Ex-Gay Books in Public Libraries: Dumb and Dumber

My friend Tania in the UK posted a link on my Facebook page about PFOX, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays, and their insistence that ex-gay materials should be placed in public libraries.
According to the local NBC affiliate,

A Chicago-based group called Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays is urging libraries to carry literature about reformed [...]

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Basketball Clinics, Nude Male Bonding and Exorcisms–>Ex-Gay Treatment

When someone attempts to “de-gay” themselves, they can try all sorts of methods. Since it is an unregulated business, most ex-gay programs use a variety of techniques in hopes of straitening out homosexuals. Some of these “treatments” have to do with sex, but typically they touch on other issues as program leaders attempt to sort [...]

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A Dungeon of Biblical Proportions or an Ex-Gay Program?

Lots of people want to know about my time in the Love in Action Homo No Mo Halfway House. Just today I spoke to a journalist who had lots of questions about the program, the “treatments”, rules, etc. Recently for a Pink News article I shared in detail about some of what happens behind the [...]

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Ex-Gay-related studies of note

Joe Moderate reports that Mark Yarhouse, the c0-creator of a controversial and widely debunked study on ex-gays, has begun work in his new creation.
Regent University professor Mark Yarhouse, co-author of the recent Intervarsity book Ex-Gays? A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation, is apparently conducting a study of mixed-orientation marriages.
Considering how the [...]

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Thinking of Ex-Gays

According to Monty Python we should beware the Ides of March (aka March 15). For some this will be a momentous day, one they may live to regret.   Today I consider ex-gays, particularly four individuals who begin the Love in Action (LIA) ex-gay treatment program called The Source. Some will be in for 28 [...]

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Confusion Over Gender by Some Religious Leaders

Cross posted and updated from Pam’s House Blend.
Autumn Sandeen writes here at Pam’s House Blend about the TransAction Day in US schools and the uninformed responses by folks like Randy Thomas at Exodus International, an ex-gay organization.
Randy writes,
We have to be completely vigilant about what our children are being taught in schools. Parents need to [...]

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Video: SEX in an Ex-Gay Program!

As I have traveled and told of my sordid ex-gay past (years trying to “de-gay” myself) and how it turned out to be ineffectual, unnecessary and even damaging, the polite question many have asked is, Why did you do it? I recently answered that question in the video, Reasons I Went Ex-Gay.
Inevitably someone finally asks [...]

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Politically Motivated Ex-Gays

Over at Ex-Gay Watch, Emily K wrote a post entitled Exodus Should Come Out of the Political Closet. In it Emily K raises the essential question,
If Exodus is so adamant about freedom of choice – freedom to live the way one wants to live – then why are they so determined to make life more [...]

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Ex-Gay in the UK–Doin’ Time in the Times

This week the Times of London’s Lucy Bannerman (along with Ruth Gledhill) contributed to a two-page spread that looks segments of the Ex-Gay Movement in the US and the UK. Bannerman traveled to North Carolina earlier this year for the Exodus (ex-gay) Conference, and in a piece, entitled The camp that ‘cures’ homosexuals, writes at [...]

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They are Talking about Ex-Gay Stuff

Back in 2003 when I first premiered Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House, we had precious little resources about the Ex-Gay Movement. There was a Yahoo group, Ex-Gay Watch and Wayne Besen’s compilation of ex-gay survivor stories for the HRC website (launched in 2000) and of course Wayne’s book Anything But Straight—Unmasking [...]

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