Joseph Nicolosi

“How long until the most widely read book in the world is banned because it takes a dim view of homosexuality?” the GOP is asking

Joseph Nicolosi was just one in a long line of medical and psychological “professionals” who sought to pathologize LGBTQ identities.

The leader in the discredited movement to “convert” people from lesbian, gay, or bisexual to straight has died.

I am a fan of the late Mike Wallace and am very sad that he has passed away. I have always enjoyed his reports and consider him a first-rate journalist. However, there was one noticeable career snafu that caused an enormous amount of damage to the LGBT community. In 1967, the news magazine CBS Reports aired an hour-long segment, “The Homosexuals,” that gave America its first glimpse of gay and lesbian Americans. Thanks to the efforts of anti-gay psychiatrists, gays were vilified in front of 40 million people, solidifying despicable stereotypes that would last for more than a generation.

NARTH has emerged as the preeminent source of what many regard as “junk science” for the religious right — psychology that underpins the anti-gay movement’s fervent opposition to equal rights and stigmatizes LGBT people as mentally sick.