Ann Phillips, who is a former Exodus local group leader and former women’s program director at the Exodus flagship live-in program Love In Action, will speak at the gay-friendly Evangelicals Concerned women’s retreat July 25-27, 2007 in Orange, Calif. For 10…
Former Exgays
Christine Bakke, of Rising Up Whole and Beyond Ex-Gay, has been featured in an article in Glamour magazine. I first “met” Christine when she emailed me about a year ago. She’d just discovered that I live in the same Texas…
Former ex-gay Shawn O’Donnell will be featured this week on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 as part of a two-part special titled, “What Is A Christian?” Tune to CNN for the specials on April 4 and 5 at 10 p.m. EDT….
From ex-gay program survivor Peterson Toscano: I went to Los Angeles to be a guest on the Tyra Banks Show. The show will air on Thursday April 12, 2007 and proves to be quite interesting. In the show Tyra (we…
Performance artist Peterson Toscano and fellow blogger Christine Bakke announced today the launch of Beyondexgay.com, a new online community designed to provide support for “survivors” of ex-gay programs. “The ex-gay experience is unique in many ways. No one understands it…
Exodus president Alan Chambers, ex-gay “therapy” survivors Peterson Toscano and Lance Carroll, and former male prostitute Mike Jones — who exposed a three-year relationship with evangelical leader Ted Haggard — are the scheduled guests on the Montel show Thursday, March 15. Also…
On Thursday the 2007 Soulforce Equality Rides will arrive at their first destinations. Yes, you heard me right, there are two buses this year, one headed east, one headed west. On last year’s Equality Ride participants found themselves unprepared when…
Desert Stream Protest in San Francisco
The San Francisco Chronical has an article about a protest of ex-gay ministry Desert Stream and their seminar in the heart of San Francisco. An evangelical Christian minister from Missouri, who came to a San Francisco church to teach gays…
Survivors of Ex-Gay Ministry on Montel
Peterson Toscano and Lance Carroll — both survivors of Exodus’ flagship live-in boot camp, called Love In Action — were on Montel yesterday (02/20/07) each briefly discussing their experiences with the ex-gay movement.
There’s a two page article on ex-gay stuff in the current issue of People Magazine which hit newsstands today (Friday) and will arrive in mailboxes on Tuesday. I was interviewed for the article but they didn’t run any of that,…