Dutch military disagrees with Sheehan's revision of the Srebrenica massacre
Sheehan blames Bosnian massacre on gay Dutch soldiers
Kathy Griffin Calls for DADT Repeal in D.C.
Ugandan LGBT Activist To Tour Eastern US
Blogswarm: Call Nancy Pelosi, Demand ENDA's Passage
Gays Excluded From Some Clinical Trials
San Diego candidate learns not to buddy up to ex-gay gadfly James Hartline
New military survey on DADT
Featured Reports
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 two hundred 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.
News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric
Posts 
Posts via daily email:
Regan DuCasse
July 25th, 2008 | LINK
Of COURSE they are going to blame the Congressmen and soldiers who rightfully, put Donnelly in HER place!
This is the most pathetic spin yet. Stay tuned, perhaps they’ll eventually blame those ‘aggressive militant gays” like Sgt. Alva, who forced the congressmen to treat Donnelly like that!
Ya think?
Jeff
July 25th, 2008 | LINK
I’m seriously starting to wonder if women like elaine donnelly are the result of a relationship that ends with the man leaving the woman for another man.
she seems too bitter about gay people, it really does seem personal to her.
Does she have the curse of the pink wand?
larry
July 25th, 2008 | LINK
Is FRC not concerned at all with its credibility on issues besides homosexuality? Or are they so invested in this one issue that they are willing to go to any length – including allowing themselves to look like kooks by still defending the notion that sexual orientation is a choice? It’s almost as thought they care more about this issue than, say, abortion, where they still need to appear half sane to the general public in order to have any credibility.
If you’re a social conservative, roundly invested in moving public opinion on a number of causes, you can’t blow away your credibility on one issue and expect the public to listen to you on another. When will groups like FRC decide that this issue is a loser for them and, for the sake of their credibility on other issues, cut their losses an move on?
cd
July 25th, 2008 | LINK
“When will groups like FRC decide that this issue is a loser for them and, for the sake of their credibility on other issues, cut their losses an move on?”
I think that is to misunderstand the motivation. It’s all a protest against the reality of things now, a world in which they once used to embody understanding and owned it all mentally if not physically. Now it’s a world to them that is a shell full of things that are alien, that they fear, that have displaced them from certainty and control.
So it’s mostly a matter of desire to them. Reality is not their care, nor responsibility, nor a thing they ever had a terribly solid relationship with. Losing grasp of it doesn’t bother them that much. Holding the right (and invariably highly selfserving) opinion about things is, I’ve come to think, their true psychological core and the value they esteem. It’s the crutch on which they prop themselves. Holding the right opinion means entitlement to Salvation, after all.
L. Junius Brutus
July 25th, 2008 | LINK
1. “her testimony about behaviors common among homosexuals was “bonkers.””
Primarily because she offered no support for her outrageous and nebulous claim of ‘passive-aggressive behavior’. The Family Reserach Council, characteristically unconcerned with families, research, and evidence, breathlessly repeats these claims as though they were facts and blasts the Congressmen for questioning them.
2. “used the silly line, “When did you decide to be heterosexual?” ”
For a silly line, it has been notoriously hard to answer for the crazies.
Jaft
July 26th, 2008 | LINK
While I agree most of her testimony was rediculous, I watched the full 2 hours of the hearing. Some of the congressmen for us seemed to heckle her. Which is never a good thing, even if we know we’re right. It seemed more like we were preaching our beliefs than using her own incompetancy to prove our point.
Plus, I can’t deny she had a point when she pointed out that there’s a reason we have a bathroom for boys and girls in the 1st grade. It’s an issue we’ll have to address which may result in continuing as always (boy and girl bathrooms and gay people going to their respective gender as always), mixing bathrooms (in an extreme case, just having “any sex” bathrooms with the option of private bathrooms for one person for those that would feel uncomfortable), or having seperate bathrooms based on sex and sexuality. But I see much protest in the latter for those decisions. Either way, someday, I think this may change the way we view dealing with others’ naked bodies (or bodies and presence in general).
Dave
July 26th, 2008 | LINK
“When will groups like FRC decide that this issue is a loser for them and, for the sake of their credibility on other issues, cut their losses an move on?”
Answer: When it stops being a money-maker for them. As long as there are dolts who buy into their fear and misinformation campaigns and send them money, they’ll keep doing it.
homer
July 26th, 2008 | LINK
She showed up and gave ill-prepared testimony, she deserved all of the harsh questions. She couldn’t answer anything intelligently because there are no cogent reasons to bans homosexuals from the military.
Jim Burroway
July 27th, 2008 | LINK
This is a very common misperception about our opponents. Don’t think they only do this because it makes money for them. They do this because they are true and passionate believers.
They would be doing this even if it didn’t earn them a red cent. They just wouldn’t be putting it so prominently on their fundraising appeals. They’d use something else. But don’t every get the idea that if the money stops rolling in on their campaigns against us, that they’ll move on to something else. They haven’t on any other issues that doesn’t make money for them. They won’t on LGBT equality either.
Priya Lynn
July 27th, 2008 | LINK
I don’t think that’s the case Jim. What issues are they working on that don’t make money for them? I can’t think of any.
ZRAinswVA
July 28th, 2008 | LINK
Jaft, I’m going to respond, even though it’s off target with this conversation.
You wrote “she had a point when she pointed out that there’s a reason we have a bathroom for boys and girls”. Go to Europe, sometime, friend, and you will likely be very, very surprised about the restroom arrangement in many metropolitan cities. Unisex bathrooms? Sure? Female attendant within the mens’s restroom? Sure. Is it a problem?
Not hardly.
And point-of-fact, if the military is enforcing its’ standards of conduct, you could shower with anyone and it shouldn’t matter.
Leave A Comment