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 misrepresenting statistics Press Complaints Commission (United Kingdom), July 15, 1997The commission upheld a complaint against…
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 the Ex-Gay Movement: An information packet (PDF format) HRC comments on NARTHMission Impossible: Why reparative…
Factoid: Pediatric Policy on Reparative Therapy
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 specifically changing sexual orientation is contraindicated, since it can provoke guilt and anxiety while having…
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 of sexual orientation Reparative Therapy: Statements by professional associations and their leadersReligiousTolerance.org
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 a Choice?Can Therapy Change Sexual Orientation?What About So-Called "Conversion Therapies"?Is Homosexuality a Mental Illness or…
James Dobson’s False Focus on the Family
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 at Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, Soulforce is distributing a booklet on…
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 and self-destructive behavior, since therapist alignment with societal prejudices against homosexuality may reinforce self-hatred already…
Throckmorton Interviews Mrs. SpongeBob
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." (Previous XGW coverage.) Not that XGW thinks there’s anything wrong with including gay people in…
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 care provider in the United States, has dropped Dr. Warren Throckmorton from an advisory panel…
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 embrace of antigay cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi. In addition to promoting al-Qaradawi, the Islamic exgay group…