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Details Looks At “Gay Exorcisms”

Detail Magazine’s Matt McCallester has chronicled a few of the “gay exorcisms” that still take place in some of the nation’s evangelical churches. Here’s how one went down: “You need to be delivered from homosexuality,” the prophet said into a microphone so that all the church could hear. Kevin was embarrassed, but he stayed put. This was no normal preacher—she …

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The Hasbian Decade

Oh brother. In another one of their meant-to-cause-outrage pieces, Details Magazine says there’s a new “trend” of lesbians dating straight men. Because their biological clocks are ticking and they need a baby. Also, the “novelty” of lesbianism has worn off. There are no reliable statistics by which to gauge how many refugees there are from the isle of Lesbos. Nor …

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HomoQuotable – Sir Ian McKellan

“It’s never crossed my mind that it’d ever be possible for me. That’s the scar that I and so many others bear—we believed ourselves to be second-rate citizens for so long, the idea of being able to say ‘This is my husband, these are my children’ was not an option. I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came …

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Is Bash Back The New ACT-UP?

Details Magazine has published a profile of Bash Back!, the “queer anarchists” who last November provided the right-wing with oceans of anti-gay ink when they invaded a Michigan church during services, shouted slogans, pulled the fire alarm, and threw leaflets at parishioners. In May, the Alliance Defense Fund filed a federal lawsuit against Bash Back. From Details: The group’s website …

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Not Straight, Bisexual

Details has published a rather dumb story called What If You Only Thought You Were Gay? in which the author recounts the stories of a number of men who married women after years of living as gay men. It’s not a story about “ex-gays”, more a few anecdotal instances in which gay men fell in love with women. For Andrew …

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