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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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It's Time To Ban Reparative Therapy

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.17.2012

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Reparative therapy, which seeks to "cure" homosexuality, is a destructive form of consumer fraud, where avaricious practitioners try to profit off their victims by instilling a deep sense of shame and guilt. There is not one shard of evidence supporting such efforts.

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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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'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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Parents Demand School Teach About Ex-Gay Therapy

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.25.2012

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A group of conservative Christian parents are demanding Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin School District teach "ex-homosexual" therapy and "gay-related-immu...

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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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WATCH: Gay Conversion Therapy Victim's Recalls Doc Telling His Parents, 'Your Son Is Straight Now'

Nathan Manske | Posted 02.14.2012

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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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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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Starbucks CEO Cancels Megachurch Speech, Pastor Denies Anti-Gay Stance

AP | Posted 10.11.2011

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RACHEL ZOLL, Associated Press NEW YORK — Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz cancelled an appearance at one of the most prominent megachurches in the co...

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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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Why Willow Creek Severed Ties With Ex-Gay Ministry Exodus International

Rev. Dr. Cindi Love | Posted 09.21.2011

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Today is a red letter day at Soulforce. One of the organizations with whom we have worked has finally ended its formal relationship with the "gay conversion" ministry Exodus International.

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Clinics Owned By Michele Bachmann's Husband Practice Ex-Gay Therapy

The Nation | Mariah Blake | Posted 09.07.2011

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In the summer of 2004, Andrew Ramirez, who was just about to enter his senior year of high school, worked up the nerve to tell his family he was gay. ...

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More Than 14,500 Rally Online to Fight "Gay Cure" Therapy in Hong Kong

Joe Mirabella | Posted 08.31.2011

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A petition calling on the Hong Kong government to drop "gay cure" therapist Hong Kwai-wah has reached more than 14,500 signatures in the last 48 hours.

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Ex-Gay Therapy Is Scandalous

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011

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We need to look beyond the shocking individual scandals to see that reparative therapy at its corrosive core is, in fact, scandalous. Isn't it time these "therapists" shut their doors and finally get the help they so desperately need?

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