“He Got Away With It”: Conversion Therapy Survivor on Dr. Joseph Nicolosi’s Legacy
As news spread about the death of “ex-gay therapy” pioneer Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, one of Nicolosi’s…
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5 Lessons From an Ex-Gay Industry Defector
After spending 15 years of her life serving as “proof” that gays and lesbians can…
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“Ex-Gay” Gospel Star Donnie McClurkin and the Decline of Public Theology
Last week there was a flurry of controversy over the public disinviting of gospel star Donnie Mclurkin to a DC celebration of in advance of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. The mayor’s…
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Should We Accept The Apology of an Ex-Gay Ministry?
A gay professor mines his past to reckon with responses to the closure an apology of a premier practitioner of “reparative therapy.”
Read MoreRight-Wing Parody of Coming Out Reveals True Parody
On the wrong side of history—again.
Read MoreOnce Poster Child for Ex-Gay Industry, John Paulk Renounces His Support
Love Won Out founder says “I have made many mistakes and I have hurt many people.”
Read MoreEx-Gay Org Loses Tax-Exempt Status
The end is near… for NARTH and the ex-gay industry.
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God Will Not Make You Straight: An Interview with GCN’s Justin Lee
“We really need to get rid of Ex-Gay groups. I would like to see Christians, en masse, abandon these groups, to recognize that they don’t work. If they want to help people be celibate because that’s what they believe people are called to do, more power to them, but to tell people they can become straight and torture them psychologically is incredibly wrong.”
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Megachurch Pastor: We’re “American Al Qaeda” for Opposing Homosexuality
The day after it was announced that Louie Giglio, an Atlanta pastor, founder of the Passion movement and campaigner against human trafficking, had been chosen to deliver the benediction at President Obama’s second inauguration, an old sermon of his surfaced. OK, it didn’t…
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Queer Suicide and the Malpractice of “Love”
Violence against queer people runs much deeper than physical bullying, verbal harassment, or even hate-crime murder. It is a violence that takes place at the level of the psyche, the soul—at the very level at which our sense of “self” is constructed within our relation to society.
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