Tag Archives: ex-gay

“Since GLAAD placed me on their blacklist, no secular media outlet has invited me on its show in the United States. In-depth interviews with me have been broadcast in Chile, Russia, France, Ireland, and a number of other nations. In the United States, Christian broadcasters like the American Family Association and Frank Sontag’s ‘Faith and Reason’ show in Los Angeles …

Via Raw Story: “Kidnapped for Christ” is a new documentary that tells the story of teenagers sent to an evangelical Christian boarding school outside the U.S. where school personnel attempt to rid them of feelings of same sex attraction or other “ungodly” influences. “They mess your mind up,” said former student Deirdre Sugiuchi to Raw Story. “Prisoners have more freedom …

The “ex-gay” crackpots at PFOX have filed a federal discrimination complaint with the Department of Justice and the Department of Education because the Montgomery County, Maryland school board won’t let them advocate for the torture and brainwashing of LGBT students. Via press release: PFOX requests the federal agencies initiate an investigation into the discriminatory practices of Superintendent Starr and the …

Via Right Wing Watch: Family Watch International – a group affiliated with the World Congress of Families that supports the criminalization of homosexuality abroad and retains Uganda anti-gay crusader Martin Ssempa as a “volunteer” staff member – teamed up last month with leaders of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) to produce the half-hour documentary, “Understanding …

Ladybird Bachmann has dropped the “Bachmann” from the name of his “ex-gay” torture clinic in Minnesota. And perhaps more interestingly, Crazy Eyes no longer gets a prominent mention on the brainwashing center’s website.  Via Bluestem Prairie: It’s been glitterbombed, infiltrated by gay men pretending to seek “pray away the gay” reparative therapy and mocked by Jon Stewart and Jerry Seinfeld …

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) today reintroduced a House resolution that denounces the use of “ex-gay” torture on LGBT youth. Speier introduced the same resolution in November 2012, but it was not allowed to come to a floor vote. Lambda Legal reacts to today’s action via press release: We applaud the introduction of this important resolution, which adds the voice of …

Wayne Besen writes at Truth Wins Out: One can’t be an official “ex-gay” rock star until wedding bells ring. Apparently, this happened for publicity hound Michael Glatze, who married his prop, er bride, Rebekah, on October 26. Here are the wedding photographs of Glatze in fundie drag. The victim is attractive and seems rather sweet. I hope she knows what …

Mere hours after Truth Wins Out called for boycotting the Salvation Army, the organization has removed the “ex-gay” groups listed on its website. From their letter to Truth Wins Out: We sincerely appreciate you bringing this matter to our attention. As you know, The Salvation Army strives to live out our mission of meeting human need without discrimination. Our doors …

Via press release: Truth Wins Out called on people today to withhold holiday donations from The Salvation Army until the organization removes all anti-LGBT materials from its website, starting with two “ex-gay” ministries that are listed as sexual addiction resources. “Don’t drop change in The Salvation Army’s bucket until it changes its website into a platform that doesn’t refer clients …

He was literally swallowed by Satan. Via Right Wing Watch: Joseph Sciambra is the author of a book called Swallowed by Satan, which depicts his life as a pornographic film actor, Satanist and neo-Nazi…until he became straight and left it all behind. Sciambra’s YouTube page includes a biopic, “Death in Room #122,” and video commentaries such as, “How to Stop …

The above-named New Jersey court today told the Liberty Counsel to go fuck themselves.  From the ruling: Garden State’s motion for permissive intervention is GRANTED. Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment is DENIED. Defendants’ cross motion for summary judgment is GRANTED in its entirety. Accordingly, all of Plaintiffs’ federal and state constitutional claims against Defendants are DISMISSED, and Plaintiffs have no standing …

Clip recap: The trailer shows Christian singer-songwriter Dennis Jernigan as he shares about his lifelong struggle with same-sex attraction and the redemption he’s found in Christ. Despite Dennis’s notoriety as a musician (he penned “You Are My All in All” among many other world-renowned worship songs), this is the first time he has spoken in-depth about his homosexual past and, …

In an interview published in the 1996 book Please Kill Me: An Oral History Of Punk, the late Lou Reed described the electro-convulsive therapy his parents ordered because they wanted to cure him of his bisexuality.  “They put the thing down your throat so you don’t swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That’s what was recommended …

A New Jersey couple has filed a lawsuit which demands that they be allowed to torture their 15 year-old son with “ex-gay” therapy. According to the lawsuit, the teen suffers from “unwanted gender identity disorder and unwanted same-sex attractions” and has contemplated suicide. It goes on to describe how he “began to think he would like himself much better if …

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Paul Cameron, the only American anti-gay activist who rivals Scott Lively for his litany of repulsive lies about LGBT people, has testified before Russia’s Duma. Via Buzzfeed: Russia’s parliament invited an American anti-gay psychologist whose work has been widely discredited to give expert testimony where he suggested that a third of LGBTs support pedophilia, according to a participant in the …

Porno Pete was among the speakers at yesterday’s hate rally in the Illinois capitol, which was staged by the SPLC-certified hate group, the Illinois Family Institute. Also speaking yesterday was “ex-gay” nutter Linda Jernigan, who you may recall recently declared that all gay people are drunks and drugs addicts because that’s the only way we could possibly endure all that …

The crackpots at Voice Of The Voiceless went “undercover” at seven Virginia universities to see if they would be offered information abut “ex-gay” treatments if they asked for it. Of course, they were told to get lost, so now they are very upset. PFOX is joining in today via press release: In response to an undercover investigation, Parents and Friends …

This week British MP Geraint Davies will introduce a national ban on “ex-gay” torture for everybody, not just minors as the states of California and New Jersey have done. No country presently has such a ban, although medical organizations in numerous Western nations have denounced the practice. “Anyone can set themselves up as a counsellor or psychotherapist without training or …