The Daily Agenda for Saturday, May 25
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Boy Scouts of America Votes To Allow Gay Members, Retains Ban On Gay Leaders
Nevada House votes to reverse marriage ban
The Daily Agenda for Thursday, May 23
It's Not the Principle, It's the Prejudice
Congratulations Mitch!
Gay Couples Excluded from Immigration Bill Markup
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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Lucrece
January 14th, 2013 | LINK
Why the resentment? Nobody put a gun to her head to come out. She reads like Sean Hayes in the petty way they respond to coming out conferences/confirmations.
You see no straight people keep the fact that they have a spouse “private”. You do not offer details about your spouse, but at least you don’t hide the fact that you have a spouse and are rarely seen publicly with him/her.
Timothy Kincaid
January 14th, 2013 | LINK
Lucrese,
I think the resentment is about the lack of privacy in general. Or that’s how I took it.
Ray
January 14th, 2013 | LINK
Yeah. That’s what I was thinking. Privacy. She still got stalked by those creeps with cameras.
gsingjane
January 14th, 2013 | LINK
I don’t really understand this… I must be missing something, but I do seem to recall Jodi Foster repeatedly denying that she was lesbian. To me that seems a little different than, “I was fragile and I came out to a few people close to me instead of the world at large.” I mean I don’t meant to jump all over the woman, she has the right to do what she wants and say what she wants, but I certainly don’t remember her being supportive when it could have done other folks some good…
iDavid
January 14th, 2013 | LINK
Mel looked like “huh? wtf. ur gay? but I’m Catholic! So ya didn’t find me sexy, huh. no wonder that movie we made together sucked”.
Have another drink there Mel.
What an amazingly riveting speech. Bravo to Jodi for coming right from her threads.
Fenris Wolf
January 14th, 2013 | LINK
For those who didn’t “get it”, read it over a few times, slowly: “I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age, in those very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends, family, co-workers and then gradually, proudly to everyone who knew her, to everyone she actually met. But now apparently, I’m told that every celebrity is expected to honor the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance, and a prime time reality show.”
TO EVERYONE SHE ACTUALLY MET is “none of us commenting here,” actually. None of us keeping tabs of how many times she did or didn’t deny something – or what she did or didn’t do at what time for what group or individual(s). None of us feigning amusement, declaring that everyone had already known this, and it was, therefore, insignificant. And none of us who have never done the day in day out hard slog of acting/directing/producing for 47 years. “Nobody put a gun to her head?” Bravo, Lucrece! Given the events of the past month, and her personal history as the focus of a madman’s obsession, that little snippy bit of bitchery may be the most insensitive, ham-handed and inappropriate metaphor that could possibly have been employed. You give the title “Rape of Lucrece” an entirely new meaning.
Gene in L.A.
January 14th, 2013 | LINK
Coming out has never been an act done for other people. Why do we insist gay celebrities become “role models”? For how long has it been unspoken knowledge that Jodie Foster is gay? What in the world is there that demands we open ourselves to the public in our private lives, no matter who we are or what we do. For all the gods’ sakes, leave Jodie Foster alone. Her product is what we’re interested in, isn’t it? Why, because their livelihood is in front of us up on that screen, does it mean everything about movie stars must also be our property? It’s not, and we should stop expecting it to be.
Robert
January 14th, 2013 | LINK
Fenris Wolf,
To be fair to Lucrece, not everyone knows all about the Hinkley issue. Many many younger people know who she is, but do not know about the entire Hinkley aspect and his obsession with her and Taxi Driver.
Yes, gun to head analogy may be deemed insensitive, but for goodness sake, do you expect the entire english speaking world to do away with metaphors invlving guns? If so, I suggest you take it up with Vice President Biden before slamming commentators here. He recently said he “aimed” to have a recomendation on the Presidents desk by Tuesday, he also used the phrase “shooting for”. One cannot expect the metaphors of a thousand years to go by the way side because of a shooting. You are a tool to chastise someone then turn to your little quip about rape. Yeah, keep it classy.
Andrew
January 14th, 2013 | LINK
Terribly unimpressed. Her speech came across as whiny and more. No one required that she stay in the business that created the drama so early in her life – she chose to do that. And in so doing, she earned more than enough money to maintain her privacy as she saw fit. You want the money, you gotta play the game. She wants it both ways. And she wanted it thus with her sexuality as well – to profit from all the hard work of activists while protecting herself. Yeah, she’s a fine director, and she’s done some nice parts with roles (and some stinkers), and she’s freakin gorgeous… but the defensiveness etc. just struck me as profoundly ungrateful for such a remarkably privileged life.
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