Tag Archives: NARTH

A reader tips us that NARTH has joined Facebook. NARTH upholds the rights of individuals with unwanted homosexual attraction to receive effective psychological care, and the right of professionals to offer that care. How to become a friend of the NARTH page: We honor your request to be a NARTH friend. In order to establish professionalism, honest discourse, and security …

Dean Byrd, former president of the discredited anti-gay NARTH (National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality), has died at the age of 64. Byrd was the foremost proponent of the so-called reparative therapy among Mormons. In a post on the group’s website on his death, NARTH called him, “a true clinical pioneer paving the way for many others in …

The Southern Poverty Law Center has issued an in-depth examination of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), which the SPLC calls “the main source for anti-gay junk science.” An excerpt: The LGBT community is overwhelmingly the group most targeted in violent hate crimes, according to an Intelligence Report analysis of 14 years of federal hate crime …

“I know we all want to believe what is told to us by folks in the white lab coats, and much of the time we can. But when it comes to issues dealing with lifespan and sexuality, mainstream medicine is falling under the spell of leftwing politics. Doctors can be politically correct to the detriment of patient care. [snip] This …

NARTH’s annual convention of closeted gays and open fascists takes place in Phoenix this weekend where they’ll be joined by Family Research Council spokesbigot Peter Sprigg. Last year gay activists had a blast picketing outside of the NARTH convention in Philadelphia as we marched around with pink luggage in mockery of FRC co-founder George Rekers’ exposure as a patron of …

Tony Perkins invites you to this year’s NARTH convention, where you might just spot Family Research Council co-founder and famed rent boy patron George Rekers. The male hookers of Phoenix are going to have a VERY busy weekend! RELATED: I participated in last year’s hilarious protest of NARTH’s convention in Philadelphia, where Truth Wins Out led a gaggle of gays …

After criticism from a local newspaper, a Polish university has canceled this weekend’s “ex-gay” conference in which the keynote speaker was to have been famed NARTH whackadoodle Joseph Nicolesi (left). The Foundation for Health and Psychotherapeutic Education head, psychologist Bogna Bialecka, said that her Poznan-based organization has been planning the conference for several months so that Nicolosi could share his …

This is the third and final segment of Anderson Cooper’s excellent report. For much more detail about George “Rentboy” Rekers, reparative therapy and the Family Research Council, please visit Box Turtle Bulletin.

Confrontation with George Rekers at 3:30.

The Christianist bigots at Save California have launched yet another one of those lie-filled anti-gay sites which quote NARTH and the (totally fake) American College of Pediatrics.

“Putting ‘ex-gay’ in quotes suggested that such a sexual orientation is not valid, not recognized or both. But thousands of former homosexuals collectively identify themselves as such. The D.C. Superior Court ruled in 2009 that ex-gays are a protected sexual orientation class in the District. Not all persons who experience same-sex attractions choose to live gay lives. Many of us …

GLAD has posted a round-up of the anti-gay groups who have filed DOMA amicus briefs in their case, Gill v. Office of Personnel Management. Agudath Israel of AmericaAmerican College of Pediatricians [FAKE]Attorneys General of SC, UT, IN, MI, COConcerned Women for AmericaCongressman Lamar SmithEagle ForumFamily Research CouncilFoundation for Moral LawRobert GeorgeGeorge GovermanLiberty CounselMassachusetts Family InstituteNARTHNational Legal FoundationNational Organization for MarriagePacific …

The luggage-lifters at NARTH have the hilarious nerve to file a DOMA amicus brief after their now-disgraced leader went on a ten day European vacation with a lithe young Latino hottie rentboy.

Members of NARTH are featured in the slideshow one post down, these photos are all the good guys, the thinkers, those whose minds are unbound by prehistoric religious dogma and twisted unscientific hooey. I think we had about 40 folks willing to sacrifice a beautiful Saturday morning for a schlep out to a remote airport hotel crawling with people who …

Today I participated in the Truth Wins Out protest at NARTH’s annual convention in Philadelphia, where TWO’s Wayne Besen led a chanting crowd of activists on the sidewalk outside their host hotel. Many of NARTH’s attendees took turns peering at us from the windows, but hid from us (in shame) otherwise. However Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber, a speaker at the …

Sorry for the last minute notice, but based on suggestions from the Facebook gang, we’ve decided on the Westbury Bar for tomorrow’s 8pm JMG reader meet-up in Philadelphia. Westbury is at 261 South 13th Street in the heart of the gayborhood and (I’m told) meets our requirements of dive-y, friendly, and not too loud. I hope to meet lots of …

This here website thingy is a proud co-sponsor of this Saturday’s protest at the NARTH annual convention in Philadelphia. Truth Wins Out reminds us: The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is having its annual convention in Philadelphia (Nov. 5-7). The notorious “ex-gay” group is hoping that Americans have amnesia and don’t remember that its most “prominent” …

Journey Into Manhood, the backwoods “lets hug that sweaty homo-sex outta you, dude” conference has announced its 2010 schedule. Via Christian Newswire: Surveys of past Journey Into Manhood participants indicate that four out of five men surveyed have experienced a decrease in homosexual attractions. More than half report an increase in heterosexual attractions, while nine out of 10 report a …

Truth Wins Out, our heroes in the battle against the cruelties of the “ex-gay” industry, have launched the Lift My Luggage! website to promote their November 6th protest at the annual convention of NARTH in Philadelphia. The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is having its annual convention in Philadelphia (Nov. 5-7). The notorious “ex-gay” group is …