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Lila Shapiro

Group Invokes Jerry Sandusky, Claims Proposed 'Gay-Cure' Ban Could Harm Abuse Victims

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.06.2013 | Gay Voices

Opponents of proposed state legislation that would ban licensed therapists from offering so-called gay "conversion therapy" to minors are holding a p...

Exposed 'Ex-Gay' Blogger Sells Computer, Locks Phone To 'Prevent Giving Into Temptation'

The Huffington Post | Cavan Sieczkowski | Posted 02.08.2013 | Gay Voices

The "ex-gay" Christian blogger and religious advocate revealed to be leading a double life on Grindr is taking some further measures to "prevent givin...

Lila Shapiro

Gay 'Cure' Proponents Defend Practice In New Jersey

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 02.05.2013 | Gay Voices

A first-of-its kind lawsuit challenging the practice of gay "conversion therapy" is winding its way through the New Jersey legal system. On Monday, la...

'Ex-Gay' Christian Blogger Found On Male Hookup App

The Huffington Post | Cavan Sieczkowski | Posted 02.05.2013 | Gay Voices

An "ex-gay" Christian advocate, who blogs about how religion saved him from a life of homosexual sin, was recently discovered on gay hookup app Grindr...

Historic Gay Rights Moves Becoming Real In 2013

Posted 12.26.2012 | Politics

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Measures on gay rights and child safety are among the top state laws taking effect at the start of 20...

Michelangelo Signorile

New Jersey Senator On Gay Marriage, Reparative Therapy Legislation

HuffingtonPost.com | Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 12.27.2012 | Gay Voices

New Jersey Democratic Senate President Stephen Sweeney responded strongly to charges by openly gay Assemblyman Reed Gusciora that he's stalling on a v...

Lila Shapiro

Dueling California 'Gay Cure' Law Court Rulings Draw Battle Lines

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 12.04.2012 | Gay Voices

Shortly after California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed groundbreaking legislation this fall that banned licensed therapists from practicing gay "convers...

Lila Shapiro

First U.S. 'Gay Cure' Law Tested As Battle Over 'Reparative' Therapy Heats Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 12.01.2012 | Gay Voices

Jerry Spencer's counselor once placed bags of ice on his hands while showing him photos of men holding hands. Chaim Levin's "life coach" told him to s...

Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Courage and 'Conversion' Therapy

Ed Coffin | Posted 12.10.2012 | Gay Voices
Ed Coffin

I believe it's so critically important to expose these religious groups and the real harm they're inflicting in people's lives.

Former Reparative Therapy Patient Says 'Ex-Gay' Procedures Were 'Horrible' And 'Traumatic'

Posted 10.08.2012 | Gay Voices

An emotional video testimony from a gay man who claims to have undergone reparative or "ex-gay conversion" therapy as a teenager is making the blogosp...

Lila Shapiro

'Cure' For Gays Ignites Passion In New Jersey

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.05.2012 | Gay Voices

In California and New Jersey, lawmakers, gay-rights advocates, therapists, and religious organizations are fighting over the future of a controversial...

So Cal Student Says 'Gay Cure' Worked For Him

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 10.05.2012 | Los Angeles

A Southern California college student who claims he reversed his own homosexuality with reparative therapy has filed a lawsuit against California for ...

What Would You Do If Your Parents Offered A Prize To Turn You Straight?

Posted 09.27.2012 | Gay Voices

Yesterday, a lot of you chimed in on our story about the Hong Kong tycoon who is offering a $65 million "reward" to any man who would marry his alread...

Hong Kong Tycoon Offers Millions To Man Who Can Woo His Lesbian Daughter

Posted 09.27.2012 | Gay Voices

A Hong Kong billionaire has offered up a staggering, if bizarre, "marriage bounty" to any man who can woo his daughter, who is currently married to a ...

Lila Shapiro

California Seeks To Ban A 'Cure' For Homosexuality

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.20.2012 | Gay Voices

When James Guay was 12, he went into a Christian bookstore to look for information on what was wrong with him. He found just one book on homosexuality...

Anti-Gay Preacher Dreams Of 100,000 Gays Converting To Heterosexuality And Curing AIDS

Posted 07.09.2012 | Gay Voices

Lou Engle, so-called "visionary" and co-founder of TheCall solemn assemblies, a "movement of prayer gathering young adults [who] pray and fast for bre...

Gay Baby Boomers Waiting for More Apologies

Jeffrey Sharlach | Posted 08.01.2012 | Gay Voices
Jeffrey Sharlach

Dr. Robert Spitzer, considered by some to be the father of modern psychiatry, just made front page news when he apologized to the gay community, recanting a well-publicized 2003 study he had done supporting the use of reparative therapy to "cure" homosexuality.

Robin Wilkey

VICTORY: California May Be First In Nation To Ban Gay Conversion Therapy

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 06.02.2012 | San Francisco

The California State Senate approved a bill that would make California the first state in the nation to ban the use of conversion therapy, a type of p...

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...

Fight Against Gay 'Conversion Therapy' Gathers Momentum

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.13.2012 | Gay Voices

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

Gay Teen 'Conversion' Therapy May Be Banned In California

AP | HANNAH DREIER | Posted 07.08.2012 | Gay Voices

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

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.

Conservative 'Ex-Gay' Candidate Admits Lesbian Affair

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.27.2011 | Politics

Linda Wall, a conservative independent Virginia candidate for the House of Delegates, admitted on Wednesday that she had an affair with a female stude...

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

Rev. Dr. Cindi Love | Posted 09.21.2011 | Religion
Rev. Dr. Cindi Love

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.

Gay Conversion: The Religious Right's Violent Bully Pulpit

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Wayne Besen

No matter how many millions of dollars religious organizations squander on this fatal fantasy, or how loudly they preach this destructive lie, there is no evidence that one can pray away the gay.