Love In Action, the flagship ex-gay ministry of Exodus International, has shut down its residential program. A statement on its website says: Love In Action’s Residential program has been suspended indefinitely. Simply put, there is a significant need to bring…
Live-In Programs
A documentary about the ex-gay movement will have its premiere in June 2011, after six years in the making. The premiere of This Is What Love in Action Looks Like takes place at Frameline 35, the San Francisco International LGBT Film…
The parents of Bryce Faulkner have spoken to Fox News to deny allegations that their 23-year-old son is being coerced into attending an ex-gay program. Friends of Bryce, a 23-year-old medical student who graduated this year, say he was happily…
Where Is Bryce?
Friends of a gay medical student from Arkansas are anxious amid claims that he has been forced into a Florida ex-gay program. Bryce Faulkner, 23, has not been in touch with boyfriend Travis Swanson since 15 July. Swanson says their…
This Is What Love in Action Looks Like
A documentary about the controversial ex-gay program Love in Action will be released on DVD on June 6 2009. Love in Action revisits the furore of summer 2005, when then-16-year-old Zach Stark gained the attention of activists worldwide after his…
Nancy Alcorn, founder and head of Mercy Ministries, a “Bible-based” rehabilitation home for girls facing ailments ranging from eating disorders to sexual abuse, is a closeted lesbian according to former member Jennifer Wynne. Nashville Scene provides an eye-opening article outing…
Love In Action Documentary Preview Released
Sawed-Off Films has released preview footage of the new documentary This Is What Love In Action Looks Like. The film is an examination of the controversial Memphis-based Love In Action (LIA), a ministry whose actions became notorious in 2005 when…
The Intolerance of ‘Love In Action’
Reverend John Smid, one of the founders and now president and CEO of Love In Action (LIA), recently claimed homosexuals are intolerant of those who wish to seek “change” of their sexual orientation. There are many people within that community…
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…
Filmmaker Morgan Jon Fox has released an extended preview for the feature-length documentary, “This Is What Love In Action Looks Like.” According to the filmmaker: In the summer of 2005, a 16-year-old from Memphis, Tenn., wrote on his MySpace blog…