From CityBeat, San Diego, April 12: After a 27-year run, San Diego’s oldest newspaper catering to the gay community, The Update, announced on March 29 that its publishing company, Dawn Media, would cease production of all six of its publications…
Exgay Activists
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Youth in the Ex-Gay Crosshairs
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The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has released a report entitled Youth in the Crosshairs: The Third Wave of Ex-Gay Activism A key finding of the report shows that, in this third wave of ex-gay activism, ex-gay programs and…
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Bewildered By Anti-Exgay Hostility
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The Augusta Free Press in Virginia profiles Greater Hope exgay activist Jeff Watros, who says he doesn’t understand why he’s perceived as a loud, pushy street-corner solicitor. But the Free Press quickly explains it to him: He has chosen to…
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A post at ex-gay pastor D.L. Foster’s blog, apparently by Nigerian Pastor Kingsley Nwafor (the attribution is implied by a double quote preceding and following 600-some words of the piece) decries gay civil rights in South Africa. He credits gays…
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James Hartline’s Sordid Past Exposed
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Periodically the AgapePress, WorldNetDaily or some other wingnut press will quote James Hartline, ex-gay of San Diego. Hartline can be counted on to provide some outrageous statement which the rightwing press never questions. CityBEAT of San Diego wrote an interesting…
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Washington State Subjected to Ex-gays
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Washington state was subjected a little puff piece on the ex-gay movement from KOMO TV news website. The ex-gay ministry, Groundswell, is quoted as saying “Our message is that change is possible for anyone who wants out of homosexuality.” We’ve…
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Two Views of Exgay Speech in Milwaukee
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When exgay activist Tim Wilkins spoke to a forum at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Oct. 4, two campus newspapers offered two differing accounts of what transpired. Joe Riddle has already reviewed Bradley Wooten’s article in the UWM Post. By…
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Ex-gay Quotes on Starbucks Cups?
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The Concerned Women for America’s Culture and Family Institute has applauded Baylor University for pulling cups from the campus Starbucks that included a quote for Armistead Maupin. Concerned woman, Bob Knight, “says his group has challenged the Starbucks Coffee Company…
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Keith Boykin analyzes exgay activist and gospel singer Donnie McClurkin in depth. Given McClurkin’s stubborn antigay prejudices and hostilities, Boykin finds reason to doubt McClurkin’s claim to be free of homosexuality. And Boykin wants to hear from people who might…
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90% Success Rate???
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There is a nice article in the Columbia Missourian about how churches are increasingly divided about how gay people fit in. The article focuses on a group of Methodist women – mothers of gay men – that decided to change…