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Pennsylvania Catholic Group Hosts Sports Camp To Help Gay Men Remain Celibate

Posted 05.24.2012

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A Pennsylvania-based Catholic group will mark the holiday weekend by hosting an annual sports camp with the reported aim of helping men resist homosex...

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Christian Organization's Founder Gets Emotional Describing 'Ex-Gay Conversion' Clip

Posted 05.24.2012

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A Christian group founder's bizarrely emotional speech, delivered while promoting an "instructional" video "built to convert a homosexual," is going v...

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Gay Oregon Man Claims 'Conversion' Psychiatrist Insisted He Was Straight

AP | By STEVEN DuBOIS | Posted 05.23.2012

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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Max Hirsh says he sensed something wasn't quite right when the psychiatrist focused on his failures with sports and teenage girls, a...

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Fight Against Gay 'Conversion Therapy' Gathers Momentum

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.13.2012

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The fight against a controversial form of therapy aimed at making gay people straight is gaining some momentum. Last week, The Southern Poverty La...

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Gay Teen 'Conversion' Therapy May Be Banned In California

AP | HANNAH DREIER | Posted 05.08.2012

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A first-of-its-kind ban on a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay people straight is speeding through th...

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Former Ex-Gay Leader On 'Reparative' Therapy: 'We Set Them Up For A Facade'

Posted 05.08.2012

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The former director of the "ex-gay" conservative Christian ministry Love in Action spoke to CNN today ahead of a feature-length documentary film that ...

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Psychiatrist Behind Retracted 'Ex-Gay' Study Apologizes To Patients, LGBT Community

Posted 04.25.2012

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Earlier this month, psychiatrist Bob Spitzer made headlines after he retracted his controversial 2001 study proclaiming that "highly motivated" gay an...

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California Bill Could Protect Patients From 'Ex-Gay' Therapy

Posted 04.24.2012

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In what could be a potential blow to the "ex-gay" movement, a proposed California bill seeks to protect gay patients from the mental and physical harm...

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Can We Leave The Ex-Gays Alone?

Jayson Littman | Posted 04.25.2012

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The truth is that ex-gays are not fully accepted in their own religious communities. While preachers and rabbis publicly regard their ex-gay congregants as heroes and champions, ex-gays are often ridiculed and judged by the very people that demand they change.

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'Ex-Gay' Movement Loses Key Scientific Support After Doctor Retracts Original Claims

Posted 04.11.2012

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In a move that will no doubt rankle the efforts of anti-gay institutions, the psychiatrist who published a controversial 2001 study proclaiming that "...

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Chaim Levin Is Giving Hope To LGBT Orthodox Jews

Wayne Besen | Posted 04.24.2012

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Chaim Levin is on a remarkable journey, and he is accomplishing more than simply giving hope. He is having a tangible impact in his community, opening closed minds, and keeping teens from enduring the pain that he once suffered in silence.

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Flyer Saying Being Gay Is A 'Choice' Given To Students

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 02.06.2012

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Parents of students attending Albert Einstein High School in Montgomery County, Md. are upset after some high schoolers were sent home with flyers cla...

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Dammit, Janet!

Walt Hawkins | Posted 02.27.2012

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It has been 11 years since Boynes was "called out of the lesbian lifestyle," and she believes God will bring a husband into her life. I would be the last person to begrudge her that opportunity; I just wish she would extend the same courtesy to my gay brothers and sisters.

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The Top 10 Ex-Gay Stories of 2011

Wayne Besen | Posted 02.22.2012

In June I penned a column that predicted that so-called "ex-gay" programs would crumble from internal rot. In the months since, the decline of these "pray away the gay" organizations has only accelerated.

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Pat Robertson: Gays Can 'Un-Acquire' Their Sexuality

Posted 02.20.2012

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Right wing pundit Pat Robertson has spoken out against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the airwaves yet again, advising...

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Is A Key 'Ex-Gay' Organization On The Brink Of Collapse?

Posted 11.30.2011

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The so-called "ex-gay" movement may continue to dominate headlines in the wake of the notorious allegations facing Marcus Bachmann, but now, one of it...

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Marcus Bachmann In Dispute With LGBT Activist Over Unpaid 'Ex-Gay' Bill

Posted 11.16.2011

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Though Marcus Bachmann denies that his Christian counseling clinic practices so-called "pray away the gay" reparative therapy, one prominent LGBT acti...

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'Ex-Gay' Activist's Stunning Admission

Wayne Besen | Posted 12.20.2011

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It is never easy for one to acknowledge being wrong. I wish John Smid the best of luck on his continued evolution and am grateful that he is beginning to honestly discuss the limitations of "ex-gay" programs.

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WATCH: Former 'Ex-Gay' Minister Now Believes Sexual Orientation Can't Be Changed

Posted 12.20.2011

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The former director of the ex-gay Christian ministry Love in Action has now come forward saying not only that he is gay, but that it is impossible to ...

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NPR's Foxification of Ex-Gay Rhetoric

Irene Monroe | Posted 10.08.2011

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To my surprise, I didn't know -- especially in 2011 -- my sexual orientation was still up for debate. But on Aug. 1 on the Morning Edition of National Public Radio (NPR), it was. And the topic on the show that morning was "Can Therapy Help Change Sexual Orientation?"

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Porno Pete's Anti-Gay Truth Academy Flops

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera billed his three-day "Truth Academy," which took place in a Chicago exurb last week, as "one of the most thorough pro-family, educational seminars on homosexuality ever held in the United States."

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Great Read: Writer Goes Undercover At An Ex-Gay Camp

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Have you ever wondered what it might be like to spend a weekend of your life in the middle of the desert at one of those quasi-Christian camps dedicat...

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California Considers Repeal Of 1950's Law To Study Causes And Cures For Gays, Sexual Deviancy

AP | By CATHY BUSSEWITZ | Posted 05.04.2012

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California lawmakers narrowly advanced a bill Tuesday that would repeal a state law designed to find the causes and cures of hom...

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'Ex-Gays' and the Ninth Circle of Hell

Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is high time that the leaders of the "ex-gay" movement come out of the closet -- both metaphorically and literally -- and repent of their sins of betrayal.

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Straight Ex-Spouses: Legalize Gay Marriage

Washington Post | Theresa Vargas | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the debate over legalizing same-sex marriage in the District grows louder and more polarized, there are people whose support for the proposal is pe...

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