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Timothy Kincaid
February 1st, 2008
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What Are Little Boys Made Of?
In this original BTB Investigation, we unveil the tragic story of Kirk Murphy, a four-year-old boy who was treated for “cross-gender disturbance” in 1970 by a young grad student by the name of George Rekers. This story is a stark reminder that there are severe and damaging consequences when therapist try to ensure that boys will be boys.
Slouching Towards Kampala: Uganda’s Deadly Embrace of Hate
When we first reported on three American anti-gay activists traveling to Kampala for a three-day conference, we had no idea that it would be the first report of a long string of events leading to a proposal to institute the death penalty for LGBT people. But that is exactly what happened. In this report, we review our collection of more than 450 posts to tell the story of one nation’s embrace of hatred toward gay people. This report will be updated continuously as events continue to unfold. Check here for the latest updates.
David Benkof: Behind the Mask
At first glance, David Benkof appears to be a young gay man who believes that same-sex marriage will damage the institution of marriage, that there are better options for gay couples than marriage, that the community should join him in prioritizing other more pressing issues, and that the marriage discussion is harming the efforts of gay couples in red states to get recognition for their unions. He also claims that he’s a gay columnist, that he speaks for an influential collection of gay thinkers, and that he is part of the gay and lesbian community and that he shares our goals and dreams. But none of that is true.
“Repeat After Me”: The Reparative Therapy Echo Chamber
The April 2008 edition of the pay-to-publish vanity journal Psychological Reports featured a new report from NARTH. Written by NARTH president A. Dean Byrd, past president Joseph Nicolosi, and Richard W. Potts, the report carries the unwieldy but self-descriptive title, “Clients perceptions of how reorientation therapy and self-help can promote changes in sexual orientation.” While the title describes what the authors meant to show — how clients describe the benefits of reparative therapy — the report itself actually illustrates something very different: the ex-gay movement’s remarkable ability to instill an almost robot-like parroting of ex-gay rhetoric among their clients.
Testing the Premise: Is MRSA The New Gay Plague?
The Toronto Star said that a new study “discover[ed] a new strain” of a super-bug “hitting gay men.” Headlines in Britain screamed, “Flesh-eating bug strikes San Francisco’s gay community,” and anti-gay extremists across America spread the alarm that gays were introducing another plague into “the general population.” But there was a small problem with all of this: None of it is true!
Paul Cameron’s World
In 2005, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote that “[Paul] Cameron’s ‘science’ echoes Nazi Germany.” What the SPLC didn”t know was Cameron doesn’t just “echo” Nazi Germany. He quoted extensively from one of the Final Solution’s architects. This puts his fascination with quarantines, mandatory tattoos, and extermination being a “plausible idea” in a whole new and deeply disturbing light.
From the Inside: Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out”
On February 10, I attended an all-day “Love Won Out” ex-gay conference in Phoenix, put on by Focus on the Family and Exodus International. In this series of reports, I talk about what I learned there: the people who go to these conferences, the things that they hear, and what this all means for them, their families and for the rest of us.
Prologue: Why I Went To “Love Won Out”
Part 1: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Part 2: Parents Struggle With “No Exceptions”
Part 3: A Whole New Dialect
Part 4: It Depends On How The Meaning of the Word "Change" Changes
Part 5: A Candid Explanation For "Change"
The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing The Myths
At last, the truth can now be told.
Using the same research methods employed by most anti-gay political pressure groups, we examine the statistics and the case studies that dispel many of the myths about heterosexuality. Download your copy today!
And don't miss our companion report, How To Write An Anti-Gay Tract In Fifteen Easy Steps.
Testing The Premise: Are Gays A Threat To Our Children?
Anti-gay activists often charge that gay men and women pose a threat to children. In this report, we explore the supposed connection between homosexuality and child sexual abuse, the conclusions reached by the most knowledgeable professionals in the field, and how anti-gay activists continue to ignore their findings. This has tremendous consequences, not just for gay men and women, but more importantly for the safety of all our children.
Straight From The Source: What the “Dutch Study” Really Says About Gay Couples
Anti-gay activists often cite the “Dutch Study” to claim that gay unions last only about 1½ years and that the these men have an average of eight additional partners per year outside of their steady relationship. In this report, we will take you step by step into the study to see whether the claims are true.
The FRC’s Briefs Are Showing
Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council submitted an Amicus Brief to the Maryland Court of Appeals as that court prepared to consider the issue of gay marriage. We examine just one small section of that brief to reveal the junk science and fraudulent claims of the Family “Research” Council.
Review: The Gay Report
When Karla Jay and Allan Young published The Gay Report in 1979, it quickly a favorite source of statistics for many anti-gay extremists. But before you accepts these statistic at face value, you should examine the inner workings of this survey very carefully. What you learn might surprise you.
Daniel Fetty Doesn’t Count
The FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics aren’t as complete as they ought to be, and their report for 2004 was no exception. In fact, their most recent report has quite a few glaring holes. Holes big enough for Daniel Fetty to fall through.
Garfield Thompson
December 2nd, 2008 | LINK
This blood stain on the jamaica flag is not even funny. I kno what you are sugesting. But what is worst is what is not being suggested. I see it as disresctful and crude and would love if you remove it……………..
Timothy Kincaid
December 2nd, 2008 | LINK
Garfield,
The blood stain is not an attempt at humor; it is well earned by the people of Jamaica.
This nation, through laws, culture, music, and mob mentality, have consistently shown a harsh animus to gay people. They cradle a culture of violence and death.
And I have repeatedly seen that those who seek to be the conscience of the nation, whether the clergy, the media, or the elected representatives all refuse to admit or address the issue. They uniformly condemn their gay siblings and neighbors and make excuses for those who perpetuate the beatings and the murders.
Should Jamaican culture change, I’ll be glad to cease viewing that nation and its inhabitants as blood-stained and will happily change my graphic. But until that change occurs, for me and for many gay people the flag of Jamaica is a symbol of cruelty, oppression, and death.
dominique
January 22nd, 2009 | LINK
timothy,
I believe you have the wrong impression of jamaica. I am Jamaican and I am proud to be one. Unless you have actually lived here I suggest you speak not of my country that way because I know that every country has as much violence as the next. I ask you kindly to remove that bloodstain for it is disrespectful to MY country.
UNKNOWN
January 22nd, 2009 | LINK
TIMOTHY,
I find the stupid bloodstain stupid,rude,harsh and idiotic , I live in JAMAICA!do you?I dont think so . So…………….REMOVE IT ALREADY BEFORE WE START A RIOT!!!!!!You are very very very insolent to have put the stain on my national flag!I bet you would not like it if we had put a bloodstain on your flag,so please remove it immediately.
Timothy Kincaid
January 22nd, 2009 | LINK
No, I don’t live in Jamaica. It is a violently homophobic country and those who are gay flee for their lives. A friend recently told me that he is afraid to return even to visit his family.
The blood stain represents all of the death and violence that has come to gay Jamaicans at the hands of anti-gay bigots. When your nation and its citizens choose to abandon their homophobic barbarism then I’ll gladly take down this image.
Until then, you have a choice to make. Do you wish to continue in your bigotry and become all indignant when it is pointed out to you, or do you wish to change your country? You can decide how to expend your energy.
UNKNOWN
January 22nd, 2009 | LINK
tim..
listen up you do-do head our country is great so stop speaking rubbish about it.suppose we put a bloodstain on your countrys flag how would you feel?
UNKNOWN
January 22nd, 2009 | LINK
listen,im not only Jamaican im chinese as well!hmpf!
dominique
January 22nd, 2009 | LINK
timothy,
I understand your concern but you have to believe me as a citizen that it is not true that we rebel against all gay people.
we act in this way because we want to set an example for the children.tthe majority of jamaican citizens are christians and we do not believe in homosexuality.
its because of the RUMOURS people spread and because they stretch the truth that make people think we are like that.
im not saying we dont have problems, but like i said before, each country has its share of violence, but, each country has its share of beauty, love and togetherness which is something jamaica has, ALOT of actually. this is coming from a REAL Jamaican
UNKNOWN
January 22nd, 2009 | LINK
HA HA HA HA HA HA BEAT THAT WITH ANY SOPHISTICATED RUDE WORDS YOU CAN POSSILY USE!!!!
Timothy Kincaid
January 22nd, 2009 | LINK
Yes, dominique,
the majority of Jamaicans are of that brand of Christianity that believes that murder, mob attacks, and violence against gay men and women are justified because of setting examples for children.
Because you are Jamaican, you may well decide to believe that your country is no more violent towards gays than other countries. But you are either misinformed or choose to ignore what is before you. Your politicians, your police, and your pastors all condemn the gay victims but say little about the murderers and mob villians.
That’s why Time Magazine designated Jamaica as the most homophobic place on earth. And that is why the above graphic of your flag has a bloodstain.
UNKNOWN
January 22nd, 2009 | LINK
t…..
that was rude and hurtful.so be quiet
A JAMAICAN
March 23rd, 2009 | LINK
its out of order what your saying, as england its self once had problems with gays. and that some places in the world that do not tolerate gays and any type of homosexual. so just putting a ‘blood stain’ on our flag is uncalled for as its hypocriticle to choose jus the jamaican flag. it might just be your preference to do that, but i bet realy you have done it because of your obsession with gays your self. watch out for when YOUr flag or the england one comes up on the net with blood stains. and bullet shots on it. dont forget it was this country england that STOLE all the diamonds from africa to put on the queens crown. if jamaicans have a bad problems with gays like you say, then go down there and do some thing. dont just post your silly image. COWARD.
bandolero jamrock
May 11th, 2009 | LINK
Ok, I’m gonna put my two pence worth into this stupid argument.
1.It’s only an image so it’s pretty pointless getting so worked up about it. Yes, as someone of Jamaican heritage, I can see how people may find it difficult to deal with but I’m afraid Timothy has a valid point regarding the incidence of homophobia in Jamaica.
2.Timothy, it is a shame you seem intent on generalising about the entire population of a country. Surely, this kind of sweeping statement about a group of people (Jamiacans) is exactly the kind of thing gay and civil rights campaigners have been fighting against for years. As a liberal, non-religious person, I have nothing against gay, straight, black or white people but if you want to change people’s ingrained views, you could do better than antagonising and generalising about an entire population. Religion has played a huge part in mis-educating and corrupting peoples minds, not just in Jamaica but all over the world. Funnily enough, one of Jamaica’s best loved comedians, Oliver Samuels, has been known to be gay for years but no one bats an eyelid in Jamaica so this beautiful island isn’t quite the hotbed of homophobia you make it out to be.
The image is a clumsy attempt to make a valid point. If you want to try and educate Jamaicans that being gay isn’t a sin, maybe you could try to reason with people rather than try to offend and tar the whole island with the same brush.
Breonna
May 18th, 2009 | LINK
Timothy,
I am on the same side as domonique. I’m jamaican, and definatly prooud to be one. But, i’m not going to deny that there is violence, drugs, and gangs there but it is like that everywhere, not just in jamaica.
damn u
June 14th, 2009 | LINK
what the **** is with the blood stain u bastard??? my friend’s from jamaica and i won’t tolerate ur sh*t, so remove it!
SamK
December 17th, 2009 | LINK
I say: “Keep the bloodstain.” At least until Jamaica decriminalizes male homosexuality and enacts some basic civil rights protections for LGBT people.
That might be a few decades off.
Jamaica deserves criticism for its anti LGBT policies.
Tourists need to be warned about traveling to Jamaica . . .
Tamika
February 14th, 2010 | LINK
What is wrong with you!!!!!! I’m from Jamaica and that really the wrong impression. Do you know how offending that is to me and anyone else who has some part of jamaican heritage! My godness you are on sick person!
Timothy Kincaid
February 14th, 2010 | LINK
Tamika,
You are offended by a symbol. You think that I am “sick” for not honoring a pattern of colors.
But you have expressed absolutely no concern about those whom your culture mistreats, beats, and kills. It is not me, but you and your priorities that are sick.
befterereerrrrrrrrrr
March 30th, 2010 | LINK
not nice about the blood
Diana Zmartz
May 26th, 2011 | LINK
Most of us in jamaica are cristians so we do not belive in homosexuality plus its there fault you gays think its natural well its not in MY JAMAICAN CRISTIAN CHURCH the pastor said same sex marrige is same sex moccary. so i dont blame my fellow jamaicans even if it is wrong to spill blood what so ever it is becoming very modern. Also if they choose to be gay they are NO LONGER CRISTIANS so they should get there passport in check because jamaica is full of cristians. I dont even care if its a hate crime thats what i think gay are idiots. ive always wondered how they staeted such a SINFULL matter FUCK YOU GAYS.
Diana Zmartz
May 26th, 2011 | LINK
Sorry I just needed to let all that out
P.S. your friend is a QUIRE i dont care if thats spelt wrong.you know what I mean.
Timothy Kincaid
May 27th, 2011 | LINK
Diana,
Althought you felt compelled to let a hateful bigoted rant out, please know that it did you no favors. You only confirmed what we all know: that Jamaica is full of superstitious evil people who are a danger to anyone who is around them. I find it amusing that Jamaicans would think that showing their hate and their animosity would make anyone think better of them.
Even more odd is the idea that calling yourself a christian somehow makes your nastiness and hatefulness better. All it does is make people think, “well, if Diana is a Christian, then Christians must be truly be a vile dreadful nasty bunch of people. What an awful religion.”
Fortunately, there are many many Christian people in the United States who don’t think that anti-gay violence is of God. In fact, they believe that all hatred and violence are evil.
So I think that I’ll just avoid Jamaica with its blood stained flag and mean, nasty, evil people like you, Diana. I think I’ll remind my friends that going on vacation in Jamaica is foolish and dangerous and that their money is better spent on friendlier (and prettier) islands.
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