“You can’t promote homosexuality. You only can acknowledge it.”[*] Garrett J. McAuliffe, Professor, Old Dominion University. McAuliffe produced the DVD, Counseling Gay and Lesbian Youth, designed to help people who for counsel gay teens.
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False Tom Cruise Rumor About Exgay Therapy
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Update: Based on a report by the Good As You blog, this XGW post originally cited a press release attributed to Bertram Fields. However, Good As You wrote Fields to confirm the story’s authenticity. Fields wrote back: “Release is a…
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There’s a quite interesting article in The Independent about David Akinsanya, a British man who is seeking to change his sexual orientation from gay to straight. He spent four days in Love In Action before leaving ‘realising that without the…
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In the same Washington Blade article as the post below, Warren Throckmorton weights in on the risk of unlicensed programs such as Love In Action which combine ministry and “treatment.” (Tenn. opens new probe of ‘ex-gay’ facility, Washington Blade, by…
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Are Exgay Groups Ever Worthy of Support?
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Jackie asked: Suppose Exodus changed their beliefs to be in line with what you described. But suppose that they continue to assert that "SOME people can and do change their orientation to certain degrees, and we would like to help…
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American Medical Association position on reparative therapy and health care for the homosexual The AMA: opposes, the use of "reparative" or "conversion" therapy that is based upon the assumption that homosexuality per se is a mental disorder or based upon…
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Political Research AssociatesCalculated Compassion: How the Ex-Gay movement Serves the Right’s Attack on Democracy National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, PRA, Equal Partners in FaithChallenging the Ex-Gay Movement: An information packet (PDF format) HRC comments on NARTHMission Impossible: Why reparative…
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Factoid: Pediatric Policy on Reparative Therapy
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American Academy of PediatricsHomosexuality and Adolescence, American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, October 1993 Confusion about sexual orientation is not unusual during adolescence. Therapy directed at specifically changing sexual orientation is contraindicated, since it can provoke guilt and anxiety while having…
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Dr. Gregory HerekAttempts to Change Sexual Orientation Douglas Haldeman, Ph.D. The Pseudo-Science Of Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy(PDF format) Jeramy TownsleyBibliographies: Assessments of evidence for change of sexual orientation Reparative Therapy: Statements by professional associations and their leadersReligiousTolerance.org
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American Psychological Association exgay Q&A The Q&A answers questions including: What Is Sexual Orientation?What Causes a Person To Have a Particular Sexual Orientation?Is Sexual Orientation a Choice?Can Therapy Change Sexual Orientation?What About So-Called "Conversion Therapies"?Is Homosexuality a Mental Illness or…