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

Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Reparative Therapy, Ex-Gay, Video, Ex-Gay-Movement, Ex-Gay Therapy, Exodus International, John Smid, Gay Voices News

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

Rev. Dr. Cindi Love | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Adam Chambers, Bill Hybels, Reparative Therapy, Lgbt, Willow Creek Exodus International, Willow Creek Community Church, Exodus International, Gay Christian, Christianity, Gay Conversion, Gays in the Church, Soulforce Willow Creek, Ex-Gay Therapy, Religion News

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

Joe Mirabella | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Gay Rights, Gay News, Ex Gay Therapy, Truth Wins Out, Gay, Exodus International, Hong Kong, China, change.org, World News

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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Apple Pulls Controversial 'Gay Cure' App

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Five weeks after it launched on iTunes, a controversial iPhone application that claims to help gay individuals become heterosexual through "biblical t...

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Can Your iPhone Cure Gayness? (Video)

Bryan Safi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iphone, Exodus International, Ex-Gay, Apple, Gay, Steve Jobs, That's Gay, Comedy News

Exodus International is now putting its fight against homosexuality on the hippest smartphone around.

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Apple Under Fire For Approving 'Gay Cure' iPhone App

The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Apple is under fire for approving a controversial iPhone app created by a religious organization that seeks to help gay individuals become heterosexua...

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The Bombast and the Body Count in Arizona

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ex-Gay, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Rush Limbaugh, Alan Chambers, Exodus International, Jared Loughner, Cindy Jacobs, Renato Seabra, Politics News

While the world focused on the tragic Arizona shootings, another horrific crime took place in New York City. The New York Post reported today that a P...

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Coming Out Is An Act Of Love

Rev. Dr. Cindi Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exodus International, Advocate Experience, The Trevor Project, Family Acceptance Project, Christian Fundamentalism, Religion News

Young people who tell the truth and have support from their religious communities and their families have the potential to live and love and be productive citizens.

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National Christian Group Pulls Support For Anti-Gay Event, Calls For 'Tolerance'

CNN | Dan Gilgoff | Posted 05.25.2011

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A national Christian organization will stop sponsoring an annual event that encourages school students to "counter the promotion of homosexual behavio...

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Ex-Gay Group Should Repent, Not Revel

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ex-Gay, Exodus International, Catholic Church, American Psychological Association, Focus on the Family, Alan Chambers, Gay Marriage, Religion News

On Saturday, I will join nationally recognized advocates at the Irvine United Congregational Church (9-5PM) in a conference to crash Exodus' gay-bashing birthday bash.

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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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U.S. Evangelicals' Role Seen In Uganda Anti-Gay Push

nytimes.com | JEFFREY GETTLEMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uganda Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Caleb Lee Brundidge, Scott Lively, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, Don Schmierer, Stephen Langa, Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, Gay Marriage Uganda, Uganda, Exodus International, Rick Warren Uganda, Gay Marriage, World News

KAMPALA, Uganda -- Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about "curing" homosexuals have been widely discredited in the U...

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APA Was Right To Reject Harmful 'Ex-Gay' Therapy

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Psychological Association, Apa, Alan Chambers, Mike Jones, Reparative Therapy, Ex-Gay, Former Homosexual, Pfox, Exodus International, Narth, Psychological Abuse, Politics News

Groups like Exodus and the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), regularly encourage clients to say they have converted, even though they are still gay

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