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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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Wendy
March 18th, 2011 | LINK
David Bahati is a liar and perpetrating a deadly fraud upon the people of Africa. Clearly he is out for no one but himself, as his dirty business deals and rhetoric shows it. The colonialists and the Church of England would be proud of him however, even if his current countrymen cannot.
The people of Uganda are not stupid, and know that his ideology that would judge their own intimacy and breach any sense of privacy is not their salvation. Bahati, Buturo and Ssempa will go down in poo-poo history.
Mihangel apYrs
March 19th, 2011 | LINK
the amount of money these kleptocracies get from the US, K and other western democracies is staggering. Cutting it (and suspending them from the Commonwealth) would hurt, albeit the poor mainly. China would probably bail them out but at the cost of their country and their (imaginary) souls
Lisa Salazar
March 19th, 2011 | LINK
We can comment like crazy about this bill, but we can flood Chairman Tashobya with letters and emails. He stated that even foreigners can be part of the discussion. So let him hear your voice.
This is his email address:
ntashobya@parliament.go.ug
Write your own letter or say something like this:
Dear Mr. Chairman Tashobya,
I appeal to you and your fellow Members of Parliament to do the honorable thing. Show the world that you have the courage to show compassion and show respect for the diversity of all of Uganda’s citizens, and not because foreign contries are calling for an aid cut to Uganda for persecuting people “on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or religious belief.”
As chairman of the Legal Committee, please ensure that Mr. Buturo and the supporters of this bill are denied this opportunity to surreptitiously get this appalling piece of legislation debated and passed.
Richard Willmer
March 20th, 2011 | LINK
Here’s my letter to Stephen Tashobya:-
To: the Honourable Stephen Tashobya
Honourable and dear sir,
The Anti-Homosexuality (‘Bahati’) Bill is a piece of legislation that threatens the lives of hundreds and possibly
thousands of Uganda’s citizens, regardless of their sexual orientation or the effects on others of their personal conduct. The proposed bill has shocked the world, and tarnished
Uganda’s image in the eyes of millions.
It seems to many across the world that punishing gay Ugandans for activities for which their straight compatriots are not punished
(e.g. private consensual sexual acts between adults) is a travesty of
‘natural justice’. Furthermore, using police and court time to hunt
down and prosecute people simply because they are in private
consensual same-sex relationships strikes many in Uganda and
beyond as a waste of precious state resources, especially at a
time of economic stringency and rising prices.
Claims that the Bill’s purpose is to ‘protect children’ are, at best,
dubious ones, designed to stir up emotion rather than promote
serious debate. Countries that allow open debate on issues of
human sexuality (something which the Bill would effectively
criminalise) often benefit from significantly lower rates of
‘defilement’ than those that do not. For example, U.K. statistics point
to a ca.40% reduction in ‘defilement’ since same-sex relationships
were decriminalised in 1967.
Whilst I appreciate that homosexuality is something of which many
Ugandans ‘don’t approve’, I am also convinced that there are many
Ugandans who disapprove deeply of any (especially systematic)
persecution of their gay compatriots.
Yours faithfully
Richard Willmer
London, UK
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