Exodus International President Alan Chambers is upset at a TV commercial aimed at encouraging gay teen victims of homophobic bullying. The ex-gay leader told the Christian Post he found it “disappointing” that the commercial used the character of Woody, the…
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Gay Blog Queerty Is Back
Queerty, the six-year-old gay interest blog that unexpectedly shut down last month, is back online with a new team. GayCities has acquired the blog and is returning with some of the same team and a crop of new writers. GC’s…
Exodus International President Alan Chambers will be appearing on Dr Drew tonight (Friday, April 15). The show airs at 9.00pm ET and PT on CNN’s HLN Network. According to Exodus, Alan will share “his personal story as well as sharing…
Alan Simpson, the former Republican senator for Wyoming, told Hardball‘s Chris Matthews how it is on homophobia in the GOP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gSxCYlvbKs Tip of the hat to Towleroad.
Christopher Jay Hall, a guest blogger at “Raging Pride,” attended Exodus’ Love Won Out conference in Pheonix, Arizona on February 19th and was horrified by the kind of information being given as “fact:” Speakers were determined to address a transgender…
Dr George Rekers has resigned from the board of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), following allegations that he received nude, erotic massages from a male prostitute. Rekers, who has been an anti-gay activist for decades,…
As the UK goes to the polls, questions remain over a prospective MP who allegedly believes that gays and lesbians are demon-possessed, and can be set free through prayer. An article in Sunday’s Observer (London) accused Philippa Stroud, who is…
It took about six months to provoke Exodus International into responding to allegations that its organization’s words and actions had been fueling homophobia in Uganda. After witnessing Exodus’s inexcusable inaction on the anti-gay bill that would effectively see all Uganda’s…
Christian Radio Show Severs Links with Exodus
A Boston radio show offering advice to young people has disassociated itself from Exodus International after complaints that it was promoting the ex-gay message. Twenty-two-year-old activist Greg Kimball posed as a 16-year-old to phone HopeLine, a youth advice line run…
PFOX’s attempt to make the Walt Disney Company include ex-gays in its anti-discrimination policy is not about sexual orientation – it is about ideology. If it were about sexual orientation, PFOX would have to concede that ex-gays are already protected….