Barbara Leavitt is a straight woman who married her husband over two decades ago in a Mormon Temple (Latter Day Saints–LDS). They spoke the other day outside of Evergreen International, an ex-gay program in Salt Lake City. Lester turned to Evergreen for help for his same-sex attractions. The Salt Lake Tribune published a piece about […]
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Straight Spouse and Gay Husband Featured in Press
Posted in ex-gay survivor, family, marriage, media, Mormon, spouse on July 14, 2007| 3 Comments »
Update on a Straight Spouse
Posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2007| 5 Comments »
Back in December, I posted the entry, Another Straight Spouse Speaks Out. The anonymous writer, a Christian woman and mother of young children, shared some about her experience finding out her husband is gay and the journey she has been one since with all of its trials and challenges. She has since left a comment […]
Mixed Orientation Marriages–Fraud, Failures and Family
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Carol Boltz, ex-gay, ex-gay survivor, Homosexual, marriage on August 22, 2009| 57 Comments »
On this blog and my Spanish blog I have highlighted the stories of straight women married to gay men. In some cases the woman knew in advance that the man she was going to marry “struggled with homosexuality.” The marriage may have been a direct product of the Ex-Gay Movement, which offered all sorts of […]
Carol Boltz Courageously Blogging
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christian, ex-gay, ex-gay survivor, marriage on December 9, 2008| 6 Comments »
Carol Boltz has been through a lot over the past several years. Well established as a married woman with adult children out of the house and grandchildren soon to hit the scene, her husband, Ray, broke the news to her (and then the rest of the family) that he is gay. The depression that had […]
When You Find Out Your Husband is Gay
Posted in gay, marriage on August 25, 2008| 2 Comments »
Nearly every day straight women visit my blog after putting in a search like, “my husband is gay” or something similar. In November of 2006 Susanne shared some of her story and since then other women (and men) have also read about Susanne’s marriage and her gay husband. These have also shared some of their […]
Doin’ Time at Willow Creek
Posted in Uncategorized on June 11, 2008| 3 Comments »
My blog posts will format in an odd fashion as I compose them on my new Centro phone/PDA (it's too hot to lug around a laptop!) On Sunday my Dad and I joined about 20 other people for Soulforces's American Family Outing this time to Willow Creek Community Chruch, a 30,000 member mega church outside […]
When Your Husband is Gay
Posted in family, gay, healing, marriage on April 17, 2008| 2 Comments »
One of the number one key word searches that bring people to both my English and Spanish blogs has to do with questions from women who want/need to know what to do when they find out their husbands are gay. That or simply the question, How do I know if my husband is gay? Is […]
When Your Partner is an Ex-Gay Survivor
Posted in ex-gay, ex-gay survivor, gay, lesbian, spouse on February 19, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Over at Beyond Ex-Gay co-founder Christine Bakke and I receive many e-mails from ex-gay survivors sharing their stories, thanking us for the site and offering their suggestions for new features to add. We also routinely receive messages from people who never attended an ex-gay program or tried to change and suppress their sexual orientation or […]
Four Former Wives of Gay Husbands Speak Out
Posted in ex-gay, ex-gay survivor, marriage, Mormon, spouse on October 10, 2007| 9 Comments »
Here at this blog I have featured the stories of women married to men who tried to live straight lives, but ultimately could not. The stories and the comments left by others, some just trying to come to grips with their husbands’ sexuality, sadden me and move me. The most common key words in search […]
More Collages of Ex-Gay Survivors
Posted in ex-gay, ex-gay survivor, Love in Action, marriage, Mormon on July 13, 2007| 1 Comment »
Yesterday I wrote about Barbara and Lester Leavitt and their press conference outside of the Latter Day Saint’s program Evergreen ex-gay program. In addition to telling their stories, the Leavitt showed up to give the Evergreen leadership specially designed collages of the Leavitt’s ex-gay survivor narratives. Christine Bakke has spent hours creating beautiful and expressive […]
How Do I Know if my Spouse is Gay????
Posted in bisexual, ex-gay survivor, gay, lesbian, marriage, spouse on June 1, 2007| 3 Comments »
Over at my Spanish blog, Dos Equis, I have a post entitled ¿Como Identificar si mi pareja es homosexual? which is similar to the English post What About the Spouse? The Spanish site Adriana and I maintain got so many hits due to search results about gay and lesbian spouses that we decided to write […]
Gay Husbands and Sweet Potato Fries
Posted in Uncategorized on December 1, 2006| 8 Comments »
Last night I performed at Ramapo College in New Jersey. GREAT turn out including a large contingent of guys from a fraternity. This particular fraternity has a relationship with the very progressive women’s center. Mandy from the women’s center expertly developed this contact. Very cool. After the show a bunch of us grabbed a bite […]