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September 1st, 2006
The wide-ranging condemnations of Dr. Joseph Berger, the NARTH Scientific Advisory Committee member who recommended “ridicule” as an effective treatment for young children with variant sexual identity and expression, has had an effect. Warren Throckmorten notes that not only has Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, President of NARTH disavowed Dr. Berger’s advice, NARTH NARTH pulled the offending post from their blog.
August 31st, 2006
NARTH Scientific Advisory Committee member Joseph Berger said on a blog in reaction to a San Francisco Chronicle article on gender identity issues, “I suggest, indeed, letting children who wish go to school in clothes of the opposite sex – but not counselling other children to not tease them or hurt their feelings. On the contrary, don’t interfere, and let the other children ridicule the child who has lost that clear boundary between play-acting at home and the reality needs of the outside world.”
August 28th, 2006
In all of the claims and spins surrounding battling statements between the APA and NARTH concerning conversion therapy, NARTH has been strangely silent over the issue of Informed Consent. And for good reason. They are in violation of the APA’s policy statememnt for treating those who are unhappy with their sexual orientation.
August 24th, 2006
The GOP finds a tax cut they don’t like • Traditional Values Candidate lobbyist fired from California GOP • Unmarried straights in Washington state want domestic partner benefits • A Utah state senator considers Brown v. Board of Ed. a mistake • Gay bashing in St. Maartin is “not good promotion”.
August 18th, 2006
The Pension Protection Act of 2004 provides benefits for gay and lesbian couples • A possible attack on a gay bar in London • A camp for GLBT teens in Michigan • A teen in Concord, New Hampshire writes about his experiences in typical teenage fashion.
August 16th, 2006
“Do we allow a man to marry a sheep?” • A Cincinnati anti-gay group withdraws their petition after discovering massive forgeries. (Did Fidel Castro really sign it?) • Unmarried couples are now allowed to live in Black Jack, Missouri • Canadian Conservatives are just different.
August 15th, 2006
A brick is thrown through the Lakeway Inn window in Meade, Kansa • Two local boys apologize in Meade, and Phelps threatens to protest • Australia’s Liberal government seeks to ban overseas adoption by gay couples • kids with gay parents speak out.
August 8th, 2006
A West Point Cadet questions the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy • But hostility toward gays in the military is rampant • gays In Iraq targeted by Shia death squads • German court blocked the deportation of an Iranian lesbian back to her home country • Orlando’s reluctant adoption of a non-discrimination policy.
August 8th, 2006
Two recent articles in the Washington Post led me to compare Virginia in 2006 to the Deep South in 1956. A couple of parallels are striking. It appears we are seeing examples of some rather frightening attacks against a hated minority, a minority whose rights are persistently and severely hampered by that state’s legal strictures. And we are seeing a migration of that minority to safer locales.
August 4th, 2006
Joe Brummer stays on Guy Adams’ case (of “gays having sex with infants” fame). Read this series of emails and you can see the kind of truly unhinged people we’re dealing with. Good work, Joe. With the spate of hate crimes this week, Mike Ditto at Janus Online tipped me to another one Wednesday of […]
August 3rd, 2006
Anti-gay activists often say that gay people are prone to depression. With news like this, is it any wonder? San Diego again. A security guard was attacked by about fifteen teenagers who shouted anti-gay epithets at him. They scattered when police arrived, but three were later arrested when they tried to attack him again. Meanwhile […]
August 1st, 2006
Columnist Dan Savage has an excellent op-ed piece in last Sunday’s New York Times about the recent rulings on same-sex marriage in New York and Washington. He believes that both courts’ reliance on arguments about procreation is the key to turning these setbacks into future victories.
July 27th, 2006
Or at the least, revenge. But that’s only because of the US military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. A decorated sergeant and Arabic language specialist Bleu Copas was dismissed from the Army, even though he never was asked, and never told. His accuser has not been identified. Instead, the Army relied on a stream of anonymous e-mails sent to his superiors.
July 27th, 2006
The Advocate has a heartbreaking story by David Luc Nguyen, a former “ex-gay” (an “ex-ex-gay,” you might say) who emerged from a very difficult attempt to go straight. He was forced by his parents to undergo counseling after he came out to them. When he finally dropped out of Portland Fellowship, an Exodus affiliate where he underwent counseling, his parents kicked him out. Many of the damaging aspects ex-gay ministries comes from the fact that they are not certified competent counselors…
July 26th, 2006
Lance Bass, of popular boy-band N’Sync came out in the most recent edition of People Magazine. With all of the rumors floating around, why did he wait so long?
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"
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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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