People Can Change, a seminar series that purports to help people reorient, has polled participants on their website. Although only a small percentage took the poll, People Can Change has released their results claiming that contrary to “conventional wisdom” people…
Exgay Activists
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Updated to reflect the location of WeAreThinking PAC. There has never been just one civil rights movement; there have been numerous movements: for Jews and other religious minorities, for blacks, for women, for Japanese-Americans after World War II, and for…
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Exgay activist Tim Wilkins held a one-day conference titled “More Than Words” in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 8. He plans another one August 12 in Raleigh, N.C. The theme of his lecture tour is that antihomosexual Christians should not waste…
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Out And Cowed? Ex-Gay in the UK
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This article was originally published in Third Way magazine, June 2006 I ONLY had to say three syllables, and yet the simplest words turned out to be the hardest. Mom. I’m. Gay. They were difficult words because I had grown…
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Group A is a conservative Christian “ex-gay” ministry. It does not encourage people to expect a change of orientation, and is critical of groups that do. It promotes celibacy rather than a change of orientation. Group B is us. Gays…
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Ex-gay in the UK
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The main difference between the ex-gay movement in the UK and the US is that, well, that there isn’t really much of an ex-gay movement as such in the UK. In the US, the movement tends to be focused and…
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Love in Action Survivor Speaks to Protesters
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Lance Carroll spent last summer at Love in Action. He came back today to join Queer Action Coalition and the protesters outside. While Carroll’s prepared message spoke of depression and cruel methodology within LIA and of verbal and physical abuse…
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Exgay Calls for Starbucks Boycott
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In a press release fashioned as an AgapePress “news” story, San Diego exgay activist James Hartline calls upon “Christians” (by which he means antigay social-conservative Christians) to boycott Starbucks.
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From Pam Spaulding: In a newsletter article reprinted at Free Republic, San Diego exgay activist James Hartline describes gay former U.S. members of the armed forces as a “radical homosexual group,” calls bisexuals “perverted,” and labels the presence of same-sex-attracted persons…
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Exgay in the Heart of Texas
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From the Dallas Voice, April 13 No matter what causes a person to be gay, Living Hope Ministries, which is based in Arlington, has one thing to say about it. According to executive director Ricky Chelette, “Either God can change…