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Featured Reports
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 therapists 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 500 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
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Patrick
October 3rd, 2008 | LINK
My being gay mocks fetuses? Usually I can follow their “reasoning”, but this one befuddles me.
I’m always impressed just how powerful we gays are. We influence hurricanes, economic crises, the destruction of entire civilizations, terrorism, tidal waves, etc. But it’s so strange how the natural disasters seem much more inclined to hit the Bible-belt than the cities with high concentrations of gays. London’s Soho, Paris’ Marais, Sitges, Provincetown. the Castro, Capital Hill in Seattle, etc seem much less often hit by natural disasters than those other locations, and economically seem to fair much better.
And then there’s the moral downtown. If only we could return to those glorious moral days of slavery, child labor, women with no rights, interning Japanese-Americans, breaking all treaties with Native Americans, etc. Shame our morality has decayed so much.
homer
October 3rd, 2008 | LINK
It is embarrassing to me that “Savage” used to be an anthropologist.
Mark F.
October 3rd, 2008 | LINK
“Why should we care about homosexuals trying to destroy families through the mock marriage that they perform in order to mock God, the church, the family, children, the fetus, the DNA of the human species?”
Yes, that’s why my gay friends want to get married–to destroy civilization as we know it. Weiner has uncovered our evil plan! Dang, just as us gays were going to take over the known Universe!
Rob
October 3rd, 2008 | LINK
It’s true. Why just this morning, using my god-like gay powers, I parted Lake Ontario, re-forested the Amazon, and sent a plague of locusts to Mr. Savage.
Duncan
October 3rd, 2008 | LINK
“Negative childbirth rate”? That makes no sense, unless children are being sucked back into the womb. I think he means negative net population gain. And I think his statistics are off, unless he has a very wide definition of aliens.
Tavdy
October 3rd, 2008 | LINK
Patrick – I don’t like to rain on your parade, but last time I checked the Castro was in San Francisco, a city famed for sitting right next to the San Andreas Fault…
Mark F.
October 3rd, 2008 | LINK
“Patrick – I don’t like to rain on your parade, but last time I checked the Castro was in San Francisco, a city famed for sitting right next to the San Andreas Fault…”
Dang right, but God moved it there in the early 1970′s when San Francisco started to become more gay tolerant.
Ben in Oakland
October 3rd, 2008 | LINK
Gay marriage is why heterosexuals aren’t breeding???? WTF??
Honey Ben and Paul just got married. Now we have a REAL reason not to have kids.
Mark, we got married 6 weeks ago with the express intention of mocking FETUSES. Destroying western civilization would be damaging to our stock portfloio. But mocking helpless fetuses? That’s sometghing any REAL man can get into. Like taking candy from a fetus.
Neener neener neener, ya little Fetus!! What a crybaby you are. You can’t get married and I can!!!!
Why doesn’t a responsible newspaper or magazine write something about this sort of stupidity. When the LA times interviewed the yes on 8 people prior to their negative endorsement, they got exactly this kind of batshit crazy stuff. I wrote to the reporter who told this behind-the-scenes story on their web page.
I asked if the Times were going to do a story. She said that its appearance on the web was sufficient. I disagreed. Because to me, this is the real story. It isn’t about marriage and never has been.
And I fault the pro-marriage people for being unwilling to discuss the obvious. But if you are not going to discuss it, at least make it obvious that it is there.
Timothy Kincaid
October 3rd, 2008 | LINK
I hear that there’s a real market for a good fetus mocking ceremony. So many gay people are just unsure what words to use. And they can’t figure whether to start the mocking after “sickness and in health” or whether it is better as a part of the procession.
Rob
October 3rd, 2008 | LINK
Actually we included a fetus in our receiving line. We placed the fetus mocking station between meeting his parents and mine. It was all os civilized. “So glad you could come, would you like to mock the fetus?” “Next week the boys are planning to destroy the global economy, so don’t forget to take some wedding cake with you….”
Ben in Oakland
October 3rd, 2008 | LINK
Funny, the moral downturn is all about what makes The Litle Colonel snap to attention. Not greed. Not dishonesty. Not lying. Not theft. Not manipulative fear mongering. Not the war in iraq. Not the lack of health care. Not the destruction of the environment. Not 8 years of official republican mismaanagement.
The moral downturn has absolutely NOTHING to do with people who think like Savage, who will tell any lie, no matter how vicious.
It has nothing to do with a brand of religion that is obsessed wuth what othr people are doing in the privacy of their bedrooms.
You gotta love this country!!!!
Popsiclestand
October 5th, 2008 | LINK
Wow, he got in blaming the gays AND played the “illegal immigrants are taking over” card — all in less than 100 words.
That’s gotta be some kind of record. Bravo!
EdgyB
October 7th, 2008 | LINK
Fear me and my great, Gay powers! Bow and submit before my godlike gayness, you stupid breeders!
Bah! If I had that sort of power, every song would be The Polyphonic Spree, all cars would run on love and it would truly be raining men!
Sadly, I have yet to manifest these great gay powers. Oh, well, maybe next life.
THX1139
December 25th, 2008 | LINK
So according to Michael Savage gays and lesbians have supernatural powers to cause hurricanes, tsunamis, terrorism, financial crisis, blah blah blah…
Ah how little did I know, if it were true I would think our war-mongering president would recruit gays and use their powers to blow up Iran or something.
THX1139
December 25th, 2008 | LINK
And may I add only in America that a hate-monger like Michael Savage can have an audience, let alone offspring.
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