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June 11th, 2016
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump spoke before the Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference in Washington, D.C. yesterday, where he spoke of his admiration for Reed and Liberty University’s Jerry Falwell, Jr., Trump also spoke about the need to “restore respect for people of faith.” Trump, who was never known to be much […]
June 11th, 2016
Gay and lesbian Mormons had been meeting, very unofficially and very secretly, off and on the Brigham Young University campus for a mix of discussions, social activities and mutual support through much of the 1960s and ’70s. In 1977, Matthew Price began promoting the idea of a national organization of gay Mormons, and on June […]
June 10th, 2016
Jay Cochrane and Sandy Leblanc opened David’s in the spring of 1975. It was one of the first clubs in Toronto to be gay-owned, and it was decorated with a decidedly gay sensibility: The club was a sizable, two-level layout. Once opened, David’s heavy wooden door revealed a path that went up a few stairs, […]
June 10th, 2016
Black’s early childhood in a devout Mormon family included fears of going straight to hell. “I had my first crushes on a boy neighbor when I was like six, seven. I knew what was going on, I knew I liked him, but what Texas did and what the culture of growing up Mormon, growing up […]
June 9th, 2016
A small bomb exploded in the women’s bathroom at a Target store in Evanston on Wednesday, and officials are investigating whether it’s connected to the company’s policy allowing transgender people to use the bathroom of their choice. Thankfully, no one was in the restroom when the explosion went off a little after 4:00 yesterday afternoon […]
June 9th, 2016
“Although Army regulations strictly forbade the drafting of homosexuals, scores of these inverts managed to slip through induction centers during the second world war. Between 3,000 and 4,000 were discharged for this abnormality; others were released as neuropsychiatric cases. Last week, with most of the records on homosexuals tabulated, Army medical officers, for the first […]
June 9th, 2016
Charles W. Lee, Grand Wizard of the Pasadena, Texas-based White Camelia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, filed for a parade permit to march down Westheimer Blvd. through the heart of Houston’s gay community. While city officials sought legal advice on how to proceed, the result was pretty much a foregone conclusion: there was nothing […]
June 8th, 2016
The European Parliament’s Intergroup on LGBT Rights has warned that the parliament of Moldova is set to consider a Russian-style “homosexual propaganda ban.” Like Russia’s law passed in 2013, the Moldova law would impose fines for spreading “homosexual propaganda” to minors “through public meetings, the media, the Internet,” and other means. The Culture and Education […]
June 8th, 2016
Florida’s gay community took a triple whammy today. Just one day after Miami voters overwhelmingly sided with Anita Bryant to rescind an anti-discrimination ordinance (Jun 6), Governor Reuben Askew (D) signed into law two additional anti-gay measures affecting gay Floridians. The first banned same-sex marriage and the second banned gay adults from adopting. State Sen. […]
June 8th, 2016
25 YEARS AGO. It started as a very modest idea: a time for about 3,000 gays and lesbians in central Florida to enjoy a day at Orlando’s top attraction — and to become more visible. “Twenty years ago, there were hardly any visible portrayals of our community other than the pride parades,” Chris Alexander-Manley, president of […]
June 8th, 2016
(d. 1992) The Vancouver, BC doctor was known to millions across Canada simply as Dr. Peter, host of a regular segment on the CBC’s news broadcast called The Dr. Peter Diaries. That platform made Dr. Peter the country’s best-known educator for AIDS and HIV awareness. Dr. Peter’s approach was uniquely personal: he documented, on his […]
June 7th, 2016
The Dade County Commission approved an ordinance in January of 1977 that would outlaw discrimination against gay people in employment, housing and public services (Jan 18). Miami joined about 40 other communities around the nation had similar anti-discrimination laws in effect. Reaction from local Christian conservatives was swift. Former beauty queen and Florida Orange Juice […]
June 6th, 2016
Articles about gay bars and gay life in the least-expected places, most out-of-the-way places surely must constitutes some lesser, c-list kind of click-bait (I know I’m always going to click) and Gawker is, well Gawker (and so I clicked). Which is why I’m surprised to be glad I clicked. This article has everything you expect […]
June 6th, 2016
The Arizona Daily News described the Back Pocket two years after it opened: BACK POCKET – 2921 N 1st Ave. Tucson. On March 15, 1976, during one of the freak snow storms in Tucson, the Back Pocket opened its doors. Formerly an open sky patio extension of the Stonewall called Stoneynook, it took shape as […]
June 6th, 2016
40 YEARS AGO: You could only cruise Tucson’s Speedway Blvd on a hot summer night for so long before boredom sets in. But if a carload of bored teens turned north onto Euclid and kept going past where Euclid merges onto First, and then kept going another six blocks past Grant, they could relive their boredom […]
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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