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News Roundup for February 16-18, 2008
Ex-gay activists' friends on the religious right may be worst enemies, where access to public schools is concerned
Exodus Speaker Promotes Discrimination and Self-Victimization
Meet the Rev. Ken Hutcherson, a hero to ex-gays — and simultaneously, perhaps, one of ex-gays’ worst enemies. Hutcherson is: Featured speaker for the ex-gay
California Student Brain-Dead after Possible Gay-Bashing
Lawrence King, a 15-year-old student whom friends say had been frequently harassed on the basis of his perceived sexual orientation, is now brain-dead after he
Ex-Gay Stephen Bennett Seeks $180,000 in 2008
Ex-gay activist Stephen Bennett has suffered from questionable finances for years — and 2007 was no exception. The longtime professional ex-gay, who has yet to
Village Voice, 1957: Have Ex-gays Really ‘Changed’?
Well-known since the late 1990s, the ex-gay movement has its roots in stereotypical theories and antigay therapists that date back to the 1880s. By 1957,
Ex-Gay Program Deletes Failures from Its Success Survey
The ex-gay advocacy group People Can Change issued a press release Feb. 7 that distorted the organization’s own survey of a controversial men’s retreat and
Editor of Gay Chilean Website Parrots U.S. Ex-Gay Rhetoric
Like an octopus, the U.S. ex-gay movement weaves its tentacles deep into South America
In Iowa’s Battle over Marriage, Is Ex-Gay Pundit Kinder and Gentler?
Amid a state battle over marriage, is Iowa's Chad Thompson a kinder and gentler ex-gay activist
Survivors of Ex-Gay Programs to Reconvene
Op-ed writer Carol Towarnicky profiles former ex-gay Peterson Toscano, a survivor of Exodus International’s flagship “Love In Action” live-in therapy program, today in the Philadelphia