Peterson Toscano reported Wednesday on his arrival in Memphis for Beyond Ex-Gay’s Deconstructing the Ex-Gay Myth — A Weekend of Action & Art, which begins today. Two local media outlets have reported on the event: the Memphis Flyer published an…
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Beyond Ex-Gay Regional Event in Memphis
Beyond Ex-Gay, in conjunction with the Memphis Gay & Lesbian Community Center, will be holding an art show and local gathering February 22-24. The schedule and other details are available here; events will include the Ex-Gay Survivor Art Show, two…
Ex-Gay Survivor Testimony: Eric Leocadio
Daniel Gonzales of Box Turtle Bulletin took his camera with him to see Eric Leocadio of Two World Collision and came away with some great video testimony. Much of this echoed my own life and Eric tells it with his…
Growing up in a 1960’s conservative evangelical home, Scott Harrison not only knew homosexuality was a sin, he knew it was “the worst sin a person could do. It was worse than murder.” He described to the Southern Poverty Law…
Brian Murphy, a Soulforce Equality Rider, attended the Ex-Gay Survivor Conference that was co-sponsored by Soulforce, Beyond Ex-Gay and the LGBT Resource Center at the University of California-Irvine. Murphy, a filmmaker, interviewed fellow attendees and taped footage of various conference…
Beyond Ex-Gay On The Radio Tonight
Peterson Toscano is reporting that he and Christine Bakke will be on the Strictly Confidential radio program tonight at 9pm ET. You can listen to the live stream here at that time.
In a follow-up to Peterson Toscano’s post outlining the various types of harm someone may experience through ex-gay therapy and ministries, he has posted a blog entry that asks those involved what it means to them. He puts out specific…
Former Ex-Gays Outline Harm of Ex-Gay Programs
During the past four years, former ex-gay Peterson Toscano has been in contact with more than 1,000 “ex-gay survivors” — people who pursued ex-gay experiences, often assisted by a therapist, minister, ex-gay program. At his blog, Toscano and his commenters…
The UK evangelical ministry Courage lent its support to a new anti-discrimination campaign this past weekend. Courage began in 1988 as an ex-gay ministry, but announced it was gay-affirming in 2001. Now the pioneering organisation is among the supporters of…
From Florida comes an article that flew under the gaydar here at Ex-Gay Watch, but the Miami New Times piece, published last July, is still worth noting. In Scared Straight, Joanne Green profiles Worthy Creations, the Fort Lauderdale-based ex-gay ministry…