Former ex-gay Peterson Toscano brings us up to date on the appearances of former ex-gays on ABC’s 20/20 and on CNN.
Former Exgays
Update: Full transcript added. Peterson Toscano and Good As You set the scene: The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet hosted an ex-gay leader, a former ex-gay, and two therapists — one gay-affirming, the other pro-exgay — during a segment…
Peterson Toscano On The Morning Show This Week
Ex-gay survivor Peterson Toscano will be appearing on The Morning Show With Mike and Juliet this Thursday, September 13 on a segment entitled “Can You Choose to Be Gay or Straight?”. The Morning Show airs on the Fox Network weekdays…
More Former Ex-Gay Leaders Apologize
Beyond Ex-Gay has posted apology letters from Vonnie Pitts, Wendy Lawson and Kim Brett, former leaders of ex-gay ministries in Australia. According to the press release, Pitts, Lawson and Brett were inspired by the public apology issued in June by…
SBC’s New Approach Same Old Ex-Gay Line
Saturday’s edition of The Tennesseean features interviews with ex-ex-gays Darlene Bogle and Christine Bakke and with pastor Bob Stith, the Southern Baptist Convention’s first national strategist for gender issues. Bogle and Bakke flew to Nashville last week to share their…
The Human Rights Campaign’s XM Radio show, “The Agenda with Joe Solmonese,” has posted an audio clip about the documentary God and Gays. Film producer Kim Clark discusses the film’s positive reception by churches. Also appearing is Darlene Bogle, a…
Since 2003, Peterson Toscano has put his quirky talent to use performing his original play, Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House–How I Survived the Ex-Gay Movement. He has used it to tell his own story of attempted…
In Brief: I Am What I Am And It’s Not a Choice
Ex-ex-gay activist Peterson Toscano writes about sexuality, choice and the ex-gay journey in the latest New Statesman (a broadly left-wing British political weekly). Peterson writes both humorously and powerfully: I chose to be authentic, to no longer demonise my sexuality,…
Researcher Seeks British Ex-Ex-Gays
A researcher in the UK would like to speak to former ex-gays who have been through ex-gay therapy and/or ministry in Britain, or who received any sort of ministry in a UK church or religious group to help them change…
Two former clients — Brandon Tidwell of Memphis and David Christie of New York — spoke on July 18 in front of Love in Action, a Memphis, Tenn., residential program that claims to help people reject “false images” that supposedly…