September 24th, 2010
You knew this was coming, didn’t you?
[Via Pam Spaulding]
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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.
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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MJC
September 24th, 2010
Brilliant. I was considering doing one myself.
Now I’ll just have to do another “Downfall” parody.
Freddy
September 24th, 2010
Sad thing is that this could be anyone of 100 senators currently in office.
Priya Lynn
September 24th, 2010
The video doesn’t show up for me as is often the case with videos posted here. Other sites, such as good as you display the video from a source I can see, it’d be nice if you’d use video sources more people can view.
Timothy (TRiG)
September 24th, 2010
Pryia, it’s a YouTube video. It should work for anyone with flash installed. Have a direct link.
I tend to have more trouble with G-A-Y than with BTB, because he uses a lot of external media and relies on flash a lot. Pam’s House Blend and Slap Upside the Head are the only gay news sites I know which really care about accessibility. Pam and the other bloggers there usually include transcripts for videos, and Mark at Slap always puts proper alt text on his images.
TRiG.
Andrew Conte
September 25th, 2010
Great video…Just for the record, the past tense of seek is not seeked.
Priya Lynn
September 28th, 2010
Timothy, I don’t have flash installed and I’m not keen on installing questionable software every time I want to look at some video, so it doesn’t work for me. Other sites have videos like this with no hitches or need to install software so it certainly can be done
Timothy Kincaid
September 29th, 2010
Priya Lynn,
I’m not a techie. But I think that Flash is kinda standard (not exactly “questionable”) and yours is the only complaint we’ve gotten about this.
Jim is undoubtably more adept at this sort of thing, but I don’t really want to learn special new techniques for posting video unless it’s really necessary.
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