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 marketing audiotape and CD recordings touting mass murderer Berkowitz’s conservative-Christian moral virtue — for a…
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Some Things Never Change
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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 ever. I must admit: Covering their pessimism, their isolationism, their lack of faith in themselves…
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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 comedy, “Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House,” for one night only at…
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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 same-sex love and same-sex genital behavior? What relationship, if any, should exist between the two?…
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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 headquartered in Focus offices, James Dobson’s wife is the chairman, Focus is compensated for “services…
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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.
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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 encouraging: It begins by claiming to refute homosexual “myths” that were never advanced by many…
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Briefly: Remembering Patrick Cusick
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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 Washington Blade article retraces Cusick’s life from pro-slavery family to pickets and sit-ins for civil…
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Psych Advice for Gays And Ex-Gays
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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 Kort recommend?
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Wayne Besen: ‘Doom’ for Gay Republicans
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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 gay Republicans. The Blade also ran a front-page news story.