay Boot Camp Youth Program Returns With Changes](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/ex-gay-boot-camp-youth-program-returns-no-longer-residential/): XGW previously reported that the Love In Action Refuge youth program had been discontinued. In a recent press release, Love In Action reported that it...
- [In Brief: Review of 50 Studies Finds Antigay Job Bias Still A Problem](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/in-brief-review-of-50-studies-finds-antigay-job-bias-still-a-problem/): Exodus periodically claims that gay people suffer little or no discrimination nowadays. But a new study by economist Dr. Lee Badgett and her colleagues at...
- [In Brief: 1 in 5 Sexual Minorities Suffer Hate Crimes](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/in-brief-1-in-5-sexual-minorities-suffer-hate-crimes/): Based on federal statistics and his own soon-to-be-published research, Dr. Gregory Herek reports that hate crimes hit one in five adults who belong to sexual...
- [In Brief: Ex-Gay Racism?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/in-brief-ex-gay-racism/): Ex-gay activist Stephen Bennett suffered a racist verbal slip last week. But it was not an entirely isolated incident. Republic of T reminds us that...
- [PFOX Writes Bitter Letter in Response to Ex-Ex-Gay Message](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/pfox-bitter-over-ex-ex-gay-message/): In what continues to be a surprisingly visceral response to the recent testimonies of Ex-Gay Survivors, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) has...
- [Wayne Besen, Michael Glatze, And Charlene Cothran on CNN Tonight](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/wayne-besen-michael-glatze-and-charlene-cothran-on-cnn-tonight/): Wayne Besen is reporting: Truth Wins Out’s Executive Director Wayne Besen will appear live TONIGHT on CNN’s Paula Zahn Now. Besen will be debating the...
- [Hard Questions for Gays And Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/hard-questions-for-gays-and-ex-gays/): Former ex-homosexual Peterson Toscano says the birth of the “ex-gay survivors’ movement” raises some questions. Why did I pursue change? What was I looking for?...
- [In Brief: Ex-Gay Guru Richard Cohen Claims He’s Stopped Counseling](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/in-brief-ex-gay-guru-richard-cohen-claims-hes-stopped-counseling/): As reported by Dr. Warren Throckmorton, the self-proclaimed conversion therapist Richard Cohen has decided to stop counseling. According to Cohen’s website: Richard Cohen has always...
- [Exodus President Shuts Out Warnings of Harm Caused By His Programs](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/exodus-president-shuts-out-warnings-of-harm-caused-by-his-programs/): Ex-gay survivor Shawn O’Donnell has documented the personal harm done to him on his blog and in recent videos as well as a collage that...
- [Glatze Is LDS Convert - Why the Silence?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/glatze-is-lds-convert-why-the-silence/): In a short interview with Warren Throckmorton published today, former gay youth activist and now ex-gay Michael Glatze confirmed that he was recently baptized into...
- [XGW Exclusive: Exodus President Defends Response to Former Ex-Gays’ Apology](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/xgw-exclusive-exodus-president-defends-response-to-former-ex-gays-apology/): A little over a week ago, three former Exodus leaders issued an apology “to those individuals and families who believed our message that there is...
- [In Brief: Maryland School Board Fires Back At PFOX](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/in-brief-maryland-school-board-fires-back-at-pfox/): This statement was released on Tuesday, July 3, in Rockville, Maryland. The Maryland State Board of Education ruled in favor of Montgomery County Public Schools...
- [Ex-Gay-Affiliated Minister At Survivors’ Dinner Speaks Out](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/ex-gay-affiliated-minister-at-survivors-dinner-speaks-out/): Three ex-gay ministers dined with former ex-gays during the Ex-Gay Survivor Conference last week. The three ministers were Scott Kingry, director of Where Grace Abounds,...
- [Soulforce Video: Launch of Ex-Gay Survivor Initiative](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/soulforce-video-launch-of-ex-gay-survivor-initiative/): Soulforce has posted video of its launch of the Survivor Initiative. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Kg6_NLElY Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J-cfXq23VM In an e-mail message conveying news of the...
- [Focus on the Family Associate Editor Protests Being Corrected](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/focus-on-the-family-associate-editor-protests-being-corrected/): In a recent post we called attention to an odd article at CitizenLink from June 28. The author claimed to know the attendance figures of...
- [Former Ex-Gay Shawn O’Donnell: ‘We Are All Loved’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/shawn-odonnell-we-are-all-loved/): Former ex-gay Shawn O’Donnell offers a brief reflection on the Ex-Gay Survivor Conference. He quickly cuts to the point of the conference, which sadly has...
- [Former Gay Youth Activist Joins an Ex-Gay Blame Game](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/2531/): In news with echoes of the Charlene Cothran story earlier this year, the editor of a pioneering gay youth magazine has announced that he is...
- [Churches’ Conditional ‘Love’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/churches-conditional-love/): The Advocate (June 29) briefly profiled blogger Eric Leocadio of Two World Collision, who participated in the Ex-Gay Survivor conference. As a high school freshman...
- [Relationship with God: Who Needs the Ex-Gay Middleman?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/relationship-with-god-who-needs-the-ex-gay-middleman/): Reflecting on observations from the Ex-Gay Survivor Conference, God & Gays wonders why people pay money to the ex-gay movement for harmful goods: Why not...
- [Exodus Ex-Gay Program Charges Parents $500 Per Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/exodus-ex-gay-program-charges-parents-500-per-day/): Distraught over your family member’s homosexuality? Perhaps the Exodus flagship live-in program “Love In Action” can help. Having recently discontinued one flawed youth program, LIA...
- [Soulforce Announces ‘Survivor Initiative’ By Former Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/soulforce-announces-survivor-initiative-by-former-ex-gays/): Ex-gay survivors Shawn O’Donnell, Darlene Bogle and Daniel Gonzales launched the Survivor Initiative on July 2 at the headquarters of NARTH, an advocacy organization for...
- [Warren Throckmorton to Former Ex-Gays: What’s the Agenda?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/warren-throckmorton-to-former-ex-gays-whats-the-agenda/): In reaction to the Ex-Gay Survivor Conference, Prof. Warren Throckmorton asks former ex-gays and their organizations: What are you wanting to accomplish? Ok, a follow...
- [Noli Irritare Leones: Notes From Ex-Gay Survivor’s Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/noli-irritare-leones-notes-from-ex-gay-survivors-conference/): Lynn Gazis-Sax attended a portion the Ex-Gay Survivor Conference and offers numerous observations.
- [When Mother Berates You With A Bible](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/when-mom-bashes-you-with-a-bible/): The scene: A birthday dinner for your mother, just you and her, at Olive Garden. The act: Mom … who is divorced … guilt-trips you...
- [Exodus Ex-Gay Boot Camp Discontinues Live-In Youth Program](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/07/exodus-ex-gay-boot-camp-discontinues-live-in-youth-program/): Love In Action, the live-in program that became infamous in 2005 for subjecting a then-16-year-old teen-ager named Zach to involuntary live-in indoctrination for nearly two...
- [What Are Your Ex-Gay Experiences? What Caused Good Or Harm?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/what-are-your-ex-gay-experiences-what-caused-good-or-harm/): At the morning plenary session of the Ex-Gay Survivor Conference, former ex-gays and people with similar past experiences were presented with a blank white wall...
- [Ex-Gay Survivor Conference Opens](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/ex-gay-survivors-conference-opens/): Peterson Toscano opened the Ex-Gay Survivor Conference tonight (June 29) in Irvine, Calif., with a performance of Toscano’s one-man play, “Doin’ Time in the HomoNomo...
- [Focus on the Family Now Reporting From the Future](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/focus-on-the-family-now-reporting-from-the-future/): Focus on the Family has apparently gained the ability to travel into the future and, once there, report on events which have not happened yet...
- [What ‘Change’ Is Possible? Former Ex-Gay Leaders Challenge Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/what-change-is-possible-former-ex-gay-leaders-challenge-exodus/): The incomparable Box Turtle Bulletin has recorded exclusive video interviews with the three former ex-gay Exodus leaders who apologized for their past ex-gay/antigay advocacy at...
- [Just In: Former Ex-Gay Leaders Apologize](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/just-in-former-ex-gay-leaders-apologize/): Source: BeyondExGay.com Leaders from Soulforce and BeyondExGay.com just completed a press conference at the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center. Three former ex-gay leaders issued...
- [Tulsa Preacher Changes Mind on Gays, Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/tulsa-preacher-changes-mind-on-gays-ex-gays/): On CNN this week, Tulsa Pentecostal pastor Carlton Pearson described how he had a change of heart about fundamentalism after his best friend came out...
- [Exodus’ Alan Chambers And Warren Throckmorton on CNN Tonight](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/exodus-alan-chambers-and-warren-throckmorton-on-cnn-tonight/): CNN will be airing various segments today concerning GLBT issues, including the ex-gay angle. If you can only watch one thing, try to catch Paula...
- [PFOX Fires Another Shot Against Maryland Schools](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/pfox-fires-another-shot-against-maryland-schools/): Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays has joined forces yet again with Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum and Family Leader Network in opposition to the Montgomery...
- [Prodigal Sons: Exodus Ex-Gays Shun the Survivors](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/06/prodigal-sons-exodus-ex-gays-shun-the-survivors/): In a June 21 press release, ex-gay network Exodus International claimed that it “welcomes dialogue on homosexuality” when Exodus and a new network of former...
- [Ex-Gay TV Commercial Pulled Following Facebook Campaign](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/canada-ex-gay-tv-commercial-pulled-following-facebook-campaign/): The Canadian Television Network (CTV) has pulled a commercial after activists on Facebook claimed it was a violation of the channel’s own ethical policy. The...
- [Beyond Ex-Gay Memphis Wrap-Up](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/beyond-ex-gay-memphis-wrap-up/): Beyond Ex-Gay has posted a recap of their recent Memphis gathering, “Deconstructing the Ex-Gay Myth: A Weekend of Action and Art,” complete with photographs and...
- [XGW Digest: March 6, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/xgw-digest-06-march-2008/): Welcome to a new regular feature, the XGW Digest. There are always links, stories and snippets of news that go under the radar, not warranting...
- [Exodus Leaving ‘Politics’ Says President Alan Chambers](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/exodus-leaving-politics-says-president-alan-chambers/): Claiming a new focus on ministry, Exodus president Alan Chambers confirms that they have left the political arena. Seeking to verify a rumor, XGW asked...
- [Alternatives to Ex-Gay JONAH for Gay Observant Jews](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/glydsa-shows-how-to-be-jewish-observant-and-gay/): Ex-gay group Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality (JONAH), despite their heavy involvement with Christian organizations, claim to be a viable alternative for Jews who...
- [Pedophilia, Hedonism & Impending Confusion: Revisiting the Anti-Gay Rhetoric of Michael Brown](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/pedophilia-hedonism-impending-confusion-revisiting-the-anti-gay-rhetoric-of-michael-brown/): Pentecostal leader Michael Brown continues to throw homosexuality into the mix with an array of exotic sexual fetishes, including pedophilia, zoophilia and coprophilia, sexual arousal...
- [Peterson Toscano Clashes Gracefully in Radio Debate](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/peterson-toscano-clashes-gracefully-in-radio-debate/): Beyond Ex-Gay co-founder Peterson Toscano found himself on a broadcast radio show yesterday with a host, another guest and all but one caller holding staunchly...
- [Wendy Gritter of Exodus Member Ministry New Direction](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/wendy-gritter-of-exodus-member-ministry-new-direction/): Recently we became aware of Wendy Gritter’s keynote talk (mp3) at the Exodus leadership conference in January. Wendy is the executive director of an Exodus...
- [Beyond Ex-Gay Arrives in Memphis](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/beyond-ex-gay-arrives-in-memphis/): Peterson Toscano reported Wednesday on his arrival in Memphis for Beyond Ex-Gay’s Deconstructing the Ex-Gay Myth — A Weekend of Action & Art, which begins...
- [In Brief: Clear Thinking on Hate Crimes From ESPN](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/in-brief-clear-thinking-on-hate-crimes-from-espn/): Senior ESPN Writer LZ Granderson recounts his own frightening experience with a mob in New Orleans that started with taunts of “faggot.” Granderson is gay...
- [Ex-gay Audio Discussion At Interfaith Voices](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/ex-gay-audio-discussion-at-interfaith-voices/): There is a new interview and discussion of the ex-gay issue from both major angles at InterfaithVoices.org.  Peterson Toscano discusses how his life was harmed...
- [Ex-Gay ‘Touch Therapy’ Leads to Sexual Assault Conviction](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/ex-gay-touch-therapy-leads-to-sexual-assault-conviction/): Source: Winnipeg Sun The story is a familiar one. A young man is found by family to be sexually attracted to men and coerced through...
- [Open Thread: It’s All Because the Gays Are Getting Married](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/open-thread-its-all-because-the-gays-are-getting-married/): A rather creative video to demonstrate the folly of blaming the fall of the Western World on gay marriage. [brief underwear clip]
- [Auf Wiedersehen](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/auf-wiedersehen/): I founded the Ex-Gay Watch web site in 2002 to promote new voices in the social dialogue regarding so-called ex-gays. After two years of writing...
- [New Book Reveals Depth of Anglican Mainstream’s Homophobia](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/new-book-reveals-depth-of-anglican-mainstreams-homophobia/): When I ordered God, Gays and the Church, I was – perhaps quite naively – not prepared for the egregious level of homophobia contained in...
- [Gay to Straight in One Weekend!](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/gay-to-straight-in-one-weekend/): A critique of the Journey Into Manhood claims of change. Recently, People Can Change issued a press release (PDF) suggesting 79% of respondents reported (PDF)...
- [The Intolerance of ‘Love In Action’](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/the-intolerance-of-love-in-action/): Reverend John Smid, one of the founders and now president and CEO of Love In Action (LIA), recently claimed homosexuals are intolerant of those who...
- [UK Anglicans Launch Book Against Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/uk-anglicans-launch-book-against-gays/): Conservative Anglicans are launching a new book to coincide with the homosexuality debate at this week’s General Synod of the Church of England. God, Gays...
- [Example of NARTH’s ‘Very Conventional Therapy’](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/example-of-narths-very-conventional-therapy/): The mysterious “Doug Narthian” has created another parody (link above) which should require very little explanation. As with most good parody, there is a healthy...
- [Australia: Christian Leaders Apologize to Gay Community](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/australia-christian-leaders-apologize-to-gay-community/): Over 100 Christian ministers will be showing their support for Australia’s gay and lesbian community by marching in this year’s Sydney Mardi Gras parade. The...
- [Bishop Signals Hope for Same-Sex Relationships: A Way Forward for Ex-Gays?](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/bishop-signals-hope-for-same-sex-relationships-a-way-forward-for-ex-gays/): The Bishop of Liverpool has apologized for his part in opposing the proposed appointment of openly gay cleric Jeffrey John as Bishop of Reading. The...
- [Beyond Ex-Gay Regional Event in Memphis](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/beyond-ex-gay-regional-event-in-memphis/): Beyond Ex-Gay, in conjunction with the Memphis Gay & Lesbian Community Center, will be holding an art show and local gathering February 22-24.  The schedule...
- [How Alex Learned Shame in Dr. Joseph Nicolosi’s ‘Grey Zone’](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/how-alex-learned-shame-in-dr-joseph-nicolosis-grey-zone/): A few days ago, we posted about a video parody which illustrates the profoundly general nature of one of Dr. Joseph Nicolosi’s (NARTH) personal theories...
- [Jewish Ex-Gay Organization JONAH Refuses to Respond](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/02/jewish-ex-gay-organization-jonah-refuses-to-respond/): Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality (JONAH), whose “alternatives” are not new and aren’t that Jewish, has a lot to answer for. That’s why not...
- [Dr. Joseph Nicolosi of NARTH Demonstrates the ‘Grey Zone’](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/01/dr-joseph-nicolosi-of-narth-demonstrates-the-grey-zone/): In what appears to be a parody reference to one of the videos recently added to the website of the National Association for the Research...
- [In Brief: South American Webmaster Goes Ex-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/01/in-brief-south-american-webmaster-goes-ex-gay/): BGay News reports that Victor Jorquera, founder of GayChile.com, has renounced his “shameful” orientation and aligned himself with the fundamentalist Biblical Missionary Church of Paraguay....
- [Beyond Ex-Gay Calls for Artists](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/01/beyond-ex-gay-calls-for-artists/): Beyond Ex-Gay and the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center will be hosting an art exhibition in February, and are calling for ex-gay survivors, and...
- [LDS President & Prophet Gordon Hinckley Dies At 97](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/01/lds-president-prophet-gordon-hinckley-dies-at-97/): The worldwide leader and prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints passed away earlier this week at the age of 97....
- [A New Writer Arrives At Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/01/a-new-writer-arrives-at-ex-gay-watch/): We would like to introduce Yuki Choe, a commenter turned writer at XGW. Some may know her already from her thoughtful comments, but for those...
- [The Fighting Words of Michael Brown](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/01/the-fighting-words-of-michael-brown/): Tough-talking Pentecostal Dr Michael Brown is the latest Christian leader to be added to Love Won Out’s roster of conference speakers. In this article, we...
- [Exodus Vice President Randy Thomas Links Civil Rights for Gays to Wealth](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/01/randy-thomas-gay-communitys-affluence-disqualifies-them-from-civil-rights-protection/): Gays are too wealthy and successful to be discriminated against, according to Randy Thomas’ January 14th blog post. I think everyone deserves the same basic...
- [Exodus International’s New Advertisement: Polished But Hollow](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/01/exodus-internationals-new-advertisement-polished-but-hollow/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCV1Y8WkZKI Exodus International has begun advertising for its 2008 conference. Its new video, posted above, is slickly produced, but as one might expect from a...
- [Paranoia Increasing At Narth](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/01/paranoia-increasing-at-narth/): Apparently still concerned about their media image, the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is resorting to threats concerning the use...
- [In Brief: Abomination](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/01/in-brief-abomination/): The Bay Area Reporter reviews Abomination, Alicia Salzer’s recent documentary examining the claims of the ex-gay movement. Dr Salzer, a New York psychiatrist, was the...
- [Exodus Ramps Up Its Church Network Program](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/01/exodus-ramps-up-its-church-network-program/): Family News in Focus reported Wednesday on Exodus International’s church network initiative. Exodus hopes to grow its network, launched in 2006, from its current membership...
- [A Case for Banning Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/01/a-case-for-banning-reparative-therapy/): Warren Throckmorton recently posted excepts from an article by social psychologist Carol Tavris called Mind Games: Psychological Warfare Between Therapists and Scientists (The Chronicle of...
- [Dr Patrick Chapman Responds to Drs Jones And Yarhouse](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/01/dr-patrick-chapman-responds-to-drs-jones-and-yarhouse/): Dr. Chapman gives his concluding remarks in a series which began with his three part critique of Ex-gays?: A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change...
- [UK Gay Activist Dies At 98](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/01/uk-gay-activist-dies-at-98/): Dr James Hemming, a child psychologist, humanist and gay rights campaigner, has died at the age of 98. He was Vice President of GALHA, the...
- [Ex-Gay Survivor Testimony: Eric Leocadio](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/01/ex-gay-survivor-testimoney-eric-leocadio/): Daniel Gonzales of Box Turtle Bulletin took his camera with him to see Eric Leocadio of Two World Collision and came away with some great...
- [Evangelicals Remain Fixated on Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/01/evangelicals-remain-fixated-on-homosexuality/): The Christian Post listed homosexuality as the #4 story in its Top 10 Christian News of ’07 review, ahead of the passing of Jerry Falwell...
- [Open Forum: Reflections on the Old, Wishes for the New](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/12/open-forum-reflections-on-the-old-wishes-for-the-new/): At the suggestion of XGW commenter cowboy, here is an open forum to discuss any loose ends from 2007, or hopes and dreams for 2008....
- [The Forward Program: More of the Same?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/12/the-forward-program-more-of-the-same/): Although Exodus International and its affiliate ministries are often perceived by the general public as a unified entity, Exodus does not, in fact, speak for...
- [Pat Robertson: Why Is 2% Worth Protecting Against Hate?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/12/pat-robertson-why-is-2-worth-protecting-against-hate/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvPGZ56LBd8 Pat Robertson’s really reaching with his preaching in the latest episode of the 700 Club. According to him, laws protecting LGBT persons are not...
- [Dissenting Bishop Cites Ex-Gay Ministry As Influence, Denies Ever Being Homosexual](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/12/dissenting-bishop-cites-ex-gay-ministry-as-influence-denies-ever-being-homosexual/): The Bishop of San Joaquin, California is leading his diocese out of the Episcopal Church in protest at the Church’s increasing acceptance of gays and...
- [Former Ex-Gay Minister Recounts “Spiritual Rape” By Living Waters/Desert Stream](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/12/former-ex-gay-minister-recounts-spiritual-rape-by-living-watersdesert-stream/): Growing up in a 1960’s conservative evangelical home, Scott Harrison not only knew homosexuality was a sin, he knew it was “the worst sin a...
- [Response to Dr. Patrick M. Chapman’s Critique of ‘Ex-Gays’ - Part 3](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/12/response-to-dr-patrick-m-chapmans-critique-of-ex-gays-part-3/): Response to Part 3 of Dr. Patrick M. Chapman’s Review of “Ex-Gays”, posted on Ex-Gay Watch, November, 2007, by Stanton L. Jones and Mark A....
- [Crazy For God: An Evangelical Icon Speaks Out](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/12/crazy-for-god-an-evangelical-icon-speaks-out/): Francis Schaeffer is a name that commands automatic respect in most evangelical circles. His book, How Shall We Then Live?, and its companion video series,...
- [Stephen Bennett Seeks to Profit From Huckabee AIDS Issue](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/12/stephen-bennett-seeks-to-profit-from-huckabee-aids-issue/): Whenever something remotely gay or ex-gay hits the headlines, Stephen Bennett is there pandering with a press release. He so desperately wants to be relevant,...
- [SPLC Intelligence Report On The Ex-Gay Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/12/splc-intelligence-report-on-the-ex-gay-movement/): The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has posted an excellent, detailed report on the state of the ex-gay, or “sexual reorientation therapy” movement. It touches...
- [Open Forum: Earning God’s Love And Forgiveness](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/12/open-forum-earning-gods-love-and-forgiveness/): One of the most basic beliefs of the Christian faith is that Jesus died so that sinners did not have to do anything to earn...
- [Response to Dr. Patrick M. Chapman’s Critique of ‘Ex-Gays’ - Part 2](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/12/response-to-dr-patrick-m-chapmans-critique-of-ex-gays-part-2/): Response to Part 2 of Dr. Patrick M. Chapman’s Review of “Ex-Gays”, posted on Ex-Gay Watch, November, 2007, by Stanton L. Jones and Mark A....
- [In Brief: A New Way to Save the Planet](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/12/in-brief-a-new-way-to-save-the-planet/): Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink reports that, according to a new study, married households are more environmentally friendly: By examining data from 12 countries, Jiangua...
- [Open Forum: How Best to Support Same-Sex-Attracted Sexual Strugglers](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/12/open-forum-how-best-to-support-same-sex-attracted-sexual-strugglers/): Ex-Gay Watch often points out how specific ex-gay programs worsen sexual struggle and emotional and spiritual trauma rather than curing it. It also documents how...
- [XGW Site Maintenance](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/12/xgw-site-maintenance/): Between this evening and tomorrow, you may experience some issues with our site.  You may not be able to browse to us, or the content...
- [Response to Dr. Patrick M. Chapman’s Critique of ‘Ex-Gays’ - Part 1](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/response-to-dr-patrick-m-chapmans-critique-of-ex-gays/): Response to Part 1 of Dr. Patrick M. Chapman’s Review of “Ex-Gays”, posted on Ex-Gay Watch, November, 2007, by Stanton L. Jones and Mark A....
- [Ex-Gays Initiated Into Manhood Through New Warriors Training Adventure](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/ex-gays-initiated-into-manhood-through-new-warriors-training-adventure/): In an attempt to turn ex-gays into real men, some in the ex-gay camp recommend a weekend retreat called New Warriors Training Adventure to their...
- [Letter Recalls Richard Cohen’s Shocking Behavior At Exodus Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/letter-recalls-richard-cohens-shocking-behavior-at-exodus-conference/): Recently, we received a copy of a letter sent by Exodus president Alan Chambers to members of a parents group earlier this year. While the...
- [A Critique of Jones And Yarhouse’s ‘Ex-gays?’ - Part 3](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/a-critique-of-jones-and-yarhouses-ex-gays-part-3/): A guest post By Patrick M. Chapman, PhD Continued from Part 2 A Focus on the Results — Examining if it is Harmful The American...
- [Psychiatrists Warn Church of England to Reject Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/psychiatrists-warn-church-of-england-to-reject-reparative-therapy/): A report recently presented to Anglicans in the UK has warned that therapy to change sexual orientation is based on unproven methods and can cause...
- [Jewish Ex-Gay Group Supports Therapist Who Wants Jews to Convert](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/jewish-ex-gay-group-supports-therapist-who-wants-jews-to-convert/): Despite the fact that it was revealed that half of their library is made up of Christian literature, and their online resource center is padded...
- [Ex-Gay Therapy Spreads to Egypt](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/ex-gay-therapy-spreads-to-egypt/): As reported by AlArabiyah.net: Dr. Awsam Wasfi, 42, offers a “treatment program” for gays that focuses on boosting their self-esteem and enhancing their communication skills,...
- [Video: A Look Back At Ex-Gay Survivor Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/video-a-look-back-at-ex-gay-survivor-conference/): Brian Murphy, a Soulforce Equality Rider, attended the Ex-Gay Survivor Conference that was co-sponsored by Soulforce, Beyond Ex-Gay and the LGBT Resource Center at the...
- [Video Preview: ‘This Is What Love In Action Looks Like’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/video-this-is-what-love-in-action-is-like/): Filmmaker Morgan Jon Fox has released an extended preview for the feature-length documentary, “This Is What Love In Action Looks Like.” According to the filmmaker:...
- [A Critique of Jones And Yarhouse’s ‘Ex-gays?’ - Part 2](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/a-critique-of-jones-and-yarhouses-ex-gays-part-2/): A guest post By Patrick M. Chapman, PhD Continued from Part 1 A Focus on the Results — Examining if Change is Possible In the...
- [UK Charismatic Leader: Sexual Abuse Causes “Spirit” of Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/uk-charismatic-leader-sexual-abuse-causes-spirit-of-homosexuality/): A Christian leader in the UK says that sexual abuse is the most common cause of homosexuality, and that when a demon is asked to...
- [A Critique of Jones And Yarhouse’s ‘Ex-gays?’ - Part 1](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/a-critique-of-jones-and-yarhouses-ex-gays-part-1/): A guest post By Patrick M. Chapman, PhD Introduction and Methods As an academic with a PhD in biological anthropology, and as someone who tried...
- [Ex-Gay Therapist James Phelan Removed From Exodus Referral List](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/ex-gay-therapist-james-phelan-removed-from-exodus-referral-list/): Dr. James E. Phelan recently caused quite a stir with a disturbing and somewhat gleeful report on his blog about having “one-two drop kicked the...
- [James Holsinger May Become Surgeon General Soon](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/james-holsinger-may-become-surgeon-general-soon/): Frank Lockwood at the Bible Belt Blogger seems to think Surgeon General appointee Dr. James Holsinger is preparing for a recess appointment. Lockwood reports that...
- [Beyond Ex-Gay On The Radio Tonight](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/beyond-ex-gay-on-the-radio-tonight/): Peterson Toscano is reporting that he and Christine Bakke will be on the Strictly Confidential radio program tonight at 9pm ET. You can listen to...
- [Protest Against DC Sex Ed Curriculum Raises Questions](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/protest-against-dc-sex-ed-curriculum-raises-questions/): According to Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink, The Washington, D.C., Board of Education will vote next month on “Healthy Learning Standards” that would encourage condom...
- [Former Ex-Gay Updates Video About Antigay ‘Day of Truth’](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/former-ex-gay-updates-video-about-antigay-day-of-truth/): In early 2007, Truth Wins Out and former ex-gay Daniel Gonzales produced a YouTube video that found a blend of untruths and misleading “truthiness” in...
- [PFOX Webmaster, Get Thee to Thine Anger Management Course](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/pfox-webmaster-cited-for-expletive-ridden-public-rant/): The webmaster for Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays, Gabriel Espinosa, has been cited by Box Turtle Bulletin for his use of the F word (and...
- [Birds of a Feather? Cameron And the Christian Council of Britain](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/birds-of-a-feather-cameron-and-the-christian-council-of-britain/): Discredited anti-gay researcher Paul Cameron was guest speaker at a meeting of the Christian Council of Britain last month. Cameron used the opportunity to claim...
- [Open Forum: Truth Wins Out On Rubber Band Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/11/open-forum-truth-wins-out-on-rubber-band-therapy/): I always wondered what those red marks were ;). Has anyone heard of this?
- [Montgomery County Sex-Ed Curriculum Cleared for Take-off](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/montgomery-county-sex-ed-curriculum-cleared-for-take-off/): The long and winding runway that PFOX and its allies have traversed with the Montgomery County School Board at the expense of their taxpayers finally...
- [International Healing Foundation Listed On Cult Awareness Site](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/international-healing-foundation-listed-on-cult-awareness-site/): International Healing Foundation (IHF), the non-profit organization founded and run by ex-gay guru Richard Cohen, has been posted (scroll down) on the Freedom of Mind...
- [Open Forum: McClurkin Turns Obama Gospel Concert Into Ex-Gay Harangue](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/mcclurkin-turns-obama-gospel-concert-into-ex-gay-harangue/): At Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s gospel concert in South Carolina this weekend, singer and ex-gay activist Donnie McClurkin had an opportunity to take the...
- [Focus on the Family Plans For the Future](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/focus-on-the-family-plans-for-the-future/): From the October 26 Rocky Mountain News: [O]ut of public view, a new generation of executives is laying the groundwork for sustaining the conservative Christian...
- [McClurkin Controversy Escalates with Gay Affair Allegations](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/mcclurkin-controversy-escalates-with-gay-affair-allegations/): Late last week, Democratic hopeful Barack Obama was under fire for inviting ex-gay gospel singer Donnie McClurkin to perform on this weekend’s South Carolina tour....
- [Video: Exodus V.P. Defends Right to Do What’s Wrong: Discriminate](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/video-exodus-vp-claims-right-to-do-whats-wrong-discriminate/): Ex-gay activist and Exodus executive vice president spoke at a press conference last Friday to oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Video courtesy of People For...
- [Peterson Toscano Posts Follow-Up on Ex-Gay Harm](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/peterson-toscano-posts-follow-up-on-ex-gay-harm/): In a follow-up to Peterson Toscano’s post outlining the various types of harm someone may experience through ex-gay therapy and ministries, he has posted a...
- [NARTH Advisor James Phelan Brags of Beating Pro-Gay Man](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/narth-advisor-james-phelan-brags-of-beating-gay-man/): In a rather self-congratulatory post to his personal blog, James Phelan claims to have picked a fight with a pro-gay man* during a recent public...
- [Obama’s Faith-Inclusive Campaign Includes Ex-Gay Gospel Singer](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/obamas-faith-based-campaign-includes-ex-gay-gospel-singer/): The New York Times and Washington Post report that U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will tour South Carolina with gospel singers including ex-gay advocate...
- [Allies, Too: A Step Forward Or More of the Same?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/allies-too-a-step-forward-or-more-of-the-same/): Exodus Youth has launched a new initiative, the Allies, Too project, whose stated goal is “to build a community of tolerance and respect.” As Focus...
- [Ex-Gays Prominent At Values Voter Summit](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/ex-gays-prominent-at-values-voter-summit/): Exodus and Focus on the Family made prominent use of ex-gay advertising at the so-called Values Voter Summit today. Courtesy of People for the American...
- [NY Premiere for “Abomination” Documentary](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/ny-premiere-for-abomination-documentary/): A documentary short in which a psychiatrist lays out the case against ex-gay therapy will have its New York premiere next week. Montel Williams Show...
- [Former Ex-Gays Outline Harm of Ex-Gay Programs](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/former-ex-gays-outline-harm-of-ex-gay-programs/): During the past four years, former ex-gay Peterson Toscano has been in contact with more than 1,000 “ex-gay survivors” — people who pursued ex-gay experiences,...
- [Jewish Ex-Gay Group Ignorant of Ally’s Nazi Rhetoric?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/jewish-ex-gay-group-ignorant-of-allys-nazi-rhetoric/): Jews who want to rid themselves of same-sex attractions will often turn to “secular” organizations like NARTH, because aside from Jews Offering New Alternatives to...
- [James Dobson: The End of the World Is Near](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/james-dobson-the-end-of-the-world-is-near/): Faced with an increasingly negative public image and declining support for his holy war against GLBT individuals and every other sort of infidel, James Dobson...
- [Ultra-Conservative Columnist Claims Chambers Return to “Sodomy”](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/ultra-conservative-columnist-claims-chambers-return-to-sodomy/): Warren Throckmorton reports that Fred Hutchison reports that Paul Cameron reports that Exodus President Alan Chambers has returned to “sodomy”. At the root of this...
- [UK: One-Time Ex-Gay Group Backs Gay Equality Initiative](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/uk-one-time-ex-gay-group-backs-gay-equality-initiative/): The UK evangelical ministry Courage lent its support to a new anti-discrimination campaign this past weekend. Courage began in 1988 as an ex-gay ministry, but...
- [Open Forum: The Ninety-Nine And the One](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/open-forum-the-ninety-nine-and-the-one/): “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the...
- [Does Ex-Gay Guru Richard Cohen Retain Ties to Unification Church?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/does-ex-gay-richard-cohen-retain-ties-to-unification-church/): Dr. Warren Throckmorton is alleging that the ties between Richard Cohen’s organization, International Healing Foundation (IHF), and the Unification Church may be alive and well,...
- [In Brief: New Study Of Gay And Lesbian Mental Health](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/in-brief-new-study-of-gay-and-lesbian-mental-health/): A recent study conducted by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health has found, among other things, that younger (age 18-44) gay, lesbian and bisexual...
- [Florida Journalist Investigates the Gays Being “Scared Straight”](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/florida-journalist-investigates-the-gays-being-scared-straight/): From Florida comes an article that flew under the gaydar here at Ex-Gay Watch, but the Miami New Times piece, published last July, is still...
- [Richard Cohen And JONAH: A Match Made in Hashamayim?](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/10/richard-cohen-and-jonah-a-match-made-in-hashamayim/): Maybe it’s the name. Ever since ex-gay, ex-licensed, ex-Moonie, and ex-Jewish “therapist” Richard Cohen made his disastrous appearance in “The Daily Show,” (see the video...
- [Open Forum: The Dobson Wears Prada](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/open-forum-if-james-dobson-were-in-the-devil-wears-prada/): If James Dobson ruled the ex-gay movement with an iron fist, and if the opening scene of The Devil Wears Prada were to peek inside...
- [Two Ex-Gays React Differently to Offensive Gay Ad](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/two-ex-gays-react-to-offensive-gay-ad/): When I learned of the following ad from Right Wing Watch, I was immediately disgusted at the advertisers. And so were two ex-gay activists. The...
- [Canadian Ex-Gay Mayoral Candidate Should Listen to Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/ex-gay-mayoral-candidate-should-listen-to-exodus/): Ex-gay Canadian Bill Whatcott is a fringe candidate for mayor and former prostitute who believes he is qualified to police the morals of Edmonton, Alberta,...
- [Some Ex-Gays Agree with Ahmadinejad: Homosexuals Don’t Exist](https://exgaywatch.com/2007/09/common-cause-with-president-ahmadinejad/): From Gregory Herek, Ph.D: Q: What does the president of Iran have in common with certain antigay activists in the United States? A: Both maintain...
- [PFOX Misrepresents Research to Defame Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/pfox-misrepresents-research-to-defame-gays/): A scientist has accused Parents and Friends of ExGays and Gays (PFOX) of distorting his research by claiming that high school gay-straight alliances increase risk...
- [XGW Bookshelf: Messy Spirituality](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/xgw-bookshelf-messy-spirituality/): The late Mike Yaconelli spent much of his life worried that he wasn’t spiritual enough.  Despite his many efforts to be a better Christian, the...
- [Gays Worse Than Child Abusers, Says Northern Ireland MP](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/gays-worse-than-child-abusers-says-northern-ireland-mp/): Northern Irish MP Iris Robinson is in trouble again after comparing homosexuality to child sex abuse. The Member of UK Parliament, who stood by a...
- [Insure.com Stands By Anti-Gay Researcher Cameron](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/insurecom-stands-by-anti-gay-researcher-cameron/): Timothy Kincaid and Jim Burroway of Box Turtle Bulletin have done a sterling job of exposing Insure.com for using research from the notorious anti-gay propagandist...
- [XGW Digest: July 17, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/xgw-digest-july-17-2008/): Candace Chellew-Hodges proposes a new framework for the debate over the Bible and homosexuality. The Malaysian National News Agency reports on a worrying moral decadence;...
- [Exodus President Alan Chambers: “Gay People Live in Heaven”](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/exodus-president-alan-chambers-gay-people-live-in-heaven/): The Asheville, NC Citizen-Times ran an article Monday on Exodus International’s annual conference, which started yesterday in neighboring Ridgecrest. The article profiles Exodus and its...
- [Skeptical Over Benkof’s Change of Mind](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/skeptical-over-benkofs-change-of-mind/): There have been best wishes for David Benkof this weekend as he “takes his life in another direction.” Others confessed to having “misjudged” him, and...
- [Found: Original Copy of the ‘Gay Agenda’ in America](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/found-original-copy-of-the-gay-agenda-in-the-us/): We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that...
- [XGW Digest: July 9, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/xgw-digest-july-9-2008/): Dr. Laura softens her anti-gay stance. Randy Thomas notes the increase of HIV contractions among men of color aged 13-24, and blames the promiscuity of...
- [Chambers on Gay Gene: “I Know” to “I Don’t Know” in a Few Weeks](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/chambers-on-gay-gene-i-know-to-i-dont-know-in-a-few-weeks/): Exodus President Alan Chambers is experiencing some confusion on the existence of a gay gene. In New Man eMagazine this week, Chambers says that his...
- [Vince Cervantes: Former Ex-Gay, Proud Latino](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/vince-cervantes-former-ex-gay-proud-latino/): When Vince Cervantes began to notice his strong attractions to other men in his first year of college, he immediately panicked. At that time he...
- [Confirmed: Exodus Met with Richard Cohen, Original Statement Pulled](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/confirmed-exodus-met-with-richard-cohen-original-statement-pulled/): While investigating the removal of policy statements admonishing Richard Cohen and holding/touch therapy on the Exodus website, we received a reply from the assistant director...
- [Exodus And Cohen Make Peace Says Assistant Director Wiemann](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/exodus-and-cohen-make-peace-says-assistant-director-wiemann/): On the heels of our post asking “does Exodus disapprove of Cohen or not?“, we seem to have at least a partial answer. In response...
- [XGW Digest: July 2, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/xgw-digest-july-2-2008/): Other Sheep Kenya will host a seminar on Christianity and Homosexuality in Nairobi on July 7-9. The daughter of a gay man shares about being...
- [Is Exodus Warming Up to Richard Cohen Again?](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/is-exodus-warming-up-to-richard-cohen-again/): Ex-gay guru Richard Cohen has always taken what some would consider a freakish approach to ex-gay therapy, one that stands out in a field that...
- [NAACP Appreciates PFOX Participation, Invites Them Back](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/naacp-appreciates-pfox-participation-invites-them-back/): Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) sent out a mailing today titled “NAACP Rocks,” referencing a 2006 letter of appreciation from the organization...
- [XGW Digest: June 27, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/xgw-digest-june-27-2008/): LGBT activists working with Soulforce open a dialogue with Bishop Harry Jackson of Hope Christian Church in Maryland. Timothy Kincaid continues to methodically and intelligently...
- [James Phelan Invited to Rejoin Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/james-phelan-invited-to-rejoin-exodus/): Readers may remember the incident from last October when Exodus member and therapist James Phelan “one-two drop kicked the hell out of” a fellow marathon...
- [XGW Digest: June 23, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/xgw-digest-june-23-2008/): The Family Research Council is promoting their annual Values Voters Summit with an impressive photo array of 24 speakers, including senators Barack Obama and Hillary...
- [Controversial Robinson Adviser Paul Miller Represents NARTH](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/controversial-robinson-adviser-paul-miller-represents-narth/): Increasingly irrelevant in the US, the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) has created a new division to spread their views...
- [Exodus’ Alan Chambers Says Gay Orientation 100% Developmental](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/exodus-alan-chambers-says-gay-orientation-100-developmental/): Speaking on Chris Fabry Live! last month, Exodus President Alan Chambers made this astonishing declaration: The truth is, when we look at the issue of...
- [XGW Digest: June 17, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/xgw-digest-june-17-2008/): September 5 has been set as the theatrical release date for “Save Me,” the ex-gay drama starring Chad Allen and Judith Light. TWO: A panel...
- [Rounding Up the Reactions to Iris Robinson’s Gay Remarks](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/rounding-up-the-reactions-to-iris-robinsons-gay-remarks/): By now, regular readers of Ex-Gay Watch will know of the controversy surrounding homophobic remarks made by Iris Robinson, a Member of UK Parliament. Robinson,...
- [Jesus Loves You More Than You Will Know, Mrs Robinson](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/jesus-loves-you-more-than-you-will-know-mrs-robinson/): Of course she will – and does – deny it is hate, but doesn’t everyone who hates? Those who oppose and discriminate against gays and...
- [Ex-gay Psychiatrist in Northern Ireland Controversy Is Cohen Disciple](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/ex-gay-psychiatrist-in-northern-ireland-controversy-is-cohen-disciple/): The psychiatrist Northern Ireland MP Iris Robinson claimed could turn homosexuals straight has been named as Dr Paul Miller, who trained under the notorious Richard...
- [Archbishop Peter Jensen Does A Nicolosi… Well, Almost](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/archbishop-peter-jensen-does-a-nicolosi-well-almost/): The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Dr. Peter Jensen, is a central figure in the opposition to same-sex marriages and homosexuals serving in the church. As...
- [XGW Digest: June 10, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/xgw-digest-june-10-2008/): Peter LaBarbera declares a Boycott of Chicago’s Hyatt Regency and Palmer House Hilton hotels after attending International Mr. Leather there. Southern Poverty Law Center reports...
- [Love Won Out Still Promoting Orientation Change](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/love-won-out-still-promoting-orientation-change/): In recent years the ex-gay movement has toned down its message of “change.”  With occasional exceptions, gone are the days when one could hear Exodus...
- [Bishop Gene Gets His Wish to Be a June Bride](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/bishop-gene-gets-his-wish-to-be-a-june-bride/): The Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop has married his long-term partner. Vicki Gene Robinson, whose ordination as Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003 hailed...
- [“The Workout” Should Work Out a Clearer Message](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/the-workout-should-work-out-a-clearer-message/): Ex-gay counselor David Pickup, whose “Increasing Manhood” video was met with speculation as to whether or not it was a joke, was recently profiled in...
- [N Ireland MP Recommends Therapy to “Become Heterosexual”](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/n-ireland-mp-recommends-therapy-to-become-heterosexual/): [Updated 06/07/08] Northern Ireland politician Iris Robinson, a Democratic Unionist Member of UK Parliament, has provoked criticism by recommending ex-gay therapy, claiming that she has...
- [XGW Digest: June 5, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/xgw-digest-thursday-june-5-2008/): The Bloomington, IL Pantagraph examines the spectrum of opinion within Christianity on the issue of homosexuality. At the blog “The Unseen Disciple,” Christian ex-gay ministries...
- [Toscano Lambeth Appearance Draws Ire From Anglicans](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/toscano-lambeth-appearance-draws-ire-from-anglicans/): Ex-gay survivor Peterson Toscano will be taking his one-man show to the Lambeth Conference, the 10-yearly international gathering of Anglican bishops. The announcement has provoked...
- [XGW Digest: June 2, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/06/xgw-digest-june-2-2008/): Peter Lane, director of Exodus Asia-Pacific, states that criticism from former ex-gays “has hurt his organization,” but declares that it “doesn’t minimize the message” of...
- [XGW Digest: May 29, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/xgw-digest-may-29-2008/): Despite Exodus’s supposed retreat from politics, Randy Thomas speaks out on the Exodus website against gay marriage (specifically, the recent California gay marriage victory) and...
- [Gay Bishop Univited From International Gathering, Will Come Anyway](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/gay-bishop-univited-from-international-anglican-gathering-will-come-anyway/): The Right Reverend Gene Robinson, the Anglican Church’s first openly gay bishop, will visit the UK for a 10-yearly global Anglican gathering this summer, despite...
- [The APA’s DSM-V Development: Kenneth Zucker’s Involvement](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/the-apas-dsm-v-development-kenneth-zuckers-involvement/): Recently the American Psychiatric Association (APA) announced their new panel for the revision of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
- [Video: Why Homosexual Marriage Should Be Banned](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/video-why-homosexual-marriage-should-be-banned/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSfFa44p96o A clever message that makes a good point.
- [Opinion: No More Interviews For Mike Ensley](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/opinion-no-more-interviews-for-mike-ensley/): I just finished listening to an interview between Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out and Mike Ensley of Exodus International.  They were on the Alan...
- [Message to Mike Ensley: Being Gay Is Not the Problem](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/message-to-mike-ensley-being-gay-is-not-the-problem/): Mike Ensley’s article in the latest issue of Charisma Magazine illustrates everything that is wrong with Exodus and the ex-gay movement. In What to Do...
- [XGW Digest: May 22, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/xgw-digest-may-22-2008/): BTB covers the California same-sex marriage decision, anti-gay groups decry ruling Gambian president Yahya Jammeh threatens to behead homosexuals in effort to make Gambia “one...
- [Beyond Ex-Gay To Visit Spain](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/beyond-ex-gay-to-visit-spain/): Peterson Toscano announced yesterday that Beyond Ex-Gay will participate in a conference in Barcelona, Spain on May 30.  Organized in response to recent efforts by the...
- [Rabbi to LGBTQ Jewish Website: “Rehabilitate” Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/rabbi-to-lgbtq-jewish-website-rehabilitate-gays/): Recently I wrote a post announcing the launch of HOD, the Israeli website for gay religious Jews. This website was started especially to counter Atzat-Nefesh,...
- [Noe Gutierrez: What I Learned From Ex-Gay Ministry](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/noe-gutierrez-what-i-learned-from-ex-gay-ministry/): Ex-gay ministries depend on certain adversarial elements to inspire the commitment of their members. Although the majority will agree their members did not have a...
- [XGW Digest: May 15, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/xgw-digest-may-15-2008/): LifeSiteNews claims that ex-gays live in fear because of a stigma imposed on them by homosexuals, citing PFOX “under attack” at ex-gay exhibit booths as...
- [In Brief: Focus on the Family’s Definition of ‘Dialogue’](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/in-brief-fotf-redefines-dialogue/): In response to Soulforce’s American Family Outing initiative to open dialogue on the issue of homosexuality at six megachurches, Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink is...
- [Christian Anti-Gay Activists Align with Anti-Semitic Anti-Gay Activists](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/christian-anti-gay-activists-align-with-anti-semitic-anti-gay-activists/): Politics makes strange bedfellows, and here is another shining example. Anti-gay activists have hit the trifecta of racism, antisemitism, and homophobia with newly recognized allies...
- [Jayson Graves, David Pickup & the Exodus Connection](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/jayson-graves-david-pickup-the-exodus-connection/): Gay bloggers recently had a field day with ex-gay counsellor David Pickup’s “Increasing Manhood” video, one even speculating whether it was a spoof, in the...
- [XGW Digest: May 10, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/xgw-digest-may-10-2008/): John Corvino on the importance of dialogue Jonathan Rowe dismantles World Net Daily’s latest screed Exodus Global Alliance Ontario conference to focus on young people...
- [Another Former Ex-Gay Tells His Story](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/another-former-ex-gay-tells-his-story/): Chris Tyler grew up in a devout Mormon family.  In this podcast series (part one is below; the rest of the series can be accessed...
- [Love In Action Documentary Preview Released](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/love-in-action-documentary-preview-released/): Sawed-Off Films has released preview footage of the new documentary This Is What Love In Action Looks Like. The film is an examination of the...
- [XGW Digest: May 2, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/xgw-digest-may-2-2008/): Free resources on Judaism and LGBT issues now available from Hebrew Union College’s Jewish Institute of Religion New report on effectiveness of ex-gay therapy shows...
- [Article Review: ‘Grace And Gay Men’ By Randy Thomas](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/05/article-review-grace-and-gay-men-by-randy-thomas/): Exodus Vice President Randy Thomas wrote an article titled “Grace and Gay Men” that recently appeared in the Focus on the Family webzine Boundless. While...
- [PFOX’s New Gender Musing](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/pfoxs-new-gender-musing/): Parents And Friends Of Ex-Gays And Gays (PFOX) recently published an article by an unknown Erica Heny* about Gender Identity Disorder (GID) from an African-American...
- [Ex-Gay: The Musical!](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/ex-gay-the-musical/): Check out this ex-gay musical from the Gay Christian Network (GCN) 2007 conference. It opens with a hilarious parody of the famous Gilbert and Sullivan...
- [XGW Digest: April 26, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/xgw-digest-april-26-2008/): Exodus Vice-President Randy Thomas is laying low in the blogosphere again Ex-gay woman finds true freedom in gay-affirming church (hat-tip: TWO) Jim Burroway and Timothy...
- [Tonight: ABC’s 20/20 Explores Gay Public Affection](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/tonight-abcs-2020-explores-gay-public-affection/): ABC’s 20/20 will be showing an updated version of an old theme; gaging how people view public displays of affection. This time the couples are...
- [‘Where Grace Abounds’ Latest to Leave Exodus International](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/where-grace-abounds-latest-to-leave-exodus-international/): Since its inception, Exodus International has been an umbrella organization for a coalition of local ministries focused on the issue of homosexuality.  In most cases...
- [Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver Latest to Be ‘Truth Challenged’](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/liberty-counsels-mat-staver-latest-to-be-truth-challenged/): In a recent article from the AFA‘s pseudo-news outlet One News Now, attorney Mat Staver of the anti-gay Liberty Counsel claims that students today, during...
- [LaBarbera’s Shameless Self-Promotion May Damage a Real Ministry](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/labarberas-shameless-self-promotion-may-damage-a-real-ministry/): Yesterday, I noticed a post from Peter LaBarbera concerning The Marin Foundation. I remembered hearing Andrew Marin’s story on a podcast from The Gay Christian...
- [In Brief: Peterson Toscano on LOGO TV](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/in-brief-peterson-toscano-on-logo-tv/): Performance artist Peterson Toscano will be the subject of an episode of LOGO TV’s documentary program Be Real: Stories from Queer America, when it returns...
- [Video: Day of Truth 2008 - Controversy, Criticism & Opposition](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/video-day-of-truth-2008-controversy-criticism-opposition/): BTB’s Daniel Gonzales has produced an excellent video which exposes several basic untruths about the Day of Truth, the Alliance Defense Fund‘s counter to the...
- [Audio: Anti-Gay Activist Stacy Harp Reveals Her Passions](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/audio-anti-gay-activist-stacy-harp-reveals-her-passions/): At XGW we generally don’t give much space to fringe figures, but Stacy Harp is someone who might just end up as another Matt Barber...
- [Sally Kern: More Exodus Connections And Divine Appointment](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/sally-kern-more-exodus-connections-and-divine-appointment/): In a recent post to his blog, Stephen Black, director of Exodus charter member First Stone Ministries, added more of his own spin to the...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Digest: April 18, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/ex-gay-watch-digest-april-17-2008/): Details magazine published an blog piece titled “Would You Really Be Okay with a Gay Kid?” and Albert Mohler posts a response that misses the...
- [XGW Bookshelf: Gay Christian 101](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/xgw-bookshelf-gay-christian-101/): Welcome to the Ex-Gay Watch Bookshelf, a new feature and an opportunity for the XGW staff to share books we’ve been reading that may be...
- [In Brief:  Beautifully Written Narrative By Peterson Toscano](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/in-brief-beautifully-written-narrative-by-peterson-toscano/): Peterson Toscano posted a beautifully written narrative yesterday. He describes the almost prison-like atmosphere of the Love in Action program where physical and spiritual sustenance...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Digest: April 10, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/ex-gay-watch-digest-april-10-2008/): Media follow-ups to the three-day Exodus Freedom Conference held in Fresno, CA last week. KMPH Fox26 quotes Randy Thomas who seems to be taking a...
- [In Brief: Coalition in San Jose to Counter Love Won Out](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/in-brief-coalition-in-san-jose-to-counter-love-won-out/): A press conference will be held on April 10th in San Jose, California to counter Focus on the Family’s Love Won Out ex-gay conference. It...
- [Video: Exodus Ministry Director Stephen Black Supports Kern](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/video-exodus-ministry-director-stephen-black-supports-kern/): As XGW reported a few days ago, Stephen Black, director of Exodus charter member First Stone Ministries, appeared at the recent rally in support of...
- [Website for Israeli LGBTQ Religious Jews Counters Myth of ‘Change’](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/website-for-israeli-lgbtq-religious-jews-counters-myth-of-change/): LGBTJews.org relayed the news that HOD, a Hebrew acronym for “Gay Religious Jews,” is a new website created to counter misinformation about LGBT issues involving...
- [Warren Throckmorton Offers Day of Silence Response for Evangelicals](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/warren-throckmorton-offers-day-of-silence-response-for-evangelicals/): April is chock full of teachable moments lest any teacher’s plan book go empty. We have Keep America Beautiful Month, National Poetry Month, and National...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Digest: April 6, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/ex-gay-watch-digest-april-6-2008/): Virginia writer details Pat Robertson’s “4 Aces” of Christian fundamentalism in this expose’. No homosexuals in Iran. Wayne Besen holds his ground with O’Reilly. Mormon...
- [Exodus Regional Freedom Conference Opens in California](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/exodus-regional-freedom-conference-opens-in-california/): Exodus International began their 3-day regional “Freedom Conference” on Thursday at The Bridge Evangelical Free Church in Fresno, CA. The theme for this year is...
- [Exodus Member Says ‘Homosexual Agenda’ Destructive to US](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/exodus-member-says-homosexual-agenda-destructive-to-us/): A rally was held at the Oklahoma Sate Capital in support of Representative Sally Kern’s comments on homosexuality. Among other things, she said that gays...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Digest: April 2, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/04/ex-gay-watch-digest-april-2-2008/): Evangelical group seeks to move away from anti-gay political stance and focus on social justice issues. Mike Haley receives a mixed reception at Hastings College....
- [Refried Freud: Another Look At Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/refried-freud-another-look-at-reparative-therapy/): One of the more curious ironies of the ex-gay movement is how it has helped popularize the theories of Sigmund Freud among conservative Christians, who...
- [Tips: Get Free Books From WOWIO - US Residents Only](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/tips-get-free-books-from-wowio-us-residents-only/): If you like to read but need to stick to a budget or just want to go green, check out wowio.com. They have a nice...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Digest: March 28, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/ex-gay-watch-digest-march-28-2008/): Exodus President Alan Chambers interviewed by  New Man eMagazine. Glen T. Stanton of Focus on the Family responds to Dr. Chapman’s critique at Box Turtle...
- [Exodus VP Randy Thomas Interviewed As Transgender Authority](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/randy-thomas-talks-transgenders/): From the American Psychological Association (APA) on the differences between sex and gender: Sex refers to biological status as male or female. It includes physical...
- [In Brief: FRC’s Peter Sprigg Apologizes for ‘Export Homosexuals’ Comment](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/in-brief-frcs-peter-sprigg-apologizes-for-export-homosexuals-comment/): Last week, Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council (FRC) made the following comments during an interview: I would much prefer to export homosexuals from...
- [John Smid, President of Troubled Love In Action Resigns](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/john-smid-president-of-troubled-love-in-action-resigns/): The rumors first posted by Peterson Toscano yesterday have been verified. Josh Morgan, communications manager for Love In Action (LIA), confirmed to XGW this morning...
- [XGW Digest: March 25, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/xgw-digest-march-25-2008/): Chasing the Devil: Inside the Ex-Gay Movement to debut at the Birmingham SHOUT Film Festival. Openly gay Anglican Bishop Gene Robinson not invited to Lambeth...
- [A Reparative Therapy Session With a Counselor Referred By FOTF](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/a-reparative-therapy-session-with-counselor/): [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kPo7KGj1OE[/youtube] Jeff Williamson is an articulate young man who grew up in a conservative, Christian family and church. When he came out to his parents...
- [XGW Digest: March 21, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/xgw-digest-march-21-2008/): Mike Ensley of Exodus reviews pro-gay documentary For the Bible Tells Me So Concerned Women for America’s Matt Barber on supposed gay threat to blood...
- [Stanton Makes Excuse for Article Controversy, Citizenlink Still Not Off the Hook](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/stanton-makes-excuse-for-article-controversy-citizenlink-still-not-off-the-hook/): Focus on the Family’s Glenn Stanton has defended Citizenlink, saying they only changed a controversial article because he was unhappy with how his views were...
- [‘Homosexual Indoctrination’ - an Educator’s Point of View](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/homosexual-indoctrination-an-educators-viewpoint/): The recent hateful rant by Representative Sally Kern hit home with me, not because of the more widespread comparison she made between gay folks and...
- [In Brief: Exodus International’s Countercultural Revolution](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/in-brief-exodus-internationals-countercultural-revolution/): Exodus president Alan Chambers heralded that organization’s “countercultural revolution” at LifeSiteNews.com, echoing a previous claim of dramatic increase in first-time attendees during the Exodus International...
- [Ex-Gay Ministry Leader Says ‘Gay Agenda’ Is a Myth](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/ex-gay-ministry-leader-says-gay-agenda-is-a-myth/): The following is a quote from a major ex-gay ministry leader: The Homosexual Agenda…Myth. Yes, I believe there are many people with many agendas. However,...
- [XGW Digest: March 18, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/xgw-digest-march-18-2008/): XGW Founding Editor Mike Airhart blogging daily for Wayne Besen at relaunched Truth Wins Out website UK anti-gay activist Stephen Green (Christian Voice) hints at...
- [Citizenlink Quietly Rewrites Debunked Article](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/citizenlink-quietly-rewrites-debunked-article/): Not content with predicting the future, Citizenlink now wants to change history by rewriting a controversial article – and saying nothing. In 2007, Citizenlink, the...
- [A Lesson in the Priorities of Rep. Sally Kern](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/a-lesson-in-the-priorities-of-rep-sally-kern/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy3yQJTqPac More at sallykerntribute.blogspot.com Hat Tip: greatamericanpatriot
- [XGW Digest: March 14, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/xgw-digest-march-14-2008/): Warren Throckmorton proposes an alternative way conservative Christian families can respond to the Day of Silence Ford denies American Family Association claims of pro-family victory...
- [Frank Schaeffer on Gays, Ex-Gays & the Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/frank-schaeffer-on-gays-ex-gays-the-religious-right/): Frank Schaeffer was a key player in the early days of the Religious Right. Along with his father, the evangelical apologist Francis Schaeffer (pictured), he...
- [XGW Digest: March 12, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/xgw-digest-march-12-2008/): Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern speech provokes hostile reaction, remains unrepentant over anti-gay remarks (original story here) Queerty finds evidence that Rep. Kern disowned gay son...
- [Exodus Will Remain A Member of the Arlington Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/exodus-will-remain-a-member-of-the-arlington-group/): After XGW discovered information indicating that Exodus International is a member of the prominent religious conservative political organization, The Arlington Group (AG), we asked President...
- [Real Love Ministry’s Edmund Smith in Malaysian Women’s Weekly](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/real-love-ministrys-pastor-edmund-smith-in-malaysias-women-weekly-and-new-video/): Edmund Smith of Real Love Ministry (RLM) Malaysia believes his homosexuality was caused by his mother, as he shared in the February edition of the...
- [XGW Digest: March 10, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/xgw-digest-march-10-2008/): Daniel Gonzales and Jim Burroway of Box Turtle Bulletin interview ex-gay survivors John Holm and Jacob Wilson Anglican Mainstream champions (a little late) Jones &...
- [Open Forum: Anti-Gay Diatribe By Oklahoma Representative](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/open-forum-anti-gay-diatribe-by-oklahoma-representative/): In what is described as a small gathering that was apparently not meant for public ears, an Oklahoma State Representative rails on about the “homosexual...
- [XGW Digest: March 8, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/03/xgw-digest-march-8-2008/): Christian wisdom: Let’s encourage gays to destroy themselves by sharing disease Focus on the Family: Gays confused More anthropologists weigh in on Focus on the...
- [Randy Thomas Defines, Yet Again, How He Has “Changed”](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/02/randy-thomas-defines-yet-again-how-he-has-changed/): Randy Thomas has clarified his personal “change” yet again. Because “ex-gay” organizations like Exodus International (of which Randy is the Vice President) have been closely...
- [Breaking: New Direction Leaves Exodus International](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/02/breaking-new-direction-leaves-exodus-international/): Another major ministry has left the network of Exodus International.  New Direction, an Exodus member ministry led by Wendy Gritter in Canada, has just announced...
- [Ex-Gay Song Sparks Row In Italy](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/02/ex-gay-song-sparks-row-in-italy/): Ex-gay Giuseppe Povia, who hails from Milan, wrote and performed the song “Luca Was Gay” that is currently in the running for the best song...
- [XGW Digest: January 31, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/xgw-digest-january-31-2009/): -Rev. Mel White, founder of Soulforce, and his son are one of the teams on the new season of The Amazing Race. -California’s Fourth District...
- [Video: Sex in Ex-Gay Programs?](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/video-sex-in-ex-gay-programs/): It seems there is never a dull moment in the life of Ex-Gay Survivor Peterson Toscano.  He has just posted this short video to answer...
- [No Prayers for Bobby From Exodus International?](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/no-prayers-for-bobby-from-exodus-randy-thomas/): Last Sunday evening, during the Lifetime broadcast of Prayers for Bobby, Exodus Vice President Randy Thomas was (in his own words) wasting 96 minutes of...
- [Breaking News: Colombia Rules for Sweeping Equality Under the Law](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/breaking-news-colombia-rules-for-equality-under-the-law/): Source: Blabbeando The high court ordered changes to 42 norms that range from Criminal, Civil and Disciplinary Codes, to the special health plan available to...
- [Watch Ted Haggard On Oprah Today](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/watch-ted-haggard-on-oprah-today/): Ted Haggard appears with his wife on Oprah today.  This show was scheduled with others to promote his upcoming HBO special, The Trials of Ted...
- [Haggard Scandal Expands As Second Sex Partner Speaks Out](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/haggard-scandal-expands-as-second-sex-partner-speaks-out/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siO9m1XR5uU It appears that New Life Assembly paid the young man $180K in what can only be described as hush money.  He comes forward in...
- [Joseph Nicolosi And Glenn Stanton in the Grey Zone](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/joseph-nicolosi-and-glenn-stanton-in-the-grey-zone/): Check this post if you are unfamiliar with the Grey Zone.  If Nicolosi’s theory is correct, he and Stanton should probably not be sitting so...
- [Video: Ex-Gay Guru Richard Cohen Brings Out The Magnets](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/video-ex-gay-guru-richard-cohen-brings-out-the-magnets/): It’s a non-sequential?  The video above is from the upcoming movie Chasing the Devil: Inside the Ex-Gay Movement by Bill Hussung and Mishara Canino-Hussing.  Ex-Gay...
- [Ex-Gay Stephen Bennett: Who’s Your Daddy (Pants)](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/ex-gay-stephen-bennett-whos-your-daddy-pants/): Staunch ex-gay Stephen Bennett has apparently moved to yet another work-from-home project.  While Good As You’s Jeremy Hooper may have spoiled the grand opening, the...
- [Video: Man Who Exposed Ted Haggard Speaks Out Again](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/video-man-who-exposed-ted-haggard-speaks-out-again/): Filming and Editing by Daniel Gonzales Mike Jones, the man who exposed Ted Haggard’s extramarital, same-sex encounters in 2006, has just made a video to...
- [Open Thread: Prayers for Bobby](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/open-thread-prayers-for-bobby/): I just finished watching the Lifetime special Prayers for Bobby.  It came across true and accurate to what I know about the matter, and may...
- [XGW Digest: January 24, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/xgw-digest-january-24-2009/): -The Obama Administration releases its civil rights agenda. -Chad Allen and Robert Gant’s movie, Save Me, is now available on DVD. -KABC in Los Angeles...
- [In Brief: More Skeletons Falling From Ted Haggard’s Closet](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/in-brief-more-skeletons-falling-from-ted-haggards-closet/): Source: Associated Press According to the Associated Press, another man has come forward about an apparently long-term sexual relationship he had with the disgraced Rev....
- [Richard Elliott Friedman’s Commentary on the Torah: A New Look At Ancient Passages](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/richard-elliott-friedmanns-commentary-on-the-torah-a-new-look-at-ancient-passages/): The current economic situation has affected every individual, business, and organization in America – including ex-gay organizations. I recently even received a newsletter from Jews...
- [XGW Digest: January 17, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/xgw-digest-january-17-2009/): -The Supreme Court of California rules that conservative congregations that split from the Episcopal church will not get to keep the property they meet on....
- [‘In the Life’ Explores the Ex-Gay Equation](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/in-the-life-explores-the-ex-gay-equation/): In God We Trusted This month IN THE LIFE explores the power of religion to shape our lives, worldview, and our political convictions… providing spiritual...
- [‘Dr. Nicolosi, I Think Your Theory Sucks,’ Says Mom](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/dr-nicolosi-i-think-your-theory-sucks-says-mom/): Never one to be deterred by the facts, Dr. Joseph Nicolosi of the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) goes up...
- [Randy Thomas Defends Ex-Gays, Becomes Conveniently Forgetful](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/randy-thomas-defends-ex-gays-becomes-conveniently-forgetful/): Gay columnist Dan Savage has examined a recent event involving the receipt of ricin-laced letters by several gay bars. He theorizes that an embittered gay...
- [Open Forum: “Planet Narth” Gives Us a Vocabulary Lesson](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/01/open-forum-planet-narth-gives-us-a-vocabulary-lesson/): YouTuber “Planet Narth” gives us a light-hearted vocabulary lesson with the help of Joseph Nicolosi. XGW covered the incident featured in the video, for those...
- [XGW Digest: December 31, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/12/xgw-digest-december-31-2008/): –Melissa Etheridge and ex-evangelical Frank Schaeffer endorse Obama’s pick of Rick Warren to pray at his inauguration. -Jim Johnson of Straight, Not Narrow comments on...
- [Metropolitan Community Church Initiates Fledging Church In Malaysia](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/12/metropolitan-community-church-initiates-fledging-church-in-malaysia/): A crescendo of voices can be heard at the second floor of a shop lot singing Christian praise and worship songs such as “Lord, I...
- [Disgraced Evangelical Haggard Still Struggles with Sexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/12/disgraced-evangelical-haggard-still-struggles-with-sexuality/): Ted Haggard, the megachurch pastor who abandoned his ministry after the revelation that he had sexual relations with a male prostitute, admits in a new...
- [XGW Digest: December 19, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/12/xgw-digest-december-19-2008/): -The Times of South Africa takes a look at the ex-gay movement. -A former ex-gay leader who now helps GLBT individuals come to terms with...
- [In Brief: Mike Ensley Laid Off From Exodus International? (Confirmed)](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/12/in-brief-mike-ensley-laid-off-from-exodus-international/): Just in time for Christmas? We have heard a strong rumor with partial confirmation that Mike Ensley is no longer working for Exodus and further...
- [Open Forum: What Is Compassion?](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/12/open-forum-what-is-compassion/): “Me, homophobic? Ridiculous. I love my homosexual friends.” –Pat Boone, following his recent editorial comparing gay demonstrators to the Mumbai terrorists. “It isn’t just that...
- [XGW Digest: December 12, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/12/xgw-digest-december-12-2008/): -Steve Kern, husband of OK state rep. Sally Kern, helps launch a major anti-gay campaign in Oklahoma City. -Newsweek publishes a pro-gay marriage editorial. -Carol...
- [TWO Tackles Anti-Gay Religious Leaders with Newspaper Ad](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/12/two-tackles-anti-gay-religious-leaders-with-newspaper-ad/): Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out is countering anti-gay prejudice by publishing a full-page advertisement in the Salt Lake Tribune today. The ad is a...
- [XGW Digest: December 5, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/12/xgw-digest-december-5-2008/): -The Vatican voices opposition to a UN resolution that would protect individuals facing imprisonment or the death penalty for being gay. -Box Turtle Bulletin reports...
- [XGW Digest: November 29, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/11/xgw-digest-november-29-2008/): -The Australian Senate votes to extend legal recognition to same-sex couples. -Paul Varnell reminds us that we still have much to be thankful for. -The...
- [Netherlands: Government Subsidizes Ex-Gay Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/11/netherlands-government-subsidizes-ex-gay-ministries/): The Dutch Government is giving public money to ex-gay groups in the Netherlands. RefoAnders received 84,000 euros (about $108,000), while Onze Weg received 50,000 euros...
- [XGW Bookshelf: Thou Shalt Not Love](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/11/xgw-bookshelf-thou-shalt-not-love/): As a young gay man steeped in the evangelical subculture, Patrick Chapman grew up feeling deeply conflicted about his sexual orientation. As so many individuals...
- [XGW Digest: November 21, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/11/xgw-digest-november-21-2008/): -Box Turtle Bulletin shares reports and photos from last weekend’s Join the Impact rallies across the country. -The California Supreme Court agrees to hear challenges...
- [Study Reveals Startling Effects of Marriage Equality](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/11/study-reveals-startling-effects-of-marriage-equality/): From GraphJam. H/T Wil Wheaton.
- [Join the Impact: Philadelphia, PA](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/11/join-the-impact-philadelphia-pa/): I attended the “Join the Impact” protest of Proposition 8 at City Hall in the heart of Philadelphia, PA on Saturday. Getting there was a...
- [XGW Digest: November 14, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/11/xgw-digest-november-14-2008/): -Ex-Gay Expose wrap-up: Peterson Toscano reports on the weekend’s activities: press conference and demonstration held outside the NARTH conference in Denver, followed by a gathering of ex-gay...
- [New Study Refutes Cameron ‘Gay Lifespan’ Claims](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/11/new-study-refutes-cameron-gay-lifespan-claims/): Danish researchers are to publish a study whose findings will challenge the claims of anti-gay propagandists Paul (pictured) and Kirk Cameron. Epidemiologists Morten Frisch and...
- [Exodus Should Come Out of the Political Closet](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/11/exodus-should-come-out-of-the-political-closet/): Psalms 51:8 (Psalms 51:6 in Christian texts) tells us that G-d desires truth from one’s inner-most self. Proverbs 25:18 says that lying about your neighbor...
- [UK: Homophobic MP Robinson Named Bigot of the Year](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/11/uk-homophobic-mp-robinson-named-bigot-of-the-year/): The British LGBT charity Stonewall has awarded politician Iris Robinson the title of “Bigot of the Year” after she publicly denounced homosexuality as “disgusting, nauseous,...
- [XGW Digest: November 7, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/11/xgw-digest-november-7-2008/): The ACLU, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights prepare to challenge Prop 8 in court.  A sampling of reactions to Prop 8’s...
- [Ex-Gays Show Their Political Colors Post-Election Day; Others Show Great Insight](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/11/ex-gays-show-their-political-colors-post-election-day-others-show-great-insight/): Several professional ex-gays made their political leanings very public post-election day. Specifically, Randy Thomas and Alan Chambers, who head Exodus International, the “ex-gay” organization that...
- [Open Forum: Americans Go to the Polls for Marriage Equality](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/11/open-forum-americans-go-to-the-polls-for-marriage-equality/): While the US votes for a new president, the states of California, Arizona and Florida will also vote today on state-constitutional amendments outlawing marriage between...
- [XGW Digest: October 31, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/xgw-digest-october-31-2008/): -Hate crimes based on sexual orientation increased slightly in 2007, despite an overall drop from 2006. -Anthony Venn-Brown launches a new site for ex-gay survivors...
- [Chambers: Vote Against Marriage Equality to Make It Easier for Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/chambers-vote-against-marriage-equality-to-make-it-easier-for-ex-gays/): Exodus President Alan Chambers told California’s Proposition 8 supporters last month to vote against marriage equality because it would have made it harder for him...
- [XGW Digest: October 25, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/xgw-digest-october-25-2008/): Fred Phelps’ daughters to participate in a debate over Florida’s Amendment 2. A California blogger confronts a Proposition 8 supporter’s scare tactics. Peter LaBarbera: Banning...
- [Love Won Out Celebrates 10 Years of Culture Warfare](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/love-won-out-celebrates-10-years-of-culture-warfare/): The October 23, 2008 Denver Post featured an article about Focus on the Family’s Love Won Out roadshow, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this...
- [Former ‘Love in Action’ Head Smid Starts New Ministry](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/former-lia-head-smid-starts-new-ministry/): Ex-gay leader John Smid, who resigned from the controversial ex-gay ministry Love in Action in March, is now leading a new ministry from an office...
- [Wife Divorces Ex-Gay Activist Greg Quinlan](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/wife-divorces-ex-gay-activist-greg-quinlan/): Ex-gay activist Greg Quinlan’s wife of three years, Cheryl Quinlan, appears to have received a decree of divorce in May of 2007, having filed the...
- [XGW Digest: October 17, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/xgw-digest-october-17-2008/): Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern still sees homosexuals as a greater threat to the United States than terrorists. A new poll shows that 53% of...
- [Open Forum: Clever PSA on Prop 8](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/open-forum-clever-psa-on-prop-8/): I recognize the guy in the costume from the now canceled CBS drama Jericho, and the woman looks like Molly Ringwald, so this must at...
- [Ex-Gays Most Bullied Minority in America, Says PFOX](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/ex-gays-most-bullied-minority-in-america-says-pfox/): In a press release full of risible exaggerations, PFOX’s Regina Griggs has claimed that ex-gays are “the most bullied and maligned group in America,” and...
- [Open Forum: Activist Supreme Court Redefines Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/open-forum-activist-supreme-court-redefines-marriage/): Marriage is one of the “basic civil rights of man,” fundamental to our very existence and survival…. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable...
- [National Coming Out Day: Love the “You” You Hide](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/national-coming-out-day-love-the-you-you-hide/): Will you love the “you” you hide if I but call your name? Will you quell the fear inside and never be the same? from...
- [XGW Digest: October 10, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/xgw-digest-october-10-2008/): -Connecticut legalizes same-sex marriage. -Bolthouse Farms distances itself from its anti-gay founder. -Via TWO: Talk show host John Selig talks to Wayne Besen about his...
- [Bob Stith And Baptist Press Correct Erroneous Collins’ Quote](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/bob-stith-and-baptist-press-correct-erroneous-collins-quote/): As XGW reported last week, Bob Stith, the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) National Strategist for Gender Issues and Exodus speaker, apologized in an email to...
- [UK: The Times Investigates the Ex-Gay Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/uk-the-times-investigates-the-ex-gay-movement/): A British journalist has gone undercover to investigate the ex-gay movement. Lucy Bannerman of The Times (London) spent a week at an Exodus retreat at...
- [Ex-Gay Ministry Provides Convicted Sex Offender As Resource](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/ex-gay-ministry-provides-convicted-sex-offender-as-resource/): Evergreen International bills itself as “the most complete resource for Latter-day Saints on same-sex attraction.”  As one of the larger ex-gay organizations after Exodus International,...
- [Sarah Palin on Homosexuality — Belief And Choice Instead of Science](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/in-brief-vp-hopeful-sarah-palin-calls-homosexuality-a-choice/): Last month, the Associated Press reported that a church which Vice Presidential hopeful Gov. Sarah Palin currently attends was promoting the recent Love Won Out...
- [XGW Digest: October 4, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/xgw-digest-october-4-2008/): -Ecuador extends civil unions to same-sex couples. -Truth Wins Out continues its battle to reverse James Dobson’s inclusion in the Radio Hall of Fame. -Fundamentalist...
- [In Brief: Nancy Alcorn of Mercy Ministries Struggles to Keep Closet Door Closed](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/in-brief-nancy-alcorn-of-mercy-ministries-struggles-to-keep-closet-door-closed/): Nancy Alcorn, founder and head of Mercy Ministries, a “Bible-based” rehabilitation home for girls facing ailments ranging from eating disorders to sexual abuse, is a...
- [Southern Baptist’s Bob Stith Apologizes for Erroneous Collins Quote](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/10/southern-baptists-bob-stith-apologizes-for-erroneous-collins-quote/): Last week, the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) National Strategist for Gender Issues and Exodus speaker, Bob Stith, weighed in on Ray Boltz’ announcement that he...
- [Exodus VP Randy Thomas Illustrates Narrow Ex-Gay View](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/exodus-vp-randy-thomas-illustrates-narrow-ex-gay-view/): As our readers may have heard, Google recently announced it’s official position against California’s Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment to eliminate the right of same-sex...
- [In Brief: Liberty University to Allow Equality Riders on Campus](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/in-brief-liberty-university-to-allow-equality-riders-on-campus/): SOULFORCE MEDIA ADVISORY September 29, 2008 Contact: Katie Higgins, katie@soulforce.org, 843-259-8876 LIBERTY U. TO ALLOW EQUALITY RIDERS ON CAMPUS Young Adults Tour Christian Colleges to...
- [News Brief: Bishop Carlton Pearson Has Closed His Church](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/news-brief-bishop-carlton-pearson-has-closed-his-church/): From AP via Texarkana Gazette Bishop Carlton Pearson preached his final sermon at New Dimensions Church on Sept. 7. The church has been folded into...
- [News Brief: First Copy of Financial Bailout Available to Download](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/news-brief-first-copy-of-financial-bailout-available-to-download/): As a topic that affects all of our US readers, we would like to alert our readers to the availability of the first copy of...
- [Support Abounds From the Jewish Community to Fight California’s Proposition 8](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/support-abounds-from-the-jewish-community-to-fight-californias-proposition-8/): As the writers at Box Turtle Bulletin have been discovering and reporting, California’s proposed anti-gay marriage amendment – Proposition 8 – is being pushed and...
- [XGW Digest: September 25, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/xgw-digest-september-25-2008/): Born-again Christian Clay Aiken comes out of the closet. Anita from Sisterfriends Together reminds readers about another Christian musician who was pilloried for coming out...
- [Exodus VP Randy Thomas Almost Gets It](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/exodus-vp-randy-thomas-almost-gets-it/): In Exodus VP Randy Thomas’ latest attempt to define the happenstance of being attracted to the same sex with a single cultural “worldview,” he almost...
- [Falwell Church Member Launches Ex-Gay Website](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/falwell-church-member-launches-ex-gay-website/): A member of the church pastored by the late Reverend Jerry Falwell has launched a website offering advice to homosexuals who want to find “healing...
- [Update: Noted Geneticist Confirms XGW Correction of Greg Quinlan, NARTH](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/update-noted-geneticist-confirms-xgw-correction-of-greg-quinlan-narth/): Working with the New Jersey Family Policy Counsel and speaking to the American Family Association’s (AFA) One News Now, ex-gay Greg Quinlan made statements on...
- [Ex-Gay Greg Quinlan Severely Distorts Researcher’s Comments, Accuses XGW of Fraud](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/ex-gay-greg-quinlan-severely-distorts-researchers-comments-accuses-xgw-of-fraud/): Greg Quinlan was once a prominent ex-gay activist.  He founded the Pro-Family Network in Dayton, Ohio in 1998, and appeared in I Do Exist, the...
- [XGW Digest: September 18, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/xgw-digest-september-18-2008/): Christian musician Ray Boltz comes out of the closet. Ex-gay Gregory Quinlan responds to Boltz by distorting the work of geneticist Francis Collins. British Christian superstar...
- [Boys Beware! A Look Back At Sid Davis’ Infamous Film](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/boys-beware-a-look-back-at-sid-davis-infamous-film/): Educational film producer Sid Davis released countless “cautionary tales” over the span of the 1950’s and ’60’s, one of the most notorious being the film...
- [In Brief: New And Upcoming Releases](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/in-brief-new-and-upcoming-releases/): September is the release month for several items that may be of interest to the XGW community:  -Peterson Toscano’s recently retired stage show, Doin’ Time...
- [Nature Vs. Nurture, Left Or Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/nature-vs-nurture-left-or-right/): As a child I was atypical. I didn’t begin speaking until months after other kids my age had said their first words – but when...
- [Nostalgia Time: The Golden Years of Christian Homophobia](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/nostalgia-time-the-golden-years-of-christian-homophobia/): Click here for a vintage homophobic hate tract from 1986. The comic book, by Dick Hafer, is titled Homosexuality: Legitimate, Alternative Deathstyle, and promises “the...
- [In Brief: Palin’s Church Supports Ex-Gay Ministry](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/in-brief-palins-church-supports-ex-gay-ministry/): It is no surprise to discover that the church attended by McCain VP candidate Sarah Palin is a supporter of anti-gay groups and ex-gay programs....
- [Open Forum: Ex-Gay David Pickup Dating Video From Planet Narth](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/09/open-forum-ex-gay-david-pickup-dating-video-from-planet-narth/): XGW has covered the strange story of David Pickup from several angles, but perhaps none so bizarre as this parody from our friends on Planet...
- [Hardline Political Activist Appointed to Exodus Women’s Ministry](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/08/hardline-political-activist-appointed-to-exodus-womens-ministry/): Exodus International’s new women’s ministry leader is a hardline ex-lesbian who once joined critics in decrying moderate remarks by Exodus President Alan Chambers. Yvette Schneider,...
- [In Brief: Interesting News in the Fight Against HIV Infection](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/08/in-brief-interesting-news-in-the-fight-against-hiv-infection/): I remember reading a long time ago about those who appear to be naturally immune to infection.  We often hear of breakthroughs that may lead...
- [Exodus Board Member’s Staff Person Appears in Gay Themed Movie](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/08/exodus-board-member-staff-person-appears-in-gay-themed-movie/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGGDJhO1HnE David Pickup appears in the next to the last frame — this is only a preview. David Pickup, as reported in the previous post,...
- [Pickup Contradicts Himself to Support Reorientation Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/08/pickup-contradicts-himself-to-support-reorientation-therapy/): Ex-gay therapist David Pickup has told the American Psychological Association that he practices “reorientation … therapy,” despite claiming on his website that what he offers...
- [The Extremes of Church Of Our Saviour And Choices Ministry](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/08/church-of-our-saviour-and-choices-ministrys-extreme-ways/): Choices Ministry was founded by Sy Rogers during the expansion of Exodus Global Alliance, and started  their reparative therapy program back in 1991 under the...
- [In Brief: Young Evangelicals Increasingly Accepting of Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/08/in-brief-young-evangelicals-increasingly-accepting-of-homosexuality/): Citing the Pew Forum, Newsweek writes that views about hot-button issues are cooling somewhat on evangelical campuses, including those about homosexuality. Young evangelicals are far...
- [XGW Digest: August 13, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/08/xgw-digest-august-13-2008/): Peterson Toscano shares the story of a former ex-gay in Malta. Paul Varnell looks at the state of gay rights outside of the western world....
- [Falzarano’s God Kills Lesbians to Teach Them a Lesson](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/08/falzaranos-god-kills-lesbians-to-teach-them-a-lesson/): Ex-gay, ex-Exodus leader Anthony Falzarano believes God may have caused a lesbian’s partner to die of breast cancer in order to chastise her. Falzarano, the...
- [In Brief: Revelations Abound in New Book About Jerry Falwell](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/08/revelations-abound-in-new-book-about-jerry-falwell/): Forbes gives us a glimpse of the dark internal mechanisms of Rev. Jerry Falwell’s evangelical empire in Dirk Smillie’s new book Falwell Inc.: Inside a...
- [Female Ex-Gay Survivors to Share Their Stories](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/08/female-ex-gay-survivors-to-share-their-stories/): Peterson Toscano reports that former ex-gays Christine Bakke and Darlene Bogle will host a public conference call tomorrow, August 7, to talk about their experiences...
- [My Hope - By Jay Holloman (College Jay)](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/08/my-hope-by-jay-holloman-college-jay/): I like Wendy Gritter, and I like New Direction. She’s a sweet and Christ-focused woman and I think New Direction is one of the most...
- [UK: Gay Hate Victim, 18, Is Dead](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/08/uk-gay-hate-victim-18-is-dead/): A gay teenager has died, just one week after he was brutally beaten in a homophobic attack. Eighteen-year-old Michael Causer of Whiston, near Liverpool, England,...
- [In Brief: The Massachusetts Family Institute on Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/08/in-brief-the-massachusetts-family-institute-on-marriage/): Citizenlink quotes Kris Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, in its report on the Massachusetts legislature’s repeal of the 1913 law that was used...
- [New Development in Insure.com Anti-Gay Propaganda Story](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/new-development-in-insurecom-anti-gay-propaganda-story/): As our readers may be aware, it was recently reported that the popular online insurance portal Insure.com has posted disturbing and completely inaccurate information about...
- [Liverpool Boy in Critical Condition Following Homophobic Beating](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/liverpool-boy-in-critical-condition-following-homophobic-beating/): Story here. Updates here and here. I’ve been fortunate. I don’t live in the most gay-friendly community in the world, but I’ve never personally been...
- [Anglicans Complain of Ex-Gays Being Sidelined At Lambeth](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/anglicans-complain-of-ex-gays-being-sidelined-at-lambeth/): Two ex-gay ministries have complained that gay groups are being given preferential treatment at the Lambeth Conference, the 10-yearly gathering of Anglican bishops. The Lambeth...
- [Exodus V.P. Randy Thomas And the “Gay Ideology”](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/exodus-vp-randy-thomas-and-the-gay-ideology/): In his celebration of having “left the gay identity” sixteen years ago, Exodus International Vice President Randy Thomas attempts to define on his blog what...
- [XGW Digest: July 27, 2008](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/xgw-digest-july-27-2008/): Paige Schilt of Soulforce shares about her experiences on the American Family Outing. The Asheville chapter of PFLAG hosts the Real Families Picnic in response...
- [‘Doctor Who’ Actor Meets Ex-Gay Preacher](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/doctor-who-actor-meets-ex-gay-preacher/): Gay actor John Barrowman met with an ex-gay during the filming of a BBC documentary about the origins of homosexuality. The British-American entertainer, best-known to...
- [Exodus Loses Another Major Member Ministry](https://exgaywatch.com/2008/07/exodus-loses-another-major-member-ministry/): We recently noticed that David Kyle Foster’s Mastering Life Ministries no longer appears on the Exodus affiliate page for Tennessee.  When asked, Exodus President Alan...
- [XGW Digest: July 11, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/07/xgw-digest-july-11-2009/): -The anti-gay witch hunt in Uganda continues to expand. -Straight film critic filmmaker Ken Russell celebrates gay cinema. -The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide takes...
- [NARTH Author Admits Newly Touted Study Contains 'No New Science'](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/07/narth-author-admits-newly-touted-study-contains-no-new-science/): NARTH’s new peer-reviewed study is not new, is not peer-reviewed and is not a study – flaws even one of its authors admitted to Ex-Gay...
- [In Brief: Paul Cameron Made a Fool in Movie 'Brüno'](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/07/in-brief-paul-cameron-made-a-fool-in-movie-bruno/): Anti-gay “researcher” Dr. Paul Cameron, infamous for his severely skewed statistics and his support of Nazi concentration camp tactics for dealing with homosexuals, has yet...
- [XGW Digest: July 4, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/07/xgw-digest-july-4-2009/): -The Southern Baptist Convention decrees that member churches must explicitly and actively condemn homosexual behavior to remain in good standing. -US Defense Secretary Robert Gates...
- [In Brief: Scott Lively Hanging Up His Swastika](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/07/in-brief-scott-lively-hanging-up-his-swastika/): According to a post on his website, Pink Swastika co-author Scott Lively has learned all he can about “the homosexual movement” and will be turning...
- [Building 'London Bridges' with Dr. Michael Brown](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/07/building-london-bridges-with-dr-michael-brown/): Dr. Michael Brown has a radio show called “In the Line of Fire.” On June 12th, 2009, the first hour (40 min.) of that program...
- [Update: 'Freedom Federation' Takes on Theocratic Tone](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/update-freedom-federation-takes-on-theocratic-tone/): Vision America, an organization formed by Baptist minister Rick Scarborough, has issued a press release concerning their involvement with the newly announced “Freedom Federation.”  In...
- [Ultra-Conservative & Anti-Gay Groups Joining Forces](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/ultra-conservative-anti-gay-groups-joining-forces/): According to Reuters, a press conference in Washington D.C. today at 1:30 pm EDT will announce the formation of the Freedom Federation. The Freedom Federation...
- [The 'Gayby Boom:' Children of Gay Parents are 'Coming Out'](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/the-gayby-boom-children-of-gay-parents-are-coming-out/): A couple of generations have passed since Stonewall, and more and more people are acting upon Harvey Milk’s declaration that the closet is the biggest...
- [Update: Disturbing Police Raid on Fort Worth Gay Bar](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/disturbing-police-raid-on-fort-worth-gay-bar/): Source: Dallas Voice On the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, it appears local and state police have recreated history in Fort Worth, Texas. It...
- [XGW Digest: June 27, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/xgw-digest-june-27-2009/): -Gay couples can now use their married names on their passports. -A Catholic priest speaks out against the Vatican’s anti-gay teachings. -Anti-gay marriage petitioners in...
- [Gay Exorcism Pastor: We Are Not Against Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/gay-exorcism-pastor-we-are-not-against-homosexuality/): The pastor of a Connecticut Pentecostal church in the news for performing an exorcism on a gay teen told CNN that her church is not...
- [Farrah Fawcett Dead at 62](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/farrah-fawcett-dead-at-62/): Actress and 70s sensation Farrah Fawcett lost her battle with cancer today. She was 62. R.I.P. Farrah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZrxjNcxBZw
- [Michael Jackson Dead at 50](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/michael-jackson-dead-at-50/): According to TMZ, Michael Jackson suffered a heart attack at his home and could not be revived by paramedics on scene. He was 50 years...
- [Christian Commentator Defends Teenage Gay Exorcism](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/christian-commentator-defends-teenage-gay-exorcism/): Dr Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission has defended a church that performed a gruelling exorcism on a 16-year-old boy. Manifested Glory Church in...
- [Synchroblog, and Why I Just Can't](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/synchroblog-and-why-i-just-cant/): Like many, I accepted the invitation to participate in a blogging experiment started by Wendy Gritter and New Direction, a ministry in Canada and a...
- [Ex-Gay Pastor Matthew C. Manning's Troubling Criminal Record](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/ex-gay-pastor-matthew-c-mannings-troubling-criminal-record/): Ex-Gay Watch's investigation into Pastor Matthew C Manning has failed to find evidence for his miraculous healing claims. But more disturbingly, it has revealed a history of accusations, charges and at least one plea of no contest for sexual offenses.
- [Christian Pollster Barna Dispels Anti-Gay Myths](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/christian-pollster-barna-dispels-anti-gay-myths/): George Barna, the evangelical author popular with conservative Christians for his research into faith and culture, has said that common stereotypes of gay people and...
- [Anti-Gay Phelps Clan Now Targeting Jews](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/anti-gay-phelps-clan-now-targeting-jews/): Sometimes we gay Jews describe ourselves as being “twice blessed,” but in the Phelps’s case, we’re twice targeted. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center,...
- [XGW Digest: June 20, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/xgw-digest-june-20-2009/): -Dr. Gregory Herek remembers LGBT researcher Larry Kurdek. -Focus on the Family continues to perpetuate the myth that homosexuality is caused by sexual abuse. -Lesbian...
- [In Brief: Focus on the Family's Doublespeak](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/in-brief-focus-on-the-familys-doublespeak/): In a June 17 Citizenlink article, Focus on the Family speaks out in support of Italian pop singer’s ex-gay song “Luca Used to be Gay.” ...
- [In Brief: 'Stephen Bennett Ministries' Websites Now Down](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/in-brief-stephen-bennett-ministries-websites-now-down/): Ex-gay Stephen Bennett, now working as a realtor, no longer has a website for “Stephen Bennett Ministries.” Links that once led to sites associated with...
- [XGW Digest: June 13, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/xgw-digest-june-13-2009/): -The Arizona legislature votes to eliminate domestic partner benefits granted last year to state employees. -An Emory University study reveals that bans on same-sex marriage...
- [Please Pardon our Dust](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/please-pardon-our-dust/): Ex-Gay Watch is halfway through a major upgrade/conversion (change is possible for blogs) so some features may be missing for a bit, while others might...
- [Alan Chambers: Why Should Gays Be Celebrating?](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/alan-chambers-why-should-gays-be-celebrating/): President Barack Obama issued a statement in celebration of the month of June being LGBT Pride Month: “LGBT Americans have made, and continue to make,...
- [In Brief: Pat Robertson - “Most” Homosexuals Were Abused; All Are Hell-Bound](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/in-brief-pat-robertson-most-homosexuals-were-abused-all-are-hell-bound/): On an episode of the 700 Club, a mother called in to ask how to handle having a gay son. Host Pat Robertson responded by...
- [XGW Digest: June 6, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/xgw-digest-june-6-2009/): -The Nevada Legislature overrides Gov. Gibbons’ veto of its domestic partnership bill. -Gregory Herek advises Californians against trying to repeal Proposition 8 in 2010. -Former...
- [Warren Throckmorton on Scott Lively, Uganda, And the Nazis](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/06/warren-throckmorton-on-scott-lively-uganda-and-the-nazis/): Dr. Warren Throckmorton appears to have written an introduction to a series of arguments to counter those put forth by Scott Lively in his book,...
- [XGW Digest: May 30, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/05/xgw-digest-may-30-2009/): -Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons vetoes a domestic partnership bill. -In Washington State, the wording of Referendum 71, which would repeal the Domestic Partnership Expansion Bill...
- [You Don’t Take Your Constitutional Rights to the Ballot Box](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/05/you-dont-take-your-constitutional-rights-to-the-ballot-box/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUlDZLZ1Gls Constitutional powerhouses Ted Olson and David Boies take on Proposition 8. This is a clear, authoritative discussion of the real issues involved. Impressive.
- [XGW Digest: May 23, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/05/xgw-digest-may-23-2009/): -Moscow police forcibly break up a Slavic Pride demonstration. -Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach, a 20-year veteran and decorated fighter pilot, is discharged under Don’t Ask...
- [The Great XGW Blackout Or Make Sure You Have Backups!](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/05/the-great-xgw-blackout-or-make-sure-you-have-backups/): In case you are one of the people who didn’t email me for an explanation, XGW went off-line last Friday morning, May 15.  While stories...
- [In Brief: Exodus And the ‘30 Orientations’ Lie](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/05/in-brief-exodus-and-the-30-orientations-lie/): Recently, the addition of “actual or percieved” sexual orientation and gender identity to the federal law concerning hate crimes has come much closer to reality....
- [XGW Digest: May 9, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/05/xgw-digest-may-9-2009/): -The situation for gays and lesbians in Uganda continues to worsen. -Emmy-nominated actor David Ogden Stiers comes out of the closet. -The Miss Universe Organization...
- [Breaking: Same-Sex Marriage Now Legal In Maine!](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/05/breaking-same-sex-marriage-now-legal-in-maine/): Source: CNN “I have come to believe that this is a question of fairness and of equal protection under the law and that a civil...
- [In Brief: British Repartee Wins Over Nicolosi’s Reparative Rant](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/05/in-brief-british-repartee-wins-over-nicolosis-reparative-rant/): During his recent visit to London for a conference held by the Anglican Church, Joseph Nicolosi was interviewed on the BBC News Hour along with...
- [SBC President Albert Mohler Abandons Baptist Tradition](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/05/sbc-president-albert-mohler-abandons-baptist-tradition/): Centuries ago, the Baptist church was founded on the principle of freedom of conscience. According to Baptist belief, individual Christians are fully competent to study...
- [NOM Tries to Perk Up Their Image With Miss California](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/05/nom-tries-to-perk-up-their-image-with-miss-california/): Carrie Prejean, who is Miss California, created a stir when she expressed support for marriage only being between a man and a woman at the...
- [XGW Digest: May 2, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/05/xgw-digest-may-2-2009/): -Same-sex couples begin marrying in Iowa. -Support for gay clergy continues to grow within the Presbyterian Church (USA). -Ex-gay survivor Christine Bakke responds to her...
- [Alan Chambers: Gay Christians - God’s Handicapped Children](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/05/alan-chambers-gay-christians-are-gods-handicapped-children/): This post deals more heavily with issues of the Christian faith than most.  There is some “insider” language as a result.  Most readers should be...
- [Guest Post: Another One Bites the Dust](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/guest-post-another-one-bites-the-dust/): by Jack Drescher, MD A recent article in Scientific American by Thomas Maier has cast into doubt the veracity of a study published 30 years...
- [More Dogma From Dr Nicolosi](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/more-dogma-from-dr-nicolosi/): In an interview with self-proclaimed “global voice of orthodox Anglicanism” VirtueOnline, reparative therapist Dr Joseph Nicolosi made some of his boldest claims yet. The former...
- [London: Nicolosi Peddles Same Old Gay, Ex-Gay Myths](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/london-nicolosi-peddles-same-old-gay-ex-gay-myths/): Reparative therapist Dr Joseph Nicolosi used a conference in London yesterday to recycle a host of offensive myths about gay men. According to David Virtue,...
- [Randy Thomas: Exodus Had Nothing to Do with Anti-Gay Uganda Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/randy-thomas-exodus-had-nothing-to-do-with-anti-gay-uganda-conference/): Randy Thomas “wept” at finding out how many are being tortured and murdered abroad because they are attracted to the same sex. I honestly don’t...
- [Goldberg’s Embarrassing Radio Appearance on Eve of London Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/goldbergs-embarrassing-radio-appearance-on-eve-of-london-conference/): Ex-gay proponents Joseph Nicolosi, Arthur Goldberg and Jeffrey Satinover are in London today for the Sex & the City conference organized by Anglican Mainstream, the...
- [XGW Digest: April 25, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/xgw-digest-april-25-2009/): -53% of New Yorkers support marriage equality, according to a new poll. -The Maine State Legislature holds hearings on two bills, one which would legalize...
- [Gays to Protest London Ex-Gay Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/gays-to-protest-london-ex-gay-conference/): Over 100 activists have pledged to join a protest in London on Saturday, when reparative therapist Dr Joseph Nicolosi (pictured) addresses conservative Christians at the...
- [Alan Chambers: ‘Gay Marriage Bonanza Is a Trap’](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/alan-chambers-gay-marriage-bonanza-is-a-trap/): This is the phrase the president of Exodus International used in a recent WORLD magazine article to describe his opinion of the recent cluster of...
- [In Brief: Police Investigate 12 Year Old ‘Ex-Gay’ YouTuber, Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/in-brief-police-investigate-12-year-old-ex-gay-youtuber-family/): Source: Edge Boston According to Edge Boston, the police have located the twelve-year-old boy who called himself ChristianU2uber, along with his family.  The young man...
- [XGW Digest: April 18, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/xgw-digest-april-18-2009/): -New York Gov. David Paterson introduces a marriage equality bill in the state legislature. -Openly gay Iowa state senator Matt McCoy receives a death threat....
- [Why 'Day of Truth' Fails All Students](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/why-day-of-truth-fails-all-students/): Today, April 17th, is the 13th annual “Day of Silence.” For those unaware, the “Day of Silence” is one day out of the school year...
- [YouTube Kid Exploited for Laughs, Now Exploited By Religious Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/youtube-kid-exploited-for-laughs-now-exploited-by-religious-right/): A 12-year-old boy on YouTube is being hailed by some Christians as a martyr for enduring insults, although a better description would be “disturbed.” Scott,...
- [XGW Digest: April 11, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/xgw-digest-april-11-2009/): -The North Dakota House of Representatives kills an anti-discrimination bill. -Nate Silver of Five Thirty Eight runs state-by-state projections for the decline of opposition to...
- [Alan Chambers Finally Speaks Up — In Defense of Peter LaBarbera?](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/alan-chambers-finally-speaks-up-in-defense-of-peter-labarbera/): As reported elsewhere, blogger Glenn Sacks wrote a post about his concerns that an organization such as Christian News Wire would issue bigoted, anti-gay press...
- [Slaughter of Gays Still Goes on in New Iraq](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/slaughter-of-gays-still-goes-on-in-new-iraq/): The bodies of up to 25 suspected homosexual men have been found over the past two months in the newly democratic Iraq, according to the...
- [Newspaper: How to Spot a Gay Ugandan](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/newspaper-how-to-spot-a-gay-ugandan/): The Observer, a newspaper in Uganda, has written a compendium of suggestions and comments by people there on how to spot a gay Ugandan.  No...
- [Breaking: Vermont Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/breaking-vermont-legalizes-same-sex-marriage/): The Vermont legislature voted this morning to override Governor Jim Douglas’ veto of its same-sex marriage bill.  Although the House’s initial passage of the bill had...
- [Breaking: Six Gay Men Murdered By Tribes, Says Iraqi Official](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/breaking-six-gay-men-murdered-by-tribes-says-iraqi-official/): Six gay men have been killed over a period of 10 days, according to an Iraqi official. In two separate incidents, the men were disowned...
- [Open Forum: Ex-Gay Labels](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/open-forum-ex-gay-labels/):  The term “ex-gay” is probably the most common one used to describe people who enter into reparative therapy. One can call themselves “ex-gay” even if...
- [XGW Digest: April 4, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/xgw-digest-april-4-2009/): -Anti-gay activists blame gay newsman George Weber for his own murder. -Former governor Howard Dean encourages Vermont legislators to vote for gay marriage. -Sweden legalizes...
- [Breaking: Iowa ‘One Man, One Woman’ Language Stricken](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/breaking-iowa-one-man-one-woman-language-stricken/): The Iowa Supreme Court has just issued a landmark, unanimous ruling in Varnum v. Brien, a case involving six same-sex couples who sought and were...
- [Chambers Is Blind to His Own Prejudice](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/chambers-is-blind-to-his-own-prejudice/): In his latest article for Charisma magazine, Exodus President Alan Chambers speaks a lot of truth, but is blinkered to how it applies to his...
- [We’re No Longer American, Says Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/04/were-no-longer-american-says-exodus/): In a formal statement, Exodus has confirmed that after 23 years in the US, the organization will be going ex-American. Speaking from Exodus’s Florida base...
- [EHarmony Goes Gay, Sort of](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/eharmony-goes-gay-sort-of/): After losing a lawsuit, the heterosexual-only dating service eHarmony has opened it’s gay mirror image, Compatible Partners. It officially opens for business on April 1...
- [Gay Rights Groups Speak Up in Uganda](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/gay-rights-groups-speak-in-uganda/): Source: ugpluse.com Gay rights activists in Uganda held a press conference today in response to a recent anti-gay push coordinated by Family Life Network (FLN)...
- [Illinois Anti-Gay Group Protests ‘Hate Group’ Label](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/illinois-anti-gay-group-protests-at-hate-group-label/): The Illinois Family Institute, an anti-gay organization once fronted by Peter LaBarbera, has protested at being declared a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law...
- [Ex-Gay Guru Richard Cohen Reaches Into Uganda](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/ex-gay-guru-richard-cohen-reaches-into-uganda/): At the same meeting in Uganda described here, Family Life Network (FLN) leader Stephen Langa continues his discussion with the group on the evil, clever...
- [XGW Digest: March 28, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/xgw-digest-march-28-2009/): -Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain, comes out in favor of gay marriage. -More than 50% of voting-age adults in North Carolina oppose a...
- [Exclusive Video: Stephen Langa Whips Up Anti-Gay Sentiment, Violence Ahead](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/video-stephen-langa-whips-up-anti-gay-sentiment-violence-ahead/): On March 15, 2009, Stephen Landga of the Family Life Network in Kampala, Uganda, held a meeting to follow up on the conference from a...
- [UK: One in Six Therapists Has Offered Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/uk-one-in-six-therapists-has-offered-reparative-therapy/): A survey has found that 17 percent of therapists in the UK have offered a client therapy to “reduce” same-sex attractions. Four percent said they...
- [This Is What Love in Action Looks Like](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/this-is-what-love-in-action-looks-like/): A documentary about the controversial ex-gay program Love in Action will be released on DVD on June 6 2009. Love in Action revisits the furore...
- [Exodus Loves Bobby, Too](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/exodus-loves-bobby-too/): At the end of this past January XGW noted the deafening silence made by Exodus while the movie “Prayers for Bobby” was being prominently featured...
- [PFOX & Mission America Ask Followers to ‘Protect Heterosexuals’](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/pfox-mission-america-ask-followers-to-protect-heterosexuals/): Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) has emailed an “action alert” from Mission America to their subscriber list.  Recipients are asked to “help keep the...
- [XGW Digest: March 21, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/xgw-digest-march-21-2009/): -The Nigerian government considers a bill to further toughen its anti-gay laws. -Former senator Rick Santorum refuses to debate with Andrew Sullivan on the issue...
- [Correction: Video From Saddam Era Iraq](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/video-irans-punishment-for-gays/): Original Headline: Video: Iran’s Punishment for Gays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-simxDbjU4 See Box Turtle Bulletin for explanation on how this ended up at Gays Without Boarders.  Posting this...
- [Breaking: US to Sign UN Gay Rights Declaration](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/breaking-us-to-sign-un-gay-rights-declaration/): Source: AP An anonymous official has told the Associated Press that the Obama administration will sign a U.N. declaration calling for the world-wide decriminalization of...
- [The Irony of Exodus And Holocaust Revisionism](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/the-irony-of-exodus-and-holocaust-revisionism/): Ex-Gay Watch readers have probably read of the frightening anti-gay conference held in Kampala, Uganda earlier this month. Exodus International board member Don Schmierer, Holocaust...
- [XGW Digest: March 14, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/xgw-digest-march-14-2009/): -The 2010 US census will count legally married gay couples as “unmarried partners.” -Two heterosexual college students in California propose a constitutional amendment to reclassify...
- [Exodus VP Randy Thomas: Only People Like Me Can Help in Uganda](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/exodus-vp-randy-thomas-only-people-like-me-can-help-in-uganda/): Exodus Executive Vice President Randy Thomas has posted his first open comments concerning the conference mess in Uganda.  Most of the post is nothing new...
- [Exodus President Speaks, Proud of Uganda Conference Participation](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/exodus-president-speaks-proud-of-uganda-conference-participation/): The Christian Post has published an article about Warren Throckmorton’s concerns over the conference in Uganda. … Dr. Warren Throckmorton, director of College Counseling and...
- [South African GLBT Group Rebukes Exodus International](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/south-african-glbt-group-rebukes-exodus-international/): The following was released today by the South African Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (SA GLAAD). The group is joining in our condemnation of...
- [‘Extreme Ex-Gay’ From Planet Narth](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/extreme-ex-gay-from-planet-narth/):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWqGSCk0l5M Caleb Lee Brundidge and Richard Cohen brought to us through Planet Narth.  The scary part is that in the unedited video, the woman there...
- [Committed, Celibate Relationships ‘Sinful,’ Says Chambers](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/committed-celibate-relationships-sinful-says-chambers/): I suppose we can be grateful at least that Alan Chambers is nailing his colours firmly to the mast. In a column for Charisma today,...
- [Open Letter to the Exodus International Board of Directors](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/open-letter-to-the-exodus-international-board-of-directors/): The following represents a cooperative effort between Jim Burroway of Box Turtle Bulletin, Mike Airhart and Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out, and me, David...
- [Moving Beyond Victimhood](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/moving-beyond-victimhood/): In a recent post on his blog, Peterson Toscano explains why he describes himself as an ex-gay survivor but not as a victim: In the...
- [The Great Tragedy of the Ex-Gay Conference in Uganda](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/the-great-tragedy-of-the-ex-gay-conference-in-uganda/): There is much to criticize about the freakish conference taking place in Kampala, Uganda the past few days.  Several blogs, including this one, have done...
- [XGW Digest: March 7, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/xgw-digest-march-7-2009/): -The California Supreme Court holds hearings on the validity of Proposition 8. -Andrew Sullivan questions the wisdom of advancing gay rights through the courts.  One...
- [Forced Ex-Gay Therapy In Uganda, the Other Shoe Drops](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/forced-ex-gay-therapy-in-uganda-the-other-shoe-drops/): In an eerily Orwellian move, the anti-gay conference in Kampala, Uganda, has produced serious calls for gays there to be placed into forced “therapy.”  From...
- [Bizarre Anti-Gay Conference Begins in Uganda](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/03/bizarre-anti-gay-conference-begins-in-uganda/): A strange mix of speakers started off a conference in Kampala, Uganda today.  Invited by Stephen Langa, leader of Family Life Network (FLN), they are...
- [Ryan Skipper’s Killer Convicted of Murder, Sentenced to Life](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/02/ryan-skippers-killer-convicted-of-murder-sentenced-to-life/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LplmLqb6HQ Joseph Bearden, the first of two men accused of the brutal killing of a Florida gay man, Ryan Skipper, has been convicted of murder...
- [XGW Digest: February 28, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/02/xgw-digest-february-28-2009/): -Jonathan Rauch and David Blankenhorn propose a compromise on the issue of gay marriage. -James Dobson resigns as chairman of Focus on the Family. -The...
- [Exodus Shows Change Is Possible - in the Wrong Direction](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/02/exodus-shows-change-is-possible-in-the-wrong-direction/): Exodus is changing all right, but hardly in the right direction. Despite hinting numerous times at a more progressive outlook, here comes yet another move...
- [XGW Digest: February 21, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/02/xgw-digest-february-21-2009/): -Local gay activists and Wayne Besen from Truth Wins Out provide counterprogramming to Love Won Out’s Charlotte, NC conference. -The Hawaii House of Representatives passes...
- [Breaking: Anti-Gay Protesters Banned From Britain](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/02/breaking-anti-gay-protesters-banned-from-britain/): Source: UPI According to United Press International, two members of the notoriously anti-gay Phelps clan/church have been denied entry to Great Britain. Fred Phelps and...
- [Self-Hating Gay on Tyra: I’ll Be Straight By 30](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/02/self-hating-gay-on-tyra-ill-be-straight-by-30/): “When I turn 30, I plan to be straight … I’m hoping it’s just going to be a phase, because I never chose to be...
- [In Brief: Mike Ensley Vanishes From Blogosphere](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/02/in-brief-mike-ensley-vanishes-from-blogosphere/): XGW reported in December that Exodus International downsized “youth specialist” Mike Ensley. However, no official word was ever publicly released on the websites of Exodus,...
- [XGW Digest: February 13, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/02/xgw-digest-february-13-2009/): -The city of Phoenix, AZ launches a domestic partner registry. -Jonathan Rowe examines one of the religious right’s ‘secular’ arguments against homosexuality. -The Hawaii House...
- [Guest Post: Little Boy Lost](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/02/guest-post-little-boy-lost/): Johannah, frequently pen-named “Ephilei,” is a genderqueer and self-labeled liberal-orthodox Christian who recently started TransChristians.org and faithful reader of XGW. The public intersection of Christianity...
- [However Bad You Thought the Ted Haggard Situation Was…](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/02/however-bad-you-thought-the-ted-haggard-situation-was/): it’s worse. I was honestly hoping that some of what the second person, Grant Haas, has said was at least exaggerated for tabloid purposes, but...
- [XGW Digest: February 6, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/02/xgw-digest-february-6-2009/): -U.S. President Barack Obama asks for a study of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy. -Matt Barber commends Nigeria for its stance on imprisoning...
- [Congress Members Appeal to Obama, Museveni on Uganda Anti-Gay Bill](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/congress-members-appeal-to-obama-museveni-on-uganda-anti-gay-bill/): Following a hearing yesterday, several members of Congress have written to the Presidents of the US and Uganda to protest the latter’s impending legislation to...
- [Exodus Misses the Humor in Humor Piece by 'The Advocate'](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/exodus-misses-the-humor-in-humor-piece-by-the-advocate/): The Advocate is a well-known magazine that caters to the Queer community. It runs serious articles that inform readers of issues facing gays, and lighter...
- [Human Rights Hearing on Uganda Anti-Gay Bill Today](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/human-rights-commission-investigates-uganda-anti-gay-bill-today/): The US Government’s Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission will hold a hearing on the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill this afternoon. Over the course of 90 minutes,...
- [Gay Brit Turns Straight, Attacks Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/brit-gay-man-turns-straight-attacks-gays/): From The Guardian’s Comment is free this morning: Writing in the Times earlier this week, Patrick Muirhead describes “the day I decided to stop being...
- [XGW Digest: January 16, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/xgw-digest-january-16-2010/): -Portugal’s parliament enacts marriage equality. -Former Rep. Harold Ford (D-TN) has a change of heart in favor of marriage equality. -Nate Silver points out that...
- [Ugandan President Softening on Anti-Gay Bill?](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/ugandan-president/): The President of Uganda appears to have distanced himself from the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, which would effectively introduce the death penalty for gays. President Museveni...
- [Ted Olson Makes the Conservative Case for Gay Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/ted-olson-makes-the-conservative-case-for-gay-marriage/): Sounding like a conservative from the days before the Moral Majority, et al, began what would become a devastating theocratic infiltration of the GOP, top...
- [Anti-Gay Northern Ireland MP's Affair with 19-Year-Old](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/anti-gay-northern-ireland-mps-affair-with-19-year-old/): As ugly and vicious as Iris Robinson’s attacks on gays were, I cannot say I take much pleasure in joining the media to expose the...
- [Looking for Uganda Videos Mentioned on Maddow?](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/looking-for-uganda-videos-mentioned-on-maddow/): Here is a rough list until tomorrow: Scott Lively in Kampala, Uganda Stephen Langa whipping up fear and anger in Kampala, Uganda. Stephen Langa, teaching...
- [RIP, Reverend Brett Harris](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/rip-reverend-brett-harris/): Gay activist Reverend Brett Harris has passed away at the age of 48. As the founder of Friends of BRYCE, he did much to draw...
- [Northern Ireland: Anti-Gay MP Had Affair, Attempted Suicide](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/ireland-anti-gay-mp-had-affair-attempted-suicide/): Iris Robinson, the wife of Northern Ireland’s First Minister, has resigned as a UK Member of Parliament after confessing to marital unfaithfulness. The controversial politician...
- [Video: The Tortured Path to Rid Uganda of Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/video-the-tortured-path-to-rid-uganda-of-gays/): Jim Burroway at Box Turtle Bulletin has taken some clips obtained jointly by them and us to create an excellent description of the devastating influence...
- [Jenkins Seeks Help From Police, Court, Public To Locate Daughter Isabella](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/jenkins-seeks-help-from-police-court-public-to-locate-daughter-isabella/): Janet Jenkins has asked a judge to hold her ex-partner Lisa Miller in contempt for not turning over their daughter, Isabella, to her by the...
- [Anti-Gay Dobson Not Going Away Just Yet](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/anti-gay-dobson-not-going-away-just-yet/): Christian radio host and family values guru Dr James Dobson is not yet ready to give up his campaign against gays. Despite resigning from Focus...
- [CNN: Update on Ex-Gay Mother's Disappearance with Daughter](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/cnn-update-on-ex-gay-mothers-disappearance-with-daughter/): CNN gives a report on the Jenkins-Miller custody battle.
- [XGW Digest: January 2, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/xgw-digest-january-2-2010/): -A Republican candidate for US Senate in Illinois spreads rumors about his primary opponent’s sexual orientation. -Rwanda takes a step toward decriminalizing homosexuality. -The US...
- [Lisa Miller Now in Violation of Court Order; Still Missing with Isabella](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/lisa-miller-now-in-violation-of-court-order-still-missing-with-isabella/): Lisa Miller has missed the deadline to hand over custody of Isabella, her daughter with ex-partner Janet Jenkins. A judge had ordered her to do...
- [Ex-Gay Mother and Daughter Missing](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/ex-gay-mother-and-daughter-missing/): An ex-gay Christian woman is missing with her seven-year-old daughter after a judge ruled her former partner should be given custody. Lisa Miller gave birth...
- [Homosexuality Discussed in Forum at Orthodox Jewish School](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/homosexuality-discussed-in-forum-at-orthodox-jewish-school/): A panel called “Being Gay in the Orthodox World: A Conversation with the YU Community” was held on Tuesday at Yeshiva University, a prominent Orthodox...
- [XGW Digest: December 26, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/xgw-digest-december-26-2009/): -British rugby star Gareth Thomas comes out of the closet. -HBO’s show “Big Love” to introduce a romantic storyline between two men who have been...
- [XGW Digest: December 19, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/xgw-digest-december-19-2009/): -Kapya Kaoma chronicles how American evangelicals established a base of power in Uganda and other African nations. -Houston voters elect Annise Parker as the first...
- [Another notable quotable from PFOX](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/another-notable-quotable-from-pfox/): Re: “New Jersey State Senator and NAACP’s Bond Support Genderless Marriage While Rejecting Ex-Gay Rights” [12-9-09] “…major scientific studies and mental health associations have stated...
- [Church of England Vicar: Ugandans "Might Actually Have a Point"](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/church-of-england-vicar-ugandans-might-actually-have-a-point/): Since I am gay, Anglican and British, I am more than disturbed to hear a priest in my own church and my own country concede...
- [XGW Digest: December 12, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/xgw-digest-december-12-2009/): -Pepsi issues an apology for its sponsorship of an anti-gay musician’s concert in Uganda. -The Economist takes a look at where gay couples live in...
- [Hunting Down People for Same-Sex Love is a Sin Says Senior Ugandan Advisor](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/hunting-down-people-for-same-sex-love-is-a-sin-says-senior-ugandan-advisor/): But hunting down people for same-sex love, I believe to be a sin, against Love, one of God’s greatest gifts to mankind. (I say all...
- [VP of Exodus, Randy Thomas, decries Maddow, defends Cohen](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/vp-of-exodus-randy-thomas-decries-maddow-defends-cohen/): Building on David Robert’s post on the Richard Cohen portion of The Rachel Maddow Show, Randy Thomas, Vice President of Exodus International, had some things...
- [Pastor Rick Warren Condemns Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/pastor-rick-warren-condemns-uganda-anti-homosexuality-bill/): As with Exodus, we wish this had been done sooner, but the statement could be quite effective. Warren is speaking directly to pastors in a...
- [Death Penalty, Life in Prison Dropped from Uganda Anti Homosexuality Bill](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/death-penalty-life-in-prison-dropped-from-uganda-anti-homosexuality-bill/): According to Bloomberg, the draft bill, now being called the “kill the gays bill” will be “refined” to remove the death penalty and life imprisonment...
- [Richard Cohen Connected to Uganda Kill Gays Bill by Rachel Maddow](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/richard-cohen-soundly-put-in-his-place-by-rachel-maddow/): Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Writing much here would only serve to spoil the excellent job MSNBC’s Rachel...
- [US Christians Denounce Gay Hate in Uganda](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/us-christians-denounce-gay-hate-in-uganda/): A group of prominent Christian leaders from the US have put their names to a statement opposing the vicious Anti-Homosexuality Bill proposed in Uganda. In...
- [VP of Exodus describes hate speech as 'difference of opinion'](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/vp-of-exodus-describes-hate-speech-as-difference-of-opinion/): Randy Thomas, Vice President of Exodus International: Freedom of speech which expresses a difference of opinion on morality and spirituality is not a crime. The...
- [XGW Digest: December 5, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/xgw-digest-december-5-2009/): -The Washington, DC city council votes in favor of marriage equality. -The Chinese government opens a gay bar. -The Los Angeles Times criticizes the Manhattan...
- [Rachel Maddow Reports Further on Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/rachel-maddow-reports-further-on-uganda-anti-homosexuality-bill/): Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Solid reporting on this issue our readers have become familiar with since last...
- [NY Senator Savino Defends the Sanctity of Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/ny-senator-savino-defends-the-sanctity-of-marriage/): A formidable, moving and excellently reasoned argument for marriage equality by Senator Diane Savino of New York: Hat-tip: James McGrath of Exploring Our Matrix.
- [Rachel Maddow Covers Anti-Homosexuality Bill](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/rachel-maddow-covers-anti-homosexuality-bill/): Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has begun continuing coverage of the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill. On...
- [Tonight: Watch Rachel Maddow (postponed)](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/tonight-watch-rachel-maddow/): Andrew Marin will appear on the latter part of the Rachel Maddow Show tonight next week to talk about the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda.  Watch...
- [Flagging up Gay Hate on World Aids Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/12/flagging-up-gay-hate-on-world-aids-day/): Today, on World Aids Day, the world unites to reflect on the scourge of Aids and HIV, to acknowledge those they affect and to promote...
- [XGW Digest: November 28, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/11/xgw-digest-november-28-2009/): -Massachusetts Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker selects an openly gay running mate. -Hate crimes on the basis of sexual orientation continue to rise, according to...
- [Malaysia Report: Transgender Day of Remembrance](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/11/malaysia-report-transgender-day-of-remembrance/): Held on the 20th of November every year, this day is set to commemorate transgenders who have been killed due to discrimination, prejudice and hatred...
- [XGW Digest: November 21, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/11/xgw-digest-november-21-2009/): -Same-sex marriage is legalized via court order in Buenos Aires, Argentina. -Dolly Parton speaks out in defense of gay rights. -Meghan McCain (daughter of Sen....
- [NARTH Pulls Latest Glatze Interview](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/11/narth-pulls-latest-glatze-interview/): As reported here a few days ago, the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) recently posted an interview between reparative therapist...
- [Better Late Than Never, Exodus Sends Open Letter to President of Uganda](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/11/better-late-than-never-exodus-sends-open-letter-to-president-of-uganda/): According to their website, Exodus has sent an open letter to President Museveni of Uganda voicing their opposition to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill being considered there....
- [Deja Vu All Over Again? NARTH Features Advocate of Bullying as a Growing Experience](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/11/deja-vu-all-over-again-narth-features-advocate-of-bullying-as-a-growing-experience/): Dr. Joseph Nicolosi of the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) has posted a recent interview with Michael Glatze.  Glatze is...
- [XGW Digest: November 14, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/11/xgw-digest-november-14-2009/): -Portugal’s new Prime Minister places marriage equality on his list of priorities. -The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission plans a rally to try to provoke arrests under...
- [Audio: Throckmorton & Ssempa Debate Anti-Homoexuality Bill](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/11/audio-throckmorton-ssempa-debate-anti-homoexuality-bill/): Earlier today, Dr. Warren Throckmorton and Pastor Martin Ssempa were able to discuss the Anti-Homosexuality Bill currently being debated in Uganda. Both appeared on Premier...
- [AMA Votes Against DADT, Same-Sex Marriage Bans](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/11/ama-votes-against-dadt-and-same-sex-marriage-bans/): Source: AP The American Medical Association has voted to oppose the military policy concerning gay service members, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT), saying it has...
- [Love Won Out: Birmingham, Alabama](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/11/love-won-out-birmingham-alabama/): The ex-gay “Love Won Out” conference in Birmingham went underway Friday, the final one led by Focus on the Family before they relinquish control to...
- [XGW Digest: November 7, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/11/xgw-digest-november-7-2009/): -A candlelight vigil is held for the victim of a violent homophobic attack in Liverpool, England. -A Catholic church in Maine fires a lay minister...
- [UK Government Expresses Concern Over Ugandan Anti-Homosexually Bill](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/11/uk-government-expresses-concern-over-ugandan-anti-homosexually-bill/): Source: pinknews.co.uk Following similar statements from the US and France, representatives for the United Kingdom have expressed serious concern over the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill in...
- [Fallen Megachurch Pastor Haggard Starts Home Church](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/11/fallen-megachurch-pastor-haggard-starts-home-church/): Ted Haggard, the evangelical pastor exposed in 2006 as a homosexual and adulterer, has started a regular prayer meeting in his Colorado home. Before the...
- [Christian Right Leader Dobson Quits Radio Program](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/11/christian-right-leader-dobson-quits-radio-program/): James Dobson, the evangelical founder of Focus on the Family, is cutting ties with the organization after more than 30 years. He stepped down as...
- [France Joins the US in Denouncing Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/11/france-joins-the-us-in-denouncing-uganda-anti-homosexuality-bill/): Source: Sky News The French Foreign Ministry has issued a statement concerning the Anti-Homosexuality Bill currently under serious consideration in Uganda: “France expresses deep concern...
- [Pastor Rick Warren Denounces Martin Ssempa and Anti-Homosexuality Bill](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/pastor-rick-warren-denounces-martin-ssempa-and-anti-homosexuality-bill/): In response to a query from Grove City professor Warren Throckmorton, pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church has provided this statement concerning the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality...
- [XGW Digest: October 31, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/xgw-digest-october-31-2009/): -Jeremy Hooper takes an in-depth look at the National Organization for Marriage. -Anti-gay hate crimes are on the rise in London. -Army Secretary John McHugh...
- [Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill Hits Close to Home for Some](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/ugandas-anti-gay-bill-hits-close-to-home-for-some/): We haven’t checked yet to see if it varies from the second hand copies that have been offered up to now, but this is a...
- [US Slams Uganda's Proposed Anti-Gay Law](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/us-slams-ugandas-new-anti-gay-bill/): Source: AFP An official with the US Embassy in Kampala, Uganda, has said that the new Anti-Homosexuality Bill, if enacted into law, would “mark a...
- [President Obama Signs Hate Crimes Act into Law](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/president-obama-signs-hate-crimes-act-into-law/): Today U.S. President Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes Act into law, adding “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the...
- [Audio: Radio Interviews on Pending Anti-Gay Law in Uganda](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/audio-radio-interviews-on-pending-anti-gay-law-in-uganda/): The Current is a program on CBC’s Radio One in Canada. In the third segment of a recent show, host Anna Maria Tremonti discusses the...
- [Follow-Up: Liberty University Says Cohen Not Approved Internship Site](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/follow-up-liberty-university-says-cohen-not-approved-internship-site/): This is a follow-up to our previous post questioning the apparent internship of a Liberty University student, Christopher Doyle, with discredited ex-gay guru Richard Cohen....
- [XGW Digest: October 24, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/xgw-digest-october-24-2009/): -A spokesman for Stand For Marriage Maine admits that the organization has made dishonest claims in its ads. -Congressman Jared Polis’ partner talks about being...
- [Do Liberty University and the American Association of Christian Counselors Endorse Richard Cohen?](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/do-liberty-university-and-the-american-association-of-christian-counselors-endorse-richard-cohen/): From the International Healing Foundation (Richard Cohen) website, we learn that a Liberty University student will soon begin an internship “under the direct supervision of...
- [Exodus Issues Pathetic Response to Worsening Uganda Situation](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/exodus-issues-pathetic-response-to-worsening-uganda-situation/): This post was written by David Roberts and Emily K. While the situation in Uganda continues to spiral down, Exodus has issued a response of...
- [XGW Digest: October 17, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/xgw-digest-october-17-2009/): -A group of Russian and Slavic Christians stage an anti-Referendum 71 rally in Washington one day before 1,500 Washingtonians march in support of 71. -The...
- [Properly Defining The Term 'Post-Gay'](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/properly-defining-the-term-post-gay/): For about the past year, Exodus V.P. Randy Thomas has been slowly transitioning from using the term “ex-gay” to describe himself to the term “post-gay.”...
- [Interracial Couple Denied Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/interracial-couple-denied-marriage/): Source: Associated Press A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for...
- [Ugandan MP Proposes Severe New Anti-Gay Measures](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/ugandan-mp-proposes-severe-new-anti-gay-measures/): A Member of Parliament in Uganda has tabled a bill for new laws that could see gays and gay-sympathizers in the East African country imprisoned...
- [PFOX declares war on Mickey Mouse!](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/pfox-declares-war-on-mickey-mouse/): PFOX stands for ‘Parents and Friends of Ex-gays and Gays’–despite the fact that the organization is not run by ex-gays, and repeatedly and openly expresses...
- [Pure Hate](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/pure-hate/): Source: KTLA How many times will we now read from anti-gays how, oh, of course this is not tolerable, this is awful, but… If you...
- [Exodus: Pray for Participants of National Equality March](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/exodus-pray-for-participants-of-national-equality-march/): Randy Thomas over at the Exodus blog has called for prayers for those participating in the National Equality March. His goal is to “generate prayer”...
- [XGW Digest: October 10, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/xgw-digest-october-10-2009/): -The religious right continues to attack Obama appointee and openly gay educator Kevin Jennings. -Microsoft donates $100,000 in support of Washington Referendum 71. -LGBT activists...
- [Ex-Gay Survivor Gonzales on Growing up Gay in Church](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/ex-gay-survivor-gonzales-on-growing-up-gay-in-church/): Daniel Gonzales of Box Turtle Bulletin has been talking about growing up gay in a radically anti-gay church, namely Coastline Bible Church in Ventura, California....
- [Ex-Gay Michael Glatze: Obama is 'Utterly Disgusting Because He is Black'](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/ex-gay-michael-glatze-obama-is-utterly-disgusting-because-he-is-black/): Some may remember Michael Glatze from his ex-gay debut a couple of years ago. Formerly co-editor of XY Magazine, Glatze and boyfriend of ten years,...
- [Middle School-Age Youth More Open to Coming Out; Exodus Youth Responds](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/middle-school-age-youth-more-open-to-coming-out-exodus-youth-responds/): The New York Times published an article detailing experiences of middle school-age children (roughly ages 11-14) who were open about their sexuality. Chris Stump of...
- [Checking in: Our Man in the North](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/checking-in-our-man-in-the-north/): After an absence of six years, I have returned to my native land. Your European correspondent is now officially Ex-Gay Watch’s man in Canada. When...
- [XGW Digest: October 3, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/10/xgw-digest-october-3-2009/): -Daniel Gonzales lays out the similarities between ex-gay programs and Scientology. -Exodus ally Mark Yarhouse backs away from his previous support for reorientation efforts. -The...
- [XGW Digest: September 26, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/09/xgw-digest-september-26-2009/): -Former ex-lesbian Kori Ashton launches a gay-affirming website. -The Serbian government cancels Belgrade Pride due to safety issues. -Focus on the Family steps up its...
- [XGW Digest: September 19, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/09/xgw-digest-september-19-2009/): -The Atlanta police department offers questionable reasons for its recent raid on a gay bar. -President Obama to nominate law professor and out lesbian Chai...
- [XGW Digest: September 12, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/09/xgw-digest-september-12-2009/): -The National Equality March gains additional support. -Right Wing Watch warns that the religious right is regaining momentum. -Former Miss California Carrie Prejean to speak...
- [Russell Moore Joins Randy Thomas As "Transgender Authorities".](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/09/russell-moore-joins-randy-thomas-as-transgender-authorities/): Randy Thomas has a history of speaking about transgenders without any real knowledge of the subject. So it was only a matter of time until he...
- [XGW Digest: September 5, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/09/xgw-digest-september-5-2009/): -Same-sex couples begin marrying in Vermont. -Former Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening apologizes for his past opposition to same-sex marriage. -Conservapedia continues to defend Paul Cameron’s...
- [Exodus Unable to Give a Numerical Success Rate](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/08/exodus-unable-to-give-a-numerical-success-rate/): In a post by Brad Sargent on the Exodus blog, the success rate of ex-gay therapy is addressed.  25 years ago, Brad became involved in...
- [XGW Digest: August 29, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/08/xgw-digest-august-29-2009/): -US District Judge David Carter dismisses a lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act on a technicality. -Harvey Milk is inducted into the California Hall...
- [Exodus Youth condemns bullying by singling out gay students](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/08/exodus-youth-condemns-bullying-by-singling-out-gay-students/): In a piece called “Ministry to Gay Students,” Shawn Harrison of Exodus Youth goes the extra mile to portray condescension and religious supremacism as compassion....
- [Ex-Gay Group PFOX Loses Appeal in NEA Case](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/08/ex-gay-group-pfox-loses-appeal-in-nea-case/): Despite their rather up-beat press release (and more than a few blog headlines), The Superior Court for the District of Columbia handed Parents and Friends...
- [Exodus "Troubled" by ELCA's Acceptance of Gay Clergy](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/08/exodus-troubled-by-elcas-acceptance-of-gay-clergy/): Exodus expressed dismay at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s decision to allow partnered gay clergy to serve in the church. Orlando, FL.  Exodus International,...
- [XGW Digest: August 22, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/08/xgw-digest-august-22-2009/): -Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan vetoes an anti-discrimination ordinance. -Alvin McEwen examines the anti-gay propaganda promoted by the Christian Medical and Dental Associations. -The Durham, NC...
- [Ex-Gay Survivors Gain Exposure in Media](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/08/ex-gay-survivors-gain-exposure-in-media/): Several ex-gay survivors – people who went through ex-gay therapy but ultimately found it unsuccessful and came out as gay – have been profiled recently...
- [XGW Digest: August 15, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/08/xgw-digest-august-15-2009/): -A new book chronicles the challenges and difficulties faced by gay youth in America through 40 personal stories. –Tim Horton’s and Blount Fine Foods drop...
- [Focus on the Family Cuts 'Love Won Out' Conferences, Gives them to Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/08/focus-on-the-family-cuts-love-won-out-conferences-gives-them-to-exodus/): Focus on the Family’s conference on homosexuality joins Exodus’ expanding church outreach Orlando, FL. — Focus on the Family’s Love Won Out conference on homosexuality...
- [XGW Digest: August 8, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/08/xgw-digest-august-8-2009/): -Anti-gay activist Linda Harvey uses the Tel Aviv shootings as another opportunity to bash the gay community. -The Liberty Counsel tries to separate two young...
- [Reparative Therapy Not Supported by Evidence, Says APA](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/08/reparative-therapy-not-supported-by-evidence-says-apa/): The American Psychological Association has said that there is insufficient evidence for so-called “sexual orientation change efforts,” and has instructed mental health practitioners to avoid...
- [2 Gay Teens in Tel Aviv, Israel Murdered; 15 Wounded After Shooting](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/08/2-gay-teens-in-tel-aviv-israel-murdered-15-wounded-after-shooting/): A gunman dressed all in black opened fire on a room full of teens in a LGBTQ center, killing two and wounding fifteen. The incident...
- [XGW Digest: August 1, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/08/xgw-digest-august-1-2009/): -The Anglican and Episcopal Churches move further apart over the issue of gay clergy and same-sex unions. -Soap star Thom Bierdz comes out of the...
- [Faulkners Talk to Fox, Deny Son Forced into Ex-Gay Program](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/07/faulkners-talk-to-fox-deny-son-forced-into-ex-gay-program/): The parents of Bryce Faulkner have spoken to Fox News to deny allegations that their 23-year-old son is being coerced into attending an ex-gay program....
- [In Brief: PFOX No Longer an Exodus Affiliate](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/07/in-brief-pfox-no-longer-an-exodus-affiliate/): Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays, Inc (PFOX) is no longer affiliated with Exodus International, according to Exodus President Alan Chambers, via Warren Throckmorton’s blog. Within...
- [Where Is Bryce?](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/07/where-is-bryce/): Friends of a gay medical student from Arkansas are anxious amid claims that he has been forced into a Florida ex-gay program. Bryce Faulkner, 23,...
- [Video: Bruno Captures Paul Cameron's Misogynistic Views](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/07/video-bruno-captures-paul-camerons-misogynistic-views/): Video link courtesy of DocumentingReality.com This seventy-second clip from from the movie Bruno catches discredited “researcher” Paul Cameron dispensing advice to the main character, played...
- [XGW Digest: July 18, 2009](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/07/xgw-digest-july-18-2009/): -The Maine Family Policy Council blames gays for urban blight. -Focus on the Family increases its focus on opposing gay marriage. -The Episcopal Church in...
- [Book Review: Alan Chambers 'Leaving Homosexuality'](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/07/book-review-alan-chambers-leaving-homosexuality/): Subtitle: A Practical Guide for Men and Women Looking For a Way Out. Alan Chambers: “On the conservative side we hear the claim that homosexuality...
- [Mainline Denominational Ministries Merge with Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2009/07/exodus-merges-with-mainline-denominational-ministries/): Two ex-gay ministries from mainline US denominations announced this week that they will be merging with Exodus International. One by One, representing Presbyterian and Reformed...
- [Video: Scott Lively on The Daily Show](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/07/video-scott-lively-on-the-daily-show/): The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
- [Activists to Accused Ex-Gay Therapist: Take a Lie Detector Test](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/07/activists-to-accused-ex-gay-therapist-take-a-lie-detector-test/): Truth Wins Out’s Wayne Besen has challenged Alan Downing to take a lie detector test following claims that he engaged in sexual misconduct with two...
- [Clients Accuse Ex-Gay Life Coach of Sexual Misconduct](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/07/clients-accuse-ex-gay-life-coach-of-sexual-misconduct/): Two men have accused Alan Downing, a life coach with Richard Cohen’s ex-gay International Healing Foundation, of using sexually inappropriate therapy techniques, according to Truth...
- [XGW Digest: July 24, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/07/xgw-digest-july-24-2010/): -The National Organization for Marriage’s summer marriage tour continues to draw embarrassingly small turnouts in Albany, Providence, Trenton, Annapolis and Columbus. -Warsaw, Poland hosts the...
- [XGW Digest: July 17, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/07/xgw-digest-july-17-2010/): -Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer announces plans to marry in Connecticut to protest New York’s lack of marriage equality. -The University of Illinois decides not...
- [Video: Anti-Marriage Equality in Crisis](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/07/video-anti-marriage-equality-in-crisis/): Well said. Hat Tip: BTB
- [British Comedienne 'Leaves Lesbianism' Disappointed After High Expectations Weren't Met](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/07/british-comedienne-leaves-lesbianism-disappointed-after-high-expectations-werent-met/): An article from the UK’s Daily Mail bears this title: How I went from committed lesbian to a happily married mother of four. It describes...
- [XGW Digest: July 10, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/07/xgw-digest-july-10-2010/): -London mayor Boris Johnson comes out in support of marriage equality. -Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle vetoes the state’s civil unions bill. -Britain’s Supreme Court rules...
- [XGW Digest: July 3, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/07/xgw-digest-july-3-2010/): -The Montana Republican Party joins its Texas counterpart in calling for the reinstatement of sodomy laws. -The National Organization for Marriage aligns itself with anti-gay...
- [Former Exodus Leader Alan Medinger Has Died](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/06/former-exodus-leader-alan-medinger-has-died/): Exodus president Alan Chambers has just notified members that Alan Medinger has passed away.  Medinger was once himself executive director of Exodus International, and president...
- [XGW Digest: June 26, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/06/xgw-digest-june-26-2010/): -The Texas Republican Party calls for the criminalization of same-sex marriage and the reinstatement of sodomy laws. -Massachusetts Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker marches in...
- [Former Megachurch Employee Ordained in Gay Church](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/06/former-megachurch-employee-ordained-in-gay-church/): An ex-staffer from Australia’s most famous megachurch is being ordained in the Metropolitan Community Church, the broadly evangelical denomination that caters specifically to the LGBT...
- [Lou Engle Shows More Support for Anti-Gay Ugandans](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/06/lou-engle-shows-more-support-for-anti-gay-ugandans/): American evangelical leader Lou Engle has confirmed his support for the leaders who drafted Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009. Engle, whose TheCall conference in Uganda promoted...
- [XGW Digest: June 19, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/06/xgw-digest-june-19-2010/): -Two US Marines are arrested in Savannah, GA for beating up a gay man. -California’s Fair Political Practices Commission fines the Mormon church for failing...
- [Gay Christian Network Provides an Alternative to Ex-Gay Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/06/gay-christian-network-provides-an-alternative-to-ex-gay-ministries/): By Justin Lee For years, former leaders and “success stories” of the ex-gay movement have been coming out and saying that ex-gay ministries don’t really...
- [Lou Engle Supported Uganda Anti-Gay Bill, Says Bahati](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/06/lou-engle-supported-uganda-anti-gay-bill-says-bahati/): Ugandan MP David Bahati was “ecstatic” that American evangelical leader Lou Engle supported his Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, according to journalist Jeff Sharlet. The bill, which...
- [Open Thread: Really Exodus, Child Slavery?  Can't You Do Better?](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/06/open-thread-really-exodus-child-slavery-cant-you-do-better/): Abortion, suicide, homosexuality, addiction, child slavery…Christ is the only hope for this depravity. Looking over the Exodus Freedom Conference website (archive), this quote really jumps...
- [XGW Digest: June 12, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/06/xgw-digest-june-12-2010/): -A new study reconfirms that children raised by lesbian parents fare as well children raised by opposite sex couples, and possibly better. -Oklahoma City councilman...
- [History Repeats Itself - Scripture Used to Support Bigotry](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/06/history-repeats-itself-scripture-used-to-support-bigotry/): As noted by Evan Hurst at Truth Wins Out, the following is the Declaration of Causes of Texas’s secession from the Union in the prelude...
- [Exodus Issues Mea Culpa on Uganda, Policy Statement on Criminalization](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/06/exodus-issues-mea-culpa-on-uganda-policy-statement-on-criminalization/): Fifteen months to the day since I wrote this post summarizing the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Conference, Exodus President Alan Chambers has written his own acknowledgment of...
- [XGW Digest: June 5, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/06/xgw-digest-june-5-2010/): -Randy Roberts Potts, gay grandson of televangelist Oral Roberts, shares about growing up in his grandfather’s shadow. -Local activists successfully stage two gay pride demonstrations...
- [FRC Reportedly Lobbied Congress Against Condemning 'Kill the Gays' Bill](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/06/report-says-frc-lobbied-to-keep-congress-from-condemning-kill-the-gays-bill/): If you keep up with those who fight against GLBT rights at all, you have come to expect no good from an organization called the...
- [New Haggard Church Will Include Gays, Hold up Heterosexuality as Ideal](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/06/new-haggard-church-will-include-gays-hold-up-heterosexuality-as-ideal/): Ted Haggard, the megachurch pastor exposed four years ago for his adulterous activities with a male prostitute, is opening a new church. The former President...
- [Exodus Affiliate Hosts Group That Praises Execution of Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/06/exodus-affiliate-hosts-group-that-praises-execution-of-gays/): Bradlee Dean and Jake MacAulay are the main personalities in a non-profit called You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, International.  There are several sub-groups...
- [RIP Ephilei](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/rip-ephilei/): Those who have commented for a while at Ex-Gay Watch will know the name of Ephilei, a long-time reader who frequently commented and in 2009...
- [XGW Digest: May 29, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/xgw-digest-may-29-2010/): -Neo-Nazis disrupt Slovakia’s first gay pride event. -Two gay rights activists are arrested in Zimbabwe. -Musician Jason Mraz shares how he became an advocate for...
- [Scott Lively on the Offensive over Uganda](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/scott-lively-on-the-offensive-over-uganda/): Scott Lively, the anti-gay activist whose conference appearance precipitated Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, is fighting back against the media’s “character assassination” of him. In an...
- [Video: View 'Missionaries of Hate' Now on Hulu](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/video-view-missionaries-of-hate-now-on-hulu/): The documentary “Missionaries of Hate” traces the influence of American evangelical leaders on a proposed law that could make being gay punishable by death in...
- [XGW Digest: May 22, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/xgw-digest-may-22-2010/): -Belarussian police break up a gay pride march in Minsk. -On the same day, Mariela Castro leads a gay pride march in Cuba. -Portugal officially...
- [Exodus President Reveals Family Values](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/exodus-president-reveals-family-values/): Exodus International President Alan Chambers jubilantly noted on Facebook this morning that a lesbian couple of 22 years had finally broken up in response to...
- [XGW Digest: May 15, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/xgw-digest-may-15-2010/): -Lithuania’s first pride festival takes place, but not without opposition. -A group of UK Christians create a British version of the Manhattan declaration. –Debate rages...
- [Rekers Resigns from NARTH Following Rentboy Scandal](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/rekers-resigns-from-narth-following-rentboy-scandal/): Dr George Rekers has resigned from the board of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), following allegations that he received nude,...
- [XGW Digest: May 8, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/xgw-digest-may-8-2010/): -The religious right’s “May Day 2010” event draws fewer than 300 people. -Country singer Chely Wright comes out of the closet. -The Obama Administration delays...
- [Rachel Maddow and Anderson Cooper on Rekers' Story](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/rachel-maddow-and-anderson-cooper-on-rekers-story/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAiIXb9Aql0 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
- [Rekers' Escort 'Lucien' on CNN 360 Tonight](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/rekers-escort-lucien-on-cnn-360-tonight/): Joe Jervis from the blog Joe.My.God has posted an excellent and refreshingly candid interview he conducted by phone with Jo-Vanni Roman (Lucien), the 20 year...
- [UK: Prospective Conservative MP in Trouble for Views on Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/uk-prospective-conservative-mp-in-trouble-for-views-on-gays/): As the UK goes to the polls, questions remain over a prospective MP who allegedly believes that gays and lesbians are demon-possessed, and can be...
- [Gay Escort: Rekers Is Homosexual](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/gay-escort-rekers-is-homosexual/): The gay escort at the center of the George Rekers scandal says Rekers paid him for nude massages. On Tuesday, the Miami New Times reported...
- [Rekers Purge Has Not Yet Begun](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/rekers-purge-has-not-yet-begun/): While the titillating details of the events surrounding anti-gay activist Dr George Rekers’ recent overseas trip with a male escort continue to spread at an...
- [Rekers Responds to Rentboy Accusations](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/rekers-responds-to-rentboy-accusations/): Religious Right scholar, anti-gay activist and NARTH officer Dr George Rekers has responded directly to blogger Joe. My. God following the report that he took...
- [This is the Sound of Hate and Deception](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/this-is-the-sound-of-hate-and-deception/): Uganda’s Minister of State for Ethics and Integrity James Nsaba Buturo calls for support of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009. He made this speech on May...
- [Anti-Gay Rekers Takes Vacation with Rentboy](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/anti-gay-rekers-takes-vacation-with-rentboy/): According to the Miami New Times, an anti-gay activist and NARTH officer took a vacation with a rentboy he met through the sexually explicit gay...
- [Lou Engle Adds Fuel to Anti-Gay Fire in Uganda](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/lou-engle-adds-fuel-to-anti-gay-fire-in-uganda/): Despite a recent press release obviously designed to cast his ministry in a better light, Lou Engle, leader of a bizarre religious sect in the...
- [Two Rabbis Mull Over Leviticus 'Losing'](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/two-rabbis-mull-over-leviticus-losing/): Rabbi Brad Hirschfield and Rabbi Irwin Kula both have articles about the advancement and inclusion of gay people in society. The reason? this week’s Torah...
- [XGW Digest: May 1, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/xgw-digest-may-1-2010/): -A transgender student at Cal State Long Beach is violently attacked. -Amnesty International accuses several European countries of illegally deporting gays back to Iraq. -The...
- [Video: D.C. Mayor Fenty Apologizes for PFOX 'Award'](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/05/upate-d-c-mayor-fenty-apologizes-for-pfox-award/): The reporter repeated the PFOX spin on the lawsuit they lost last year against the NEA.  PFOX has a long history of repeatedly making false...
- ['Certificate of Appreciation' Accidentally Given to Anti-Gay PFOX](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/04/certificate-of-appreciation-accidentally-given-to-anti-gay-pfox/): Virulently anti-gay organization Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) were jubilant earlier this week as they announced that Executive Director Regina Griggs had received a...
- [XGW Site Maintenance Notice](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/04/xgw-site-maintenance-notice/): Over the next few days readers may notice some issues with our site. We are making some changes and fixes that are long overdue. Since...
- [Alan Chambers Upset after Radio Host Ditches Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/04/chambers-upset-after-radio-host-ditches-exodus/): It took about six months to provoke Exodus International into responding to allegations that its organization’s words and actions had been fueling homophobia in Uganda....
- [XGW Digest: April 24, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/04/xgw-digest-april-24-2010/): -The Maine Family Policy Council declares that Jerry Falwell was right to blame 9/11 on gays. -Sonoma County, CA officials circumvent a gay couple’s legal...
- [Open Thread: Extremism](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/04/open-thread-extremism/): Obviously from a few years back, but crystal clear even today. Hat Tip: loveisanorientation.com
- [Media Ordered Away from DADT Protest at White House](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/04/media-ordered-away-from-dadt-protest-at-white-house/): This video clip has been attributed to AmericaBlog’s John Aravosis. In a move that again calls into question the Obama administration’s promises of transparency, both...
- [Liberty University Students, How Can You Tolerate This?](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/04/liberty-university-students-how-can-you-tolerate-this/): The volume is very low, we have enhanced the audio track only here: You heard correctly.  Among other things, Lafferty, alongside Matt Barber, is actually...
- [XGW Digest: April 17, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/04/xgw-digest-april-17-2010/): -Anti-gay mobs in Senegal exhume and desecrate the bodies of several gay men. -Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee compares gays to drug users. -A leading...
- [NIH Director Francis Collins Admonishes 'American College of Pediatricians'](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/04/nih-directory-admonishes-american-college-of-pediatricians/): Former head of the Human Genome Project and current director of the venerable National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins has once again sent a...
- [Christian Radio Show Severs Links with Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/04/christian-radio-show-severs-links-with-exodus/): A Boston radio show offering advice to young people has disassociated itself from Exodus International after complaints that it was promoting the ex-gay message. Twenty-two-year-old...
- [XGW Digest: April 10, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/04/xgw-digest-april-10-2010/): -Nate Phelps, son of Fred Phelps, speaks out against Westboro Baptist Church. -Recently discovered correspondence reveals that Count Laszlo de Almasy, the inspiration for The...
- [Anthony Venn-Brown on 'Situational Heterosexuality'](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/04/anthony-venn-brown-on-situational-heterosexuality/): Ex-ex-gay and former Assemblies of God minister Anthony Venn Brown reflects on the elements of sexuality, and discusses how ex-gay men maintain heterosexual marriages: ‘Situational...
- [XGW Digest: April 3, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/04/xgw-digest-april-3-2010/): -Tarleton State University cancels a student production of gay-themed play Corpus Christi. -Chai Feldblum receives a recess appointment to become the first openly gay head...
- [XGW Digest: March 27, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/03/xgw-digest-march-27-2010/): -Sentencing of gay couple Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza in Malawi is postponed until April 8. -Magician James Randi comes out of the closet. -Lt....
- [Diocese Pulls Funding of Homeless Shelter Over Political Position](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/03/diocese-pulls-funding-of-homeless-shelter-over-political-position/): This is a little off our beat but it seems like an issue our readers would want to address.  Question 1 was a proposal on...
- [Exodus Makes Official Statement Concerning Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/03/exodus-makes-official-statement-concerning-uganda-anti-homosexuality-bill/): A post titled Ugandan Statement Issued From Exodus Board & North American Leaders appeared on the official Exodus blog today.  To our knowledge, this is...
- [XGW Digest: March 20, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/03/xgw-digest-march-20-2010/): -Police in Rapid City, SD destroy a lesbian’s military career. -Arizona senate candidate J.D. Hayworth compares gay marriage to bestiality. -The PA State Senate Judiciary...
- [Matthew C. Manning Closes His Ministry](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/03/matthew-c-manning-closes-his-ministry/): Ex-Gay Watch reported on Matthew C. Manning’s troubling criminal record in June, 2009.  Manning claims to have been “delivered from homosexuality in 1989 and miraculously...
- [Exodus VP Agrees with Disney Vote Against PFOX Resolution](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/03/exodus-vp-agrees-with-disney-vote-against-pfox-resolution/): It seems that Exodus VP Randy Thomas is no fan of the recent resolution brought to a vote at Disney by Parents and Friends of...
- [PFOX's Disney Stunt Is About Protecting Ideology, Not Orientation](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/03/pfoxs-disney-stunt-is-about-protecting-ideology-not-orientation/): PFOX’s attempt to make the Walt Disney Company include ex-gays in its anti-discrimination policy is not about sexual orientation – it is about ideology. If...
- [XGW Digest: March 13, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/03/xgw-digest-march-13-2010/): -Actor Sean Hayes comes the rest of the way out of the closet. -Fred Karger writes an open letter to Maggie Gallagher. -California State Senator...
- [Kid Learns That Guys Can Love Each Other Too](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/03/kid-learns-that-guys-can-love-each-other-too/): If only grown-ups could learn from this child’s easy-going acceptance of others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjPgnDT-2Sg
- [XGW Digest: March 6, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/03/xgw-digest-march-6-2010/): -John Shore ponders what Jesus might do if invited to a gay wedding. -The mayor of Turin, Italy performs a wedding ceremony for a lesbian...
- [NARTH Goes on the Record about Ex-Con Goldberg](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/03/narth-goes-on-the-record-about-ex-con-goldberg/): The National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) has officially responded to Ex-Gay Watch on the matter of Arthur Abba Goldberg, the former...
- [Former Love In Action Director John Smid Offers Apology](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/03/former-love-in-action-director-john-smid-offers-apology/): John Smid was the director of Exodus member ministry Love in Action (LIA), a residential ex-gay program in Memphis, Tennessee, for 22 years.  This included...
- [Instead of 'Culture Wars,' How About Fighting a War That Matters?](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/03/instead-of-culture-wars-how-about-fighting-a-war-that-matters/): Warren Throckmorton gets to the heart of Sodom and Gomorrah in his latest blog post: The real sodomite is the arrogant person, the overfed and...
- [Confirmed: Arthur Abba Goldberg No Longer a NARTH Officer](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/03/arthur-abba-goldberg-no-longer-a-narth-officer/): Arthur Abba Goldberg is no longer listed as a NARTH officer on the organization’s website. There is no indication whether Goldberg resigned or was forced...
- [XGW Digest: February 27, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/xgw-digest-february-27-2010/): -The Alliance Defense Fund goes even further off the deep end. -Sen. Joseph Lieberman becomes chief sponsor of the effort to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t...
- [Video: Ex-Gay Conversion Report from Down Under](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/video-ex-gay-report-from-down-under/): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1gAVfbq07M An interesting report featured last night on ABC Australia’s Hungry Beast.  The ex-gay featured could be a spokesperson for Exodus International, he is that...
- [Arrest Warrant Issued for Missing Ex-Gay Lisa Miller](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/arrest-warrant-issued-for-missing-ex-gay-lisa-miller/): Ex-lesbian Lisa Miller has been on the run from the law with her daughter Isabella since her refusal to show up in court on January...
- [NARTH President's Myopic Response to Goldberg Accusations](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/narth-presidents-myopic-response-to-goldberg-accusations/): NARTH President Julie Hamilton has responded to this week’s report that NARTH Executive Secretary and JONAH co-founder and co-director Arthur Abba Goldberg is a convicted...
- [UK: SCOTT Protests Mario Bergner Ex-Gay Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/n-ireland-scott-protests-mario-bergner-ex-gay-conference/): Campaigners in Northern Ireland today are protesting a visit from American ex-gay leader Reverend Mario Bergner. The protest is led by journalist Patrick Strudwick, who...
- [XGW Digest: February 20, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/xgw-digest-february-20-2010/): -Former vice president Dick Cheney joins the call for the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. -Anti-gay mobs march in Kenya; police continue to hunt...
- [I'm the Victim: Convicted Felon Arthur Abba Goldberg versus the World](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/im-the-victim-convicted-felon-arthur-abba-goldberg-versus-the-world/): Arthur Goldberg’s damage-control campaign has begun. His strategy is to portray himself as an innocent man who made a mistake, and is now the victim...
- [The Fate of Gay Conservativism](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/the-fate-of-gay-conservativism/): Andrew Sullivan reports on the Cato Institute‘s forum addressing the question Is there a place for gay people in conservatism and conservative politics?, a debate...
- [NARTH Official Confirms Arthur 'Abba' Goldberg Identity](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/narth-official-confirms-arthur-abba-goldberg-identity/): Upon first reading the recent story about Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality (JONAH) founder Arthur A. Goldberg, we contacted NARTH’s David Pruden (among others)...
- [Horrifying Implications of Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill Explained](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/6144/): This is a clear, concise and accurate analysis of the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, with its  implications laid out simply and horrifyingly. The narrator of...
- [JONAH Co-Founder Arthur Goldberg Convicted Felon](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/jonah-co-founder-arthur-goldberg-convicted-felon/): Arthur Goldberg, head of Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality (JONAH), apparently has a hard time breaking old habits – he co-founded the Jewish ex-gay...
- [XGW Digest: February 13, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/xgw-digest-february-13-2010/): -A majority of Iowans don’t regard a gay marriage ban as a priority, according to a new poll. -SyFy channel’s Caprica features a married gay...
- [Christianity Today on Uganda: Condemnation Violates Human Rights](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/christianity-today-on-uganda/): Leading evangelical magazine Christianity Today has weighed in on Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009. In an editorial appearing today without attribution, CT urges American Christians to...
- [Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009: Just the Facts](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/uganda-anti-homosexuality-bill-2009-just-the-facts/): Despite the best efforts of activists, and political and social commentators, ignorance abounds concerning the atrocious Anti-Homosexuality Bill being proposed in Uganda at the moment....
- [Anglican Christians Divided over Execution of Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/anglican-christians-divided-over-execution-of-gays/): Today, the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams told the worldwide Anglican Communion that the “infamous legislation” now being discussed in Uganda was rightly received...
- [Near death experience exploited to further anti-gay agenda](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/near-death-experience-exploited-to-further-anti-gay-agenda-2/): (Note: The relevant texts to this episode can be found here (adb/pdf)), and/or you can view the whole thing here.) With that, we begin. Dr....
- [British Journalist Declares 'War' on Homosexuality 'Cures'](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/british-journalist-declares-war-on-homosexuality-cures/): The journalist behind an ex-gay exposé in The Independent (London) last week, has launched an all-out campaign against reparative therapy. Patrick Strudwick’s investigative report revealed...
- [Exodus President Joins Anti-Gay Extremists for Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/exodus-president-joins-anti-gay-extremists-for-conference/): Exodus President Alan Chambers will speak at the late Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. The theme of the February 12th conference is “Consequences...
- [Ex-Gays Live in Self-Imposed Nanny State](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/ex-gays-live-in-self-imposed-nanny-state/): Political Conservatives will decry “Nanny State” policies – policies involving government regulation – as infringing on personal liberty and inhibiting growth. Since virtually all ex-gays...
- [Young Man 'Delivered' from Same-Sex Attraction](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/young-man-delivered-from-same-sex-attraction/): As a former charismatic, the type of religious experience shown in this video is very familiar to me. In this kind of heady, charged atmosphere,...
- [XGW Digest: February 6, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/xgw-digest-february-6-2010/): -The Hawaii House of Representatives indefinitely postpones a vote on civil unions. -Another judge rules against Florida’s anti-gay adoption ban. -A group of Michigan pastors...
- [US Anti-Gays Show Their True Colors](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/us-anti-gays-show-their-true-colors/): Peter Sprigg, the family values activist, has said that homosexuality should be criminalized. From The Advocate: Sprigg, a senior fellow for policy studies at the...
- [Facebook Group Against Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill Disappears](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/facebook-group-against-ugandas-anti-gay-bill-disappears/): [Update: The group has now been restored, though no explanation has been given why it was pulled.] [Second update: Mike of Progress Now says, “I...
- [The Bizarre World of Gay-to-Straight Conversion](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/02/the-bizarre-world-of-gay-to-straight-conversion/): An excellent piece by Patrick Strudwick in today’s Independent (London) details the author’s strange and disturbing experiences in ex-gay therapy in the UK. It’s a...
- [XGW Digest: January 30, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/xgw-digest-january-30-2010/): -David Link looks at the Prop 8 trial from a more personal angle. -Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov reiterates his belief that gay pride events are...
- [Ex-Gay Study Author Stanton Jones in Wheaton College Controversy](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/ex-gay-study-author-stanton-jones-in-wheaton-college-controversy/): The co-author of a major ex-gay study is a key figure in the controversy over the direction of Wheaton College, Illinois. In the article Whither...
- [Exodus: Gays Must Remain Unequal For Their Own Good](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/exodus-gays-need-inequality-under-the-law-for-their-own-good/): In March of 2008, Exodus International announced it was leaving the realm of public policy to focus on what they claim is the heart of...
- [XGW Digest: January 23, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/01/xgw-digest-january-23-2010/): -Nepal’s new constitution to institute marriage equality. -Fox News commentator Margaret Hoover joins the fight for marriage equality. -Cindy McCain, wife of Sen. John McCain,...
- [Palm Sunday Message to Christians: Stand with LGBTs](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/04/palm-sunday-message-to-christians-stand-with-lgbts/): Wendy Gritter of Canadian LGBT ministry New Direction urged her fellow Christians to stand against anti-gay bullying in a Palm Sunday message to her church yesterday....
- [XGW Digest: April 16, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/04/xgw-digest-april-16-2011/): -A marriage equality bill is introduced in Uruguay. -Timothy Kincaid questions demographer Gary Gates’ estimates of the size of the American LGBT population. -The National...
- [Exodus President Alan Chambers on 'Dr Drew' Show Tonight](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/04/exodus-president-alan-chambers-on-dr-drew-show-tonight/): Exodus International President Alan Chambers will be appearing on Dr Drew tonight (Friday, April 15). The show airs at 9.00pm ET and PT on CNN’s...
- [Can You Be Gay and Christian? Exodus Spins Its Answer](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/04/can-you-be-gay-and-christian-chambers-spins-his-answer/): Back in March, Exodus International President Alan Chambers (pictured) told the Oprah Network’s Lisa Ling (Our America, March 8, 2011)  there was such a thing...
- [Randy Thomas No Longer Exodus VP](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/04/randy-thomas-no-longer-exodus-vp/): Ex-gay organization Exodus International has announced that its Vice President, Randy Thomas, is stepping down and taking on a part-time role as its new Director...
- [Former GOP Senator Tells the Truth about Fellow Republicans](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/04/former-gop-senator-tells-the-truth-about-fellow-republicans/): Alan Simpson, the former Republican senator for Wyoming, told Hardball‘s Chris Matthews how it is on homophobia in the GOP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gSxCYlvbKs Tip of the hat to...
- [PFOX's Pernicious Plan to Subvert LGBT Day of Silence](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/04/pfoxs-pernicious-plan-to-subvert-lgbt-day-of-silence/): Ex-gay group Parents & Friends of Ex-Gays has announced a plan to subvert the pro-equality Day of Silence by encouraging conservative Christian students to distribute...
- [XGW Digest: April 9, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/04/xgw-digest-april-9-2011/): -Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick nominates an openly gay judge to the state’s supreme court. -Ireland begins issuing civil partnership licenses. -Gay Republican presidential candidate Fred...
- [Why On Earth Would You Go Ex-Gay? Ex-Gay Survivors Reveal Multiple Motivations](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/04/why-on-earth-would-you-go-ex-gay-ex-gay-survivors-reveal-multiple-motivations/): When an ex-gay survivor shares an account of how they tried to change or suppress their orientation or gender non-conforming behavior, some gays and lesbians...
- [Exodus iPhone App Approval Myth Examined](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/04/exodus-iphone-app-approval-myth-examined/): Which of these iPhone apps was originally approved with flying colors?  Which was removed after public outcry alerted Apple to it’s nature?  Which one, regardless...
- [XGW Digest: April 2, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/04/xgw-digest-april-2-2011/): -A Presbyterian minister rethinks his opposition to gay rights. -The Maryland House passes a bill that would extend non-discrimination protections to transgender individuals. -Another gay...
- [Exodus Leadership Sheds Their Apple Toys in Protest](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/04/exodus-leadership-sheds-their-apple-toys-in-protest/): From the AP: As a response to Apples’ recent move to drop their iPhone app from the App Store, the leaders at Exodus International have...
- [Ex-Gay Activist Christopher Yuan to Speak at Yale Tomorrow](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/03/ex-gay-activist-christopher-yuan-to-speak-at-yale-tomorrow/): Ex-Gay activist Christopher Yuan will speak to an audience of Yale students at the Af-Am House this Friday at 7:00, at the invitation of campus...
- [In Brief: New Ex-Gay Survivor Group In Fort Lauderdale, Florida](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/03/in-brief-new-ex-gay-survivor-group-in-fort-lauderdale-florida/): TWO reports that one of their board members, the Rev. Jerry Stephenson, is starting a new ex-gay survivor group in Fort Lauderdale, Florida: I am...
- [XGW Digest: March 26, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/03/xgw-digest-march-26-2011/): -The parliament of Liechtenstein unanimously votes to institute civil unions. -The mayor of Barcelona, Spain dedicates a memorial to LGBT people. -An immigration judge suspends...
- [Apple Aftermath: What Is Exodus International Really About?](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/03/apple-aftermath-what-is-exodus-international-really-about/): Exodus International has a story it would really like you to believe. It wants you to think that Exodus is a simple ministry of encouragement...
- [Confirmed: Apple Pulls Exodus App](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/03/confirmed-apple-pulls-exodus-app/): Apple has confirmed that it pulled an iPhone app by the ex-gay organization Exodus International. Speaking to New York’s Daily News, Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr...
- [Exodus 'Gay Cure' iPhone App No Longer Available?](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/03/its-official-exodus-iphone-app-has-been-pulled/): A recent tweet from Alan Chambers: Yeah, somehow I doubt we will submit an ex-gay app.  But if we do, please ask that it be...
- [Victoria Jackson - Homophobic or Just Sadly Confused?](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/03/victoria-jackson-homophobic-or-just-sadly-confused/): Perhaps a bit off topic for XGW, but the religious views expressed should be familiar to many readers.  When I read Jackson’s comments they angered...
- [Youth Pastor Cured Gay Teens by Having Sex with Them](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/03/youth-pastor-cured-gay-teens-by-having-sex-with-them/): A former youth pastor from Iowa has been charged with 60 sexual offences against teenage boys, some as young as 14. Brent Girouex, 31, of...
- [NARTH Continues Attack on Noted Geneticist Francis Collins](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/03/narths-david-pruden-continues-attack-on-noted-geneticist-francis-collins/): The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is once again attacking the veracity of noted geneticist Dr. Francis S. Collins.  For a...
- [XGW Digest: March  19, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/03/xgw-digest-march-19-2011/): -A group of teenagers in New York City stomp another teen to death while shouting anti-gay slurs. -A new poll finds shrinking support for the...
- [CT Article Downplays American Role in Ugandan Homophobia](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/03/christianity-today-article-downplays-american-role-in-ugandan-homophobia/): In an opinion piece for Christianity Today, Timothy Shah absolves American evangelicals from any responsibility for homophobia in Uganda and says the Anti-Homosexuality Bill is “a...
- [Audio: Alan Chambers and Prof Michael King on Gay Christians](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/03/audio-alan-chambers-and-prof-michael-king-on-gay-christians/): Exodus president Alan Chambers was in the UK last week, presumably to make up some speaking engagements that he had to cancel last year do...
- [XGW Digest: March 12, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/03/xgw-digest-march-12-2011/): -Rhode Island Congressman Jim Langevin has a change of heart about marriage equality. -The Colorado Democratic Party elects an openly gay chairman. -A Maryland legislator...
- [Ex-Gay Organization Now on Your iPhone](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/03/ex-gay-organization-now-on-your-iphone/): Exodus International, the organization that claims to bring “healing to homosexuals,” has released a free iPhone application. Users can receive blog posts and podcasts to...
- [Eyewitness: Love Won Out Spouts 'Horrific' Messages; Youth Attendants 'Intelligent; Somewhat Liberal'](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/03/eyewitness-love-won-out-spouts-horrific-messages-youth-attendants-intelligent-somewhat-liberal/): Christopher Jay Hall, a guest blogger at “Raging Pride,” attended Exodus’ Love Won Out conference in Pheonix, Arizona on February 19th and was horrified by...
- [XGW Digest: March 5, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/03/xgw-digest-march-5-2011/): -A British cricket star comes out of the closet. The Rev. Peter Gomes dies. -An anti-gay preacher is arrested for public masturbation. -Maryland’s marriage equality...
- [XGW Digest: February 26, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/02/xgw-digest-february-26-2011/): -The Israeli government appoints an openly gay judge. -A hockey player at the University of New Hampshire comes out of the closet to speak in...
- [Obama Administration Will No Longer Defend DOMA](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/02/obama-government-will-no-longer-defend-doma/): The US government has announced that it is no longer prepared to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court. The act enshrined in US...
- [Florida Abstinence Program Linked to Ssempa](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/02/florida-abstinence-program-linked-to-ssempa/): An abstinence group based in Jacksonville, Florida, has ties to the anti-gay Ugandan activist Martin Ssempa, according to a report in the Florida Independent. Project...
- [The World's Worst Place to be Gay?](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/02/the-worlds-worst-place-to-be-gay/): https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F07F722A5387A637 Many XGW readers will be familiar with the painful, anti-gay efforts in Uganda, highlighted over the past couple of years by this and other...
- [XGW Digest: February 19, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/02/xgw-digest-february-19-2011/): -The New York Times calls for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. -A marriage equality bill is introduced in the Washington state legislature....
- [XGW Digest: February 12, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/02/xgw-digest-february-12-2011/): -A gay couple in North Carolina are victims of arson. -Police in Bahrain arrest 127 gay men at a private party. -A new survey finds...
- [You Don't Have to be Gay?](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/02/you-dont-have-to-be-gay/): He’s not joking, the book is You Don’t Have to be Gay by Jeff Konrad.  If you want to get a copy, look no further...
- [What Exodus Believes in 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/02/what-exodus-believes-in-2011/): A new website brings a fresh look to Exodus International, and XGW took a fresh look at their Frequently Asked Questions to check on what...
- [XGW Digest: February 5, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/02/xgw-digest-february-5-2011/): -Champion cyclist Graeme Obree comes out of the closet. -The wife of a British anti-gay activist files for divorce, citing physical abuse. -One Colorado launches...
- [XGW Digest: January 29, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/01/xgw-digest-january-29-2011/): -The Catholic Diocese of Colorado Springs launches a twelve-step program for gays. -Singer Jason Mraz declares that he won’t marry until gay couples can marry...
- [XGW Digest: January 22, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/01/xgw-digest-january-22-2011/): -The Tarrant Baptist Association is expelled from the campus of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for retaining a member church that isn’t adequately anti-gay. -The US...
- [UK: Gay-to-Straight Therapist May Be Struck Off](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/01/uk-gay-to-straight-therapist-may-be-struck-off/): A UK psychotherapist may lose her license if a disciplinary hearing finds she attempted to cure a patient of homosexuality. It is almost a year...
- [XGW Digest: January 15, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/01/xgw-digest-january-15-2011/): -The National Organization for Marriage targets Rhode Island. -The US State Department adopts gender-neutral terms for parents’ names on children’s passport applications. -Religious right activist...
- [Scott Lively Coffee Shop Managed by Convicted Child Molester](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/01/scott-lively-coffee-shop-managed-by-convicted-child-molester/): Scott Lively made a small splash by deciding to open a Christian-themed coffee house in Springfield, Massachusetts called “Holy Grounds.” People wondered aloud if this...
- [XGW Digest: January 8, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/01/xgw-digest-january-8-2011/): -The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals asks the California Supreme Court to weigh in on whether Imperial County initiative proponents have standing to appeal the...
- [Happy One More Revolution Around Our Star, Everybody!](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/01/happy-one-more-revolution-around-our-star-everybody/): Our friend, Jim, over at Teach The Facts brought this up and I thought it was an ideal theme to start the New Year off...
- [XGW Digest: December 31, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/12/xgw-digest-december-31-2010/): -Ireland’s civil partnership law goes into effect on January 1. -Two gay men are attacked outside a gay bar in Austin. -North Carolina’s Council of...
- [XGW Digest: December 24, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/12/xgw-digest-december-24-2010/): -The religious right reacts predictably to the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” -Towleroad posts a summary of the aftermath of the DADT repeal. -Even...
- [Senate Passes DADT Repeal, Military to Allow Openly Gay Soldiers](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/12/u-s-senate-passes-dadt-repeal-military-to-allow-openly-gay-soldiers/): In an historic vote, the United States Senate has passed an act repealing the ban on openly gay soldiers serving in the armed forces, 65-33....
- [XGW Digest: December 18, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/12/xgw-digest-december-18-2010/): -Adele Starr, co-founder and former president of PFLAG, dies at age 90. -The Family Research Council continues to earn its hate group status. -The National...
- [XGW Digest: December 11, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/12/xgw-digest-december-11-2010/): -Recent polls continue to find strong public support for repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” -King County, Washington swears in a gay councilmember. -Jonathan Rauch encourages...
- [XGW Digest: December 4, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/12/xgw-digest-december-4-2010/): -Warren Throckmorton counters the religious right’s reaction to the SPLC’s expanded list of anti-gay hate groups. -New Delhi hosts its first pride parade since India...
- [XGW Digest: November 27, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/11/xgw-digest-november-27-2010/): -The Southern Poverty Law Center adds five organizations to its list of anti-gay hate groups. -Students and administrators at Del City High School dispute the...
- [Wake the Kids, Phone the Neighbors: Exodus’ 2011 Agenda is in](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/11/wake-the-kids-phone-the-neighbors-exodus-2011-agenda-is-in/): Aaaaaaand it turns out to be more of the same. Literally. 2011 = Simplify, Amplify and Intensify — Letter from Alan Chambers for November 2011...
- [XGW Digest: November 20, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/11/xgw-digest-november-20-2010/): -An Oklahoma high school refuses to let two lesbian students graduate. -Former Congressman Bob Barr declares his full support for marriage equality. -Cindy McCain backpedals...
- [XGW Digest: November 13, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/11/xgw-digest-november-13-2010/): -Bishop Gene Robinson announces his retirement. -Another teenager commits suicide due to anti-gay bullying. -Rob Tisiniai questions another anti-gay claim. -A Christian mom identifies the...
- ['Day of Truth' Acquired by Focus on the Family](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/11/day-of-truth-acquired-by-focus-on-the-family/): Focus on the Family has taken the helm of the Day of Truth, which was spawned by the Alliance Defense Fund to oppose GLSEN’s Day...
- [Military Study: Lift of Gay Ban Not a Problem](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/11/military-study-lift-of-gay-ban-not-a-problem/): From the Washington Post: A Pentagon study group has concluded that the military can lift the ban on gays serving openly in uniform with only...
- [Journey into Manhood Investigated by ABC's Nightline](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/11/journey-into-manhood-investigated-by-abcs-nightline/): Direct link here. (JiM is second segment, about 6:30 in) Patterned after the equally bizarre Mankind Project, Journey into Manhood is nothing new to those...
- [Wendy Gritter: It Gets Better](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/11/wendy-gritter-it-gets-better/): Wendy Gritter, of Ontario-based Christian ministry New Direction, tells bullied kids, “It gets better“: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX9wBaGxVtg
- [Exodus Accepts Gays--as Long as They're Helpless Victims](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/11/exodus-accepts-gays-as-long-as-theyre-helpless-victims/): Alan Chambers just doesn’t get it. The Exodus International President expects gays and lesbians to be moved by his words of compassion, but any gay...
- [XGW Digest: November 6, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/11/xgw-digest-november-6-2010/): -Taiwan LGBT Pride hosts the largest pride parade ever held in Asia. -University of Michigan student Chris Armstrong files an ethics complaint against his anti-gay...
- [XGW Digest: October 30, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/10/xgw-digest-october-30-2010/): -Irish voters may be on the verge of electing a gay president. -A gay man teams up with the former skinhead who once attacked him...
- [Book Review Part 3: The Complete Christian Guide to Understanding Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/10/part-3-testing/): Subtitle: A Biblical and compassionate response to same-sex attraction. Main authors and editors: Joe Dallas, Nancy Heche. Part 1, Part 2 This book is an...
- [XGW Digest: October 23, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/10/xgw-digest-october-23-2010/): -The ACLU files a lawsuit on behalf of a Mississippi corrections officer who was fired for being gay. -Pop singer Justin Bieber joins the fight...
- [UK Invited to Take Ex-Gay Journey into Manhood](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/10/uk-invited-to-take-ex-gay-journey-into-manhood/): Journey into Manhood, the immersion course that claims to help men solve the problem of homosexual attractions, is hosting a weekend retreat in the UK...
- [This is How Ex-Gays Influence the Civil Rights of Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/10/this-is-how-ex-gays-influence-the-civil-rights-of-gays/): Colorado GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck on “Meet the Press”: From the same interview: MR. GREGORY: … And Mr. Buck I want to start with...
- [XGW Digest: October 16, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/10/xgw-digest-october-16-2010/): -A group of thugs in the Bronx abduct and torture two teens and a man for being gay. -Serbia’s pride parade is marred by anti-gay...
- [Tearful Texas Councilman to Gay Teens: It Gets Better](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/10/tearful-texas-councilman-to-gay-teens-it-gets-better/): Joel Burns shares his moving personal story of surviving anti-gay bullying with his fellow Fort Worth City, TX, council members: Hat tip: Towleroad
- [National Coming Out Day](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/10/national-coming-out-day/): In honor of National Coming Out Day, here’s a beautiful essay by Peggy Campolo that meant a lot to me when I first read it:...
- [Tony Campolo in Canada: Gays, Ex-Gays, Rights and Wrongs](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/10/tony-campolo-in-canada-gays-ex-gays-rights-and-wrongs/): Evangelical leader Tony Campolo addressed an audience in Oakville, Ontario, on Saturday, telling them that the “absent father” theory of homosexuality was “the dumbest thing...
- [Disgraced Goldberg Still Finds an Audience Among Evangelicals](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/10/disgraced-goldberg-still-finds-an-audience-among-evangelicals/): Arthur Goldberg, the ex-gay leader exposed earlier this year as a convicted Wall Street felon, will speak at a conference in Northern Ireland in November....
- [XGW Digest: October 9, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/10/xgw-digest-october-9-2010/): -Secretary of Education Arne Duncan calls for an end to bullying. -Andrew Sullivan ponders the possibility of a major homophobic backlash. -Johannesburg Pride draws attention...
- [New Direction Ministry's Generous Space: Discussion Thread](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/10/new-direction-ministrys-generous-space/): New Direction, the Ontario-based Christian ministry known to Ex-Gay Watch readers for its 2009 break with Exodus International, will host Relevant Engagement this weekend, with guest...
- [Exodus International Shuts Down 'Day of Truth'](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/10/exodus-international-shuts-down-day-of-truth/): Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International, has announced that they will no longer sponsor the annual Day of Truth (DOT) event which has been used...
- [You Can't Stop Homophobic Bullying without Talking about Homophobia](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/09/you-cant-stop-homophobic-bullying-without-talking-about-homophobia/): Several anti-gay and ex-gay Christian and political groups want to prevent schools from addressing homophobic bullying by name. Day of Truth, sponsored by Exodus International,...
- [Video: Crazy Closeted Cyberstalker or Logical Extension of Anti-Gay Rhetoric?](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/09/video-crazy-closeted-cyberstalker-or-logical-extension-of-anti-gay-rhetoric/): This is almost too bizarre for words.
- [XGW Digest: September 25, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/09/xgw-digest-september-25-2010/): -Russian LGBT activist Nikolai Alekseev resurfaces, shares what really happened following his abduction by Russian authorities. -Houston mayor Annise Parker receives favorable ratings from her...
- [Atlanta Megachurch Bishop Accused of Male Sexual Abuse](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/09/atlanta-megachurch-bishop-accused-of-male-sexual-abuse/): An anti-gay pastor with a congregation of over 25,000 has been accused of sexually abusing three male teenagers. According to the allegations, Bishop Eddie Long,...
- [Book Review Part 2: The Complete Christian Guide to Understanding Homosexuality: Gays in the Military](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/09/book-review-part-2-the-complete-christian-guide-to-understanding-homosexuality-gays-in-the-military/): Subtitle: A Biblical and Compassionate Response to Same-Sex Attraction General Editors: Joe Dallas and Nancy Heche — Introduction (Part 1) here. I wanted to start...
- [XGW Digest: September 18, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/09/xgw-digest-september-18-2010/): -Arson is suspected in the burning of a Tennessee lesbian couple’s home. -A gay Saudi Arabian diplomat seeks asylum in the US. -Florida governor and...
- [Exodus Global Alliance Denied Tax Exempt Status in New Zealand](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/09/exodus-global-alliance-denied-tax-exempt-status-in-new-zealand/): Exodus Global Alliance has enjoyed tax-exempt status in New Zealand for more than 10 years. This year, however, they have been denied that status on...
- [XGW Digest: September 11, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/09/xgw-digest-september-11-2010/): -The Atlanta, GA police department creates an LGBT advisory board. -Montana’s Tea Party organization fires its president for posting anti-gay comments on Facebook. -Serbia’s LGBT...
- [RIP Actor, Beetlejuice Co-Star Glenn Shadix](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/09/rip-actor-beetlejuice-co-star-glenn-shadix/): The actor Glenn Shadix has died at the age of 58. His films included Demolition Man, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Planet of the Apes,...
- [Marin Dismisses Criticisms, Irks Anti-Gay Scholar Gagnon](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/09/marin-dismisses-criticisms-anti-gay-scholar-gagnon-irked/): Andrew Marin has provoked fellow evangelical Professor Robert Gagnon to fury after Gagnon published a 24-page debunking of Marin’s book Love Is an Orientation. Gagnon is...
- [XGW Digest: September 4, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/09/xgw-digest-september-4-2010/): -Focus on the Family reiterates its objection to protecting gay students from bullying. -The New Zealand government denies charitable status to an ex-gay program. -African...
- [NSFW: Martin Ssempa Meets Tosh.0](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/09/nsfw-martin-ssempa-meets-tosh-0/): Only Comedy Central can really do justice to the absurdity of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill proponent Martin Ssempa.   Tosh.0 is one of my favorites. Doing research ...
- [Book Review: Introduction: 'The Complete Christian Guide to Understanding Homosexuality'](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/09/book-review-introduction-the-complete-christian-guide-to-understanding-homosexuality/): Subtitle: A Biblical and Compassionate Response to Same-Sex Attraction (part2, part3) “Wouldn’t it be great if this book could be a one-stop resource?” So we...
- [XGW Digest: August 28, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/08/xgw-digest-august-28-2010/): -Ann Coulter’s firefight with religious right activists angry at her for agreeing to speak at a GOProud event escalates. -LGBT demonstrators face off against supporters...
- [In Brief: California Senate Approves Bill to End State-Mandated Research for "Gay Cure"](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/08/in-brief-california-senate-approves-bill-to-end-state-mandated-research-for-gay-cure/): The California Senate approved a bill to end a law passed in 1950 that classifies gays as sexual deviants and potential child molesters. The 60-year-old...
- [Exodus International Lays off Staff, Cuts Benefits](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/08/exodus-international-lays-off-staff-cuts-benefits/): Minutes ago, Exodus President Alan Chambers announced the following on the organizations Facebook page: Dear friends, please pray for us at Exodus. We have experienced...
- [Identical Twins Do Not Have Identical DNA](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/08/identical-twins-do-not-have-identical-dna/): A study that was published in 2008 blows away the belief that monozygotic twins, also called identical twins, have the same DNA. Geneticist Carl Bruder...
- [XGW Digest: August 21, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/08/xgw-digest-august-21-2010/): -NOM’s sparsely attended “Summer For Marriage” tour concludes in Washington, DC. -Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach reaches an agreement in federal court over his discharge under...
- [Hong Kong Christians Recycle NARTH Material to Attack Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/08/hong-kong-christians-recycle-narth-material-to-attack-gays/): A right-wing Christian group in Hong Kong has published a 52-page booklet condemning homosexuals and promoting reparative therapy to change sexual orientation. The Society for...
- [XGW Digest: August 14, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/08/xgw-digest-august-14-2010/): -Attorney David Boies takes on Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins on Face the Nation. -Stephen Colbert weighs in on the Prop 8 ruling. -Mexico’s Supreme...
- [Exodus Blog Supports Lawsuit Filed to Fight Religious Freedom At University](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/08/exodus-blog-supports-lawsuit-filed-to-fight-religious-freedom-at-university/): A recent case involving the dismissal of a graduate student studying counseling at the Augusta State University in Georgia has Religious Right media outlets in...
- [XGW Digest: August 6, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/08/xgw-digest-august-6-2010/): -Focus on the Family lays off another 110 employees. -Chilean Senator Fulvio Rossi announces plans to introduce a same-sex marriage bill. -NOM’s summer tour meets...
- [Prop 8 Struck Down, Gay Marriage in California](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/08/prop-8-struck-down-gay-marriage-in-california/): In Perry v. Schwarzenegger, U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker has found that Proposition 8 violated the federal constitutional rights of gays and lesbians...
- [JONAH Still Supports 'Receiving Healthy Touch and Affection'](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/08/jonah-still-supports-receiving-healthy-touch-and-affection/): It hasn’t been an easy year for JONAH. First, their co-founder Arthur “Abba” Goldberg was outed as a convicted felon. Then, a scandal broke about...
- [Orthodox Rabbis Sign Statement Supporting Rejection of Ex-Gay Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/08/orthodox-rabbis-sign-statement-supporting-rejection-of-ex-gay-therapy/): Dozens of Orthodox Rabbis have signed a statement of principles expressing support for the inclusion of gay Jews in their community, but still rejecting complete...
- [XGW Digest: July 31, 2010](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/07/xgw-digest-july-31-2010/): -NOM’s Summer for Marriage tour scores a modestly successful turnout in St. Paul, MN after playing to near-empty plazas in Lima, OH; Indianapolis, IN and...
- [JONAH Now Offering 'New Alternatives to Healing'?](https://exgaywatch.com/2010/07/jonah-now-offering-new-alternatives-to-healing/): Wayne Besen points out a bizarre change in the name of the ex-gay organization JONAH. Formerly Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality, JONAH have apparently...
- [XGW Digest: October 29, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/10/xgw-digest-october-29-2011/): -Denmark moves closer to legalizing same-sex marriage. -Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, calls for gay rights to be included in the country’s new constitution....
- [Mental Health Professionals a Minority in NARTH](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/10/mental-health-professionals-a-minority-in-narth/): Although the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality promotes itself as a professional organization, mental health professionals make up a mere quarter...
- [XGW Digest: October 22, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/10/xgw-digest-october-22-2011/): -Actor Zachary Quinto comes out of the closet. -Another gay teen commits suicide following years of bullying. -Inspired by Zachary Quinto, ABC news anchor Dan...
- [Exodus' New $1M Headquarters, Incognito](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/10/exodus-new-1m-headquarters-incognito/): In 2008, Exodus moved from a modest office that they leased for $2000+ a month to the building above at 190 N Westmonte Dr, Altamonte...
- [XGW Digest: October 15, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/10/xgw-digest-october-15-2011/): -Two gay Republicans enter the race for San Diego Mayor. -Rev. Scott Anderson becomes the Presbyterian Church’s first officially sanctioned gay minister. -Legendary gay rights...
- [Exodus President Reluctantly Admits 'It Gets Better'](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/10/exodus-president-reluctantly-admits-it-gets-better/): Exodus International President Alan Chambers has decided, over a year after the launch of the It Gets Better project, that he should support the campaign...
- [Former Ex-Gay Leader Smid Can No Longer Condemn Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/10/former-ex-gay-leader-smid-can-no-longer-condemn-gays/): The former leader of Exodus International’s oldest ministry says you can’t repent of homosexuality — and he now publicly admits he is homosexual himself. John...
- [XGW Digest: October 8, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/10/xgw-digest-october-8-2011/): -A Tennessee pastor and his deacons attack a gay couple to stop them from entering his church. -New York City gets its first transgender firefighter....
- [Gay Christian? New Direction Has Your Back](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/10/gay-christian-new-direction-has-your-back/): The Toronto-based ministry New Direction is controversial. As a former Exodus organization that now aspires to “bridge the gap” between Christians and LGBT people, both...
- [XGW Digest: October 1, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/10/xgw-digest-october-1-2011/): -Actor Sean Maher comes out of the closet. -A Seattle couple is subjected to anti-gay threats. -The US Census Bureau releases its first-ever count of...
- [Ex-Gay Study Nothing New, Same Flawed Data](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/09/ex-gay-study-nothing-new-same-flawed-data/): A 2007 study of sexual orientation change is back in the news following its publication in a scientific journal. But despite conservative Christians’ championing of...
- [NARTH Absent from Relaunched Exodus Bookstore](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/09/narth-absent-from-relaunched-exodus-bookstore/): Exodus International has relaunched its online bookstore at Exodusbooks.org, but some key titles are missing from the shelves. In particular, there appear to be no...
- [XGW Digest: September 24, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/09/xgw-digest-september-24-2011/): -Focus on the Family announces another round of layoffs. -Klaus Wowereit, openly gay mayor of Berlin, is reelected to a third term. -“Don’t Ask, Don’t...
- [Anti-Gay Michael Brown to Speak at NARTH Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/09/anti-gay-michael-brown-to-speak-at-narth-conference/): Anti-gay activist Dr Michael L Brown will be a guest speaker at NARTH’s conference in Arizona this fall. Brown, who recently self-published a massive diatribe...
- [Exodus Spent Over $1 Million on How to Change from Gay to Straight, IRS Records Show](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/09/exodus-spent-over-1-million-on-how-to-change-from-gay-to-straight-irs-records-show/): During the years from 2005 to 2007, IRS records show Exodus designated over $1 million for “various education programs and publications that explain how to...
- [US Military Catches up with Modern World, DADT History](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/09/us-military-catches-up-with-modern-world-dadt-history/): I’m not a soldier, and I never have been. But I’m guessing if you have the mental and physical strength to protect lives and take...
- [XGW Digest: September 17, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/09/xgw-digest-september-17-2011/): -Authorities in Ecuador shut down thirty ex-gay clinics. -Gay MP David Norris re-enters the Irish presidential race at the encouragement of his supporters. -The Oregon...
- [Recent Exodus 'Love Won Out' Turnout Could be Lowest Yet](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/09/recent-exodus-love-won-out-turnout-could-be-lowest-yet/): Last weekend saw the latest Love Won Out conference, the ex-gay roadshow which was once sponsored by Focus on the Family (with Exodus as partners)...
- [XGW Digest: September 10, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/09/xgw-digest-september-10-2011/): -Openly gay congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) officially announces her candidacy for the US Senate. -An Orthodox Rabbi offers a for matchmaking service that marries gay...
- [Polish University Cancels Ex-Gay Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/09/polish-university-cancels-ex-gay-conference/): A conference on gay-to-straight therapy has been forced to seek a new venue after a Polish university withdrew its support. The event, featuring notorious NARTH therapist...
- [XGW Digest: September 3, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/09/xgw-digest-september-3-2011/): -HRC president Joe Solmonese announces that he will step down at the end of his current term. -New York City major Michael Bloomberg endorses lesbian...
- [Love In Action Suspends Residential Program](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/09/love-in-action-suspends-residential-program/): Love In Action, the flagship ex-gay ministry of Exodus International, has shut down its residential program. A statement on its website says: Love In Action’s...
- [Tampa Bay Rays Say 'It Gets Better'](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/08/tampa-bay-rays-say-it-gets-better/): Our local team joins this excellent effort, so I just had to post it.  Thanks guys!  
- [Ron Reagan Jr. on the Polygamy Argument](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/08/ron-reagan-jr-and-me-on-the-polygamy-argument/): Wednesday, August 24, 2011 full transcript / msnbc video — Ron Reagan Jr. was filling in for Chris Matthews last week on Hardball. In the...
- [Exodus Encourages Loneliness, Celibacy Among Young Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/08/exodus-encourages-loneliness-celibacy-among-young-gays/): It’s not news that the solution Exodus gives to young people for their attraction to the same sex is to refrain from acting on it...
- [XGW Digest: August 27, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/08/xgw-digest-august-27-2011/): -Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) comes out in support of marriage equality. -Joseph Farah claims that gays and Muslims are working together to destroy America. -A...
- [Randy Thomas Puts Himself in the Spotlight, Post-Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/08/randy-thomas-puts-himself-in-the-spotlight-post-exodus/): Randy Thomas believes change is possible, and to prove it, he changes his blog roughly once every six months. His latest blog is Confessions of...
- [XGW Digest: August 20, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/08/xgw-digest-august-20-2011/): -Christians in Ghana march against “gayism.” -Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann insists that she doesn’t judge gay people. -GLSEN stands up to the Family Research Council. -A...
- [XGW Digest: August 13, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/08/xgw-digest-august-13-2011/): -Czech president Vaclav Klaus condemns the embassies of 13 European nations for issuing a statement supporting Prague’s pride festival. -Jim Burroway is unimpressed by the...
- [Review: This Is What Love in Action Looks Like](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/08/review-this-is-what-love-in-action-looks-like/): The new documentary This Is What Love in Action Looks Like is the definitive account of one of the most shameful episodes in the 40-year history...
- [XGW Digest: August 6, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/08/xgw-digest-august-6-2011/): -Vandals trash the office of a Ugandan LGBT rights group and steal its member database. -The National Organization for Marriage acknowledges that heterosexuals are destroying...
- [IRS Revokes Peter LaBarbera's AFTAH Tax Exempt Status](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/08/irs-revokes-peter-labarberas-aftah-tax-exempt-status/): According to the IRS, the tax-exempt status of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) was revoked on 5/10/2010 (PDF). The reason for this action is...
- [XGW Digest: July 30, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/xgw-digest-july-30-2011/): -Same-sex couples begin marrying in New York. -Disney’s Weddings & Honeymoons blog highlights a gay wedding. -Anti-gay activist Bradlee Dean sues Rachel Maddow for quoting...
- [Ann Coulter Throws Her Support Behind Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/ann-coulter-throws-her-support-behind-ex-gays/): Some lady who’ll say anything to get a bit of attention thinks some people can pray away the gay: In the interview, with The View host Joy...
- [NARTH Responds to Marcus Bachmann Criticisms](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/narth-responds-to-marcus-bachmann-criticisms/): The National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality has congratulated gay-to-straight conversion therapist Marcus Bachmann for “sticking to the science.” Bachmann, husband of...
- [NARTH No Longer Educating Therapists in California](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/narth-no-longer-educating-therapists-in-california/): The National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexual is no longer offering continuing education to therapists in the state of California, according to...
- [Come Say Hi to Ex-Gay Watch on Facebook](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/come-say-hi-to-ex-gay-watch-on-facebook/): In case you missed the news a month or two back, Ex-Gay Watch is now on Facebook. Stop by, click “Like,” and say hey!
- [Liverpool Frontline Church's Ex-Gay Ministry: Backstory](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/liverpool-frontline-churchs-ex-gay-ministry-backstory/): In the Wavertree district of Liverpool, England, Frontline Church has a ministry to gays and lesbians. It’s an ex-gay ministry, LIFE Liverpool, that they say...
- [XGW Digest: July 23, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/xgw-digest-july-23-2011/): -Several hundred active duty servicemembers march in San Diego’s pride parade. -An openly gay man is selected to chair Utah’s Democratic Party. -A gay man...
- [Liverpool, England, Ex-Gay Ministry Grew out of Extreme NYC Group](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/liverpool-england-ex-gay-ministry-grew-out-of-extreme-nyc-group/): The ex-gay LIFE ministry, in New York City, teaches gays and lesbians that their sexual orientation is sinful and must be changed. Homosexuality is a...
- [Alan Chambers to Willow Creek: Deny Us, You Deny the Truth](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/alan-chambers-to-willow-creek-deny-us-you-deny-the-truth/): Last month, we reported that Willow Creek Community Church, the Chicago evangelical megachurch, had cut ties with ex-gay organization Exodus International. Today, Christianity Today reported...
- [Exodus Says Ex-Gay Boot Camps Don't Exist, Survivors Say Otherwise](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/exodus-says-ex-gay-boot-camps-dont-exist-survivors-say-otherwise/): Exodus International’s Julie Neils, in 2010: As for those mysterious gay-to-straight “boot camps,” they don’t exist. Ex-gay survivor Kyle Luebke, in 2011: Realizing that [being gay]...
- [Baptist Seminary Head Al Mohler Says Gay Orientation Is Sinful](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/baptist-seminary-head-al-mohler-says-gay-orientation-is-sinful/): Influential Southern Baptist leader Albert Mohler has defended gay-to-straight conversion therapy by telling readers of his latest column that being gay is in itself “deeply...
- [Married Ex-Gays Stay Homosexual, Activists Still Claim 'Ex-Gay' Is an Orientation](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/married-ex-gays-stay-homosexual-activists-still-claim-ex-gay-is-an-orientation/): The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer and ex-gay activist Greg Quinlan, of PFOX, present a litany of myths and half-truths in this AFA Radio interview:...
- [Ex-Gay Therapist Marcus Bachmann Lies about 'Doctored' Tapes](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/ex-gay-therapist-marcus-bachmann-lies-about-doctored-tapes/): Christian therapist Marcus Bachmann, husband of Republican presidential runner Michele Bachmann, has been caught in a big lie. Late last month, recordings emerged of a 2010...
- [XGW Digest: July 16, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/xgw-digest-july-16-2011/): -Blake Mycoskie, founder of Tom’s Shoes, apologizes for his company’s recent association with Focus on the Family. -Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson denounces the anti-gay...
- [Open Thread: Exodus' Alan Chambers on ABC News](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/open-thread-exodus-alan-chambers-on-abc-news/): Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC Alan continues to find new ways to avoid saying anything of consequence...
- [Mark Driscoll on Facebook Mockery: I Need to Do Better](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/mark-driscoll-on-facebook-mockery-i-need-to-do-better/): (Updated 07/22/11 — scroll down) Seattle preacher Mark Driscoll has provided some “some backstory” on — though not apologized for — his “flippant comment” about...
- [Preacher Mark Driscoll Bullies, Makes Fun of Effeminate Men](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/preacher-mark-driscoll-bullies-makes-fun-of-effeminate-men/): Celebrity preacher Mark Driscoll, of Seattle’s Mars Hill Church, is a bully — though that’s no revelation to anyone familiar with his macho posturing and...
- [ABC Nightline Segment on Ex-Gay Therapist Marcus Bachmann](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/abc-nightline-segment-on-ex-gay-therapist-marcus-bachmann/): In a report aired last night, ABC’s Nightline investigated the therapy practice of Marcus Bachmann, the husband of Republican presidential runner Michele Bachmann. According to...
- [Focus on the Family Tries to Pull a Fast One](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/focus-on-the-family-tries-to-pull-a-fast-one/): There has been a lot of buzz lately about an apparent collaboration between charity minded Tom’s Shoes and the virulently anti-gay Focus on the Family. ...
- [Gay Man Describes Mormon Ex-Gay Experience](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/evergreen-international/): In this video, Steve, a former member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, describes his experience of Mormon conversion therapy. He...
- [Truth Wins Out Investigation: Bachmann Clinic Practices Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/truth-wins-out-investigation-bachmann-clinic-practices-reparative-therapy/): An undercover Truth Wins Out investigation claims that the counseling clinic headed by Marcus Bachmann, husband of U.S. Senator Representative and presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann...
- [XGW Digest: July 9, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/xgw-digest-july-9-2011/): -Gay activist Jean Harris has died. -Two gay soldiers are assaulted in Colorado. -The National Organization for Marriage defies another state’s campaign disclosure laws. -President...
- [Google Plus and NOM: An Unholy Alliance?](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/google-plus-and-nom-an-unholy-alliance/): Our team of intrepid Ex-Gay Watch reporters is scrambling to dig up more dirt on the crystal-clear link between the newly unveiled Google Plus (Circles)...
- [Exodus International's Ex-Gay Bait-and-Switch Game](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/exodus-internationals-ex-gay-bait-and-switch-game/): Sexual orientation can rarely, if ever, be made to change. Labels can change. Exodus International announces that “change is possible,” but they know that most...
- [Charisma Editor Promotes Gay Cure, Holds up Alan Chambers as Example](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/charisma-editor-promotes-gay-cure-holds-up-alan-chambers-as-example/): Christian writer J Lee Grady says that homosexuals can alter their sexual orientation, and points to Exodus President Alan Chambers as evidence of ex-gay change. In...
- [Ashton Elijah Talks about Damon Thompson & His Ex-Gay Exorcisms](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/ashton-elijah-talks-about-damon-thompson-his-ex-gay-exorcisms/): In this video, gay journalist Ashton Elijah talks about his experience at The Ramp, a church ministry run by Damon Thompson in Hamilton, Alabama: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k7kkRvln3I[/youtube]...
- [XGW Digest: July 2, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/xgw-digest-july-2-2011/): -Conservative commentator David Frum explains why he now supports marriage equality. -A Brazilian judge rules that a gay couple can convert their civil union to...
- [GOP Michele Bachmann's Husband: Gays Are Barbarians, Need Discipline](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/07/michelle-bachmanns-husband-gays-are-barbarians-need-discipline/): Minnesota Christian therapist Marcus Bachmann, the husband of Republican presidential runner Michele Bachman, is a spokesman for anti-gay and ex-gay causes. In a 2010 radio...
- [World Health Organization Affirms Right to Ex-Gay Therapy?](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/world-health-organization-affirms-right-to-ex-gay-therapy/): The Belfast News Letter reports that the World Health Organization has “affirmed the view of controversial groups which say it is medically orthodox to seek...
- [Extra! Marriage Equality Comes to New York](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/extra-marriage-equality-comes-to-new-york/):   In a major victory for gay rights, the New York Sate Senate voted 33 to 29 to approve same-sex marriage in the state, becoming...
- [XGW Digest: June 25, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/xgw-digest-june-25-2011/): -Actor LeVar Burton signs on as spokesperson for the AIDS Research Alliance. -The people of Liechtenstein vote to institute civil partnerships. -A Michigan court of...
- [With Buchanan, A Change of Tone at Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/with-buchanan-a-change-of-tone-at-exodus/):   With Jeff Buchanan laterally promoted to VP and former Exodus blogger Randy Thomas out of the organization, there has already been an immediate shift...
- [Canadian Political Party Votes to Oppose Ex-Gay Charity Status](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/canadian-political-party-votes-to-oppose-ex-gay-charity-status/): (Scroll down for 06/24/11 update) Canada’s official party of opposition has voted unanimously to oppose tax-exempt charity status for ex-gay groups such as Exodus Global...
- [Another Mega Church Cuts Ties with Exodus International](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/another-mega-church-cuts-ties-with-exodus-international/): Another major US based ministry has cut ties with Exodus International, the largest organization which claims to help people “leave homosexuality.”  An event earlier this...
- [Jeff Buchanan Promoted to Exodus International Vice President](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/jeff-buchanan-promoted-to-exodus-international-vice-president/): In May, we learned that Randy Thomas was stepping down as Vice President of Exodus International and taking on a part-time role. Yesterday, he announced...
- [Randy Thomas Leaves Exodus International](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/randy-thomas-leaves-exodus-international/): Two months after he announced he was no longer Vice President of Exodus International, Randy Thomas says he is stepping down completely as a staff...
- [Alabama Preacher Manipulates Gay Demons out of Young People](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/alabama-preacher-manipulates-gay-demons-out-of-young-people/): Where to begin dissecting the manipulation and abuse on display in this video of Pentecostal preacher Damon Thompson casting demons out of young gay and...
- [XGW Digest: June 18, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/xgw-digest-june-18-2011/): -A US Bankruptcy Court rules that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. -Croatia’s first gay pride event is disrupted by violence. -Support for marriage...
- [Ex-Gay Michael Glatze Profiled in New York Times](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/ex-gay-michael-glatze-profiled-in-new-york-times/): A gay New York Times journalist recently caught up with a former friend and colleague, Michael Glatze, the conservative Christian activist who, in 2007, renounced...
- [More Anti-Family, Anti-Gay Propaganda from Anglican Mainstream](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/more-anti-family-anti-gay-propaganda-from-anglican-mainstream/): The UK-based Christian group Anglican Mainstream has once again shown its extreme anti-gay propaganda is anything but mainstream. In 2008, Anglican Mainstream published a book...
- [Watch: CNN's The 'Sissy Boy' Experiment (Full)](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/watch-cnns-the-sissy-boy-experiment/): Watch “The Sissy Boy Experiment: Uncovering the Truth,” the Anderson Cooper 360 series, which aired on CNN recently. Below, parts one, two, three and four:
- [Video: Gay Teen Murder Ignored by Media](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/video-gay-teen-murder-ignored-by-media/): British teenager Michael Causer died on August 2, 2008, aged 18, a week after being beaten and stabbed for being gay. Almost three years after...
- [UK: Dubious Therapists Pickup, Pilkington Headline Ex-Gay Conference](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/uk-dubious-ex-gay-therapists-pickup-pilkington-headline-ex-gay-conference/): An ex-gay therapist who surrounds himself with muscular men to help him feel masculine will be the main speaker at a reparative therapy conference in...
- [Ex-Gay Watch Is Now on Facebook: Join Us](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/ex-gay-watch-is-now-on-facebook-join-us/): Ex-Gay Watch is making a belated entry into the social media revolution and now has a Facebook Page. Click “Like” to keep up with the...
- [XGW Digest: June 11, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/xgw-digest-june-11-2011/): -The AARP reaches out to the LGBT community. -The Wyoming Supreme Court permits a married same-sex couple to divorce in the state. -A gay police...
- [Exodus International Holds Conference in Asheville, North Carolina](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/exodus-international-holds-conference-in-asheville-north-carolina/): Exodus’ Freedom Conference began yesterday and goes until the 11th of June. Touted with the motto “The Reality of Grace,” attendees come to hear “a...
- ['Sissy Boy' Experiment Should Cause Reassessment of Reparative Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/sissy-boy-experiment-should-cause-reassessment-of-reparative-therapy/): Conservative Christian psychologist Dr Warren Throckmorton says that the story of Kirk Murphy, aka “Kraig,” should provoke “a serious re-examination” of gay-to-straight therapy. Yesterday, Box...
- [BTB, CNN Reveal Story behind George Rekers 'Sissy Boy' Experiment](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/btb-cnn-reveal-story-behind-george-rekers-sissy-boy-experiment/): In 1970, a five-year-old boy named Kirk Murphy was subjected to an ex-gay experiment. Under the care of Dr Ivor Lovaas and George Rekers, then...
- [Review: Michael L Brown's A Queer Thing Happened to America (Part 1)](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/review-michael-l-browns-a-queer-thing-happened-to-america-1/): Evangelist and conservative Christian activist Dr Michael L Brown is a little disappointed but mostly deliriously excited that the publishing world was “afraid to touch”...
- [XGW Digest: June 4, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/06/xgw-digest-june-4-2011/): -An Iowa Republican joins the fight for marriage equality. -A group of gay activists including Americans Dan Choi and Andy Thayer are arrested in Moscow...
- [UK: Psychotherapist Guilty of Malpractice for Promising Gay Cure](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/05/uk-psychotherapist-guilty-of-malpractice-for-promising-gay-cure/): A British psychotherapist was “reckless,” “disrespectful,” “dogmatic” and “unprofessional” in trying to turn a homosexual patient heterosexual, a hearing has concluded. Last week, the British...
- [Randy Thomas Again Fails to Accurately Address Transgender Issues](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/05/randy-thomas-again-fails-to-accurately-address-transgender-issues/): Chaz Bono, formerly Chastity, currently stars in a show, “Becoming Chaz,” that takes a close look at his life as a female-to-male transperson. This show...
- [XGW Digest: May 28, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/05/xgw-digest-may-28-2011/): -Focus on the Family president Jim Daly concedes that they are losing the battle against marriage equality. -ABC’s What Would You Do? stages the harassment...
- [Open Talk: Scissor Sisters and 'It Gets Better'](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/05/open-talk-scissor-sisters-and-its-gets-better/): “She’s My Man” – Scissor Sisters (2007) Scissor Sisters front man, Jake Shears – It Get’s Better
- [Woman Accuses Sheriff of Sending Her for Gay Cure Instead of Rehab](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/05/woman-accuses-sheriff-of-sending-her-for-gay-cure-instead-of-rehab/): A lesbian is suing a police department she says sent her to an evangelist for ex-gay therapy. In April, 2010, the family of Amanda Booker...
- [New York Times: Gay Teens in Their Own Words](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/05/new-york-times-gay-teens-in-their-own-words/): Gay teens share their stories this week in the New York Times. The interactive series, which touches on issues of oppression, anti-gay bullying and the...
- [XGW Digest: May 21, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/05/xgw-digest-may-21-2011/): A group of wealthy Republicans lend their financial support to the push for marriage equality in New York. -Rick Welts, president of the Phoenix Suns,...
- [Michael L Brown Upset at the Queer Things Happening to America](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/05/michael-l-brown-upset-at-the-queer-things-happening-to-america/): We’ve met Dr Michael L Brown before. In The Fighting Words of Michael Brown, I analyzed the revolution- and battle-based rhetoric he uses to call...
- [XGW Digest: May 14, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/05/xgw-digest-may-14-2011/): -The National Organization for Marriage pulls out the stops in its campaign against marriage equality in New York. -University City, MO passes a domestic partnership...
- [BC, Canada: Aspiring Conservative Leader Says Being Gay Is a Choice](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/05/canada-vancouver-conservative-mp-says-being-gay-is-a-choice/): A BC Conservative Party leadership candidate has said in a radio interview that gays should not have “special rights” because homosexuality is a choice. John Cummins,...
- ['Kill the Gays' Bill up for Debate in Uganda](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/05/kill-the-gays-bill-up-for-debate-in-uganda/): According to a Parliament of Uganda order paper published today, a second reading of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 is imminent. The legislation, dubbed the “Kill...
- [It Gets Worse: Oppression of Gays Is Good Business for Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/05/it-gets-worse-oppression-of-gays-is-good-business-for-exodus/): Exodus International President Alan Chambers is upset at a TV commercial aimed at encouraging gay teen victims of homophobic bullying. The ex-gay leader told the...
- [XGW Digest - May 7, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/05/xgw-digest-may-7-2011/): -23 top New York business executives sign a statement calling for marriage equality. -Fox News correspondent Michelle Malkin accuses gay activists of employing a tactic...
- [Gay Blog Queerty Is Back](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/05/gay-blog-queerty-is-back/): Queerty, the six-year-old gay interest blog that unexpectedly shut down last month, is back online with a new team. GayCities has acquired the blog and...
- [This Is What Love in Action Looks Like: Documentary Premieres June 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/05/this-is-what-love-in-action-looks-like-documentary-premieres-june-2011/): A documentary about the ex-gay movement will have its premiere in June 2011, after six years in the making. The premiere of This Is What Love...
- [Osama Bin Laden Killed by US Forces](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/05/osama-bin-laden-killed-by-us-forces/): CNN News outlets are reporting that covert US forces in Pakistan have killed 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden.  The US is apparently also in possession...
- [XGW Digest: April 30, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/04/xgw-digest-april-30-2011/): -House of Rainbow, Nigeria’s only gay church, makes plans to reopen its doors. -Movie director Kevin Smith officiates at a gay wedding. -Prop 8 proponents...
- [XGW Digest: April 23, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/04/xgw-digest-april-23-2011/): -A young gay man is attacked by a mob in South Carolina. -LGBT blog Queerty closes down. -Hungary adopts a new constitution that bans same-sex...
- [Exodus and Alan Chambers Still Vague on Change](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/07/exodus-and-alan-chambers-still-vague-on-change/): Video: Alan Chambers interview on MSNBC’s Hardball, July 10 (scroll down for commentary): Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Exodus...
- [Changes at Exodus: Reactions](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/07/changes-at-exodus-reactions/): We all know that Exodus International is undergoing some changes. We knew a major rebranding was coming, following last November’s revelation that America’s leading ex-gay...
- [XGW Digest: July 7, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/07/xgw-digest-july-7-2012/): -Journalist Anderson Cooper officially confirms that he is gay. -Facebook creates icons for married same-sex couples. -Sofia, Bulgaria’s Pride parade draws a record crowd. -The...
- [XGW Digest: June 30, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/06/xgw-digest-june-30-2012/): -Violence erupts at a Pride parade in Thessaloniki, Greece. -An Australian senate committee recommends a vote on marriage equality. -The last known gay survivor of...
- [Is Exodus Changing for the Better?](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/06/is-exodus-changing-for-the-better/): Exodus International has been getting a fair bit of media attention lately. As part of the major rebranding exercise we predicted in November last year,...
- [Kansas Board of Education Nominee Jack Wu Was in Phelps Documentary](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/06/kansas-board-of-education-nominee-jack-wu-was-in-phelps-documentary/): Westboro Baptist Church attendee — but not member — Jack Wu is in the news: A Kansas state school board candidate who describes evolution as...
- [XGW Digest: June 23, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/06/xgw-digest-june-23-2012/): -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...
- [XGW Digest: June 16, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/06/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...
- [Exodus Board Member Dennis Jernigan Resigns Over Jamaica Incident](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/06/exodus-board-member-dennis-jernigan-resigns-over-jamaica-incident/): 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...
- [Another Exodus Leader Stirs Up Anti-Gay Sentiment Abroad](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/06/another-exodus-leader-stirs-up-anti-gay-sentiment-abroad/): 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,...
- [Defensive Theology & the Ex-Gay Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/06/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...
- [Exodus International Has Lost Twenty Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/06/exodus-international-has-lost-twenty-ministries/): 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...
- [XGW Digest: June 9, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/06/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...
- [Anti-Equality Politics, Ex-Gay Advocacy Strongly Linked](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/06/anti-equality-politics-ex-gay-advocacy-strongly-linked/): 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...
- [XGW Digest: June 2, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/06/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...
- [Updated, The Spitzer Study of Ex-Gays: Flaws and Abuse](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/05/updated-the-spitzer-study-of-ex-gays-flaws-and-abuse/): 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...
- [XGW Digest: May 26, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/05/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...
- [Revealed! Why Some Christians are Stuck on the Gay Issue](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/05/revealed-why-some-christians-are-stuck-on-the-gay-issue/): 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...
- [Suspended Christian Therapist Lesley Pilkington and Her Defenders](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/05/suspended-christian-therapist-lesley-pilkington-and-her-defenders/): 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...
- [UK 'Gay Cure' Therapist Loses Appeal against Suspension](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/05/uk-gay-cure-therapist-loses-appeal-against-suspension/): Leslie Pilkington, the Christian therapist suspended from practice after offering to help turn a gay client straight, has had her appeal rejected by the British...
- [Spitzer 'Gay Cure' Apology Makes NYT Front Page](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/05/spitzer-gay-cure-apology-makes-nyt-front-page/): In 2001, psychiatrist Robert L Spitzer claimed highly motivated gays could successfully change their sexual orientation. In 2003, a peer-reviewed scientific journal published his study...
- [XGW Digest: May 19, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/05/xgw-digest-may-19-2012/): -Chile passes an antidiscrimination law. -A Republican strategist advises the party to evolve on gay rights issues. -Croatia’s Prime Minister makes a push for marriage...
- [XGW Digest: May 12, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/05/xgw-digest-may-12-2012/): -Focus on the Family withdraws its “Religious Freedom” amendment from the 2012 Colorado ballot. -A Catholic high school tells a senior he cannot accept the...
- [Greg Quinlan Is Liar and PFOX Is a Dishonest Organization, Says TWO](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/05/greg-quinlan-is-liar-and-pfox-is-a-dishonest-organization-says-two/): Truth Wins Out disputed Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) dishonest and immature portrayal today of a lawsuit filed against its President Greg Quinlan. The...
- [XGW Digest: May 5, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/05/xgw-digest-may-5-2012/): -A Cleveland radio DJ recommends corrective rape for a listener’s gay daughter. -A North Carolina man posts a video of himself shooting a “No on...
- [Exodus Cancels Next 'Love Won Out' Conference Due to Lack of Interest](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/05/exodus-cancels-next-love-won-out-conference-due-to-lack-of-interest/): In what seems like the logical extension of the recent trend, Exodus International has decided there were not enough people interested in attending their Love...
- [Physical Violence and Other Ways to Stop Your Kid Being Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/05/physical-violence-and-other-ways-to-stop-your-kid-being-gay/): A Baptist preacher gave parents in his church a “special dispensation” to beat their effeminate sons last Sunday. Pastor Sean Harris of Berean Church, Fayetteville,...
- [XGW Digest: April 28, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/xgw-digest-april-28-2012/): -Anti-gay activist Chuck Colson passes away. -Gay Moroccan writer Abdellah Taia tells his story. -The James Beard Foundation returns an award to the Boy Scouts...
- [Spitzer: 'I Owe the Gay Community an Apology'](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/spitzer-i-owe-the-gay-community-an-apology/): Dr Robert Spitzer, the researcher behind a flawed 2001 ex-gay study, has added to his recent retraction by apologizing for his claims. The psychiatrist, now...
- [Coroner Confirms Ex-Gay Advocate Anthony Falzarano's Death](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/coroner-confirms-ex-gay-advocate-anthony-falzaranos-death/): News broke yesterday of the possible death of long-time ex-gay advocate Anthony Falzarano’s death.  No one seemed to be certain of the validity of this...
- [Never Too Late: A Student and His Gay Teacher Reconcile after 40 Years](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/never-too-late-a-student-and-his-gay-teacher-reconcile-after-40-years/): In The Oregonian, Tom Hallman, Jr, writes: A good feature story is about something universal. When it comes to apologies, no one gets a pass...
- [Core Issues' Mike Davidson on Being Ex-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/core-issues-mike-davidson-on-being-ex-gay/): Core Issues director Mike Davidson told The Daily Telegraph he believes being gay is a “normal developmental aberration,” and explained what he really means when he...
- [XGW Digest: April 21, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/xgw-digest-april-21-2012/): -The Presbyterian Church (USA) ordains its first out lesbian minister. -GLAAD names Herndon Graddick as its new president. -The Saudi Arabian government bans “gays and...
- [Ex-Gay Leader Andrew Comiskey Fires First Volley in Exodus Civil War](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/ex-gay-leader-andrew-comiskey-fires-first-volley-in-exodus-civil-war/): Andrew Comiskey, founder and current leader of Desert Stream Ministries (Living Waters), has posted what appears to be the first public criticism of Exodus President...
- [Rachel Maddow on Ex-Gay Movement, Spitzer Retraction](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/rachel-maddow-on-ex-gay-movement-spitzer-retraction/): On her MSNBC show last night, Rachel Maddow gave a history of the ex-gay movement in light of psychiatrist Robert Spitzer’s retraction of his 2001...
- [BBC to Air Documentary on Rugby Player Who Woke up Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/bbc-to-air-documentary-on-rugby-player-who-woke-up-gay/): A Welsh amateur rugby player who says a stroke turned him gay is the subject of a BBC Three documentary being broadcast in the UK...
- ['Traditional Christian Teaching': Exposing an Ex-Gay Myth](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/traditional-christian-teaching-exposing-an-ex-gay-myth/): Before Core Issues hit the publicity jackpot with its controversial ex-gay advertising campaign, its director, Mike Davidson, was still licking his wounds from a disastrous...
- [XGW Digest: April 14, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/xgw-digest-april-14-2012/): -The Catholic Church threatens to cut off an immigrant rights group for supporting LGBT equality. -A French imam blesses the wedding of a gay Muslim...
- [Core Issues Director Mike Davidson Removed from Professional Association](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/core-issues-director-mike-davidson-removed-from-professional-association/): The British Psychodrama Association has revoked the membership of Mike Davidson, a key figure behind the London bus ads that would — if Mayor Boris...
- [Ex-Gays, Anti-Gays Launch London Bus Ad Campaign (Update: Ads Pulled)](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/ex-gays-launch-london-bus-ad-campaign/): Ex-gays in the UK will go on the offensive later this month when they launch an ad campaign subverting a well-known pro-gay slogan. But its...
- [Spitzer Retracts 2001 Landmark Ex-Gay Study](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/spitzer-retracts-2001-landmark-ex-gay-study/): For a decade, ex-gays have relied on the results of a 2001 study to prove their claim that “change is possible.” But if they continue...
- [Sydney Newspaper on 'Healing' the Gay Worshipper](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/sydney-newspaper-on-healing-the-gay-worshipper/): A gay man from Sydney, Australia, says six months of Christian programs to heal his homosexuality only confirmed his sexuality rather than curing it. According...
- [XGW Digest: April 7, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/xgw-digest-april-7-2012/): -A Catholic Priest accidentally includes gay pornography in a PowerPoint presentation. -A conservative Christian mother is forced to rethink what she thought she knew. -The...
- [Former NARTH President Dean Byrd Has Died](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/04/former-narth-president-dean-byrd-has-died/): The National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality has announced the death of its former president, Dr A Dean Byrd. A member of...
- [XGW Digest: March 31, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/03/xgw-digest-march-31-2012/): -More than 200 gay couples exchange wedding vows at a rally in Cleveland. -The Department of Homeland Security announces that it will allow same-sex families...
- ['Day of Silence' to Follow 'Day of Dialogue' This April](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/03/day-of-silence-to-follow-day-of-dialogue-this-april/): The “Day of Dialogue,” once dubbed “Day of Truth” by the Alliance Defense Fund before being handed off to Exodus International, is coming up this...
- [XGW Digest: March 24, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/03/xgw-digest-march-24-2012/): -Former president Jimmy Carter voices his support for marriage equality. -Jon Rowe considers another parallel between race and sexual orientation. -Actor Kirk Cameron defends himself...
- [XGW Digest: March 17, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/03/xgw-digest-march-17-2012/): -Rosie O’Donnell interviews Randy Roberts Potts and Nate Phelps. -Openly gay Idaho state senator Nicole LeFavour announces her candidacy for Congress. -Jim Burroway clarifies for...
- [NARTH Promotes Anti-Gay Junk Science, Says SPLC](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/03/narth-promotes-anti-gay-junk-science-says-splc/): The National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality is now the “main source of anti-gay ‘junk science,'” according to a new report by...
- [XGW Digest: March 10, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/03/xgw-digest-march-10-2012/): -Gay Republican Ken Mehlman apologizes for his role in past anti-gay political campaigns. -Rick Santorum pledges to nullify all same-sex marriage licenses if elected. -A...
- [NARTH, Andy Comiskey Malign Gays, Affirm 'Freedom from Homosexuality'](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/03/narth-andy-comiskey-malign-gays-affirm-freedom-from-homosexuality/): Ex-gay Andy Comiskey says that being gay is about self-absorption and lack of self-restraint — but gays can change. In an interview with reparative therapist...
- [Dustin Lance Black's 8: Dramatization of the California Prop 8 Trial](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/03/dustin-lance-blacks-8-dramatization-of-the-california-prop-8-trial/): Saturday, March 3, saw a live YouTube broadcast of Dustin Lance Black’s play 8, a reenactment of Perry v Schwarzenegger (later Perry v Brown), the...
- [XGW Digest: March 3, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/03/xgw-digest-march-3-2012/): -Radio personality Fez Whatley comes out of the closet. -A Catholic priest treats a lesbian spitefully while officiating at her mother’s funeral. -A majority of...
- [XGW Digest: February 25, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/02/xgw-digest-february-25-2012/): -A Republican sheriff and congressional candidate in Arizona is outed. -Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dinner with a group of gay constituents. -The Virginia...
- [Truth Wins Out Takes on PFOX and Exodus International](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/02/truth-wins-out-takes-on-pfox-and-exodus-international/): LGBT activist organization Truth Wins Out has launched a lawsuit against PFOX, the anti-gay lobbying group whose president accused TWO’s Wayne Besen of calling for...
- [Discredited Psychotherapist Shudders at Prospect of Gay Equality](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/02/discredited-psychotherapist-shudders-at-prospect-of-gay-equality/): Lesley Pilkington, the British psychotherapist stripped of her credentials after offering to cure a patient of his homosexuality, has appeared on TV to express her...
- [XGW Digest: February 18, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/02/xgw-digest-february-18-2012/): -Actor Matt Bomer comes out of the closet. -The New Jersey Senate votes for marriage equality, but falls short of a veto-proof majority. -Washington Gov....
- [Will the Real Exodus Please Stand Up?](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/02/will-the-real-exodus-please-stand-up/): After statements by Exodus President Alan Chambers at the recent GCN conference, some have been persuaded that Exodus may be headed in a more tolerant...
- [XGW Digest: February 11, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/02/xgw-digest-february-11-2012/): -Religious right activists react with predictable hyperbole to the Ninth Circuit Court’s Prop 8 ruling. -A marriage equality bill is introduced in the Illinois legislature....
- [Court Rules Prop 8 Same-Sex Marriage Ban Unconstitutional](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/02/court-rules-prop-8-same-sex-marriage-ban-unconstitutional/): Proposition 8, the law that bans same-sex marriage in California, has been ruled unconstitutional by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit....
- [Documentary Alleges Gay Teen Kidnapped, Sent to Evangelical Boot Camp](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/02/documentary-alleges-gay-teen-kidnapped-sent-to-evangelical-boot-camp/): A feature-length film aims to tell the story of American teenagers sent to an evangelical Christian boarding school, Escuala Caribe, in the Dominican Republic. According...
- [XGW Digest: February 4, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/02/xgw-digest-february-4-2012/): -Another British footballer speaks out against homophobia. -A new poll finds a plurality of Minnesotans in favor of banning same-sex marriage. -The Virginia State Senate...
- [Alan Chambers Begins Damage Control at Exodus after GCN Debacle](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/02/alan-chambers-begins-damage-control-at-exodus-after-gcn-debacle/): Exodus International President Alan Chambers has published his reflections on what he said to a conference of gay Christians last month. Speaking to the Gay...
- [More Homophobia from Anglican Mainstream](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/02/more-homophobia-from-anglican-mainstream/): Anglican Mainstream has once again demonstrated its deep-rooted homophobia. The British-based organization teamed up with ex-gay group Core Issues to coach a disappointingly small audience...
- [UK Evangelicals Disgrace Themselves with Support for NARTH, Lesley Pilkington](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/01/british-evangelicals-disgrace-themselves-with-support-for-narth-lesley-pilkington/): A number of British conservative evangelical leaders have written to the Daily Telegraph to express their support for Lesley Pilkington, the Christian therapist found guilty of...
- [XGW Digest: January 28, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/01/xgw-digest-january-28-2012/): -A 15-year-old boy writes a letter to his gay dads. -New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie nominates an openly gay judge to the state Supreme Court....
- [XGW Digest: January 21, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/01/xgw-digest-january-21-2012/): -Support for marriage equality in France reaches 63%. -Maggie Gallagher endorses Rick Santorum for president. -A group of parents in Minnesota demand an anti-gay school...
- [The Lepers Among Us: Conference Addresses 'Same-Sex Sin,' Brings NARTH Gay Cure Message to UK](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/01/the-lepers-among-us-uk-conference-addresses-same-sex-sin/): A conference taking place in Belfast, Northern Ireland, today offers ways for conservative Christian churches to minister to “the lepers among us” — namely, gays...
- [XGW Digest: January 14, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/01/xgw-digest-january-14-2012/): -New Jersey Democrats fast track a marriage equality bill. -An evangelical mother speaks in support of her gay daughter. -The National Organization for Marriage spends...
- [GCN Director's Official Statement on Exodus Controversy](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/01/gcn-directors-official-statement-on-exodus-controversy/): Justin Lee, the director of the Gay Christian Network, has published an official statement concerning the unscheduled appearance of Exodus President Alan Chambers’s at the...
- [Exodus President's Doublespeak on Gay Christians](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/01/exodus-president-doublespeak-on-gay-christians/): Exodus International President Alan Chambers is happy to affirm LGBT Christians as his brothers and sisters in Christ, at least according to his opening gambit...
- [The Email GCN Sent Out to Conference Attendees](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/01/the-email-gcn-sent-out-to-conference-attendees/): There has been a lot of discussion lately over the attendance of Exodus President Alan Chambers at a recent Gay Christian Network conference (GCN).  Chambers...
- [XGW Digest: January 7, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/01/xgw-digest-january-7-2012/): -Civil unions begin in Delaware and Hawaii. -The British government honors gay war hero and inventor Alan Turing with a new stamp. -The wife of...
- [Exodus President Alan Chambers to Appear at GCN Conference Tonight](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/01/exodus-president-alan-chambers-to-appear-at-gcn-conference-tonight/): We have learned that Exodus president Alan Chambers will be attending the Gay Christian Network conference this evening in Orlando, Fl.  He will be participating...
- [It Gets Better? A Message for Non-Western LGBT](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/01/it-gets-better-a-message-for-non-western-lgbt/): “It Gets Better” is a realistic message for gay and lesbian people living in the western world, where society is increasingly accepting of sexual diversity....
- [XGW Digest: December 31, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/12/xgw-digest-december-31-2011/): -Buzzfeed reveals the sordid details of what gay people do on Christmas. -Just Out, Portland’s LGBT newspaper, shuts its doors. -Congressman Ron Paul’s views on...
- [XGW Digest: December 24, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/12/xgw-digest-december-24-2011/): -A new study confirms that marriage is healthy for gay couples. -A New Jersey judge rules in favor of a gay couple in a custody...
- [XGW Digest: December 17, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/12/xgw-digest-december-17-2011/): -The National Organization for Marriage continues to receive nearly all of its support from several large donors. -Journalist and gay activist Paul Varnell passes away....
- [Ex-Gay Joe Dallas: Christians Who Support Equality are Disobeying God](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/12/ex-gay-joe-dallas-christians-who-support-equality-are-disobeying-god/): Joe Dallas, former leader of Exodus International and self-professed “ex-gay,” was on the Janet Mefferd Show to express his disapproval of Christians who support equality...
- [Congratulations, Wayne and Jamie](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/12/congratulations-wayne-and-jamie/): We’re a few days behind, but better late than never in wishing long-time Ex-Gay Watch friend and ally Wayne Besen, of Truth Wins Out, the...
- [XGW Digest: December 10, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/12/xgw-digest-december-10-2011/): -The Puerto Rico legislature moves toward eliminating several categories, including sexual orientation and gender identity, from the local hate crimes statute. -A gay couple in...
- [Evangelical Christians Ignorant of Sexual Orientation Research](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/12/evangelical-christians-ignorant-of-sexual-orientation-research/): The evangelical media is silent on recent scientific research into sexual orientation, according to Dr Warren Throckmorton. The Grove City College psychology professor says his...
- [A Landmark Speech on Human Rights at the UN in Geneva](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/12/a-landmark-speech-on-human-rights-at-the-un-in-geneva/): This is well worth watching in it’s entirety.  LGBT rights are of course human rights, as Secretary Clinton so eloquently illustrates to the United Nations...
- [Exodus' Alan Chambers Wins Award, Re-branding Begins?](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/12/exodus-alan-chambers-wins-award-re-branding-begins/): World Magazine has awarded Exodus President Alan Chambers their 2011 Daniel Award.  With this award, Alan Chambers joins the ranks of Kenneth Star, John Ashcroft, Phillip...
- [XGW Digest: December 3, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/12/xgw-digest-december-3-2011/): -Congressman Barney Frank announces his retirement. -Religious right activist Randy Thomasson worries about Prop 8’s chances of surviving in appeals court. -A lawsuit against New...
- [Nicolosi Retracts Claim of Gay Cure through Antidepressants](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/12/nicolosi-retracts-claim-of-gay-cure-through-antidepressants/): NARTH founder Joseph Nicolosi, arguably the father of modern reparative therapy, has retracted his claim that a patient was able to change his sexual orientation...
- [Exclusive: Secret Conference Held to 'Save Exodus International' from Ruin](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/11/exclusive-secret-conference-held-to-save-exodus-international/): Exodus President Alan Chambers called a meeting together this past November 16.  The subject was quite simply how to keep Exodus International from social and...
- [Anti-Bullying Activist Roger Crouch Dies](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/11/anti-bullying-activist-roger-crouch-dies/): Roger Crouch, the British activist who led the charge against homophobic bullying following the death of his teenage son, has died. Dom Crouch committed suicide...
- [XGW Digest: November 26, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/11/xgw-digest-november-26-2011/): -A Baptist congregation in North Carolina votes against conducting any more weddings until gay couples can legally marry. -Jayson Littman shares his experiences as a...
- [PFOX President Greg Quinlan Severly Truth Challenged Once More](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/11/pfox-president-greg-quinlan-severly-truth-challenged-once-more/):   Current PFOX president Greg Quinlan appeared for an interview recently on a local D.C. station.  While the interviewer, Mark Segraves (WDCW-TV), was better prepared than...
- [LIFE: Behind Liverpool Frontline Church's Extreme Ex-Gay Connections](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/11/life-behind-liverpool-frontline-churchs-extreme-ex-gay-connections/): One aspect glossed over in recent media reports about Liverpool Frontline Church and its ex-gay ministry is its roots in an American ministry, LIFE. Here’s...
- [XGW Digest: November 19, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/11/xgw-digest-november-19-2011/): -A coalition of civil rights groups renews the campaign for marriage equality in Washington State. -Baylor University quietly renames a sociology course originally titled “Homosexuality...
- [Liverpool Frontline Church Loses Allies over Ex-Gay Ministry](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/11/liverpool-frontline-church-loses-allies-over-ex-gay-ministry/): Local government, police and community investors have distanced themselves from Frontline Church in Liverpool, England, after details of its “gay conversion” ministry were publicized. In...
- [XGW Digest: November 12, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/11/xgw-digest-november-12-2011/): -300 gay Mormons hold a conference in Salt Lake City. -An anonymous anti-gay flyer taints a Virginia state senate race. -60 major corporations join the...
- [Private NARTH Letter to Dr. Francis Collins Displays Arrogance](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/11/private-narth-letter-to-dr-francis-collins-displays-arrogance/): In 2007, the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) posted an article by Dean Byrd on their website.  It seemed written...
- [A Third Ex-Gay Domino Falls](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/11/a-third-ex-gay-domino-falls/): The founder of a Brazilian group that claims to heal homosexuals has come out against them in an interview with the “Flying Teapot Project” blog....
- [XGW Digest: November 5, 2011](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/11/xgw-digest-november-5-2011/): -Gay rights pioneer Axel Axgil dies at age 96. -Republican Senator Jim Inhofe condemns Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality bill. -A San Diego high school crowns a lesbian...
- [Ex-Gay Survivor Survey Documents Ex-Gay Harm](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/11/ex-gay-survivor-survey-documents-ex-gay-harm/): The website Beyond Ex-Gay has launched a survey to counter the false promises and damaging claims of the ex-gay movement: We’ve all heard the declarations that...
- [Former Exodus Leader Tells Australian Media Truth about Ex-Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/11/former-exodus-leader-tells-australian-media-truth-about-ex-gays/): A psychologist and one-time Exodus* counsellor has told the Brisbane Times, Australia, has denounced the ex-gay movement, saying he walked away 25 years ago because...
- [Richard Cohen Issues Sham Apology to LGBT Community](https://exgaywatch.com/2011/10/richard-cohen-issues-bizarre-apology-to-lgbt-community/): Ex-gay guru Richard Cohen of the International Healing Foundation has published an “apology” to gays and lesbians he has hurt: “We at IHF wish to offer...
- [XGW Digest: June 1, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/xgw-digest-june-1-2013/): -Ukrainian activists defy a court order and hold Kiev’s first gay pride march. -The spree of anti-gay hate crimes in New York City continues. -A...
- [Listen: Same Love](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/05/same_love_macklemore_ryan_lewis/): This song was released last year, but somehow it passed me by until last night, when it played following the 20th anniversary production of Jonathan...
- [XGW Digest: May 25, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/05/xgw-digest-may-25-2013/): -The Puerto Rico Senate passes an anti-discrimination bill. The House follows suit. -A gay man is murdered in New York City. -President Francois Hollande signs...
- [Breaking: Boyscouts Lift Ban on Gay Scouts](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/05/breaking-boyscouts-lift-ban-on-gay-scouts/): Jeremy Hooper is reporting at Good As You that the Boy Scouts of America have voted by a large margin to lift their ban on...
- [Gay Psychiatrist Named Head of APA](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/05/gay-psychiatrist-named-head-of-apa/): According to the Washington Blade, “Dr. Saul Levin, who last year became the first openly gay head of the D.C. Department of Health, was named...
- [Don't Believe in Us? You Don't Believe in God, RHN Ex-Gays Suggest](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/05/dont-believe-in-us-you-dont-believe-in-god-rhn-ex-gays-suggest/): Restored Hope Network coordinator Anne Paulk posted the following to Facebook overnight: I am always amazed at the people this topic attracts to our page....
- [Discuss: Who Are the Real Ex-Gay 'Antinomians'](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/05/discuss-who-are-the-real-ex-gay-antinomians/): The legalist ex-gays of the Restored Hope Network have been using Facebook to lob charges of “antinomianism” against Exodus International, fomenting gossip and schism within the ranks...
- [XGW Digest: May 18, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/05/xgw-digest-may-18-2013/): -A Russian man is brutally murdered for being gay. -A transgender woman in Hong Kong wins the right to marry her boyfriend. -A gay couple...
- [Movie: God Loves Uganda](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/05/movie-god-loves-uganda/): From director Roger Ross Williams, comes a movie about the devastating effect of the descent of Evangelicals from the West on Uganda.  XGW readers will...
- [Harm Caused by Ex-gay Therapy is 'greatly, greatly, greatly exaggerated'](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/05/harm-caused-by-ex-gay-therapy-is-greatly-greatly-greatly-exaggerated/): …is what anti-gay / ex-gay activists Michael Brown (left) and Arthur Goldberg (right) would have you believe. Anti-gay activist and “ex-gay” advocate, Michael Brown, had a little...
- [Is the Latest Outcry over Abercrombie A Clever Retail Ploy?](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/05/off-topic-chat-is-the-latest-outcry-a-clever-scheme-to-boost-abercrombie/): Revised to include response from the Business Insider. Until the latest nascent campaign against Abercrombie & Fitch took root, the retailer had suffered from a...
- [Please Excuse the Mess](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/05/please-excuse-the-mess/): Over the next week, XGW will be changing a bit so don’t be surprised if something looks amiss.  After we are done there will be...
- [XGW Digest: May 11, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/05/xgw-digest-may-11-2013/): [list type=”arrow”] The Iowa Supreme Court rules that both of a child’s lesbian parents must be listed on the birth certificate. The Albanian government passes...
- [In Criticizing Exodus, RHN's Rob Gagnon Projects His Own Sins](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/05/in-criticizing-exodus-rhns-rob-gagnon-projects-his-own-sins/): Good As You blogger Jeremy Hooper was copied on correspondence from a listserv of socially conservative activists last week — correspondence that reveals less-than-healing and...
- [Hard-Line 'Ex-Gay' Alliance Reveals Desire for Political Power](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/05/11690/): A hard-line “ex-gay” splinter group from Exodus International formally announced its political intent this week, in a press release that gets a bit carried away with...
- [XGW Digest: May 4, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/05/xgw-digest-may-4-2013/): -NBA player Jason Collins comes out of the closet. -Northern Ireland’s Assembly turns down a marriage equality bill. -A “conversion therapy” ban is introduced in...
- [XGW Digest: April 27, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/04/xgw-digest-april-27-2013/): -An openly gay man is confirmed as Under Secretary of the Air Force. -Rio de Janeiro joins the ten other Brazilian states that recognize marriage...
- [XGW Digest: April 20, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/04/xgw-digest-april-20-2013/): -A Pennsylvania state representative is kicked out of a Christian band for supporting gay rights. -French anti-gay activists predict that their opposition to marriage equality...
- [XGW Digest: April 13, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/04/xgw-digest-april-13-2013/): -Actor Jeremy Irons expresses his reservations about same-sex marriage. -Senator Orrin Hatch suggests that he’s now open to civil unions. -A gay couple is savagely...
- [XGW Digest: April 6, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/04/xgw-digest-april-6-2013/): -Singer Marie Osmond endorses marriage equality. -A Mormon group launches a new ex-gay website. -Legislators in Uruguay and Colombia prepare to vote on marriage equality....
- [XGW Digest: March 30, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/03/xgw-digest-march-30-2013/): -NFL player Scott Fujita explains why he supports equality. -Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear vetoes an anti-gay “religious freedom” bill. -Senator Claire McCaskill endorses marriage equality. ...
- [PFOX: Gays Terrified of ‘Heterosexual Behavior’](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/03/pfox-gays-terrified-of-heterosexual-behavior/): “As a former homosexual, I understand the gays’ dread and absolute fear of heterosexuality. It goes beyond trying to normalize sodomy by calling it “marriage.””...
- [XGW Digest: March 23, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/03/xgw-digest-march-23-2013/): -Major Mike Almy reaches a settlement with the Department of Defense over his discharge under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. -Anti-gay activists find dwindling support at...
- [XGW Digest: March 16, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/03/xgw-digest-march-16-2013/): -Queen Elizabeth II prepares to sign a new anti-discrimination charter. -Openly gay city council member Christine Quinn officially launches her campaign for mayor of New...
- [IRS Revokes NARTH's Tax-Exempt Status](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/03/irs-revokes-narths-tax-exempt-status/): The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) has lost their tax-exempt status, for failing to file form 990 three years in a...
- [XGW Digest: March 9, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/03/xgw-digest-march-9-2013/): -Former Polish president Lech Walesa makes some harshly anti-gay remarks. -Music acts Train and Carly Rae Jepsen cancel their appearances at the Boy Scouts Jamboree...
- [‘Ex-gay’ Therapist Claims ‘Sensitive temperament’ is Fundamental Cause of Homosexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/03/ex-gay-therapist-claims-sensitive-temperament-is-fundamental-cause-of-homosexuality/): And then goes on to bash gay activists as scheming thugs. — Anti-gay/exgay therapist, Christopher Doyle of The International Healing Foundation, recently penned an op-ed...
- [XGW Digest: March 2, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/03/xgw-digest-march-2-2013/): -The Kansas Supreme Court upholds a lesbian mother’s parental rights. -The Obama Administration files a brief calling for the repeal of Prop 8. -British Cardinal...
- [XGW Digest: February 23, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/02/xgw-digest-february-23-2013/): -Another researcher accuses Joseph Nicolosi of NARTH of misusing his research. -Minnesota State Senator Scott Dibble announces introduction of a marriage equality bill. -Alaska Republicans...
- [Exodus International’s New Policy on Gay Marriage: We Don’t Have One.](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/02/exodus-internationals-new-policy-on-gay-marriage-we-dont-have-one/): Question of the Week — Gay Marriage? Full transcript below, commentary after the fold. [vimeo]https://www.vimeo.com/59911448[/vimeo] Transcript: Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International: Each week we...
- [XGW Digest: February 16, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/02/xgw-digest-february-16-2013/): -The late Jeanne Manford, founder of PFLAG, is chosen to receive the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal. -Indiana Republicans postpone a legislative vote on a marriage...
- [XGW Digest: February 9, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/02/xgw-digest-february-9-2013/): -The Wyoming Senate kills an anti-discrimination bill. -The French Assembly votes in favor of marriage equality. -French forces free two gay Malian men sentenced to...
- [XGW Digest: February 2, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/02/xgw-digest-february-2-2013/): -Catholic Charities threatens to pull out of Colorado over civil unions. -Kathleen Wynne becomes Ontario’s first female and first openly LGBT Premier. -At least 125,000...
- [XGW Digest: January 26, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/01/xgw-digest-january-26-2013/): -President Obama calls for equality for gay Americans in his inaugural address. -A bill is introduced in the Russian Parliament that would outlaw “homosexual propaganda.”...
- [XGW Digest: January 19, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/01/xgw-digest-01-19-13/): -Several hundred thousand protesters demonstrate against marriage equality in France. -Jodie Foster officially comes out of the closet. -Illinois business leaders speak out in favor...
- [XGW Digest: January 12, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/01/xgw-digest-january-12-2012/): -Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop, retires. -The Log Cabin Republicans campaign against former Senator Chuck Hagel’s nomination for Secretary of Defense....
- [Banning Conversion Therapy, the Flip Side](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/01/the-other-side-of-why-conversion-therapy-should-be-banned-for-minors-when-the-kids-want-it-and-the-parents-dont/): The “ex-gay” meme alive and infectious in Australia. But we begin with the latest on the subject matter in California. LA Times: Brown appeals injunction...
- [XGW Digest: January 5, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/01/xgw-digest-january-5-2012/): -The first baby of 2013 in France is born to a lesbian couple. -Pro bowler Scott Norton kisses his husband on camera on ESPN. -Charges...
- [2013 -- Onward](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/01/2013-onward/): Peace on Earth — the entirety of the liberal agenda. It may not be the most practical goal, but it’s one worth dying for.  
- [XGW Digest: December 29, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/12/xgw-digest-december-29-2012/): -The Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals suspends California’s ban on ex-gay therapy for minors. -A new book argues for conservative Christian support for LGBT...
- [XGW Digest: December 22, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/12/xgw-digest-december-22-2012/): -The Ugandan Parliament adjourns without voting on the “Kill the Gays” bill. -The Michigan Legislature kills two anti-gay bills. -The Dutch Caribbean island of Saba...
- [Ex-Gay Poster Boy Paulk Caught Out Again](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/12/ex-gay-poster-boy-paulk-caught-out-again/): In 1998, Exodus International plastered the image of husband and wife John and Anne Paulk on billboards across America as proof of the ex-gay message...
- [XGW Digest: December 15, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/12/xgw-digest-december-15-2012/): -A Swedish football team fires its entire first squad for chanting homophobic slurs at an opposing team. -A new poll finds strong support for marriage...
- [XGW Digest: December 8, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/12/xgw-digest-december-8-2012/): -The West Point chapel hosts its first same-sex wedding. -An openly gay woman is named chief of police in Minneapolis. -A Republican legislator in Pennsylvania...
- [Gay Activist Claims Orientation Can Change? WND Misses the Point](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/12/gay-activist-claims-orientation-can-change-wnd-misses-the-point/): It’s little wonder that with so few facts on their side, anti-gay activists are forced to make earth-shattering headlines out of unremarkable material. So it...
- [XGW Digest: December 1, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/12/xgw-digest-december-1-2012/): -A Libyan militia group kidnaps twelve allegedly gay men and announces their impending execution. -The United Nations condemns executions based on an individual’s sexual orientation...
- [UK Therapist Misrepresents Reasons for Dismissal from Professional Body](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/11/uk-therapist-misrepresents-reasons-for-dismissal-from-professional-body/): Mike Davidson, leader of the Northern Ireland-based Core Issues, has again misrepresented the reasons why he was dismissed from the British Psychodrama Association. The ex-gay...
- [XGW Digest: November 24, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/11/xgw-digest-november-24-2012/): -NOM refuses to release the names of the two donors who provided 2/3 of its 2011 contributions. -The Observer interviews gay statistician Nate Silver. -Nathaniel...
- [Remembering Victims of Transphobia](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/11/remembering-victims-of-transphobia/): Today is the International Transgender Day of Remembrance. Take a few moments to remember victims of transphobic violence and think about how you can help...
- [XGW Digest: November 17, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/11/xgw-digest-november-17-2012/): -The UPS Foundation discontinues its support for the Boy Scouts. -The Ugandan Parliament revives the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. -Kyrsten Sinema becomes the first openly bisexual member...
- [Uganda 'Kill the Gays' Bill Set to Pass This Year](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/11/uganda-kill-the-gays-bill-set-to-pass-this-year/): Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 — legislation that could see gays and lesbians punished with life sentences and even execution — has not gone away. Reports...
- [UK Government: Ex-Gay Therapy Not Beneficial, May Harm Clients](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/11/uk-government-ex-gay-therapy-not-beneficial-may-harm-clients/): The UK’s Minister of State for Care Services has told Parliament the British government does not condone the idea of a “gay cure.” Asked for...
- [XGW Digest: November 10, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/11/xgw-digest-november-10-2012/): -Senator Marco Rubio campaigns against marriage equality for NOM. -The government of Malawi suspends its anti-gay laws. -The Slovakian Parliament rejects a civil partnership bill....
- [Another Ex-Gay Therapist Arrested for Sexual Assault](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/11/another-ex-gay-therapist-arrested-for-sexual-assault/): According to KSDK in Minnesota, Pastor Ryan Jay Muehlhauser of the Lakeside Christian Church  in Cambridge has been arrested and charged with eight felony counts...
- [Floyd Godfrey: Cannibalism Analogous to Same-Gender Attraction](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/11/floyd-godfrey-cannibalism-analogous-to-same-gender-attraction/): On the heels of Dave Rattigan’s recent post about the BBC’s “Gay to Straight” documentary, Brian Tashman of Right Wing Watch finds conversion therapist Floyd Godfrey...
- [Brief: Maine Votes for Marriage Equality](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/11/brief-maine-votes-for-marriate-equality/): According to the Associated Press, Maine’s Question 1, which allows for same-sex marriage in the state, has won approval with a comfortable margin.
- [President Obama Wins Again!](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/11/president-obama-wins-again/): Democrats retain the Senate, Tammy Baldwin (out lesbian) won in Wisconsin and a lot more.  I’m sure other more political oriented blogs will bloviate, but...
- [XGW Digest: November 3, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/11/xgw-digest-november-3-2012/): -Lanae Erickson Hatalsky charts the growth of support for marriage equality across all age groups. -A transgender woman is stoned to death in Brazil. -The...
- [BBC 'Gay to Straight' Documentary Exposes Ex-Gay Therapy as Parody of Itself](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/11/bbc-gay-to-straight-documentary-exposes-ex-gay-therapy-as-parody-of-itself/): I am an openly and unashamedly gay man — and yet, when I hug a male friend, gay or straight, I don’t need an instructor...
- [Unification Church Leader Outs Ex-Gay Guru Richard Cohen as Moonie?](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/10/unification-church-leader-outs-ex-gay-guru-richard-cohen-as-moonie/): Ex-gay maverick Richard Cohen is a member of the Unification Church, according to the leader of the religious group better known as the Moonies. Church...
- [XGW Digest - October 27, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/10/xgw-digest-october-27-2012/): -A Missouri minister delivers a surprising gay rights speech. -Pastor Ted Haggard’s views on marriage equality evolve. -A North Carolina gay man accuses his church...
- [PFOX Furious Over Government Support for LGBTQ Anti-bullying Efforts](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/10/pfox-furious-over-government-support-for-lgbtq-anti-bullying-efforts/): This post brought to you by Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX). Families Ask Obama Administration to Take Down Government Links to Anti-Ex-Gay Websites...
- [XGW Digest: October 20, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/10/xgw-digest-october-20-2012/): -Republican billionaire Paul Singer donates $250,000 toward marriage equality in Maryland. -Michele Bachmann’s gay stepsister talks about their rocky relationship. -Dancer and fitness trainer Shaun...
- [XGW Digest: October 13, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/10/xgw-digest-october-13-2012/): -Sally Field talks about her gay son at the Human Rights Campaign’s gala. -Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin maintains a narrow lead in the Wisconsin senate race....
- [XGW Digest: October 6, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/10/xgw-digest-october-6-2012/): -California officially bans ex-gay therapy for minors. -Malawi president Joyce Banda drops her pledge to decriminalize homosexuality. -The US Supreme Court turns down another appeal...
- [Citizenlink equates LGBT Equality to Blindness](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/10/citizenlink-equates-lgbt-equality-to-blindness/): “I spent a month protesting 20/20-vision-normativity by not wearing my glasses. After a couple car accidents, my wife made me put them on again…” —...
- [America For Jesus Rally 2012 Descends Upon Philadelphia](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/10/america-for-jesus-rally-2012-descends-upon-philadelphia-2/): Over the weekend, the America for Jesus rally descended upon Independence Mall in my hometown – Philadelphia, PA. Independence Mall is a large open area...
- [XGW Digest: September 29, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/09/xgw-digest-september-29-2012/): -The Intel Foundation ends its giving to the Boy Scouts to protest the Scouts’ discriminatory policies. -Newspaperman and former baseball team owner Kevin McClatchy comes...
- [New Website: Legalize Lesbian Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/09/new-website-legalize-lesbian-marriage/): Ex-Gay Watch contributor Emily K has put her design talents to work for a new satirical website promoting same-sex marriage. Legalize Lesbian Marriage makes the...
- [More on Jeff Buchanan's Resignation from Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/09/more-on-jeff-buchanans-resignation-from-exodus/): Former Exodus International VP Jeff Buchanan has revealed more of why he stepped down from the post. While the organization said nothing about his reasons,...
- [XGW Digest: September 22, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/09/xgw-digest-september-22-2012/): -The Malaysian Education Ministry issues instructions on “how to spot gays.” -Congresswoman Michele Bachmann faces a tough reelection campaign. -WorldNetDaily readers celebrate the death of...
- [Is Exodus's Love Won Out Losing Out?](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/09/is-exoduss-love-won-out-losing-out/): Is time up for Exodus International’s Love Won Out? The conference, aimed at family and friends of “those struggling with same-sex attractions,”  takes place several...
- [Warren Throckmorton Hospitalized after Heart Attack](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/09/warren-throckmorton-hospitalized-after-heart-attack/): Dr Warren Throckmorton underwent triple heart bypass surgery on Tuesday, after suffering a heart attack on Sunday. A professor of psychology at Grove City College,...
- [Peter LaBarbera Laments Absence of Ex-Gay TV Characters](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/09/peter-labarbera-laments-absence-of-ex-gay-tv-characters/): Peter LaBarbera was on the Janet Mefferd radio show , when Mefferd asked LaBarbera what he knows about NBC’s The New Normal: LaBarbera: … you can...
- [XGW Digest: September 15, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/09/xgw-digest-september-15-2012/): -An Australian footballer comes out of the closet. -Minnesota Vikings player Chris Kluwe defends a colleague’s right to endorse equal rights. -A Catholic college faces...
- [XGW Digest: September 8, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/09/xgw-digest-september-8-2012/): -Poland’s ruling party prepares a civil partnership law. -Republican billionaire David Koch voices his support for marriage equality. -The city council of Dublin, Ireland formally...
- [In Brief: Joe Dallas Leaves Splinter Group Committee, Remains with Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/09/in-brief-joe-dallas-leaves-splinter-group-remains-with-exodus/): There had been some speculation about how Joe Dallas could be part of both Exodus International and the splinter group Restored Hope Network (RHN) —...
- [Breaking: At Exodus, Jeff Buchanan leaves, Randy Thomas Returns](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/09/breaking-at-exodus-jeff-buchanan-leaves-randy-thomas-returns/): From Exodus International: Yesterday marked Jeff and Angela Buchanan’s last day on the Exodus International staff.  Jeff served for the last 4 years and Angela...
- [XGW Digest: September 1, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/09/xgw-digest-september-1-2012/): -Anti-gay Maryland legislator Donald Dwyer injures four children while driving under the influence of alcohol. -Salt Lake City’s NBC affiliate announces it will not air...
- [XGW Digest: August 25, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/08/xgw-digest-august-25-2012/): -The Mexican Supreme Court rules that all states must recognize same-sex marriages performed in Mexico City. -Moscow’s high court upholds the city’s 100-year ban on...
- [Exodus President Returns to Lisa Ling Show](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/08/exodus-president-returns-to-lisa-ling-show/): Exodus president Alan Chambers returned to the Oprah Winfrey Network’s Our America this week, a year after he first spoke to host Lisa Ling on the...
- [Dana Milbank: Hate Speech Is the Same as Exposing It](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/08/dana-milbank-hate-speech-is-the-same-as-exposing-it/): Dana Milbank penned an opinion piece in the Washington Post on the August 16 in regard to the recent shooting at the Family Research Council....
- [Concerning the Recent Violence](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/08/concerning-the-recent-violence/): There can be no excuse for violence in response to the words of another — period.  This part is simple and our message on this...
- [XGW Digest: August 11, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/08/xgw-digest-august-11-2012/): Note: The Digest will be taking a vacation break next week. -Marriage equality may soon come to Tasmania, Australia. -A California author proposes a new...
- [Reparative Therapy: Restored Hope Network v Exodus International](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/08/andy-comiskey-on-exodus-restored-hope-network-and-reparative-therapy/): A doctrinal statement released by the new Restored Hope Network last week seemed to downplay potential differences between it and Exodus International, particularly on the...
- [XGW Digest: August 4, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/08/xgw-digest-august-4-2012/): -An Olympic torchbearer kisses his boyfriend onstage. -The Democratic Party includes marriage equality in its platform. -An openly gay Republican runs for Congress in Massachusetts....
- [Portland Fellowship Latest to Leave Exodus Network](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/08/portland-fellowship-latest-to-leave-exodus-network/): A member since 1988, Portland Fellowship has announced that is has left the Exodus International network in a recent newsletter (PDF). Portland Fellowship has removed...
- [Restored Hope Network Releases Doctrinal Statement](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/08/restored-hope-network-releases-doctrinal-statement/): The Restored Hope Network released its official doctrinal statement Tuesday. The first tenet of belief is a fairly direct response to Exodus International’s recent claims...
- [XGW Digest: July 28, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/07/xgw-digest-july-28-2012/): -House Majority Leader Eric Cantor calls on his fellow Republicans to be more tolerant on social issues. -The Jim Henson Company severs its ties with...
- [Dr. Nicolosi's Claims Contradicted by His Own Words](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/07/dr-nicolosis-claims-contradicted-by-his-own-words/): This year has seen Exodus International’s president Alan Chambers drop support for the brand of change therapy called reparative therapy.  In response, the therapy’s chief...
- [PFOX Fears Exodus Now Controlled by a Cult](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/07/pfox-fears-exodus-now-controlled-by-a-cult/): By distancing itself from reparative therapy and affirming the (fairly common) evangelical doctrine of “once saved, always saved,” the still-very-definitely conservative Exodus International has moved...
- [Restored Hope Network Membership No Barrier to Exodus Affiliation So Far](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/07/restored-hope-network-membership-no-barrier-to-exodus-affiliation-so-far/): Little information has yet been made public about Restored Hope Network, the new ex-gay organization that seems designed as an alternative to Exodus International. We...
- [Restored Hope Network: Beginnings of an Exodus Splinter Group?](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/07/beginnings-of-an-exodus-splinter-group/): In the first definite sign of an organized Exodus International splinter group, former Exodus affliate First Stone Ministries is advertising a conference of the “Restored...
- [XGW Digest: July 21, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/07/xgw-digest-july-21-2012/): -The European Union declares that new members must protect LGBT rights. -The Netherlands offers asylum to LGBT Iraqis. -A former Mormon bishop expresses his support...
- [Alan Chambers on Gay America (in 2004)](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/07/alan-chambers-on-gay-america-in-2004/): Right-Wing Watch has reported on an egregious anti-gay diatribe by Exodus International President Alan Chambers, published on the Charisma magazine website today. Do We Want a Gay America?...
- [Joseph Nicolosi Responds to Exodus Reparative Therapy Claims](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/07/joseph-nicolosi-responds-to-exodus-reparative-therapy-claims/): NARTH co-founder Joseph Nicolosi has called on Exodus International head Alan Chambers to take back criticisms he has made of reparative therapy. In particular, Nicolosi,...
- [Why Is Exodus International So Afraid of 'Gay'?](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/07/why-is-exodus-international-so-afraid-of-gay/): Exodus International may be distancing itself from reparative therapy — defined specifically as the gay-to-straight treatment offered by Joseph Nicolosi and NARTH — but it...
- [Oklahoma Ministry Ends 36-Year-Long Exodus Affiliation](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/07/oklahoma-ministry-ends-36-year-long-exodus-affiliation/): In June, Ex-Gay Watch noted that First Stone Ministries was one of twenty ministries to have severed itself from Exodus International recently. Now the Oklahoma City-based...
- [XGW Digest: July 14, 2012](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/07/xgw-digest-july-14-2012/): -China allows lesbians to begin donating blood. -The Vietnamese government ponders the possibility of legalizing marriage equality. -Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer petitions the US Supreme...
- [Proactive Theology and Ex-Gay Survivors](https://exgaywatch.com/2012/07/proactive-theology-and-ex-gay-survivors/): Last month I posted about how some Ex-Gay Survivors need to take on the Bible for themselves. Religious leaders and Ex-Gay ministers have used the...
- [XGW Digest: August 16, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/08/xgw-digest-august-16-2014/): -A British man is charged and fined for advocating anti-gay violence on Facebook. -One hundred activists turn out for a gay pride rally in Uganda....
- [XGW Digest: August 9, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/08/xgw-digest-august-9-2014/): -A gay man from Ghana is granted asylum in the U.S. -Australia’s Parliament schedules a vote on marriage equality. –Slate talks with celibate gay Christians....
- [XGW Digest: August 2, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/08/xgw-digest-august-2-2014/): -A tow company owner is arrested for illegally towing cars during Orlando Gay Days. -The Alaska Supreme Court extends survivor benefits to same-sex couples. -The...
- [XGW Digest: July 26, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/07/xgw-digest-july-26-2014/): -The Colorado Supreme Court stops Denver – but not Boulder or Pueblo Counties – from issuing same-sex marriage licenses. -The US Supreme Court extends the...
- [XGW Digest: July 19, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/07/xgw-digest-july-19-2014/): -Olympian Ian Thorpe comes out of the closet. -Support for marriage equality drops in the Czech Republic. -A former teacher receives an apology 42 years...
- [XGW Digest: July 12, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/07/xgw-digest-july-12-2014/): -An anti-gay archbishop is placed under investigation for sexual misconduct with other men. -A new study finds positive outcomes for children raised by same-sex couples....
- [XGW Digest: July 5, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/07/xgw-digest-july-5-2014/): -Apple CEO Tim Cook marches in San Francisco Pride. -A transgender woman is murdered in Cincinnati. -The US Supreme Court rejects a challenge to California’s...
- [XGW Digest: June 28, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/06/xgw-digest-june-28-2014/): -The New York Senate kills a pair of bills that would have protected gay minors and transgender individuals. -Freedom Ohio decides not to pursue a...
- [XGW Digest: June 21, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/06/xgw-digest-june-21-2014/): -Anti-LGBT hate crimes increase significantly in Scotland and the United States. -WWE legend Pat Patterson comes out of the closet. -The Obama Administration announces an...
- [So. Baptists Approve Fundamental Untruths about Transgender People](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/06/southern-baptists-approve-a-fundamental-lie-about-transgender-people/): Whereas thousands of people are born every year with the genes or organs of both sexes, Southern Baptists declare that all Christians should lie and claim these people don't exist -- and then deny them their human and constitutional rights -- because butchered Bible verses told them so.
- ["Discussing Marriage" Site Doesn't Appear to Want Discussion](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/06/discussing-marriage-site-doesnt-want-discussion/): A Christian Right site maintains "reason and civility" in marriage "discussion" by disallowing and mischaracterizing all views except its own.
- ['Ex-Gay' Rejoins Activists Who Coincidentally Seek to Imprison Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/06/ex-gay-dennis-jernigan-rejoins-hardline-antigays/): "Ex-gay" Dennis Jernigan again joins antigay activists who seek to imprison LGBT Americans.
- [Ex-Gays Cite Violence against Women as Reason to Stay Closeted](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/06/ex-gay-network-cites-violence-against-women-as-reason-to-stay-in-closet/): Restored Hope Network exploits violence against women to steer women back into the closet.
- [So. Baptist Resolution Mandates Transgender Ignorance, Discrimination](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/06/so-baptist-resolution-mandates-ignorance-discrimination-toward-transgender-people/): A Southern Baptist Convention resolution misdefines "transgender," prays for increased discrimination, misquotes the Bible, and opposes religious liberty except for Southern Baptists.
- [XGW Digest: June 7, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/06/xgw-digest-june-7-2014/): -Cyprus’ first pride parade draws thousands of attendees. -Medicare will now cover gender transition-related surgeries. -A new report finds that anti-LGBT crimes grew more violent...
- [XGW Digest: May 31, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/05/xgw-digest-may-31-2014/): –New lawsuits reduce the number of states with unchallenged marriage bans to one. -Costa Rica extends social security benefits to same-sex couples. -Boy Scouts president...
- [XGW Digest: May 24, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/05/xgw-digest-may-24-2014/): -The Arkansas Supreme Court suspends the decision striking down the state’s marriage ban. -Massachusetts celebrates ten years of marriage equality. -President Obama nominates a gay...
- [XGW Digest: May 17, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/05/xgw-digest-may-17-2014/): -Arkansas Judge Christopher Piazza strikes down the state’s marriage ban. -Michael Sam becomes the first openly gay NFL player. -Austrian drag queen Conchita Wurst wins...
- [XGW Digest: May 10, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/05/xgw-digest-may-10-2014/): -Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel declares his support for marriage equality. -Bishop Gene Robinson announces he is divorcing his husband. -A Republican candidate in North...
- [John Paulk: Proud to Be Ex-Ex-Gay](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/05/john-paulk-proud-to-be-ex-ex-gay/): John Paulk: “I felt like a liar and a hypocrite. Having to go out and give hope to these people. I was in despair knowing that what I was telling them was not entirely honest. I couldn’t do it anymore.”
- [XGW Digest: May 3, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/05/xgw-digest-may-3-2014/): -A Texas judge rules that the state’s marriage ban is unconstitutional during a gay divorce case. -The Alaska State Supreme Court rules that state property...
- [Peterson Toscano Launches Website for Queer Climate Change Action](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/04/peterson-toscano-queer-climate-change-website/): Press release: Queer Performance Activist and Ex-Gay Survivor Peterson Toscano announces new direction to promote Queer Climate Change Action Through his performance work, media appearances,...
- [XGW Digest: April 26, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/04/xgw-digest-april-26-2014/): -A South Carolina police chief is fired for being gay. -Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe announces that he will expel pro-gay diplomats. -The city council of...
- [XGW Digest: April 19, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/04/xgw-digest-april-19-2014/): -The Nevada Republican Party removes opposition to marriage equality and abortion from its platform. -Judge Timothy Black orders the State of Ohio to recognize out-of-state...
- [XGW Digest: April 12, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/04/xgw-digest-april-12-2014/): -A Russian district court rules that two previously banned LGBT events can take place. -The Mormon church reiterates its stance against marriage equality. -The US...
- [XGW Digest: April 5, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/04/xgw-digest-april-5-2014/): -A recently deceased man is rejected as an organ donor for being gay. -A South African gay man is brutally murdered in public. -Same-sex marriages...
- [XGW Digest: March 29, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/03/xgw-digest-march-29-2014/): -A Republican party strategist marries his partner in Michigan. -The US Sixth Court of Appeals issues a stay on Michigan’s marriage ruling. -The Obama Administration...
- [XGW Digest: March 22, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/03/xgw-digest-march-22-2014/): -The Department of Health and Human Services orders health insurers to offer the same coverage to all married couples. -Boston Mayor Marty Walsh boycotts the...
- [XGW Digest: March 15, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/03/xgw-digest-march-15-2014/): -Outed anti-gay politician Robert Arango officially comes out as a gay man. -A lesbian couple is murdered in Texas. -The United Methodist Church announces it...
- [XGW Digest: March 8, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/03/xgw-digest-march-8-2014/): -The Tempe, AZ city council unanimously approves an anti-discrimination ordinance. -A public gay wedding takes place in Burma/Myanmar. -A former Miss Kentucky comes out of...
- [XGW Digest: March 1, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/03/xgw-digest-march-1-2014/): -Virginia legislator Mark Sickles comes out of the closet. -Jason Collins signs with the Nets to become the first openly gay player in the NBA....
- [XGW Digest: February 22, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/02/xgw-digest-february-22-2014/): -A new University of Chicago study strengthens the case for a genetic cause for homosexuality. -Actress Ellen Page comes out of the closet. -The Wyoming...
- [XGW Digest: February 15, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/02/xgw-digest-february-15-2014/): –Protests across Russia lead to more than sixty arrests. -A same-sex marriage ban fails in El Salvador. -The US Justice Department extends additional federal rights...
- [XGW Digest: February 8, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/02/xgw-digest-february-8-2014/): -Mumbai Pride draws a record crowd. -Finnish Olympian Ari-Pekka Liokkonen comes out of the closet to protest Russia’s anti-gay laws. -Two gay Senegalese men are...
- [XGW Digest: February 1, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/02/xgw-digest-february-1-2014/): -The TSA changes its screening policy to recognize gay couples. -33 couples, gay and straight, get married at the Grammy Awards. -The Turkish Republic of...
- [XGW Digest: January 25, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/01/xgw-digest-january-25-2014/): -A gay couple’s family photo sparks anti-gay outrage on Twitter. -Vladimir Putin offers partial reassurances to gays planning to attend the Sochi Olympics. -Kenyan author...
- [Grassroots Ex-Gay Meetings in 2014 Stigmatize Healthy Families](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/01/grassroots-ex-gay-meetings-in-2014-stigmatize-healthy-families/): Restored Hope Network, which advocates costly gay-conversion therapies and ineffective pray-away-the-gay counseling, is taking its message that gay people are broken and damned to 20 cities in the first half of 2014.
- [XGW Digest: January 18, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/01/xgw-digest-january-18-2014/): -The Russian Orthodox Church calls for a referendum to outlaw homosexuality. -Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe signs an executive order banning discrimination against LGBT state employees....
- [XGW Digest: January 11, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/01/xgw-digest-january-11-2014/): -A new survey finds strong support for most LGBT rights in Hong Kong. -Retired boxer Evander Holyfield describes gays as ‘handicapped.’ -The US Supreme Court...
- [XGW Digest: January 4, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/01/xgw-digest-january-4-2014/): -Houston Mayor Annise Parker announces that she plans to marry her partner. -Good Morning America host Robin Roberts comes out of the closet. -The State...
- [XGW Digest: December 28, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/12/xgw-digest-december-28-2013/): -Same-sex couples begin marrying in Utah. -A federal judge rules that Ohio must recognize same-sex marriages on death certificates. -Utah is denied a stay on...
- [XGW Digest: December 21, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/12/xgw-digest-december-21-2013/): -The Advocate names the 13 biggest homophobes of 2013. -The Social Security Administration begins processing benefits for gay widows and widowers. -A lawsuit is filed...
- [XGW Digest: December 14, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/12/xgw-digest-december-14-2013/): -A Pennsylvania Catholic school fires a gay teacher for applying for a marriage license. -German President Joachim Gauck announces that he will boycott the 2014...
- [XGW Digest: December 7, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/12/xgw-digest-december-7-2013/): -The Salvation Army removes links to two ex-gay ministries from its website. -The UK Supreme Court rules against a Bed & Breakfast owner who discriminated...
- [XGW Digest: November 27, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/11/xgw-digest-november-27-2013/): The Digest will resume its normal weekly schedule in December. -A group of teenage girls is caught on video beating up a transgender classmate. -A...
- [XGW Digest: November 16, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/11/xgw-digest-november-16-2013/): -The Hawaii House gives final approval to marriage equality. -The Arkansas Attorney General approves a marriage equality measure for the 2016 ballot. -A Colombian anti-gay...
- [XGW Digest: November 9, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/11/xgw-digest-november-9-2013/): -West Point hosts its first same-sex wedding involving a male couple. -Congressman Mike Michaud comes out of the closet. -Two masked men open fire on...
- [Ex-Gay Activist Leader Idolizes Sin and Hearsay, Not Faith](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/11/ex-gay-activist-anne-paulk-idolizes-sin-and-hearsay-not-faith/): Anne Paulk, executive director for the hardline ex-gay Restored Hope Network, has no formal academic certification in Christian scripture, history or doctrine; no professional expertise...
- [XGW Digest: November 2, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/11/xgw-digest-november-2-2013/): -Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister promises a referendum on marriage equality. -Gay rights activists rally in Vietnam. -Holocaust survivor and LGBT rights activist Sharley McLean dies...
- [XGW Digest: October 26, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/10/xgw-digest-october-26-2013/): -Same-sex marriages begin in New Jersey. -A Catholic school in Arkansas fires a teacher for marrying her partner. -Podgorica, Montenegro’s first Pride event turns violent....
- [XGW Digest: October 19, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/10/xgw-digest-october-19-2013/): -Moldova overturns its ban on ‘gay propaganda.’ -Former Olympian Greg Louganis marries his partner. -The Values Voter Summit produces a predictable pile of anti-gay rhetoric....
- [XGW Digest: October 12, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/10/xgw-digest-october-12-2013/): -Kuwait announces that it will use medical screenings to stop gays from entering the country. -A transgender teen is named Homecoming King at a New...
- [XGW Digest: October 5, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/10/xgw-digest-october-5-2013/): -Attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies join the lawsuit against Virginia’s marriage equality ban. -The United Nations hosts a forum on LGBT rights. -New Jersey...
- [XGW Digest: September 28, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/09/xgw-digest-september-28-2013/): -A transgender student is named Homecoming Queen at a California high school. -A professor at a Christian college is forced to resign after coming out...
- [XGW Digest: September 21, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/09/xgw-digest-september-21-2013/): -Russia modifies its Olympic Truce document to be slightly more inclusive. -Linden becomes the latest Michigan town to pass an anti-discrimination ordinance. -Transgender women are...
- [XGW Digest: September 14, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/09/xgw-digest-september-14-2013/): -The New Mexico Supreme Court schedules a hearing to consider marriage equality arguments. -A South Korean couple holds the country’s first public same-sex wedding. -The...
- [XGW Digest: September 7, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/09/xgw-digest-september-7-2013/): -Sergeant Darren Manzella, who fought for the repeal of DADT, dies in a car accident. -Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg officiates at a same-sex...
- [XGW Digest: August 31, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/08/xgw-digest-august-31-2013/): -A conservative Catholic writer changes his mind about marriage equality. -Anti-gay activists launch a recall campaign against Daniel Hernandez Jr. -Ricky Martin admits that he...
- [XGW Digest: August 24, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/08/xgw-digest-august-24-2013/): -NFL Hall of Famer Steve Young agrees to keynote an LGBT Mormon conference. -A gay Marine veteran is booed at a San Antonio City Council...
- [XGW Digest: August 17, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/08/xgw-digest-august-17-2013/): -Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd promises marriage equality if reelected. -An Italian 14-year-old boy commits suicide because of anti-gay bullying. -John Berry, US ambassador to...
- [XGW Digest: August 10, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/08/xgw-digest-august-10-2013/): -Actress Raven Symone comes out of the closet. -The US State Department begins issuing visas for married gay couples. -An Albuquerque shuttle bus driver orders...
- [XGW Digest: August 3, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/08/xgw-digest-august-3-2013/): -A Louisiana sheriff starts enforcing the state’s invalidated anti-sodomy law. -An Australian parliamentary committee rules that states can set their own marriage laws. -The mayor...
- [XGW Digest: July 27, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/07/xgw-digest-july-27-2013/): -A group of Dutch tourists is arrested under Russia’s new anti-gay law. -Orson Scott Card quietly steps down from the National Organization for Marriage’s board....
- [Hardliners: Ex-Gays Say Tolerance=Racism, Admit Desire but Lack Power to Damn Gays](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/07/hardliners-ex-gays-say-toleranceracism-admit-desire-but-lack-power-to-damn-gays/): What’s happening this week among hardline ex-gay activists: Veteran ex-gay activist Anne Paulk and Alex McFarland, a guest writer for antigay evangelical James Dobson, equate their...
- [Christian Group Prays Gays into Prison, Casts Spell on Tornado (and Raises the Dead)](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/07/u-s-ex-gay-raise-the-dead-ministry-helps-incite-caribbean-antigay-persecution-splc-says/): VIDEO: Extreme Prophetic Ministries, a reactionary U.S. raise-the-dead ministry, rebukes a tornado and claims that they caused it to dissipate. In 2009, the ministry co-launched...
- [Jamaican Violence Worsening One Year after Ex-Gay Endorsement](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/07/jamaican-violence-escalates-one-year-after-ex-gay-endorsement/): Jamaica's epidemic of antigay violence has worsened in the year since Exodus board member traveled to the island, affirmed harsh antigay laws, and criticized U.S. concern for human rights.
- [Holocaust Revisionist Lively, Contra Supporter LaBarbera Affirm Russian Antigay Pogrom](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/07/holocaust-revisionist-lively-contra-supporter-labarbera-affirm-russian-antigay-pogrom/): Scott Lively and Peter LaBarbera endorse Russia's official antigay censorship and extrajudicial violence
- [Exodus VP Posts Open Apology to Gay Community](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/07/exodus-vp-posts-open-apology-to-gay-community/): Exodus International Vice President Randy Thomas has followed President Alan Chambers in apologizing to gays and lesbians: When Alan Chambers made his apology to the gay...
- [XGW Digest: July 20, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/07/xgw-digest-july-20-2013/): -Mexico City Mayor Miguel Mancera presides over a mass gay wedding. -Marriage equality passes a final vote in Britain’s House of Lords. -A gay rights...
- [XGW Digest: July 13, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/07/xgw-digest-july-13-2013/): -Former President George W. Bush avoids taking a stand for or against marriage equality. -Another prominent Ohio Republican comes out in favor of equality. -The...
- [XGW Digest: July 6, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/07/xgw-digest-july-6-2013/): -Same-sex marriages resume in California. -A federal judge strikes down Michigan’s ban on domestic partner benefits. -A British Conservative MP comes out of the closet....
- [Among N.Y. People of Faith Celebrating Pride, A Prophetic Message](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/07/among-n-y-people-of-faith-celebrating-pride-a-prophetic-message/): Among the churches and synagogues that celebrated NYC Pride, a renewed call to action.
- [XGW Digest: June 29, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/xgw-digest-june-29-2013/): -Vietnam’s National Assembly agrees to consider marriage equality. -Focus on the Family steps back in for the ex-gay movement. -A lesbian couple in Northumbria, England...
- [Prop 8 Dead, SCOTUS Won't Hear Appeal](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/prop-8-dead-scotus-wont-hear-appeal/): Proposition 8 is dead. Following today’s finding that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has now declared it will not hear...
- [DOMA Found Unconstitutional on Equal Protection Grounds](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/doma-found-unconstitutional-on-equal-protection-grounds/): The early word is that DOMA is struck down!  Discuss as the news progresses. Update: Sounds like they may dodge the Prop 8 decision on...
- [Hardline Ex-Gays Respond to Exodus Apology](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/hardline-ex-gays-respond-to-exodus-apology/): After Exodus International apologized last week for its past practice of blaming parents for homosexuality and ostracizing people who were no more sinful than they,...
- [Why Does Charisma Magazine Hate Christians?](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/why-does-charisma-magazine-hate-christians/): Charisma Magazine's antigay tirades say more about a church obsessed with sex and hate, than they do about gay people. Charisma humiliates Christians. Why, then, does Charisma Magazine hate Christians? 
- [Tampa Ex-Exodus Affiliate Moves Ahead with Conversion Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/tampa-ex-exodus-affiliate-moves-ahead-with-conversion-therapy/): ABC affiliate WFTS in Tampa, Fla., reports that a former Exodus affiliate, New Hearts Outreach, will continue performing discredited and counterproductive “conversion therapy” upon unsuspecting...
- [Ex-Gays Repackage Exodus' Spiritual and Sexual Condescension](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/ex-gays-repackage-exodus-spiritual-and-sexual-condescension/): The mission of successors to Exodus International begins to look like the old mission: To break people spiritually and sexually.
- [XGW Digest: June 22, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/xgw-digest-june-22-2013/): -President Obama nominates two gay men to ambassadorships. -Pam Spaulding announces her retirement from blogging. -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postpones debate on a civil...
- [Five Outcomes of the Exodus Ex-Gay Reboot](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/five-objectives-of-the-exodus-ex-gay-reboot/): Five things to remember about the Exodus "shutdown."
- [LGBTQ's to The Organization Once Known as Exodus International: It's Still Your Move](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/lgbtqs-to-exodus-international-its-still-your-move/): Last night, Exodus International announced it was shutting its doors. This came on the heels of Alan Chambers’ apology, and just before the airing of...
- [Alan Chambers on Exodus Shutdown on HuffPost Live](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/alan-chambers-on-exodus-shutdown-on-huffpost-live/)
- [Finally, a Hint of the Honesty We Wanted from Exodus](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/finally-a-hint-of-the-honesty-we-wanted-from-exodus/): It’s been a long time coming, but finally, almost eighteen months after the rebranding of Exodus International began, President Alan Chambers has acknowledged the harm...
- [Exodus to Shut Down Ex-Gay Network; Leaders to Launch New Ministry](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/exodus-to-shut-down-leaders-to-launch-new-ministry/): Exodus International, the North American umbrella network of ex-gay ministries, announced tonight that it is shutting down and relaunching as a new ministry. Its remaining...
- [Live Streaming of Exodus Freedom Conference Tonight](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/free-live-streaming-of-exodus-freedom-conference-tonight/): Live streaming of the first night of the Exodus 2013 International Freedom Conference is free of charge.  Just use the code “TrueStory” at the checkout. ...
- [Alan Chambers Apologizes to LGBTQs](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/alan-chambers-apologizes-to-lgbtqs/): In what appears to be a preemptive move, Alan Chambers has posted what he says is an expanded version of the apology he will give...
- [Pam Spaulding Closes the Coffee House](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/pam-spaulding-closes-the-coffee-house/): LGBT blogger Pam Spaulding has announced she’ll be putting down her pen and archiving her blog, Pam’s House Blend, as of July 1. Pam and...
- [XGW Digest: June 15, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/xgw-digest-june-15-2013/): -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...
- [Lesbian Falls in Love with Man, Realizes Importance of Same-sex Marriage](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/lesbian-falls-in-love-with-man-realizes-importance-of-same-sex-marriage/): 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....
- [Hardliners Pre-Emptively Spin Exposé of Survivors of Ex-Gay Abuse](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/hardliners-pre-emptively-spin-expose-of-survivors-of-ex-gay-abuse/): Before a TV exposé of people abused by ex-gay ministries can air, Restored Hope Network pre-emptively sins against those survivors. 
- [XGW Digest: June 8, 2013](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/xgw-digest-june-8-2013/): -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...
- [Is the End of Exodus International Near?](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/is-the-end-of-exodus-near/): 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...
- [Photo Gallery: Antigay activists stage press event at Human Rights Campaign](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/photos-antigay-press-event-at-human-rights-campaign/): 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...
- [Journal Editor Calls Antigay Parenting Study 'Deeply Flawed' and 'Disgraced'](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/journal-editor-calls-antigay-parenting-study-deeply-flawed-and-disgraced/): 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...
- [Armed Antigay Conflict Not Out of the Question, FRC Leader Says](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/armed-antigay-conflict-not-out-of-the-question-frc-leader-says/): 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),...
- [Ex-Gay Leader Decries Fairness and Good Health for Gay Youths, Scout Leaders](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/hardline-ex-gay-leader/): 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,...
- [Gagnon Hints that Banned Ex-Gay App Is Really Just Antigay](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/gagnon-hints-that-banned-ex-gay-app-is-really-just-antigay/): 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...
- [Being Ex-Gay: Straining to See Oneself as Defective](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/being-ex-gay-straining-to-see-oneself-as-defective/): In the 1997 classic sci-fi movie Gattaca, Vincent (Ethan Hawke) is a man living a double life — publicly he’s an exemplar among a superior caste...
- [Religious Fundamentalism 'May Be Categorised As Mental Illness & Cured By Science'](https://exgaywatch.com/2013/06/religious-fundamentalism-may-be-categorised-as-mental-illness-cured-by-science/): Someone who has for example become radicalised to a cult ideology – we might stop seeing that as a personal choice that they have chosen...
- [God in the Mirror: Projecting the "Overcomer" in the Modern Ex-Gay Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2026/09/god-in-the-mirror/): Why ministries promising to heal “unwanted same-sex attraction” remake God in their own likeness… and end up turning on their own followers. When watching political and religious groups tear each other apart in circular firing squads, it is tempting to write it off as simple vanity or personal selfishness. We see this same pattern inside the modern conversion therapy subculture—especially in groups like the Restored Hope Network, the CHANGED Movement, and Brothers on a Road Less Traveled (famous for its “Journey into Manhood” weekends). Yet, calling this behavior pure selfishness or an “ego trip” misses what is actually going on. The...
- [Part 2: Can You Help Someone Leave an Ex-Gay Ideology?](https://exgaywatch.com/2026/09/part-2-can-you-help-someone-leave-an-ex-gay-ideology/): Why do people sometimes become more entrenched when confronted with better evidence? And if direct argument doesn’t work, is there anything friends, family members, critics or churches can do? There is no technique for making another person self-reflective. Some people will not reconsider, and efforts to force a breakthrough can strengthen the defenses we hope to weaken. But the histories of former ex-gay leaders, together with some lessons from Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, suggest ways to make reconsideration more possible — and ways we may inadvertently make it harder. Don’t Argue Only With the Rider Haidt’s elephant-and-rider metaphor has an...
- [Part 1: Why Some Ex-Gay Leaders Change Their Minds — and Others Double Down](https://exgaywatch.com/2026/09/part-1-why-some-ex-gay-leaders-change-their-minds-and-others-double-down/): For decades, the ex-gay movement has produced a striking number of former leaders who eventually repudiated some or all of what they once taught. John Paulk did. John Smid did. McKrae Game did. Randy Thomas did. Yvette Cantu Schneider did. Others have remained committed to essentially the same worldview despite decades of evidence contradicting older promises of sexual-orientation change. Sometimes the promise itself has changed. “Change” may now mean rejecting a gay identity, remaining celibate, marrying someone of the opposite sex, or resisting same-sex relationships rather than becoming heterosexual. Restored Hope Network, the principal organizational successor to Exodus International, currently describes...
- [Remembering Patrick Fitzgerald: Looking Beyond the Claims of the Ex-Gay Movement](https://exgaywatch.com/2026/08/remembering-patrick-fitzgerald-claims-ex-gay-movement/): Patrick Fitzgerald, who wrote for Ex-Gay Watch from 2009 to 2013, died May 11, 2026, in Naples, Florida. He was 57. Patrick’s obituary describes a man whose interests ranged well beyond the subjects he covered here. He was a gardener, philosopher and inventor who worked primarily in hospitality. Friends and family remembered his creativity, curiosity, gentle and sensitive nature, and unusual way of looking at the world. That curiosity was evident in his writing for Ex-Gay Watch. Patrick wrote about Exodus International, PFOX, conversion therapy, the religious right, marriage equality, anti-gay bullying and figures including Alan Chambers, Randy Thomas, Christopher Doyle,...
- [Christopher Yuan: From Exodus International to Holy Sexuality](https://exgaywatch.com/2026/08/christopher-yuan-exodus-international-holy-sexuality/): Christopher Yuan is important to the history of the ex-gay movement partly because his ministry illustrates how that movement has changed. Yuan participated in the community and mindset of Exodus International, and built a prominent evangelical ministry around his story of leaving gay life after becoming a Christian. But he has also rejected a central promise historically associated with conversion therapy: that gay people should become heterosexual. Instead, Yuan increasingly has argued that sexual orientation is the wrong measure of change. His preferred goal is “holy sexuality”: celibacy for people who are unmarried and sexual relationships only within heterosexual marriage. That...
- [Does Neuroscience Provide New Evidence for Conversion Therapy?](https://exgaywatch.com/2026/08/conversion-therapy-gets-a-new-name-and-a-neuroscience-makeover/): Joseph Nicolosi Jr. contends in a new paper that recent research provides scientific support for psychotherapy that may change unwanted sexual attractions. He points to experiments involving memory, sexual fantasy, arousal, mindfulness and trauma treatment, and proposes neuroscience—particularly memory reconsolidation—as an explanation for how such changes might occur. New research: “Bioethical guidelines of sexual-attraction change in psychotherapy,” by Joseph Nicolosi Jr., in The New Bioethics, 28 Aug 2026. It sounds like an important new scientific case for sexual orientation change efforts (S.O.C.E.), commonly called conversion therapy. But look closely at the studies Nicolosi cites and a problem emerges: Much of the...
- [Milo Yiannopoulos: From Gay Provocateur to Ex-Ex-Gay ICE Deportee](https://exgaywatch.com/2026/08/milo-yiannopoulos-from-gay-provocateur-to-ex-gay-ice-deportee/): I have always found Milo Yiannopoulos difficult to categorize: He’s an openly gay British man who became a minor celebrity in a right-wing American political movement that opposes homosexuality. A man who celebrated interracial relationships while associating with white nationalists such as Nick Fuentes. A man with Jewish ancestry who cultivated antisemites. Then, in 2021, the flamboyantly gay provocateur announced that he was now “ex-gay.” And in early 2026, he at least momentarily declared himself “ex-ex-gay” without explanation or apology for his hypocrisies and his ongoing grift. And now the anti-immigration activist has a new claim to fame: mass-deportation advocate who...
- [Law & Crime Network Reports on Alan Chambers' Sex Sting](https://exgaywatch.com/2026/05/law-crime-network-reports-on-alan-chambers-sex-sting/): The Law & Crime Network has produced a video about Alan Chambers’ arrest, along with a brief, if somewhat flawed, summary of his history. Most of it seems reasonably even-handed considering the seriousness and nature of the charges. They do, however, introduce one new detail. According to the video, “The detectives wrote that one of the accounts they had investigated was used to connect with male sex workers.” If accurate, this would indicate that Chambers at least had an adult outlet for male sexual contact, though there is no evidence at this point indicating whether he actually pursued it. It also...
- [Where are the Safeguards at Sexual Orientation Change Ministries](https://exgaywatch.com/2026/05/where-are-the-safeguards-at-sexual-orientation-change-ministries/): Where Are the Safeguards at Sexual Orientation Change Ministries? Organizations such as the Restored Hope Network, Changed Movement, Brothers on a Road Less Traveled (also known as Brothers Road), and Portland Fellowship promise transformation to people in deep emotional distress over their sexual orientation or gender identity. They work with vulnerable adults, sometimes minors, and sometimes survivors of prior sexual abuse. Yet a review of their public-facing materials reveals a striking absence: None of these organizations appear to publish formal, enforceable policies for preventing sexual misconduct and abuse within their programs. I find no publicly accessible background check requirements for leaders,...
- [Peterson Toscano on Alan Chambers Sex Sting](https://exgaywatch.com/2026/05/alan-chambers-sex-sting/)
- [Alan Chambers, Former Exodus President, Charged in Underage Sex Sting](https://exgaywatch.com/2026/05/alan-chambers-former-exodus-president-charged-in-underage-sex-sting/): According to WFTV in Orlando, former Exodus International president Alan Chambers has been arrested in Florida following an undercover investigation in which detectives posed as a 14-year-old boy online. Authorities allege Chambers engaged in sexually explicit communication and discussed meeting for sexual activity. He faces charges including solicitation of a minor via computer and transmitting harmful material to a minor. The charges remain allegations, and no conviction has been reported. Chambers is of course well known to us as the face of the ex-gay movement for over a decade, ending in 2013 when he oversaw the closing of Exodus International, once...
- [Camouflage, Compliance, <br>and the Cost of Blending In](https://exgaywatch.com/2025/06/camouflage-compliance-and-the-cost-of-blending-in/): In his recent essay for&nbsp;the Advocate, Peterson Toscano returns to familiar yet urgent terrain: the performance of identity under pressure. Titled simply&nbsp;Camouflage, the piece is equal parts memoir, cultural critique, and call to conscience. Toscano, a longtime chronicler of queer survival, unpacks how the impulse to “blend in” is often a capitulation to fear—and how it quietly shapes the lives of queer and trans people, especially in conservative spaces. It begins with a green camo hat. “Once I put it on,” Toscano writes, “the cap seemed to summon brown and tan work pants, heavy boots, and a jacket meant for moving...
- [Matthew Scott Montgomery Issues Interview Retraction](https://exgaywatch.com/2024/04/matthew-montgomery-issues-interview-retraction/): Last year we reported on an interview with Disney actor Matthew Scott Montgomery on Christy Carlson Romano’s podcast&nbsp;Vulnerable. In it he described his experience with reparative therapy under Joseph Nicolosi Jr., son of the late Joseph Nicolosi Sr. The latter was the well-known co-creator of reparative therapy who passed away in 2017. If you haven&#8217;t already, take some time to read that post and watch the interview. We recently received an email from Matthew telling us that he wanted to retract some of the statements he made in the original interview. He claimed that Dr. Nicolosi Jr. had demanded this. I...
- [Another US Anti-LGBTQ+<br> Extremist Visits Uganda](https://exgaywatch.com/2024/03/another-us-anti-lgbtq-extremist-visits-uganda/): American extremist Ayo Kimathi recently traveled to Uganda to promote hatred against the LGBTQ+ community and voice his support for the country&#8217;s draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023. He conflates LGBTQ+ with Jews and hates both with a passion. Kimathi, who belongs to the Straight Black Pride Movement (SBPM) hate group, was invited to speak at an event hosted by the Pan-African Pyramid forum in Kampala on March 15th. In his speech, Kimathi attacked LGBTQ+ rights, made inflammatory comments about opposition leaders like Bobi Wine, and even disparaged Nelson Mandela&#8217;s legacy. The visit by Kimathi, who was previously fired from a U.S....
- [From Flower Power to Conversion Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2024/03/flower-power-coversion-therapy/): The Jesus People Movement: A Reaction to 1960s Idealism Much of the modern ex-gay movement &#8212; and a broader rebellion by American religious conservatives against perceived threats to their worldview &#8212; are rooted in San Francisco&#8217;s Jesus People Movement of the early 1970s. As it happens, my own family spent time in this movement and in San Francisco. The experience reshaped my parents and defined me for life, spiritually and philosophically. In fact, certain ideals inherited from that era &#8212; community justice, personal growth, and religious accountability &#8212; inspired the creation of the Ex-Gay Watch website in 2002 and the formation...
- [Black History Month: Meet Augustine Tanner-Ihm](https://exgaywatch.com/2024/02/black-history-month-meet-augustine-tanner-ihm/): As February draws to a close, so do Black History Month in the US and LGBT History Month in the UK. It seems, then, an appropriate point to introduce readers to the Revd Augustine Tanner-Ihm. Born to a Jehovah&#8217;s Witness family and brought up in an impoverished black neighbourhood of Chicago, Augustine was a teenager when he realised he was gay. He knew from his cultural and religious background, however, as well as his recently found evangelical faith, that being a &#8216;practising homosexual&#8217; was not an option. A book given him by a mentor was his introduction to the idea that...
- [US Evangelicals Pull Uganda's Strings](https://exgaywatch.com/2024/02/us-evangelicals-pull-ugandas-strings/): A new law in Uganda targeting LGBTQ+ people has rightfully drawn international condemnation. As covered in a recent article, the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023 (AHA 2023) criminalizes same-sex relations and promotes the dangerous, discredited practice of &#8220;conversion therapy.&#8221; While Ugandan officials claim the law reflects local values, the article exposes how American anti-LGBTQ+ groups have actively shaped and promoted it over many years. Organizations like Family Watch International, Abiding Truth Ministries, and Exodus International (now disbanded) have provided the ideological framework, messaging, and pseudoscience used to justify AHA 2023. The involvement of these American extremists undercuts arguments that the law represents...
- [Exposé on Ex-Gay Therapist Christopher Doyle](https://exgaywatch.com/2024/01/expose-on-ex-gay-therapist-christopher-doyle/): The venerable Truth Wins Out published an explosive exposé on ex-gay therapist Christopher Doyle. The article alleges hypocrisy and misconduct by Doyle, who leads the Institute for Healthy Families despite having a dysfunctional personal life rife with secrets. The investigative report includes testimony from Doyle&#8217;s niece alleging his wife caught him on nanny cam ushering a male stranger into his home for a sexual encounter. This after years of Doyle claiming to be cured of same-sex attraction through conversion therapy. His niece also accuses him of habitually visiting massage parlors for illicit services. Considering the utter failure of Doyle to overcome...
- [Book: Getting Jefferson Right](https://exgaywatch.com/2023/11/book-getting-jefferson-right/): Fact-checking claims about Thomas Jefferson Early readers of this blog will remember Warren Throckmorton. He began his interactions with us hailing from the ex-gay side of things. He later responded to the data and his own experiences as a psychologist and psychology professor, and realized that ex-gay or conversion therapies did not work and may even be harmful. While he remains a conservative Christian, his views surrounding this subject have evolved. He has since done a great deal of work to dispel the bad science used to justify conversion therapies. One of Throckmorton&#8217;s passions is sifting through errant garbage to uncover...
- [Mike Bickle Accused of Clergy Sexual Abuse](https://exgaywatch.com/2023/10/ihopkcs-mike-bickle-accused-of-clergy-sexual-abuse/): Mike Bickle, founder of the International House of Prayer in Kansas City (IHOPKC), has been accused of clergy sexual abuse. The allegations are called &#8220;credible and longstanding,&#8221; spanning decades. According to a statement released by three former leaders at IHOPKC: A few days ago, we made the leadership team of the International House of Prayer in Kansas City(IHOPKC) aware of serious allegations spanning several decades concerning its founder, Mike Bickle, Without going into details to protect the privacy of the victims’ identities, we have found these allegations of clergy sexual abuse by Mike Bickle to be credible and long-standing. The credibility...
- [Review: Lies with a Straight Face, by Wayne Besen](https://exgaywatch.com/2023/10/review-lies-with-a-straight-face-by-wayne-besen/): In his newest book, activist and journalist Wayne Besen has produced a prodigious account of the American ex-gay movement since its inception, providing an illuminating survey of where its proponents have been, where they are now and where they&#8217;re headed. Despite being a very easy read, Lies with a Straight Face: Exposing the Cranks and Cons Inside the &#8220;Ex-Gay&#8221; Industry is remarkably thorough and well-documented, tracing the movement&#8217;s 50-year history through key figures&#8217; own statements, contemporaneous media and the reportage of sites such as his own Truth Wins Out, Ex-Gay Watch and others. As someone who covered the ex-gay beat here...
- [Ex-Gay Therapist Doyle's Serious Violence Issues](https://exgaywatch.com/2023/10/ex-gay-therapist-doyles-serious-violence-issues/): Wayne Besen at Truth Wins Out has discovered some very troubling information about ex-gay therapist Christopher Doyle. Doyle is the successor to the outlandish ex-gay guru Richard Cohen and his International Healing Foundation. However, while Doyle has his hands in many pies, his main project always seems to be the Institute for Healthy Families. From the IHF website Doyle offer&#8217;s all sorts of things for which one can pay him money. According to records uncovered by Besen, Doyle&#8217;s own life with his wife and family has been less than ideal. Doyle married his wife, Sherry Montgomery, in 2006, and they have...
- [Gay Journalist Josh Kruger Murdered](https://exgaywatch.com/2023/10/gay-journalist-josh-kruger-murdered/): An unknown intruder fatally shot 39-year-old gay journalist Josh Kruger at his home in Philadelphia early Monday morning. Kruger had apparently been the victim of harassment and minor vandalism some weeks before. It is unknown if any of this is related to the attack that caused his death. He was shot seven times in the chest and abdomen and died about an hour later in the hospital. Kruger had worked for a number of publications, including LGBTQ Nation, The Philadelphia Citizen, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others. He had a particular affinity for the homeless, having been homeless himself at one point. From...
- [Uganda: Human Rights Violations](https://exgaywatch.com/2023/10/uganda-human-rights-violations/): Ex-gay Message Exports Homophobia to Uganda Fifteen years ago, lawmakers in Uganda passed a law that basically made it a crime to be gay there. It wasn&#8217;t just sex between same-sex individuals that was illegal, but knowing about someone who was homosexual without notifying the authorities was also a crime. The penalties were anything from a few years in jail to death for &#8220;aggravated homosexuality,&#8221; a term covering repeat offenders among other things. After much protest from around the world, this was amended to life imprisonment. The bill passed in 2014 and was signed into law by President Yoweri Museveni ....
- [Rishi Sunak to Sideline Therapy Ban?](https://exgaywatch.com/2023/09/rishi-sunak-to-sideline-therapy-ban/): Truth Wins Out, the non-profit that works against conversion therapy and anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry is reporting that UK’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will likely renege on plans for a conversion therapy ban in that country. As prime minister five years ago, Theresa May promised a ban on practices that sought to suppress or “cure” a person’s sexual orientation. Boris Johnson repeated the pledge during the 2019 general election campaign, The Guardian reports. Now, Sunak is prepared to drop the legislation entirely citing phony fears that it would inhibit religious practices. He also disingenuously claims that such protections were “problematic or ineffective in...
- [Cured, a Documentary](https://exgaywatch.com/2023/09/cured-a-documentary/): Doctors Called them Sick, the Remedy was Rebellion The confluence of events that led to the momentous decision in 1973 to remove homosexuality from the list of mental disorders are chronicled in this documentary that was five years in the making. This was the first major step on the road to acceptance. Many were involved and this film promises &#8220;a trove of newly unearthed archival material — much of it unseen for decades.&#8221; While CURED is indisputably about science, medicine, politics, and the process of social change, this film at its core is about a group of extraordinary activists with stubborn...
- [Matthew Scott Montgomery's <br/>Reparative Experience](https://exgaywatch.com/2023/09/matthew-scott-mongomerys-reparative-experience/): Update: Matthew has notified us of retractions he has been asked to make to his original comments. The original interview video is now unavailable but you can still view it on the archive of this article here. The relevant material starts at about 19:20. Please see the details of his retraction here. Recently, on Christy Carlson Romano’s podcast Vulnerable, former Disney actor Matthew Scott Montgomery described his experience with reparative therapy with Dr. Joseph Nicolosi Jr., the son of the well-known reparative therapist and apologist. Montgomery described the practice as Christian, and claiming to treat Hollywood stars seeking to become straight....
- [Fixing the Unfixable: Conversion Therapy](https://exgaywatch.com/2023/09/fixing-the-unfixable-conversion-therapy/): This is the first in a series of posts that will explain the basics of several new versions of conversion therapy. We will explore how these variations help practitioners avoid some of the negative perceptions connected with the older terminology. They may be able to avoid state bans, appear more legitimate to potential clients, and qualify for insurance reimbursement. Lets start with a few basics. In the early part of this century, conversion therapy was the popular catchall term covering a host of practices used in an attempt to change one’s sexual orientation from homosexual to heterosexual. The term&#8217;s use for...
- [What is Ahead for Ex-Gay Watch](https://exgaywatch.com/2023/07/what-is-ahead-for-ex-gay-watch/): As it turns out, there is a fair bit of work involved with bringing a site like this back from the dead. We have spent a lot of time reviewing the literature of the current crop of ex-gay organizations, therapists and religious based speakers. In some ways the landscape hasn&#8217;t changed all that much. The ex-gay triad of religion, therapy and money is alive and well. However, they have changed tactics and most want nothing more to do with the toxic terms of the past, i.e. conversion therapy, ex-gay, and even largely Reparative Therapy. More on this in another post. There...
- [An Open Letter to Christian Today](https://exgaywatch.com/2023/06/open-letter-christian-today/): The following is a copy of a letter we sent to the editor of Christian Today (not Christianity Today). It was about an article they published by Paul Huxley, the communications manager at Christian Concern. These are both Christian organizations in the UK. Mr. Huxley was wrong in his reading of a study recently published by The Guardian and wrong on multiple issues of fact. The article is misleading and a good example of when bias and ideology cause one to hastily evaluate new data. Unfortunately, when met with the facts in a twitter exchange, he simply stopped responding. The article...
- [We're Back for Round Two](https://exgaywatch.com/2023/06/were-back-for-round-two/): Ex-Gay Watch essentially ended operations in 2015. Exodus International, the main ex-gay organization at the time, had shut down. Its principals accepted that their homosexuality was not incompatible with their faith and moved on with their lives. Many other ex-gay organizations followed suit. The allure of the ex-gay movement had faded. Then came Obergefell which struck at the heart of the reason why evangelical political groups financially supported ex-gay ministries. Indeed, the anti-gay actors entered a lull, which, in retrospect, gave us a false sense of complacency. Those who profited from the fear and prejudice of parents have since regrouped. They...
- [Remembering A True Mother on Thanksgiving](https://exgaywatch.com/2021/11/remembering-true-mother-thanksgiving/): Carol Ann Gonzales is an unsung hero in the movement by survivors to end conversion therapy.
- [Remembering Yuki Vivienne Choe](https://exgaywatch.com/2021/01/remembering-yuki-vivienne-choe/): We remember Yuki Vivienne Choe, a conversion therapy survivor and lesbian trans woman who took time to write for Ex-Gay Watch 12 years ago while advocating for LGBTQ rights in her home country of Malaysia.
- [Remembering Timothy Kincaid](https://exgaywatch.com/2021/01/remembering-timothy-kincaid/): We remember Timothy Kincaid, a longtime writer for blogs that intelligently reported and critically analyzed the conversion therapy movement and religious right. Timothy died suddenly in September 2020.
- [XGW Digest: December 12, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/12/xgw-digestdecember-122015/): -PBS News looks at the ordeals that gay people have to endure in Nigeria. -Australia&#8217;s House of Representatives gets its first openly gay member. -The State of Arkansas refuses to list same-sex couples on their children&#8217;s birth certificates. -Presidential candidate Marco Rubio lays out his plan for rolling back LGBT rights. -A transgender candidate is elected to Venezuela&#8217;s National Assembly. -A Czech court recognizes a gay couple as the legal parents of their adopted children. -A Christian university is granted federal permission to ban gay students. -The Cincinnati city council passes a ban on conversion therapy for minors. -The Savannah, GA...
- [XGW Digest: December 5, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/12/xgw-digestdecember-52015/): -The Parliament of Cyprus passes a civil partnerships bill. -The Mexican Supreme Court strikes down another same-sex marriage ban. -A new poll finds 51% support for marriage equality in Japan. -A group of gunmen open fire at a gay festival in Acapulco. -World AIDS Day is commemorated around the globe. -Ireland&#8217;s Parliament votes to protect the rights of LGBT teachers working at religious schools. -Michigan Republicans launch another effort to undermine marriage equality. -The government of Northern Ireland asserts that civil partnerships are enough for gay couples.
- [XGW Digest: November 25, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/11/xgw-digestnovember-252015/): -A gay Ugandan is denied asylum in the UK, -Pat Robertson acknowledges that the sin of Sodom was not homosexuality. -Same-sex marriages begin in Ireland. -An Australian senator drops his opposition to marriage equality and becomes a supporter. -Tucson, AZ hires an openly gay police chief. -November 20 was the Transgender Day of Remembrance. -Portugal legalizes adoption by gay couples. -23 students are arrested in Nigeria for alleged acts of gay sex. -The government of Vietnam passes a transgender rights bill.
- [XGW Digest: November 14, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/11/xgw-digestnovember-142015/): -Kentucky&#8217;s governor-elect announces that he will remove county clerks&#8217; names from marriage licenses. -The Dallas City Council considers expanding anti-discrimination protections. -Conservatives start a petition to &#8220;drop the T&#8221; from LGBT. -A lesbian couple faces jail time in Costa Rica for getting married. -President Obama officially endorses the Equality Act. -An anti-trans activist defends a man charged with spying on women in a bathroom. -The Australian Senate calls for a legislative vote on marriage equality instead of a referendum. -The Vatican meets with the US Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons. -A Utah judge orders that a baby be...
- [XGW Digest: November 7, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/11/xgw-digest-november-7-2015/): -The Church of Norway allows same-sex weddings to be held in its churches. -The Parliament of Northern Ireland passes, and then vetoes, a marriage equality bill. -Gays who adopted their partners for legal purposes find themselves unable to marry. -Ben Carson comes under fire from the religious right for supporting non-discrimination policies as a corporate board member. -A gay couple is violently assaulted in Palm Springs. -Voters strike down Houston&#8217;s Equal Rights Ordinance. -Early results indicate that Salt Lake City has elected an openly gay mayor. -Two Tokyo wards begin recognizing same-sex couples. -Colombia&#8217;s Constitutional Court rules that gay couples can...
- [XGW Digest: October 31, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/10/xgw-digest-october-31-2015/): -Houston Texans owner Bob McNair withdraws a donation to the anti-gay Campaign for Houston. -Young adult author James Dawson comes out as transgender. -Russian lawmakers propose a further expansion of the country&#8217;s anti-gay laws. -Ten same-sex couples participate in a mass wedding in Taipei, Taiwan. -Another anti-gay politician is outed. -An intersex veteran sues for the right to not specify a gender on their passport. -A Colombian city elects an openly gay conservative mayor. -The Netherlands lifts its lifetime ban on blood donations by gay men. -Ireland&#8217;s Presidential Commission signs marriage equality into law.
- [XGW Digest: October 24, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/10/xgw-digest-october-24-2015/): -A transgender woman is murdered in Maryland. -John Corvino considers possible ways to balance religious freedom with non-discrimination laws. -A British army general wants more LGBT people to join the military. -Polls show residents favoring Houston&#8217;s LGBT rights referendum by a narrow margin. -Civil unions begin in Chile. -Slovenia&#8217;s Constitutional Court approves a referendum to repeal marriage equality. -New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo prepares an executive order to protect transgender rights. -An Indonesian province makes gay sex a punishable offense.
- [XGW Digest: October 17, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/10/xgw-digest-october-17-2015/): -A British journalist exposes the continued use of shock therapy on gay patients in China. -A new survey reveals the depth of anti-gay sentiment in Russia. -Actor Victor Garber marries his partner. -A Texas judge recognizes a gay couple&#8217;s common law marriage. -India&#8217;s Missionaries of Charity ends adoption services to avoid the possibility of a gay parent adopting a child. -Hate crimes are on the rise in England and Wales. -A civil unions bill is introduced in the Italian Parliament. -Justice Sonia Sotomayor presides over a same-sex wedding. -A new report from a federal agency calls for an end to conversion...
- [XGW Digest: October 10, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/10/xgw-digest-october-10-2015/): -Norwegian billionaire Stein Erik Hagen comes out as bisexual. -ISIS continues to execute gay Iraqi men. -LGBT Catholics from 31 countries launch the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics. -Southern Baptist leader Albert Mohler acknowledges that reparative therapy doesn&#8217;t work. -The Carmel, IN city council passes a non-discrimination ordinance. -A transgender woman is murdered in Philadelphia. -College basketball coach Chris Burns comes out of the closet. -Scientists develop a test that can predict sexual orientation with a 70% success rate. -Malaysia&#8217;s Federal Court upholds a ban on cross-dressing.
- [XGW Digest: October 3, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/10/xgw-digest-october-3-2015/): -Pope Francis makes comments that imply that he supports Kim Davis&#8217; refusal to issue marriage licenses. -Actor Matt Damon suggests that actors should hide their sexual orientation. -Catholic LGBT rights pioneer John McNeill has died. -Former Exodus International President Alan Chambers endorses same-sex marriage. -Legislators in North Carolina quietly introduce a provision to nullify all non-discrimination laws in the state. -Nebraska&#8217;s Attorney General tries to block same-sex spouses from being listed on their children&#8217;s birth certificates. -The anti-gay Speaker of the Indiana House resigns following the release of a sex video. -The Anchorage, AK city council passes a non-discrimination ordinance. -Presidential...
- [XGW Digest: September 26, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/09/xgw-digest-september-26-2015/): -President Obama nominates an openly gay man to be Secretary of the Army. -Tennessee legislators launch another attempt to bypass the Supreme Court&#8217;s marriage ruling. -Britain&#8217;s Prince William speaks out against homophobia. -The Channel Island of Jersey enacts marriage equality. -The White House includes LGBT representatives in its reception for Pope Francis. -County Clerk Kim Davis really has a gay friend after all &#8211; not that he approves of her actions. -The real Vladimir Putin calls Elton John following a recent prank. -The Gay-Straight Alliance Network calls for a boycott of Roland Emmerich&#8217;s Stonewall movie. -Germany&#8217;s Federal Council passes a marriage...
- [XGW Digest: September 19, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/09/xgw-digest-september-19-2015/): -A Missouri high school elects a transgender homecoming queen. -County clerk Kim Davis continues to interfere with the issuing of same-sex marriage licenses. -Malcolm Turnbull, Australia&#8217;s new Prime Minister, calls for a public vote on marriage equality. -Support for &#8220;religious liberty&#8221; laws declines in the wake of the Kim Davis controversy. -The Columbus, IN city council passes a non-discrimination ordinance. -Elton John is pranked by a Russian caller claiming to be Vladimir Putin. -A Texas judge recognizes a lesbian couple&#8217;s common law marriage. -Ireland&#8217;s high court rejects a challenge to the marriage equality referendum. -Frito-Lay introduces Rainbow Doritos to support the...
- [XGW Digest: September 12, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/09/xgw-digest-september-12-2015/): -Same-sex marriages begin in Rowan County, KY -A Tennessee judge refuses to grant a straight couple&#8217;s divorce because of marriage equality. -ESPN commentator Israel Gutierrez comes out of the closet. -Ireland&#8217;s Gender Recognition Act goes into effect. -A Fox News panel agrees that county clerk Kim Davis has no right to refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses. -Most of the Republican presidential candidates distance themselves from Kim Davis. -Voters in Fayetteville, AR reinstate LGBT nondiscrimination protections. -Thailand&#8217;s Gender Equality Act takes effect. -Texas&#8217; Attorney General tries to stop a lesbian from inheriting her late wife&#8217;s estate. -A gay man is violently...
- [XGW Digest: September 5, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/09/xgw-digest-september-5-2015/): -Anti-gay Kentucky clerk Kim Davis continues her fight against issuing same-sex marriage licenses. -Russia&#8217;s only LGBT film festival is canceled by the government. -The Advocate profiles 14 former ex-gays. -Neo-Nazis attack the headquarters of a Ukrainian LGBT group. -China&#8217;s film regulators greenlight a gay love story. -Kentucky clerk Kim Davis is jailed for refusing to do her job.
- [XGW Digest: August 29, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/08/xgw-digest-august-29-2015/): -Seven Senegalese men are sentenced to prison for having gay sex. -John Oliver explains the need for the Equality Act. -The National Organization for Marriage finally releases its donor list in compliance with Maine law. -The Denver City Council delays Chick-Fil-A&#8217;s expansion plans due to the company&#8217;s anti-gay stance. -Two Syrian refugees testify to the UN about ISIS&#8217; persecution of gay men. -The Pentagon sets an end date for its ban on transgender troops. -Republican Chris Christie declares that businesses should not be allowed to discriminate against LGBT customers. -Couples, both gay and straight, begin quoting Justice Kennedy&#8217;s comments on marriage...
- [XGW Digest: August 22, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/08/xgw-digest-august-22-2015/): -Gay athlete Michael Sam leaves professional football, citing mental health concerns. -A minor league baseball player comes out of the closet. -A historic Baptist church embraces LGBT equality. -Two Texas men are charged with torturing a gay African-American man. -The White House hires an openly transgender staffer. -Anti-gay icon Josh Duggar is outed as a client of hook-up website Ashley Madison. -An openly gay Muslim man films his pilgrimage to Mecca. -Illinois becomes the fourth state to ban conversion therapy for minors. -The Oregon bakers fined for refusing service to a gay couple send cakes and Christian videos to ten LGBT...
- [XGW Digest: August 15, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/08/xgw-digest-august-15-2015/): -Supporters of marriage equality rally in cities across Australia. -Gay Ugandans hold a pride parade. -Another transgender woman is murdered. -Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott blocks a motion to bring marriage equality to a vote in Parliament. -Mexico&#8217;s Supreme Court overturns a ban on adoption by gay couples. -Singer Sam Smith uses his Twitter account to expose homophobia. -The Guam Senate passes two LGBT rights bills. -A Kentucky high school removes a gay basketball player&#8217;s picture from the team&#8217;s yearbook page. -The Colorado Court of Appeals rules against anti-gay baker Jack Phillips. -A Puerto Rican cabinet member comes out of the...
- [XGW Digest: August 8, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/08/xgw-digest-august-8-2015/): -A Senegalese journalist is jailed for &#8216;acts of homosexuality.&#8217; -An Iowa couple raises funds to place anti-gay messages on billboards. -A homophobic man makes the mistake of assaulting gay West Point alumni. -The American Foundation for Equal Rights announces its closure. -The UN removes LGBT rights from its latest agreement on development goals. -The Republican National Committee votes down two anti-gay resolutions. -A district judge overturns Nebraska&#8217;s ban on foster parenting by same-sex couples. -Ohio Gov. John Kasich exhorts his fellow Republicans to accept marriage equality. -Two anti-gay Michigan legislators are caught having an affair.
- [XGW Digest: August 1, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/08/xgw-digest-august-1-2015/): -A Lutheran bishop comes out of the closet. -Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta rejects President Obama&#8217;s call for gay rights protections. -An &#8216;ex-gay&#8217; politician runs for governor in Missouri. -The Boy Scouts officially lift their ban on gay adult scout leaders. -Pride Jamaica plans the country&#8217;s first gay pride celebration. -A world champion power lifter comes out as transgender. -Omar Sharif Jr. talks about life as a gay man in an Arabic television interview. -A religious extremist stabs six people at Jerusalem Pride. -An &#8216;ex-lesbian&#8217; asks for funding to help her become straight. -An Israeli Knesset member comes out of the closet.
- [XGW Digest: July 25, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/07/xgw-digest-july-25-2015/): -Thomas Roberts becomes the first openly gay man to anchor a network news program. -The government of Taiwan begins drafting a same-sex partnership law. -A new petition may force the Finnish parliament to reconsider its marriage equality law. -An anti-gay archbishop is accused of sexual harassment. -Support for marriage equality remains stable even as more disapprove of the Supreme Court’s ruling. -A transgender woman is murdered in Florida. -The Polish Parliament passes a transgender recognition bill. -A gay Ukrainian couple holds hands and sits together in public to gauge reactions. -The Texas Supreme Court deals a blow to Houston&#8217;s LGBT rights...
- [XGW Digest: July 18, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/07/xgw-digest-july-18-2015/): -A gay Chinese couple holds a wedding ceremony despite warnings from police. -Civil unions begin in Chile. -A Texas judge declares that he will marry gay couples, but only after they acknowledge his disapproval of their union. -The Boy Scouts&#8217; Executive Committee votes to lift the ban on gay scout leaders. -A new poll finds that small business owners strongly oppose anti-gay &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; laws. -An anti-bullying bill dies in the US Senate. -The Irish Parliament passes a transgender rights bill. -Siri begins correcting iPhone users who refer to Caitlyn Jenner as Bruce. -Five thousand Kenyans plan to protest Obama&#8217;s pro-LGBT...
- [XGW Digest: July 11, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/07/xgw-digest-july-11-2015/): -Baylor University removes &#8220;homosexual acts&#8221; from its misconduct policy. -A Moroccan mob violently attacks a gender-nonconforming person. -Employees of the Decatur County, TN clerk&#8217;s office quit en masse to protest same-sex marriage. -A new poll finds more than 2/3 support for marriage equality in Northern Ireland. -20th Century Fox acquires the rights to make a movie based on the Supreme Court&#8217;s marriage ruling. -Vladimir Putin&#8217;s United Russia party creates a &#8216;Straight Pride&#8217; flag. -A homeopathy blog claims that homosexuality can be &#8216;cured&#8217; by acupuncture. -Spain celebrates ten years of marriage equality. -Israel&#8217;s Knesset votes down two civil union bills. -Full federal...
- [XGW Digest: July 4, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/07/xgw-digest-july-4-2015/): -Riot police break up Istanbul Pride. -Anti-gay activists fail to shut down Seoul Pride. -A gay couple is violently assaulted during Seattle Pride. -The US Department of Justice affirms that Title IX protections apply to transgender students. -A Utah man admits that he lied about being the victim of anti-gay violence. -A federal judge orders Alabama to comply with the Supreme Court&#8217;s marriage ruling. -The Episcopal Church votes to allow religious ceremonies for same-sex weddings.
- [XGW Digest: June 27, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/06/xgw-digest-june-27-2015/): -Harvard University accepts a transgender athlete to its men&#8217;s swimming team. -The United Protestant Church of Belgium votes to ordain openly gay clergy. -Marriage equality comes to the Pitcairn Islands. -The Stonewall Inn receives official designation as a historic landmark. -Northern Ireland&#8217;s marriage ban is challenged in court. -Federal employee health plans will now be required to cover transition-related procedures for transgender employees. -Professional wrestler Matt Cage comes out of the closet. -The Oxford English Dictionary adds an entry for &#8216;cisgender.&#8217; -A New Jersey jury rules that ex-gay therapy is a fraud. -A new poll finds that a plurality of Texans...
- [XGW Digest: June 20, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/06/xgw-digest-june-20-2015/): -Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard serves as Grand Marshal of Indy Pride. -An anti-gay archbishop resigns after being charged with covering up sexual abuse by a local priest. -The Israeli Knesset votes against an anti-discrimination bill. -South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg comes out of the closet. -A South Korean court rules that police cannot ban LGBT pride events. -The American Academy of Nursing issues a statement condemning conversion therapy. -The city of Bellevue, Idaho passes a non-discrimination ordinance. -A gay couple graduates together from Boston&#8217;s Police Academy. -Pope Francis declares that gay couples make inferior parents.
- [XGW Digest: June 13, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/06/xgw-digest-june-13-2015/): -Mexico&#8217;s Supreme Court issues a blanket statement ruling that bans on same-sex marriages are unconstitutional. -KyivPride2015 is disrupted by neo-Nazis. -Nebraska&#8217;s Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts attends his gay sister&#8217;s wedding. -Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declines to call a special session to consider anti-gay legislation. -Evangelical leader Tony Campolo calls for full acceptance of gay couples by churches. -An Arkansas county judge orders the state to recognize the 500+ same-sex marriages performed in the state in 2014. -A straight couple threatens to divorce if Australia legalizes marriage equality. -Civil union bills advance in three Mediterranean countries. -The North Carolina legislature overrides Gov....
- [XGW Digest: June 6, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/06/xgw-digest-june-6-2015/): -Former US House Speaker Dennis Hastert is charged with covering up sexual misconduct with a former male student. -The Illinois state senate passes a ban on conversion therapy for minors. -A new marriage equality bill is introduced in the Australian parliament. &#8211;Stories of &#8220;corrective rape&#8221; in India are made public. -The Belfast, Northern Ireland city council votes to endorse marriage equality. -The Alabama state senate votes to abolish all marriage licenses. -A Costa Rican judge grants a common-law marriage to a gay couple. -Alabama&#8217;s bill to abolish all marriage licenses dies in committee. -A federal judge strikes down Guam&#8217;s marriage ban.
- [XGW Digest: May 30, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/05/xgw-digest-may-30-2015/): -Ireland becomes the first nation to enact marriage equality via popular vote. -Irish opponents of same-sex marriage show graciousness in defeat. -Three men are jailed in Morocco on charges of homosexuality. -Marriage equality comes to Greenland. -An anti-gay Tea Party activist is arrested for possession of child pornography. -Kazakhstan&#8217;s Constitutional Council throws out a ban on &#8220;gay propaganda.&#8221; -German Chancellor Angela Merkel rules out the possibility of liberalizing the country&#8217;s marriage laws. -The US Department of Labor prepares to induct gay rights activist Frank Kameny into its Hall of Honor. -Another anti-gay marriage amendment dies in the Texas legislature. -North Carolina...
- [XGW Digest: May 23, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/05/xgw-digest-may-23-2015/): -The Nevada legislature passes an anti-bullying bill. -The Church of Scotland gives final approval to ordaining gay minsters. -Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg presides over another same-sex wedding. -An anti-gay pastor is outed on Grindr. -Longtime LGBT activist William Kelley has died. -Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signs a ban on conversion therapy for minors. -A new Gallup poll finds 60% support for marriage equality nationwide. -An Alabama minster is sentenced and fined for conducting a same-sex marriage. -Georgia Republicans elect an openly gay state treasurer. -Gay hotelier Ian Reisner works to make amends for hosting a reception for Ted Cruz. -Rome, Italy...
- [XGW Digest: May 16, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/05/xgw-digest-may-16-2015/): -ISIS militants have been luring gay men out of hiding in order to execute them. -Mariela Castro presides over a gay rights parade and commitment ceremony in Cuba. -The Texas legislature debates whether to defy the Supreme Court&#8217;s anticipated ruling on marriage equality. -Anti-gay protesters inadvertently direct passers-by to a gay porn website. -The FDA recommends an end to the lifetime ban on blood donations from gay men. -The president of Gambia threatens to slit the throats of gay people in his country. -A new survey finds that 48% of lesbian, gay and bisexual American identify as Christian. -The Laramie, WY...
- [XGW Digest: May 9, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/05/xgw-digest-may-9-2015/): -A high school in Utah elects a transgender prom queen. -Republican Rick Santorum almost defends Bruce Jenner. -Conservative talk radio host Guy Benson comes out of the closet. -The US Supreme Court declines to hear a challenge to New Jersey&#8217;s conversion therapy ban. -A Christian game developer releases a violently anti-gay video game. -A Nebraska woman files a federal lawsuit against all homosexuals. -Hawaii makes it easier for transgender individuals to change their birth certificates. -The town of Hot Springs, AR passes a non-discrimination ordinance in defiance of state law. -A gay couple is violently attacked in New York City. -The...
- [XGW Digest: May 2, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/05/xgw-digest-may-2-2015/): -Kenya&#8217;s High Court rules that LGBT groups cannot be blocked from registering as NGOs. -Olympic champion Bruce Jenner officially comes out as transgender. -A Bengali TV star commits suicide after being pressured to break up with her girlfriend. -Ecuador&#8217;s National Assembly votes to legalize civil unions. -An anti-gay Republican legislator is outed in North Dakota. -The US Supreme Court hears oral arguments for and against marriage equality. -The grand-nephew of conservative icon William F. Buckley, Jr. comes out of the closet. -The New York Assembly passes a ban on conversion therapy for minors. -The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals puts its...
- [XGW Digest: April 25, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/04/xgw-digest-april-25-2015/): -LGBT and immigrants’ rights activist Catherine Han Montoya is murdered in Atlanta. -The Mexican Supreme Court rules against Sinaloa state&#8217;s marriage ban. -A Manchester barman is violently assaulted by an anti-gay attacker. -A group of Pennsylvania high school students organizes an &#8220;Anti-Gay Day.&#8221; -The government of Tonga considers a marriage ban. -Montana Gov. Steve Bullock signs an anti-bullying law. -The Little Rock, AR city board passes a non-discrimination ordinance. -The Nevada Assembly kills an anti-transgender &#8220;bathroom bill.&#8221; -The New England Journal of Medicine endorses marriage equality. -A straight high school student asks his gay best friend to be his prom date.
- [XGW Digest: April 18, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/04/xgw-digest-april-18-2015/): -An Iowa man is charged with sending a fake anthrax letter to a local gay bar. -US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy voices his opposition to conversion therapy. -Hillary Clinton hires an openly gay campaign manager. -Chilean President Michelle Bachelet signs civil unions into law. -The First Circuit Court of Appeals defers hearings on Puerto Rico&#8217;s marriage ban until after the Supreme Court has ruled. -An Egyptian court rules that foreigners can be barred from the country for being gay. -Guam&#8217;s attorney general orders territory officials to begin processing same-sex marriage licenses.
- [XGW Digest: April 11, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/04/xgw-digest-april-11-2015/): -A &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; bill dies in the Nevada legislature. -Ireland legalizes adoption by gay couples. -A Denver bakery that refused to make an anti-gay cake is cleared of discrimination charges. -A federal judge orders California to grant a transgender inmate access to reassignment surgery. -North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple issues an order barring discrimination by state agencies. -Voters in Springfield, MO vote to repeal the city&#8217;s non-discrimination ordinance. -The National Organization for Marriage continues its string of failed boycotts. -Barry Manilow has reportedly married his longtime partner. -President Obama voices his support for an end to conversion therapy for minors. -Former...
- [XGW Digest: April 4, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/04/xgw-digest-april-4-2015/): -An Eagle Scout petitions the Boy Scouts of America to stop discriminating against his gay twin brother. -The Montana House deadlocks over a &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; bill. -All-American and National Champion wrestler Mike Pucillo comes out of the closet. -A gay British parliamentary candidate comes out as HIV positive. -The Arkansas legislature passes a &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; bill. -Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson refuses to sign the bill as written. -Indiana Republicans draft an amendment to their &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; law. -The Greater New York Boy Scouts hires a gay Eagle Scout as a camp leader. &#8211;Arkansas and Indiana modify their &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; laws. -A...
- [XGW Digest: March 28, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/03/xgw-digest-march-28-2015/): -The Idaho House calls for the impeachment of judges who rule in favor of marriage equality. -Fundamentalist leader Bob Jones III apologizes for advocating that gays be stoned to death. -A Russia-led effort to stop the UN from extending family benefits to gay employees is voted down. -The official Swedish dictionary introduces a gender-neutral pronoun. -Indiana Governor Mike Pence signs the &#8220;Religious Freedom Restoration Act&#8221; into law. -Slovenia&#8217;s National Assembly blocks an attempt to overturn marriage equality. -Indiana&#8217;s &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; law produces a backlash. -A federal judge blocks medical leave benefits for same-sex couples in four states. -Georgia&#8217;s &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; bill...
- [XGW Digest: March 21, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/03/xgw-digest-march-21-2015/): -LGBT groups march in South Boston&#8217;s St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade for the first time. -The Puerto Rican government considers dropping its opposition to marriage equality. -The Central Conference of American Rabbis elects an openly gay president. -Fashion designers Dolce and Gabbana stir controversy by voicing opposition to adoption by gay couples. -The Oregon House passes a ban on conversion therapy for minors. -The West Virginia House and Senate both kill &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; bills. -The Presbyterian Church (USA) votes to amend its constitution to recognize gay marriages. -An evangelical church in San Francisco drops its requirement that gay members remain celibate. -The...
- [XGW Digest: March 14, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/03/xgw-digest-march-14-2015/): -The Georgia senate passes a broadly worded &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; bill. -379 corporations and private companies sign on to an amicus brief in favor of marriage equality. -The Colorado house advances a bill to ban conversion therapy for minors. -A Jamaican mob stones a man suspected of being gay. -A new poll finds 59% support for marriage equality in the US. -The Oklahoma House passes a bill that would end the issuing of marriage licenses. -A bill to legalize civil unions in Peru dies in committee. -The Utah House passes a non-discrimination bill, and another bill permitting discrimination. -The Florida House votes...
- [XGW Digest: March 7, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/03/xgw-digest-march-7-2015/): -Jeb Bush reaffirms his opposition to marriage equality. -The state of Nebraska lifts its ban on gay foster parents. -Federal judge Joseph Bataillon strikes down Nebraska&#8217;s marriage ban. -The California Republican Party formally recognizes the Log Cabin Republicans. -The Charlotte, NC city council votes down a non-discrimination ordinance. -Slovenia enacts marriage equality. -A shelter for homeless LGBTQ youth opens in San Antonio. -The Alabama Supreme Court places a halt on same-sex marriage licenses in defiance of federal orders. -The US Supreme Court will hear its four marriage cases on April 28. -More than 300 Republican leaders sign an amicus brief endorsing...
- [XGW Digest: February 28, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/02/xgw-digest-february-28-2015/): -Two Louisiana men are arrested under the state&#8217;s obsolete sodomy law. -Three state legislatures consider bans on conversion therapy for minors. -The State Department names Randy Berry as its special envoy for global LGBT rights. -A Swiss legislative committee endorses a marriage equality initiative. -Arkansas outlaws non-discrimination protections for LGBT individuals. -Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern pushes a bill to prohibit the regulation of conversion therapy. -The Wyoming House kills a nondiscrimination bill. -A lesbian couple is violently attacked in Ireland. -Republican Jeb Bush assembles a pro-LGBT staff for his presidential campaign team. -West Virginia&#8217;s Senate Majority Leader nixes the idea...
- [XGW Digest: February 21, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/02/xgw-digest-february-21-2015/): -An effort to repeal Houston&#8217;s LGBT protections is stalled by errors on petitions. -Oregon gets the country&#8217;s first openly bisexual governor. -The town of Thurmond, WV enacts a non-discrimination ordinance. -Apple terminates its contract with an anti-gay lobbyist in Alabama. -The North Dakota State Senate passes an anti-discrimination bill. -The Chilean government declines to defend the country&#8217;s marriage ban in court. -A new study finds transgender Americans far more likely to live in poverty. -A Detroit pediatrician refuses to treat the child of a lesbian couple. -A same-sex marriage license is issued in Texas. -Congressman Mike Honda speaks out in support of...
- [XGW Digest: February 14, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/02/xgw-digest-february-14-2015/): -DC Comics launches a new series featuring a gay superhero. -An Alabama mother sues to stop marriage equality so she can inherit all of her gay son&#8217;s estate. -Slovakian voters reject an anti-gay referendum. -Alabama state judges attempt to block marriage equality in defiance of federal orders. -Greece&#8217;s ruling party announces plans to extend civil partnerships to gay couples. -The US State Department creates a position for an LGBT rights envoy. -Eureka Springs, AR passes a non-discrimination ordinance in defiance of the state legislature. -An Alabama minister is arrested for trying to perform a same-sex wedding. -The Wyoming state senate passes...
- [XGW Digest: February 7, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/02/xgw-digest-february-7-2015/): -A transgender woman is murdered in Los Angeles. -An evangelical leader comes out of the closet in England. -A Puerto Rican pastor is outed as a former gay porn star. -Victoria, Australia Premier Daniel Andrews leads a local pride parade. -The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to extend the stay on marriage equality in Alabama. -Pope Francis endorses an anti-gay referendum in Slovakia. -Speaker John Boehner speculates that House Republicans will not weigh in when the Supreme Court hears marriage equality cases. -A Montana house committee kills an attempt to remove outdated marriage ban language from the state constitution. -A...
- [XGW Digest: January 31, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/01/xgw-digest-january-31-2015/): -US District Judge Callie Granade strikes down Alabama&#8217;s marriage ban, then issues a stay. -A British army general anonymously announces plans to come out of the closet. -Two large evangelical churches come out in favor of LGBT inclusion. -Twelve men are arrested in Nigeria for allegedly planning a gay wedding. -Mormon leaders offer to support LGBT rights in exchange for &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; exemptions. -Alabama Rep. Patricia Todd threatens to expose the extramarital affairs of anti-gay state officials. -Actor Joel Grey comes out of the closet. -Rome, Italy establishes a civil unions registry. -Andrew Sullivan announces his retirement from blogging. -ExxonMobil extends...
- [XGW Digest: January 24, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/01/xgw-digest-january-24-2015/): -A Colorado bakery is sued for refusing to write an anti-gay message on a cake. -Ireland&#8217;s Minister for Health comes out of the closet. -Baja California&#8217;s first same-sex wedding takes place. -Israel will soon permit citizens to change their gender on ID cards without undergoing reassignment surgery. -President Obama celebrates advances in LGBT rights in his State of the Union address. -Macedonia&#8217;s Parliament passes a marriage ban. -The Chilean House of Representatives passes a civil unions bill. -Southern Baptist leader Al Mohler&#8217;s anti-gay rhetoric reaches new lows.
- [XGW Digest: January 17, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/01/xgw-digest-january-17-2015/): -The Church of Scotland&#8217;s presbyteries vote to allow ordination of gay ministers. -Vietnam repeals its ban on same-sex weddings. -Russia bans transgender individuals from obtaining driver&#8217;s licenses. -Nigerian author Kehinde Bademosi comes out of the closet. -Westboro Baptist Church pickets the Gay Christian Network&#8217;s annual conference. -An Egyptian court acquits 26 gay men arrested for &#8216;debauchery&#8217;. -The mayor of Starkville, MS vetoes an attempt to repeal the city&#8217;s non-discrimination law. -Former Exodus vice president Randy Thomas officially comes out as gay. -A federal judge strikes down South Dakota&#8217;s marriage ban. -A Colorado church cancels a lesbian&#8217;s funeral to avoid showing pictures...
- [XGW Digest: January 7, 2015](https://exgaywatch.com/2015/01/xgw-digest-january-7-2015/): -Confusion reigns in Florida over the legal status of marriage equality. -Maura Healey becomes the first openly gay state attorney general in the U.S. -The Rhode Island Supreme Court rules against firefighters forced to participate in a gay pride parade. -A transgender teen commits suicide in Ohio. -The British embassy hosts a same-sex wedding in the Dominican Republic. -Fourteen Florida counties declare they will cancel all wedding ceremonies to spite same-sex couples. -Madhu Kinnar becomes India&#8217;s first transgender mayor. -Newsweek looks at the perils of being LGBT in India. -The Macedonian Assembly votes overwhelmingly for a marriage ban.
- [XGW Digest: December 27, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/12/xgw-digest-december-27-2014/): -The US Supreme Court refuses to issue a stay on marriage equality in Florida. -TLC films a reality show about gay Mormon men married to women. -Gay rights activists are violently attacked in Zimbabwe. -A marriage equality bill is considered by the government of Taiwan. -Three men are arrested for &#8216;homosexual acts&#8217; in Gambia. -The FDA proposes a modification to its ban on blood donations by gay men. -Washington, DC mayor Vincent Gray signs a ban on reparative therapy for minors. -Vocativ takes a look at what life is like for gay Iranians.
- [XGW Digest: December 20, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/12/xgw-digest-december-20-2014/): -A homeless shelter for LGBT youth is scheduled to open in San Antonio in January. -The FDA&#8217;s advisory committee adjourns without recommending a repeal of the ban preventing gay men from donating blood. -Champion swimmer Tom Luchsinger comes out of the closet. -Same-sex marriages begin in Scotland. -The hero who gave his life to help end a hostage situation in Sydney, Australia was a gay man. -The Irish government schedules a referendum on same-sex marriage for next May. -Texas now has an openly gay federal judge. -A Florida judge grants a divorce to a gay couple. -A Venezuelan LGBT rights leader...
- [XGW Digest: December 13, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/12/xgw-digest-december-13-2014/): -A Kansas minister receives death threats for performing same-sex weddings. -The Michigan House passes an anti-gay “religious freedom” bill. -The Plano, TX city council passes a non-discrimination ordinance. -Towleroad lists the top 80 comings out of 2014. -Former ex-gay activist Christian Schizzel opens up about his experiences. -A Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto begins performing same-sex weddings. -Fayetteville, AR voters repeal the city&#8217;s non-discrimination law. -ISIS murders another allegedly gay man. -Federal judge Orlando Garcia refuses to lift his stay on marriage equality in Texas.
- [XGW Digest: December 6, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/12/xgw-digest-december-6-2014/): -The European Parliament declares its commitment to protecting sexual minorities. -The Finnish Parliament votes in favor of marriage equality. -ISIS executes two men for being gay. -Robert Biedron becomes Poland’s first openly gay mayor. -Apple commemorates World AIDS Day. -Major League Baseball umpire Dale Scott comes out of the closet. -The Miami-Dade County Commission passes a transgender rights ordinance. -The Food and Drug Administration reevaluates its ban on gay blood donors. -The Washington, DC council enacts a ban on conversion therapy for minors. -The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to extend the stay on Florida’s marriage ruling. -The Employment Non-Discrimination...
- [XGW Digest: November 28, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/11/xgw-digest-november-21-2014/): -15 individuals and two organizations are inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame. -Mexico City’s Legislative Assembly passes a transgender rights bill. -The City Union Mission in Kansas City declares that it will not house married same-sex couples together. -Former ex-gay leader John Smid marries his partner. -The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denies South Carolina a stay on its marriage ruling. -Procter &amp; Gamble endorses marriage equality. -Donations to the National Organization for Marriage continue to plummet. -Federal judge Brian Morris strikes down Montana’s marriage ban. -Australian MP Don Harwin comes out of the closet. -Country music...
- [XGW Digest: November 15, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/11/xgw-digest-november-15-2014/): Note: The Digest will be on vacation next week (11/22). -Uganda’s parliament begins drafting another anti-homosexuality bill. -Third gender Hijras hold a pride march in Bangladesh. -A retired Mennonite pastor is defrocked for officiating at his gay son’s wedding. -A Malaysian appeals court strikes down a “cross-dressing” ban that discriminated against transgender women. -A federal judge strikes down South Carolina’s marriage ban. -A federal judge overturns Michigan’s ban on domestic partner benefits. -The US Supreme Court refuses to issue a stay on Kansas’ marriage ruling. -New South Wales, Australia will begin recognizing same-sex marriage licenses from other countries. -A judge in...
- [XGW Digest: November 8, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/11/xgw-digest-november-8-2014/): -A conservative Presbyterian church tries to shame a former member for being gay. -The Philadelphia city council unanimously passes a hate crimes ordinance. -Eight Egyptian men are sentenced to prison for participating in a same-sex wedding. -Montenegro Pride takes place under police protection. -Federal judge Daniel Crabtree rules against Kansas’ marriage ban. -Dallas voters extend non-discrimination protections to LGBT city employees. -A Texas state judge orders Houston to stop extending benefits to same-sex partners of city employees. -The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds marriage bans in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. -Latvia&#8217;s foreign minister comes out of the closet. -Federal...
- [XGW Digest: November 1, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/11/xgw-digest-november-1-2014/): -Bystanders stop a drunk homophobe from assaulting another man at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. -Family Circle magazine runs a story about a same-sex couple with children. -An Azerbaijani woman murders her sister for being a lesbian. -Lewiston, ID passes a non-discrimination ordinance. -Apple CEO Tim Cook challenges his home state of Alabama to move forward on LGBT rights. -Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore condemns reparative therapy. -Catholic-affiliated Creighton University announces it will extend health benefits to same-sex spouses of employees. -Taiwan Pride draws 70,000 attendees. -Singapore’s high court upholds the country’s sodomy law. -Apple CEO Tim Cook talks openly about being gay....
- [XGW Digest: October 25, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/10/xgw-digest-october-25-2014/): -The Catholic Synod of Bishops on the Family reverses its welcoming stance toward gays. -A US marine is charged in the murder of a transgender Filipina. -An Idaho wedding chapel tries to paint itself as a victim of marriage equality. -Human Rights Watch releases a report on anti-LGBT violence in Jamaica. -Raleigh, NC extends non-discrimination protections to transgender city employees. -A US District Court Judge dismisses a challenge to Puerto Rico’s marriage ban. -Korea University’s student council votes to ban anti-gay discrimination. -A straight couple files a lawsuit against marriage equality in Kansas. -Gay Liberians are scapegoated by their neighbors for...
- [XGW Digest: October 18, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/10/xgw-digest-october-18-2014/): -US District Court Judge Timothy Burgess strikes down Alaska’s marriage ban. -Seoul mayor Park Won-soon publicly endorses marriage equality. -The Vatican softens its tone toward gays and lesbians. -A transgender woman is brutally attacked in New York. -Palau repeals its anti-gay laws. -The State of Alaska is granted a temporary stay on its marriage ruling. -Arizona’s marriage ban is struck down. -A memorial plaque for the last men executed in France for homosexuality is unveiled in Paris. -The government of Kyrgyzstan enacts a ban on gay ‘propaganda.’
- [XGW Digest: October 11, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/10/xgw-digest-october-11-2014/): Happy National Coming Out Day! -A Polish boxing champion speaks out for LGBT rights. -Catalonia, Spain enacts a stringent anti-homophobia law. -Seven gay men are arrested in Cameroon. -The US Supreme Court denies all seven marriage petitions, allowing the appeals court rulings to stand. -Religious right leaders respond predictably to the Supreme Court’s non-decision. -A new survey finds majority support for marriage equality in Northern Ireland. -A transgender woman is murdered in Brazil. -The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down marriage bans in Idaho and Nevada. -Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy issues a stay on the Ninth Circuit Court’s decision...
- [XGW Digest: October 4, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/10/xgw-digest-october-4-2014/): -Indonesia’s Aceh Province enacts a harsh anti-gay law. -Serbia hosts its first pride event in four years. -Marriage equality opponents hold a large rally in Mexico. -A ‘Christian’ man shoots a gay couple with a BB gun. -A new study examines the financial challenges faced by LGBT couples. -A Louisiana church expels an AA group for fear it may one day be forced to host a same-sex wedding. -Facebook discontinues its “real name” policy. -The US Supreme Court omits marriage equality from its current order list. -An injured teen is charged with assault for fighting back against anti-gay bullies. -Researchers trace...
- [XGW Digest: September 27, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/09/xgw-digest-september-27-2014/): -Target releases a new ad that features a gay couple. -The US Census Bureau begins counting legally married gay couples as families. -The International Queer Culture Festival is disrupted by anti-gay thugs. -Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan officiates a same-sex wedding. -A new poll finds a dip in support for marriage equality. -A Louisiana state judge rules against the state’s marriage ban. -The government of Chad considers an anti-gay bill. -Pennsylvania State Senator Jim Ferlo comes out of the closet. -The Southern Baptist Convention expels a gay-friendly church. -Houston Mayor Annise Parker is chosen as a finalist for the 2014 World...
- [XGW Digest: September 20, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/09/xgw-digest-september-20-2014/): -A federal judge orders Arizona to recognize a widowed gay man’s marriage license. -The Indian government issues an objection to the high court’s recognition of a third gender. -Victoria, Australia takes steps toward wiping the criminal records of those convicted under its old anti-sodomy laws. -Symantec announces its software will no longer block LGBT-related websites. -A transgender man wins the gold in powerlifting at the Gay Games. -Twitter users help Philadelphia police track down a gang of gay bashers. -Ugandan LGBT activist John Abdallah Wambere is granted asylum in the U.S. -The Egyptian government begins monitoring social media to track down...
- [XGW Digest: September 13, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/09/xgw-digest-september-13-2014/): -Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg presides over another same-sex wedding. -HRC President Chad Griffin apologizes for neglecting the transgender community. -A transgender woman is murdered in Memphis, TN. -Winston-Salem, NC begins recognizing out-of-state same-sex marriage licenses. -Seven Egyptian men are arrested for participating in the country’s first same-sex wedding. -Gambia toughens its anti-gay laws. -Oregon Republican Senate candidate Monica Wehby endorses marriage equality. -Two openly gay candidates win their primaries in Massachusetts. -The US Supreme Court will review seven marriage case petitions at its September 29 conference. -The Third Circuit Court of Appeals upholds New Jersey’s ban on conversion therapy...
- [XGW Digest: September 6, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/09/xgw-digest-september-6-2014/): -Facebook introduces gender-neutral options for identifying family members. -Colombia’s Constitutional Court expands adoption rights for same-sex couples. -An ex-gay survivor opens up about being sexually abused by his counselor. -Mexico’s Coahuila State legalizes marriage equality. -A public school district cuts ties with Gordon College over its anti-gay stance. -Former Exodus VP Randy Thomas apologizes for his former opposition to marriage equality. -New York City’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade will include an LGBT group for the first time. -Federal judge Martin Feldman upholds Louisiana’s marriage ban. -Two Malaysian women are arrested on charges of being lesbians. -A former Republican Party spokesman comes...
- [XGW Digest: August 30, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/08/xgw-digest-august-30-2014/): -Ecuador announces that it will begin recognizing same-sex unions. -A gay couple is beaten by a mob in Athens, Greece. -The season premiere of Doctor Who features a lesbian kiss. -The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals challenges the weak arguments presented by opponents of marriage equality. -Tempe, AZ voters approve a non-discrimination ordinance. -A Chilean sailor becomes the first openly gay member of his country’s armed forces. -Mills College becomes the first all-women’s college to welcome transgender students. -A British woman is brutally attacked for being gay. -The first adoption by a gay couple in Italy is finalized.
- [XGW Digest: August 23, 2014](https://exgaywatch.com/2014/08/xgw-digest-august-23-2014/): -The US Supreme Court issues a stay on Virginia’s marriage ruling. -A New Jersey middle school orders a transgender girl to dress like a boy. -A Republican super PAC commits $2 million toward electing candidates that support gay rights. -A lesbian is raped and murdered in South Africa. -The Family Research Council exploits Robin Williams’ death to promote ex-gay therapy. -The Fayetteville, AR city council passes a non-discrimination ordinance. -US District Judge Richard Young rules against Indiana’s marriage ban a second time. -Federal judge Robert Hinkle strikes down Florida’s marriage ban. -Nashville mayor Karl Dean speaks out in favor of marriage...

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