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 Gene Robinson was ordained bishop in 2004, precipitating a momentous controversy still raging strong today…
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 Survived the Ex-Gay Movement. He has used it to tell his own story of attempted…
Open Forum: I’m 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 about what he is saying. I’m posting this in an open forum because in just…
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 or read commentary about it. Regardless of where you might stand on hate crimes laws,…
In Brief: I Am What I Am And It’s 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 both humorously and powerfully: I chose to be authentic, to no longer demonise my sexuality,…
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 their position on reparative therapy. Sean O’Donnell also appears via a brief file clip explaining…
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 her own fallibility or pass selective judgment against others. And she didn’t order up a…
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 In Action in Memphis, Tenn. Looking for new or rejuvenated ex-gay topical blogs to read…
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 any sort of ministry in a UK church or religious group to help them change…
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 or state hate speech laws is somehow (illogically) used as the primary excuse to prevent…