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July 10th, 2016
Luis Daniel Conde, 39 years old. Juan P Rivera Velazquez, 37 years old. Luis and Juan went to the same high school together, Jose Campeche High School in San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico They also owned and operated a salon together, the Alta Peluqueria D’Magazine Salon in Kissimmee. Luis did makeup and managed the business, and […]
July 10th, 2016
In 1984, the Dallas/Ft. Worth suburb of Arlington was having a problem at Randol Mill Park. It seems that the popular park had become a well-known venue for men (often heterosexually-married men) to solicit sex with other men. Its notoriety even earned it a listing in Bob Damron’s Address Book, a popular pre-internet national guide […]
July 9th, 2016
In the past ten years— Six Amish girls went to school. Six people went shopping at the mall. Thirty-two students went to college. Nine more went shopping at the mall. Six attended a meeting at City Hall. Six more students went to college. Two people went to see kids putting on a musical at church. Thirteen went […]
July 9th, 2016
Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37 years old. Luis grew up in Puerto Rico, where as a young man growing up he was harassed for being gay. It was a really small town and “he was always the odd man out,” said his friend of twenty years. Luis was so reserved that when his friend came out […]
July 9th, 2016
(d. 2015) His family was as impressive as he: his father, a Lithuanian Jew, was a respected physician. His mother was among England’s first female surgeons. His large extended family included scientists, physicians, statesmen and a Nobel Laureate. He earned a BA in physiology and biology from Queen’s College, Oxford. After a disappointing experience in […]
July 8th, 2016
Brenda Lee Marquez McCool, 49 years old. Brenda was the mother of eleven children. And she beat cancer. Twice. She was one tough mother. She was from Brooklyn, moved to San Bernardino, California, then to Orlando. Her ex-husband — they remained friends and stayed in touch — said, “She was a good mother [and] a […]
July 8th, 2016
Jack Nichols (Mar 16) and Lige Clarke had cut their activists’ teeth as members of the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C.. Nichols helped to organize the the first White House protest in 1965 (Apr 17), while Clarke lettered nine of the ten picket signs. Nichols and Clarke moved to New York in 1968, where the couple became […]
July 8th, 2016
In news that surprised no one, The Advocate’s Washington, D.C. editor Larry Bush revealed “a concerted nationwide surveillance and investigation program by the FBI into the lives of wealthy, prominent, closeted homosexual men as well as into gay civil rights groups, and the collection of thousands of names of suspected homosexuals in the course of […]
July 7th, 2016
The Federalist website is giving this research significant play: The study by sociology professor Paul Sullins found that “[a]t age 28, the adults raised by same-sex parents were at over twice the risk of depression as persons raised by man-woman parents.” In addition, there was an “elevated risk associated with imbalanced closeness and parental child abuse in family […]
July 7th, 2016
Amanda Alvear, 25 years old. Amanda worked as a pharmacy technician and planned to become a nurse. She had transformed herself over the past two years. She shed 180 pounds with the help of bypass surgery and daily workouts. On that Saturday, she had spent the day shopping with her nieces. “She was a fashionista,” […]
July 6th, 2016
Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput has a reputation for being one of the more hardline Catholic prelates in North America. He officiated the opening mass for the annual conference of Courage, the Catholic ex-gay ministry, in 2014. He has also co-sponsored the National Organization for Marriage’s futile and poorly-attended “March for Marriage” rallies Washington, which drew dozens […]
July 6th, 2016
The London Central Telegraph Office had two problems. The first one was that a number of its delivery boys had been found having sex with each other in the basement toilets of its central office. Not only that, but those same boys used their mobility engage in commercial sexual enterprises with gentlemen clients in a […]
July 6th, 2016
Coverage of the Stonewall rebellion in New York’s news media was quite scant. The New York Times buried its first day’s coverage with a very small article on page 33 (Jun 29). The New York Daily News placed its first small story on page 30. But on July 6, the Daily News — which was a […]
July 6th, 2016
(d. 2007) I vividly remember the moment I figured out that Merv Griffin was gay. It was sometime in the mid to late 1970s. I was in high school, off on summer break. I walked into the TV room. No one else was in there, but the TV was turned to The Merv Griffin Show. […]
July 5th, 2016
The Washington Blade picked up a report that has played out all over Spanish-language media but hasn’t made much of an appearance in the English language news outlets: The Vatican announced on Monday that Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez of the Archbishop of Santo Domingo. The Holy See said […]
Featured Reports
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.
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