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November 14th, 2011
TODAY’S AGENDA (THEIRS): Opening of the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference: Baltimore, MD. As the American Catholic bishops gather for their annual fall meeting, one of the issues almost certainly to be discussed is the Church’s growing antagonistic campaigns against marriage equality. According to USA Today: The bishops’ strategy is centered around their new Committee for […]
November 10th, 2011
Beginning in 2009, BTB has been closely monitoring events leading up to and following the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill. These pages include links to all of our posts, and including more information that we learned after some of the events took place. These pages will be updated as events continue to unfold.
November 10th, 2011
TODAY’S AGENDA: Senate Judiciary Committee to Hold Markup for DOMA Repeal: Washington, D.C. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold an Executive Business Meeting this morning to go over, among other things, Senate Bill 598, known as the Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. This bill was scheduled to be […]
November 9th, 2011
Organizers of Rainbow Toulouse had hoped that maybe a hundred people at the most might to show up in front of a small Evangelical church to protest a planned ex-gay seminar. Instead, they were pleasantly surprised to see between 200 and 300 protesters turning out. Michel Megnin, secretary of Rainbow Toulouse, called the showing “the most important LGBT gathering in Toulouse aside from Gay Pride.” […]
November 9th, 2011
Yesterday was a very good day for gay and -pro-gay candidates throughout the country. Here is a wrap-up. Please let me know what else is out there in the comments. NOM Loses Big: Same-sex marriage remains secure in Iowa as Liz Mathis won big, 56-44%, over her NOM-backed opponent, Cindy Golding, in a special election for […]
November 9th, 2011
TODAY’S AGENDA: My apologies for not posting anything yesterday except for yesterday’s agenda. I’ve been extremely busy. I’ve got a lot of things in the pipeline for BTB, but they are time consuming. Which means they’ll be done and published when they’re done. And as for today’s agenda, this is one of those days where […]
November 7th, 2011
In the same weekend in which about 70 people attended the annual convention for the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) in Phoenix which included a very large contingent of people associated with the Mormon ex-gay group Evergreen International as well as other LDS church members, about 300 people attended a three-day […]
November 5th, 2011
TODAY’S AGENDA: Living Library for Youth: Moscow, Russia. Here’s an interesting project as reported by the Russian LGBT web site Anti-Dogma. Today and tomorrow, the Russian State Library for Youth in Moscow will be having a “Living Library.” Here’s how they explain it (via Google Translate): “Living Library” works just like a normal library, “readers” […]
November 4th, 2011
One of the cleverest characters to have been created for Saturday Night Live was Dana Carvey’s Church Lady. Enid Strict, as host of show-within-a-show Church Chat, would interview guests focusing on their real or imagined failings and attribute them to … (pause for effect) … SATAN! Her colorful euphemisms (e.g. “naughty parts all engorged and […]
November 4th, 2011
Dear Representative Bachmann, Why do you oppose religious freedom? And why are you such an enemy of the soldiers who guard our liberty? I’m referring to your signature on Rep. Todd Akin’s letter to Senate leaders, which calls for rolling back the new policy allowing military chaplains to perform same-sex weddings in states where it’s legal. […]
November 4th, 2011
TODAY’S AGENDA (OURS): Campus Pride College Fair and Prep Day: New York, NY. Campus Pride’s College Fair is an opportunity for LGBT students and their families to discuss educational opportunities with participating LGBT-affirming colleges and universities. The fair features expert advice about LGBT-friendly colleges, scholarship resources and even effective tips for campus visits. The last […]
November 3rd, 2011
The National Organization “for” Marriage recently issued another one of its regular pleas for money, and this one contains — surprise! — a lie. In an article about Illinois adoption agencies, NOM president Brian Brown writes: Now that government is refusing to work with Christian adoption agencies… This is a lie. I called Illinois’ Department […]
November 3rd, 2011
Uganda’s privately-owned WBS launched a YouTube channel about a year ago. In this report uploaded yesterday, WBS reports on reactions from Ugandan lawmakers to British warnings of aid cuts to countries that persecute LGBT people. As predicted by LGBT activists inside Uganda, those warnings appear to be having the opposite of their desired effect, stirring […]
November 3rd, 2011
This time, it’s Sergio Viula, founder of the Movement for Healthy Sexuality (the Portuguese acronym is MOSES), an evangelical ex-gay organization: But how was this process of ‘abandoning the sin’? Was it like a treatment? – That didn’t really happen, after all. It was like the so-called discipleship, which happened to be brainwashing, indeed. You have to […]
November 2nd, 2011
I’m not a fan of abortion. If you are a pregnant woman who wants my opinion (though why would you?), I’d advise against it. But as a gay man I have so little at stake in the debate that my opinion is of little consequence. So, as I prefer to err on the side of […]
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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