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 National Coming Out Day, members of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender community and their allies…
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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 straight. He spent four days in Love In Action before leaving ‘realising that without the…
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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 support for tolerance among people of different sexual orientations — or to declare sweeping trench…
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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 ignored by local police.
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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: “My [Bible] study presents the Truth that set me free…not free to do whatever I…
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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 The Washington Blade. The antigay parents and spouses group PFOX and the abstinence-only group Citizens…
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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. Here’s the transcript. The topic: “Converting gays to straight” — same-sex-attracted teen-agers in particular. There…
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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 Love In Action By John Evans I first met the Rev. Kent Philpott when I…
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Recycling Antigay Catholic Stereotypes
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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. antigay/pro-chastity Catholic network called Courage (no relation to the British ex-exgay Christian group). (Courage historically…
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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. However, Sheesholtz is much more skeptical of a review written for the National Association for…