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Dallas billboard company says ‘repulsive’ conversion therapy ad coming down
A billboard in Dallas, Texas, claiming that gay-to-straight “reparative therapy really works,” will be coming down after the billboard’s owner said it was misled by the ad’s content.
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Former ‘ex-gay poster boy,’ Exodus VP Randy Thomas comes out as gay
Former anti-gay activist and conversion therapy proponent Randy Thomas, who once served as vice-president of the now defunct “ex-gay” therapy group Exodus International, has come out as gay.
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TLC’s ‘My Husband’s Not Gay’ stars prominent conversion therapy proponent
TLC denies claims that its newest show, “My Husband’s Not Gay,” helps promote the discredited notion that gay men can choose to be heterosexual. But one of the show’s stars has a history of promoting “ex-gay” therapy.
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Hundreds gather in D.C. to speak out on transgender issues following teen’s death
More than 300 people gathered in the nation’s capital on Saturday raise awareness of issues facing transgender individuals and to honor a 17-year-old transgender teen who took her own life last month.
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D.C. mayor signs bill prohibiting conversion therapy for LGBT youth
The District of Columbia becomes the third U.S. jurisdiction — behind California and New Jersey — to pass legislation protecting LGBT youth from being subjected to conversion therapy.
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Beijing court orders ‘ex-gay’ electric shock therapy clinic to compensate gay man
A clinic has been ordered to comensate to a gay man who sued it for administering electric shocks intended to make him heterosexual, believed to be China’s first case involving conversion therapy.
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Lawmaker responds to anti-gay billboard with bill to ban ‘ex-gay’ therapy for minors
The announcement by Virginia Del. Patrick Hope comes just days after a controversial billboard was erected in Richmond by a group that supports the practice.
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Challenge to N.J. ban on conversion therapy appealed to U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court decision upholding New Jersey’s ban on conversion therapy for LGBT youth has been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The anti-gay legal group Liberty Counsel on Wednesday asked the court to review a September ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, …
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D.C. Council approves bill to ban conversion therapy on LGBT youth
The D.C. Council has approved a bill to prohibit LGBT youth from undergoing gay-to-straight conversion therapy.
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Former reparative therapy leader John Smid marries same-sex partner
John Smid, the former Executive Director of Love in Action — an ex-gay Christian ministry that purported to “restore those trapped” in homosexuality — has married his same-sex partner in Oklahoma.