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 has convinced her to cut you off? Joe Riddle ponders this from a very personal…
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 sexuality has changed as he gets older. He and his friends sometimes “forget” he’s gay,…
Exgay… Or Ex-sexual?
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 to heterosexuality, but to asexuality.
Report: Spitzer Regrets Role in ‘I Do Exist’
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 by exgay activist D.L. Foster. Fenley wrote about the event in Southern Voice, and I…
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 “the enemy” — homosexuals? Satan? — is encroaching upon “our freedom to minister.” That may…
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. In his opinion piece, Postelwait challenged some antigay activists’ assumption that it is only gays…
A judge this week issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Montgomery County, Md., Public Schools from testing a revised sex-education curriculum.
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 organization’s vast Colorado campus last week:
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 Fund), the Rev. Richard Land (Southern Baptist Convention), and D. James Kennedy of the Center…
Prof. Warren Throckmorton And the Real Issues
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 Bennett put direct pressure on Magellan Health Services to restore his seat on a national…