Homo No Mo T-Shirt!

Homo No Mo T-Shirt Originally uploaded by p2son.
Graphic designer, Tina Encarnacion, has created a series of Homo No Mo Halfway House shirts that are now available through CafePress.
The Homo No Mo Halfway House–It’s not just for sissies.
Get yours here.

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Loads of Lovely People (Ex-gays leaders too)

Willie Hewe’s Comic Art Originally uploaded by p2son.
I can’t keep up with all the great people and amazing conversations. While in Oxford I stayed with Sally, a former math teacher who now does volunteer work to help asylum seekers. Also, dinner with Jimbo and Trevor from GCN consisted of a [...]

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Let Us Prey: Religious Right’s "Ex-gay" Agenda

Focus on the Family (FOTF) along with Exodus prey on youth. For instance, they offer the upcoming Love Won Out “ex-gay” road show stopping in Boston on October 29, 2005.
At the conference parents, pastors, teachers and youth workers train on how to fix queer teens. According to FOTF’s Melissa Fry,
The largest group of people [...]

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Still Sunny in England

oxford alleyOriginally uploaded by p2son.
Okay, it’s been raining over most of the country, but apparently this little patch of sun is following me around. Let’s hope this keeps up.
Yesterday I saw Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle. WOW! Very powerful. At one point, when one of the characters gets freed from a [...]

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Oxfordshire Hike

Oxfordshire fieldOriginally uploaded by p2son.
The weather has been perfect here. I took this shot Saturday as we hiked around the Vale of the White Horse.

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Deepening My Thoughts Over Tea and Lager

oxford starbucksOriginally uploaded by p2son.
I just had delightful time (I’m starting to sound more and more like a British church lady) with Marigold and Geoffrey. She is a member of the Oxford Friends Meeting, a retired Spanish teacher and author. He is a retired Oxford professor (St. Anthony’s) and a Winston [...]

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Oxford Day Two

Christ Cathedral, Oxford Originally uploaded by p2son.
Last night I met with the Way Out group, a LGBTQ youth group in Oxford. Matthew, the adult leader of the group, warned me that English youth do not typically ask a lot of questions, so I had to engage them with the material.
That [...]

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Vale of the White Horse

DSCN1135Originally uploaded by p2son.
Great time with the folks from Courage. I have stuff to think about for WEEKS. Yesterday we hiked around the Vale of the White Horse. Really the photo says it all.
I’m in Oxford until Thursday staying with Friends from the Oxford Quaker Centre. Tomorrow I meet up [...]

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Courageous Souls

At a pub last night in Guildford, I asked Jeremy Marks and his wife Bren how they were able to make the giant move from an “ex-gay” group to a gay-affirming ministry. Marks, who had been by Love in Action’s Leadership Program, responded, “We didn’t have that much to lose.”
Actually he did. As a [...]

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What’s Next for LIA? Not So Simple

Saskatoon Jail Originally uploaded by p2son.
Tomorrow is the deadline for LIA to respond to the state of TN allegations that Christian “ex-gay” program runs a mental health facility without a license. Some news reports and blogs mistakenly proclaimed the end to LIA. It is not that [...]

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