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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 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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Ben in Oakland
January 25th, 2010 | LINK
Money shot Martin?
SScatological SSempa?
Porno Pete?
He just needed a legit excuse to look at the stuff that disgusts him so much. Of course he would get it that it might disgust his audience.
If the results weren’t so tragic, the ocmedy would be excruciatingly funny.
Pennarin
January 25th, 2010 | LINK
Ouch, the video quality is horrible, and it is not captionned.
Jim Burroway
January 25th, 2010 | LINK
Pennarin,
The BTB reader in Uganda is recording this using his cell phone at great personal risk. It’s the best he can do.
The video is captioned. You need to enable closed-captioning to see them.
wister
January 25th, 2010 | LINK
Thank you senator Inhofe.
penguinsaur
January 25th, 2010 | LINK
Pastor Martin Ssempa on Tuesday plumbed the depths of notoriety when he offered graphic images of gay sex as proof of the need for tough penalties against homosexuals.
Wait a second. He’s trying to make being gay illegal, but no one thought it odd for him to carry around abunch of gay porn?
Lindoro Almaviva
January 25th, 2010 | LINK
And to that anonymous BTB reader: THANK YOU! Maye God keep you safe.
Ray
January 25th, 2010 | LINK
TWO CLOSED CAPTIONED VIDEOS IN ONE DAY?????
I’m SPEECHLESS. These are TWO of THREE internet-based videos on gay issues I’ve seen in my LIFETIME.
It just makes me weep for joy!
Thank you soooooooo much to Rob Tisinai. He answered my call I made on Prop8Tracker.com.
And thank you to whomever captioned this video!
It is a glorious day for the deaf!
God Bless you!
Lynn David
January 25th, 2010 | LINK
It is so very strange and sad a thing that bigotry does not allow one not to see the truth, but to not even approach it.
Pennarin
January 25th, 2010 | LINK
Still can’t get right-click options related to captioning.
And I do appreciate the risks involved in free-flowing of information, sorry if I appeared insensitive.
Coxygru
January 26th, 2010 | LINK
Ssempa’s obsession is glaringly clear. The man is borderline insane.
werdna
January 26th, 2010 | LINK
@Pennarin-
Open the video in YouTube, from there move your pointer to the upward pointing arrow in the lower right-hand corner of the video window, hover over the “CC” and then click on the “turn on captions” option. Yes, YouTube could make it easier to find, but it is there.
Regan DuCasse
January 26th, 2010 | LINK
In the days after Oral Robert’s death. A local talk radio host broadcast several of Robert’s anti gay television lectures presented in his mega church.
Roberts went on and on and on, in a VERY graphic manner about what gay people do sexually, and what they SHOULD do sexually with someone of the opposite sex.
He’s not the only one. There have been similar broadcasts from black church pastors in Washington, D.C and Chicago respectively that also were consistently very graphic regarding their understanding of same sex sex.
I can tell you from personal experience, that people I’ve known who were former friends who eventually displayed anti gay sentiments, have also treated me to graphic details of what they think gay people do, clearly to make me be disgusted by gay people as they are.
So they resorted to a anatomy lesson, a lecture on why certain parts shouldn’t go in certain places and what happens if they do.
This has happened several times with different people, but their agenda was the same.
Appeal to the lowest, most common assumption, fear and ignorance in who they were talking to.
After all, those of us who are close to and have very caring and deep friendships with gay people, couldn’t POSSIBLY know what people like Peter LaB and Ssempa know.
We MUST be the stupidest most ignorant people if we don’t see what they see in gay people.
I’m the one who hasn’t reduced my gay and trans folk friends to sex and body parts, dry statistics and abstract distortion.
I happen to know the heart, soul and fullness of my gay friends.
So it begs the question: when the anti gay don’t have the stones to know OR speak of someone in anything BUT such reductive terms, how can they accuse those of us who don’t of being clueless and in need of THEIR expertise on gay sex, not gay PEOPLE?
I can’t speak for a gay person’s experience, but I have no doubt that gay folks even moreso get abused with this sort of hectoring like “don’t you know what YOU PEOPLE DO”?
Something of that nature right?
Because I certainly get told in abusive and condescending ways, as if I’m some naive child that gay people are hiding their ‘real selves and activity’ from.
Or even more telling: if gay people aren’t policing each other’s bedrooms, nor reporting on each other’s every nose hair, activity and whereabouts, the anti gay are convinced there is a conspiracy of silence to hide something nefarious.
So, us allies don’t get off lightly, people.
We are considered just a culpable of letting get people’s ‘thin pink line’ get between the straight world and their determination in scrutinizing every move a gay person makes.
In effect, since we DO have such intimate relationships, why AREN’T we using them so spy, pry and tell on our gay loved ones?
It’s a milder form of what the Ugandan government wants to do to punish those who know someone gay or suspect it.
I read a book called “Hitler’s Willing Executioners.”
I can’t remember the author’s name.
Goldberg…Goldstein, something like that.
You can Google the title.
But the effect of neighbors tattling or standing by as their Jewish or ‘undesirable’ neighbors where hauled off to the camps has symptoms in what Ssempa wants to do.
But here in America, similar things have traditionally been done to gays and lesbians.
And in seeing how the anti gay are so pathologically paranoid, and even with the Prop. 8 trial, are indulged just enough, the ground spark is still waiting to flare.
My dear friends: I have something the anti gay don’t have, and don’t like and don’t expect from your straight allies.
I’m not paranoid, I’m not gutless and I don’t let fear turn my back on what I’ve set out to do.
I’m not liked and I’m treated as if I’m a traitor to, ‘the great straight race.’
Ha.
Their fear turns them into turd puddles, and few of them would ever act alone without a forum or mob right behind them.
I have my gay and trans folk friends to thank who gave me the spine and courage.
The anti gay fear an opportunity. A real one, to see what love and simple kindness gives back.
Mores the point. The constant meme that marriage equality will ‘redefine marriage’ deflects from what would really be in evidence.
The truth is that marriage equality would redefine the culturally based fiction that heterosexuality imbues superiority and entitled supremacy.
Well, we know what happened when racists and misogynists got knocked off that peg too.
And I take VERY perverse pleasure in seeing that happen to the anti gay.
Since when has equality been a BAD thing? Even for the prejudiced?
anteros
January 28th, 2010 | LINK
I wont be suprised when Ssempa’s gay sex scandals hit the headlines.
Uganda: Follow the Money « Dented Blue Mercedes
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