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…
Former Exgays
When Focus on the Family announced that “Love Won Out” — its one-sided program promoting ex-gay ministries and antigay therapies — would come to Nashville, the Vanderbilt Divinity School responded with a program featuring credentialed experts in psychiatry, psychotherapy, and…
Ex-Ex-Gay Takes Comedy on the Road
Performer Peterson Toscano takes his one-man show, “Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House — How I Survived the Ex-Gay Movement!”, to Washington, D.C., this week. The show is being hosted locally by Westminster Presbyterian Church. The Washington…
Wayne Besen, Ex-Ex-Gay in Miami Herald
Steve Rothaus of The Miami Herald wrote Oct. 11 about an ex-ex-gay Christian man, Jerry Stephenson, who is featured in Wayne Besen’s new book, Anything But Straight. Rothaus contrasts Stephenson’s depressing experience as an ex-gay with that of Randy Thomas,…
A Visit to the Homo No Mo Halfway House
If I had to pick one glaring, gaping, horrifically, horrendously obnoxious hole in the vast majority of conversations about being gay or lesbian or ex-gay or Christian or Wiccan or DollyPartonian or what-the-flip-ever, it would be this: What the heck…
Evangelical Ex-Ex-Gay Reflections
Christian evangelical ex-ex-gay man Mike Williams offers a testimony of emotional pain, faith and reconciliation toward the ex-gay minister who harmed him as a young adult. Gospel Revolution The site looks like a fantastic resource for Christians exploring the lives…