Pride & Privilege–How the Equality Forum Got it Wrong

What happens when an LGB(t) organization decides to commemorate what it sees as a gay man on the same night as the Transgender Day of Remembrance?  In the recent case of the Equality Forum we see an organization that missed the boat when it had the chance to help unite the LGB with the T. [...]

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Boys in Pink Dresses & Ex-Gay Queer Lectures

These are some of my favorite things!
My Friend Oliver Danni sent a link to a gorgeous article about a four-year-old boy who told his mom he wanted a pink dress, not for playing dress-up, but to wear to school. Sarah Hoffman writes,
At 4, Sam has been expressing his preference for pink for half his life. [...]

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A Transgender Singer & a Gay Jew for Jesus Walk into a Church…

Some of you know about Marvin Bloom from this very blog. Marvin has a long and complicated story. He is a Long Island Jew for Jesus and for some time had lived as an ex-gay, trying desperately to de-gay himself. After many trials and tribulations (including a stint in the Homo No Mo Halfway House) [...]

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Ex-Gay Treatment–Doin’ it for Jesus???

Yes, yes, yes, I know I have been negligent in my blogging duties. Just too darn busy at the moment. Let’s see It’s been almost two weeks, and I have been in Selinsgrove, PA (with my honey), Atlanta, GA, Highlands, NC, Nashville, TN, Cookeville, TN, Chattanooga, MD and today I am in Baltimore (Towson State [...]

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Videos of Interest: Ex-Gay lessons and a Transgender Minister

Ex-Gay Survivor Daniel Gonzales recently visited his childhood church to reflect on the lessons he learned about sexuality, particularly homosexuality and heterosexism, lessons that led him to try and “de-gay” himself.

In this one Daniel talks about the messages he received about gender conformity and giving into peer pressure.
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Transgender on the Radio

About an hour ago I stepped out of the studios of WNPR, the Hartford local public radio stations, where I appeared on the Where We Live program to talk about transgender Bible characters as they appear in my play Transfigurations–Transgressing Gender in the Bible. Also on the show performance artist Scott Turner Schofield spoke about [...]

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Gay Gulags, Carrots and Jesus

Still buzzing from the amazing Gender Odyssey conference, today I fly from Seattle to Miami to be part of a Spanish language talk show (I feel so elated by the conference, I doubt I’ll need the plane.) No time to blog about what happened right now, but I will have something up in a few [...]

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Congregation embraces transgender minister as his secret is revealed

I have known David Weekley and his wife Deborah for several months now as they had begun the many steps in the coming out process. Below is a long story of how the process has been so far. I love good news.
Just months after telling his own children that he was not their biological father, [...]

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Transgender Theater Trend?

Frank Rizzo of the Hartford Courant asks,
Is there a transgender show trend emerging?
He’s referring to back to back one-person performances about transgender issues happening in Hartford, CT next month.
Peterson Toscano will present his newest solo theater piece, Transfigurations: Transgressing Gender in the Bible on Sept. 11 at Hartford’s Charter Oak Cultural Center. It’s about “gender-variant [...]

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Begging God to Fix Me: Questions about the Ex-Gay Way

Recently Christine Bakke and I received an e-mail from a 20 year old woman who visited Beyond Ex-Gay. She lives in a large city in the North East of the US. I spent time this morning with her questions and concerns, then I wrote a response. I imagine this woman represents the concerns and questions [...]

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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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