-NOM’s Summer for Marriage tour scores a modestly successful turnout in St. Paul, MN after playing to near-empty plazas in Lima, OH; Indianapolis, IN and Madison, WI. Turnout returned to normal in Rochester and St. Cloud. -The New Jersey Supreme…
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Wayne Besen points out a bizarre change in the name of the ex-gay organization JONAH. Formerly Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality, JONAH have apparently changed (most) references to their name on the website to Jews Offering New Alternatives to…
Video: Scott Lively on The Daily Show
Two men have accused Alan Downing, a life coach with Richard Cohen’s ex-gay International Healing Foundation, of using sexually inappropriate therapy techniques, according to Truth Wins Out. On separate occasions, Downing allegedly asked Ben Unger and Chaim Levin to undress in…
XGW Digest: July 24, 2010
-The National Organization for Marriage’s summer marriage tour continues to draw embarrassingly small turnouts in Albany, Providence, Trenton, Annapolis and Columbus. -Warsaw, Poland hosts the 2010 EuroPride festival. -President Mary McAleese signs Ireland’s civil partnership bill into law. -Gay teen…
XGW Digest: July 17, 2010
-Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer announces plans to marry in Connecticut to protest New York’s lack of marriage equality. -The University of Illinois decides not to renew the contract of a professor who spoke negatively of gays and lesbians. -The…
Video: Anti-Marriage Equality in Crisis
An article from the UK’s Daily Mail bears this title: How I went from committed lesbian to a happily married mother of four. It describes British comedienne Jackie Clune’s winding testimonial as a woman who, once “committed” to her lesbian…
XGW Digest: July 10, 2010
-London mayor Boris Johnson comes out in support of marriage equality. -Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle vetoes the state’s civil unions bill. -Britain’s Supreme Court rules that gay immigrants who fear violent retribution in their home countries have a right to…
XGW Digest: July 3, 2010
-The Montana Republican Party joins its Texas counterpart in calling for the reinstatement of sodomy laws. -The National Organization for Marriage aligns itself with anti-gay activist Louis Marinelli. -The US Supreme Court refuses to grant legal immunity to the Vatican…