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“Ex-gay” group PFOX wants their anti-gay flier given out at any school that participates in GLSEN’s Day Of Silence this Friday. Their flier (PDF) reads in part: Every year thousands of people with unwanted same-sex attractions make the personal decision to leave a gay identity through non-judgmental environments. Their decision is one only they can make. However, there are those …

“We now know that Pepsi has given over a million dollars to the Human Rights Campaign and to another hate group called PFLAG, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays — an organization that tells parents that their children are born homosexual. Therefore they must accept them and that the only way to love them is to accept, embrace that …

Today CNN’s Kyra Phillips offered an apology for featuring “ex-gay” whacko Richard Cohen on a segment about repealing a California law requiring the state to search for a “cure” for homosexuality, saying that Cohen wasn’t the “appropriate choice.” Phillips also complained about hate mail she received after the segment aired. After Elton’s Michael Jenson: Interestingly, at one point Phillips says …

GLAAD has issued a call to action over yesterday’s CNN segment asking “Does homosexuality need a cure” which featured the famously insane “ex-gay therapist” Richard Cohen. We have spoken extensively to key producers and publicity representatives at the network this afternoon and they indicate that they understand the seriousness of our complaints. They are scheduling a meeting with GLAAD and …

Masked in a story about the move to delete an archaic California law requiring the state to seek a cure for homosexuality, CNN unbelievably handed the issue off to the wildly insane “ex-gay therapist” Richard Cohen, who infamously recommends beating your gay away with a tennis racket and a pillow. In 2002 Cohen was ejected from the American Counseling Association, …

Bryan Safi’s latest That’s Gay piece shreds the “ex-gay” nutters, including Richard Cohen, who coincidentally appeared on CNN today where he was shamefully given airtime to spew his assholery. I’ll have that clip as soon as it appears on YouTube.

“‘Situational heterosexuality’ is a term I’ve used for several years when people have asked how I could have been married for so many years and yet be gay. This term has also helped people gain a clearer understanding of what really happens when someone who is homosexual marries someone of the opposite sex and claims change. Confusion about what really …

The “ex-gay” sadists at Exodus International are endorsing the beating, bullying, and torturing of gay youth through their Day Of Truth campaign against GLSEN’s coming Day Of Silence. Below they interview students at the University of Central Florida (second mention of my alma mater today, but not as funny), asking them about God’s view on homosexuality. Jeremy at Good As …

Canadian “ex-gay” reparative therapy Dr. Aubrey Levin has been charged with sexually assaulting a male patient. Since that charge became known a few days ago, almost 30 other patients have come forward with accusations. Dr Aubrey Levin, who in South Africa was known as Dr Shock for his use of electricity to “cure” gay military conscripts, was arrested after a …

Over 90% of the readers of the American Family Association’s news site OneNewsNow agree that it is impossible to pray the gay away. At least, that is how the Christianists would spin it, had the result gone the other way. Thanks to everybody who played along in yesterday’s freeping, we sent the AFA a little message about the uselessness of …

Go tell the American Family Association that there’s no such thing as “ex-gay.” Hey! I’m holding my breath! I’m an ex-breather! Oh, wait. Damm. (Tipped by JMG reader Kim)

Village Voice writer Steven Thrasher has interviewed Rev. Ricardo Reyes, former NY Sen. Hiram Monserrate’s “spiritual advisor.” Reyes is the man presumably behind Monserrate’s new tactic of making his return to the Senate a defacto marriage equality referendum. The interview takes an interesting turn when Reyes pulls in Jorge, a supposedly gay employee to speak. It turns out, people become …

GLSEN’s national Day Of Silence is six weeks away, but the “ex-gay” mental cases at Exodus International have already launched their “Day Of Truth” campaign to stop students from being taught that it’s wrong to beat up and harass gay kids. According to Exodus, the anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund is standing by with 1200 attorneys to represent anybody that faces …

Go freep this poll right now. (Tipped by JMG reader Emily)

A Vermont judge has issued an arrest warrant for Lisa Miller, the “ex-gay” mother who disappeared late last year after custody of her daughter was awarded to her lesbian ex-partner. Family Court Judge William Cohen found Lisa Miller of Forest, Va., in contempt of court during a hearing Tuesday and issued the arrest warrant. Miller was ordered to surrender custody …

James Hartline isn’t the only “ex-gay leader” who has spent a lot of time in the can. In a joint investigation, Truth Wins Out and South Florida Gay News have unmasked a leader of the infamous NARTH “ex-gay” group as a convicted scam artist. Surprise! Not! And NARTH isn’t the only “ex-gay” outfit he’s involved with. The leader of JONAH, …

UK-based reporter Patrick Strudwick, whose “ex-gay” undercover investigation was mentioned here last week, has now launched a campaign to expose and end the damaging tactics of the evil reparative therapy industry. Strudwick’s group is called the Stop Conversion Therapy Taskforce (SCOTT). Facebook page here. Their first target will be an “ex-gay” conference in Northern Ireland, but that’s just the beginning. …

Due to a 2006 lawsuit, some Maryland high schools have been forced to allow the distribution of “ex-gay” fliers by PFOX. Some Montgomery County high schools passed out fliers this week from an organization that contends gays can become heterosexual through therapy, and the schools say they cannot prevent the use of their distribution system by such groups. The fliers, …

British investigative reporter Patrick Strudwick, an out gay man, went undercover in the UK’s network of “ex-gay” outfits to see how they pretend to pray the gay away. Here’s how just one of the “therapists” worked. She begins her wound hunt by asking about my family. I tell her that I have a close relationship with my parents and that …