PFOX complains in a Nov. 5 press release that exgay propaganda is being excluded from sex-ed school curricula in suburban Washington, D.C. The press release suffers from a long list of shortcomings: PFOX operative Jackie Rice, ex-gay representative to a…
Education and Youth
Washington Post Series on Gay Youth
I have updated my original entry on Parts I and II of the Washington Post series on gay youth struggles. I’ll comment here later on Part 3 and Part 4. Exodus president Alan Chambers’ reaction: Honestly, I was very disapointed…
I just stumbled across a story in today’s New York Daily News. The bottom line: Even in “liberal” school systems like New York’s, teen-age students are being denied access to websites about gay and lesbian youth issues. And educators are…
Some exgay political activists like Prof. Warren Throckmorton accuse the nation’s schools of promoting “homosexuality.” They imply, usually without evidence, that pro-tolerance advocacy in education comes from political activists, not from the struggling students, their parents, and a few concerned…
I have updated the I Do Exist video page. The video has been available since June but is being relaunched as a challenge to National Coming Out Day. Churches, schools and exgay advocates in more than 30 cities have scheduled…
Exodus on Friday accused the California professional therapy community, volunteer organizations, a task force on child abuse, and state Sen. Sheila Kuehl of “promoting pedophilia.”
Exgay youth advocate Chad W. Thompson wrote a Sept. 1 article for Christianity Today, declaring “Banning Gay Marriage Is Not The Answer.”
‘It’s Elementary’: Noe Gutierrez Turned Ex-gay
Here’s an old story, well-known among ex-gays for a long time now; not so well-known among gays. Noe Gutierrez, a star of the safe-schools/pro-tolerance video “It’s Elementary,” is now ex-gay. At his web site, Gutierrez says that upon coming out…
The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association on June 2 applauded the publication of an American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement, “Sexual Orientation and Adolescence,” in the June 2004 issue of Pediatrics.
Chad W. Thompson is a rising individual in the ex-gay movement. Formerly a media specialist for the Iowa Family Policy Center, Thompson is the founder of Inqueery.com, an ex-gay advocacy project targeting public schools. His vision for ex-gay inclusion in…