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Christian Blogger Caught on Grindr: I Was Looking To Meet Men, But Not For Sex

HuffingtonPost.com | Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 05.02.2013 | Gay Voices

Matt Moore, the so-called "ex-gay" Christian blogger who was exposed for being on the gay-dating app Grindr in February, says in a new interview that ...

GOP Congressman's Gay Son: Reparative Therapy Built My Confidence, Helped Me Talk With Guys

Posted 04.16.2013 | Gay Voices

The openly gay son of Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.) tells Anderson Cooper that his time in reparative, or "ex-gay," therapy helped him become more comfor...

I Finally Understand Gay Conversion Therapy!

Wayne Dhesi | Posted 01.01.2013 | Gay Voices
Wayne Dhesi

This week I found myself beginning to finally understand the concept of gay conversion therapy. I'd always thought that the idea was to "switch off" someone's sexuality and "teach" that person how to fancy the opposite sex. I was wrong.

'Ex-Gay' Christian Group Backs Away From Reparative Therapy

AP | PATRICK CONDON | Posted 06.27.2012 | Gay Voices

MINNEAPOLIS -- The president of the country's best-known Christian ministry dedicated to helping people repress same-sex attraction through prayer is ...

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

Posted 05.24.2012 | Gay Voices

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

It's Time To Ban Reparative Therapy

Wayne Besen | Posted 07.17.2012 | Gay Voices
Wayne Besen

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.

Can We Leave The Ex-Gays Alone?

Jayson Littman | Posted 06.24.2012 | Gay Voices
Jayson Littman

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.

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

Posted 04.11.2012 | Gay Voices

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

Dammit, Janet!

Walt Hawkins | Posted 02.27.2012 | Gay Voices
Walt Hawkins

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.

Anti-Gay Suburban Hate Group No Longer Tax-Exempt

Posted 10.01.2011 | Chicago

The blog Ex-Gay Watch is reporting that the tax-exempt status of the controversial Naperville, Ill.-based organization Americans For Truth About Homos...

Ex-Gay Therapy Is Scandalous

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Wayne Besen

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?