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Science Fiction meets Religious Oppression

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on September 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »

So many people who hear me talk about the Ex-Gay Movement and my many varied failed attempts to “de-gay” myself think I am making this stuff up–total fiction. Add to it the Evangelical world view,  some evil spirits, generational curses and football clinics–well it sounds downright nutty.
Daniel Gonzales writing for Box Turtle Bulletin, spent time [...]

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Anti-Heterosexism Conference–why so negative???

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Beyond Ex-Gay along with Soulforce, The National Black Justice Coalition, Truth Wins Out, Equality Florida and Box Turtle Bulletin announce that pre-registration for the Anti-Heterosexism Conference (Nov 20-22 in West Palm Springs, FL) is now open!
Wow, that is a mouthful. In addition to the main conference, there will be a pre-conference Ex-Gay Survivor event hosted [...]

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Doin’ Time in Denver

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This weekend we had our Ex-Gay Exposé in Denver, CO in response to the NARTH Conference. NARTH is an organization that reinforces the ideas that it is wrong to be gay and that therapies exist that can fix LGBT people. (How can you fix something that’s not broken???)
Daniel Gonzales took a bunch of photos of [...]

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Hair you can straighten. Gays? No so much!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Colorado-area and national groups Beyond Ex-Gay,  Soulforce, Truth Wins Out, the Colorado Queer Straight Alliance, PFLAG, the GLBT Center of Colorado, Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, the Religious Society of Friends and more have been working the past few months to organize a public response to this weekend’s NARTH conference.
NARTH=the National Association for the Research and [...]

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They are Talking about Ex-Gay Stuff

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on October 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »

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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