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This former ‘exgay’ leader realized she was doing more harm than good. She’s now officiating same-sex weddings.
For years, Wendy Gritter led the ex-gay ministry New Direction — and her mission in life was to “cure” gay people. Not anymore.
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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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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.
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Born Perfect: A journey to find a way to change, but instead finding the truth
I first became aware that I was gay at a time when it was considered a sin, a sickness, and a crime. During elementary and junior high, I was regularly bullied and beaten by boys who sensed somehow that I was different, who called me “homo” and “sissy.” Before I even reached my teens, I had decided that someday – somehow – I would find a way to change…
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Purveyors of ‘ex-gay’ therapy, Exodus International says it’s shutting down
Exodus International, the nation’s oldest and largest Christian ministry devoted to performing controversial gay-to-straight “reparative therapy,” announced Wednesday night that it is shuttering its operations after more than three decades.
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Former Exodus chairman apologizes, renounces ‘reparative therapy’
John Paulk, the former chairman of Exodus International, a Christian ministry devoted to performing controversial gay-to-straight “reparative therapy” has formally renounced his past and says he is “truly, truly sorry” for the pain he’s caused by advocating for that gays could change their sexual orientation through prayer and therapy.
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Tax records: Chick-fil-A donations to anti-LGBT groups nearly doubled in 2011
Fast-food chain Chick-fil-A — embroiled in a controversy last year surrounding the millions of dollars it donated in 2009 and 2010 to anti-gay organizations — almost doubled it’s charitable donations to anti-gay groups in 2011, according to newly released IRS documents.
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True LGBT Story: Robbie Maris, ‘I’m from New Berlin, Wisc.’
In this video story from “I’m from Driftwood,” Robbie Maris tells that, after coming out to his religiously conservative parents, he was sent to “ex-gay” ministry, Exodus International.
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‘Ex-Gay’ myth hits Caribbean: Newspaper ad declares ‘truth’ about gays
The ‘ex-gay’ religious movement has expanded beyond its American origins throughout the world. Now the same lies pushed by the same American “ex-gay” propagandists are finding an audience in the Caribbean.
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The Top 10 Ex-Gay Stories of 2011
In June, I penned a column, “The Fall of the Ex-Gay Myth,” which predicted that so-called “ex-gay” programs would crumble from internal rot. “It’s time for the discredited ‘ex-gay’ myth to simply go away and be rightfully viewed as an experiment that was tried and failed,” I wrote at the time. In the months since this column was written the decline of these “pray away the gay” organizations has only accelerated.