The Southern Poverty Law Center’s has an Intelligence Report written by David Holthouse that gives a synopsis of the career Paul Cameron has made out of distorting facts and printing obviously bogus statistics about gays. Cameron is the source of…
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Gays More Likely to Be Left Handed
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I’m quite late in addressing a finding published in July in Psychological Bulletin. As I was unable to find access to the original report, my sources linked here are second hand. Psychology Today reports that Dr. Kenneth Zucker of the…
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Socarides Article in Boston Phoenix
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An article by Michael Bronski in the Boston Phoenix is a well written concise recap of Dr. Charles Socarides and how he came to influence the ex-gay movement. Here is a once smart, well-meaning man trapped in history — doomed…
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Upon the death of psychiatrist Charles W. Socarides two weeks ago, Van of Head of the KweerWolf wrote a thoughtful and personal analysis. Van encountered Socarides’ book, The Overt Homosexual, at a time in the 1970s when Van was first coming to…
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The death of Charles W. Socarides reminded libertarian lawyer Jonathan Rowe of opposing social factions’ efforts, over the decades, to misuse the concept of “mental illness” to enforce the factions’ preferred moral or social norms. Rowe says: [P]roperly understood, categorizing…
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Charles W. Socarides, a grandfather of the reparative therapy movement and co-founder of the antigay National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, died Dec. 25 in New York. He was 83 years old.
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Open Forum
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So saith a conservative judge: “It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose” behind a…
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Focus appears worried openly-gay Jack Drescher is a candidate for the APA Presidency in December. Focus quotes Drescher: “They can mask it in the language of love all they want but it’s about revulsion and hatred of homosexuality.” I wish…
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Alas, A Blog casts a bit of doubt upon the widespread belief that suppressed sexual arousal prompts antigay bullies to act violently against persons assumed to be gay. Citing a study that measured the penis response of homophobic and non-homophobic…
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In one of my last therapy sessions with Joseph Nicolosi of NARTH he asked me to participate in a self-reporting study on ex-gays being conducted by a guy named Spitzer. At the time I believed my sessions with Nicolosi had…