Box Turtle Bulletin
News and commentary about the anti-gay lobby“Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife…”
News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJuly 9th, 2010
I’m often amazed when a comment on the site will give a local perspective to what, for me, may be a very distant story. And I’d love to know just how far this site reaches.
I’ll update the map above and color in each nation that is represented, so please give us a hello from your part of the world. I’d love to hear from infrequent commenters as well; just a one word comment to tell us what nation you live in would be great.
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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”
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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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Sean Wills
July 9th, 2010
Infrequent commenter from Ireland here :)
Sean Kerrigan
July 9th, 2010
Daily reader from Scotland, myself.
Kirsty
July 9th, 2010
My dear friend Sean (above!) pointed me to this sometimes sad, sometimes inspiring, ALWAYS fascinating site!
neil h
July 9th, 2010
Sheffield, England here!
joakim
July 9th, 2010
Swedish guy located in London. Found btb through the similar website antigayretorik.blogspot.com.
Aaron
July 9th, 2010
Rugby, England ;)
Coxygru
July 9th, 2010
An avid Franco-American reader here in Paris, France. Greatly appreciate your work.
Coxygru
July 9th, 2010
There are widgets for tracking international visitors. Here’s but one: http://whos.amung.us/
Stephanie
July 9th, 2010
The U.K.
Robguy
July 9th, 2010
Sydney Australia – although when I first started reading this blog I lived in Wisconsin.
Cheesfondue
July 9th, 2010
UK
corina
July 9th, 2010
austria here~ thanks for your great news coverage~ read it regularly
john
July 9th, 2010
hailing alternatively from Bangkok, Thailand and Yangon, Myanmar
Derek
July 9th, 2010
Ottawa Canada here. I repost your stuff frequently, so THANKS!
F Young
July 9th, 2010
Frequent reader from Canada.
Chris B
July 9th, 2010
Birmingham, UK
Timothy (TRiG)
July 9th, 2010
Frequent reader, occasional commenter from Ireland. (Hi, Sean!)
TRiG.
Iain P
July 9th, 2010
Ex-pat American in Oxford, UK.
klaus
July 9th, 2010
“hallöchen” from germany. i have a more or less daily look at this website for some months, and i think you do a really good job here.
Ben Mathis
July 9th, 2010
Hello from Iceland.
Karl af Hällström
July 9th, 2010
Finland.
Other Fred in the UK
July 9th, 2010
Daily reader, Manchester, U.K.
MJC
July 9th, 2010
Fort Lauderdale FL
Scott
July 9th, 2010
San Antonio, Tx
Paul Mc
July 9th, 2010
London, UK
keep up the excellent scrutiny of all things homophobic
Kent Sinkey
July 9th, 2010
Philippines
toujoursdan
July 9th, 2010
Gatineau, Québec Canada.
Porsane
July 9th, 2010
Canberra, Australia, read it every morning before work
Kelly
July 9th, 2010
Tucson AZ. Guess I don’t win any prizes for furthest away! ;)
Shofixti
July 9th, 2010
Auckland, New Zealand.
Got the RSS on my iGoogle.
Willem van Oranje
July 9th, 2010
RSS-reader from Gelderland, Netherlands ;-)
Thomas
July 9th, 2010
Pretoria, South Africa
Cowboy PhD
July 9th, 2010
A daily reader from the ‘remote nation’ in the wilderness of north Idaho. I appreciate your coverage for equality!
occono
July 9th, 2010
Another Irish reader here :)
Steven Milverton
July 9th, 2010
Cologne, Germany. ;)
Paul in Canada
July 9th, 2010
Seems there’s lots of us from Canada’s capital.
Jim Burroway
July 9th, 2010
Arizona. Keep out!
Cobus Fourie
July 9th, 2010
Infrequent commenter reporting and supporting from South Africa
James
July 9th, 2010
Daily reader living in Brazil, currently travelling in N Europe.
BTW…Glad to see you use “whence” in your title, but “Whence” = “From where” “From whence” = bad grammar (yeah, I know, I should get a life)
Roger
July 9th, 2010
Atlanta, GA. :-)
jo
July 9th, 2010
London.
joe
July 9th, 2010
Boston, MA
just J
July 9th, 2010
The Great State of Texas here…we used to be a country…lol
justsearching
July 9th, 2010
American living in China for the present :D
Cory Sampson
July 9th, 2010
Another Ottawa reader here!
Rebecca Ashling
July 9th, 2010
Colchester, England, UK
David
July 9th, 2010
Daily reader from Calgary, Canada
WildwoodGuy
July 9th, 2010
Rare contributor, but faithful reader, Longview, WA
Jessamine
July 9th, 2010
Milwaukee, WI
Emily K
July 9th, 2010
philadelphia, pa, usa
Edwin
July 9th, 2010
La Junta,CO. Great subjects some I give my opinion on some not. Still a very informative site.
meaninglessnoise
July 9th, 2010
Norway, love your work, guys!
Tamora
July 9th, 2010
Hawaii here – aloha!
Rob
July 9th, 2010
Toronto, Canada here.
Jon Trouten
July 9th, 2010
Frequent reader/infrequent commenter from Iowa City, IA
fred
July 9th, 2010
Daily reader in Wichita, KS.
Nathaniel
July 9th, 2010
Tjabba from Sweden!
In here daily, but I very rarely comment…
Derrick
July 9th, 2010
Irvine, California!
TJMcFisty
July 9th, 2010
Alexandria, VA
Aeval
July 9th, 2010
We are a Swedish/Finnish girl-couple from the northen part of Sweden, and long time fans of this site.
Titus
July 9th, 2010
Vancouver, Canada
homer
July 9th, 2010
Tucson, Arizona
William
July 9th, 2010
Cheshire, UK
Jutta Zalud
July 9th, 2010
Vienna, Austria
David van Duyl
July 9th, 2010
Daily reader from The Netherlands.
You’re doing splendid work!
SpADeSPX
July 9th, 2010
Atlanta, Georgia, USA :)
John
July 9th, 2010
Costa Mesa, CA or Minneapolis, MN, depending on what time of year it is. Currently Costa Mesa.
Denis Bedard
July 9th, 2010
Ottawa, Canada. Great site!
Timothy Kincaid
July 9th, 2010
James, Sorry for the bad grammar.
TampaZeke
July 9th, 2010
Guess!
In case there’s another, I’m in the one in Florida, USA.
Luciano
July 9th, 2010
Lurker from Italy.
Ciao
Luciano
KZ
July 9th, 2010
Salutations from Bowling Green, Ohio!
JB
July 9th, 2010
Divide my time between Ohio and Germany.
PBCliberal
July 9th, 2010
Palm Beach County, Florida
Helen in Ireland
July 9th, 2010
As the name says, I’m in Dublin, Ireland
ZRAinSWVA
July 9th, 2010
Greetings from southwestern Virginia!
Greyfox
July 9th, 2010
Brazilian here!
cooner
July 9th, 2010
Sorry, just the boring old U.S.A. here.
Chris McCoy
July 9th, 2010
Phoenix, AZ
Jaft
July 9th, 2010
Daily reader, occasional commenter from Gages Lake, Ill. (*right* next to the bigger Gurnee, where Six Flags is, if you’re unfamiliar with Illinois).
Been a fan ever since I first found this site; keep up the fantastic work.
Roy
July 9th, 2010
Ex pat living in London, England, relying on BTB for sense!
Andrew
July 9th, 2010
Berkeley, CA, United States
Fiona
July 9th, 2010
I am a U.S. citizen living in Canada and a daily reader of Box Turtle Bulletin.
MJ
July 9th, 2010
I’ve been reading the blog daily since 2008, but only commented once. I’m from Ottawa, Canada.
EZam
July 9th, 2010
Mexico
AdrianT
July 9th, 2010
This is London calling…….!
PS and this Sunday I’m going to be an honorary dutchman…. wij houden van Oranje ;-))
Jean-Paul, Canada
July 9th, 2010
I have never once regretted reading BTB.
Here’s me in Eastern Canada.
Duncan
July 9th, 2010
Wellington, in Kiwiland.
Ray
July 9th, 2010
“Arizona. Keep out!”
LOL!!!!! Jim. You got me.
Cathedral City, Calfornia, USA
There isn’t an actual cathedral with 100 miles of this god-forsaken desert. That’s probably why I live here.
Kevin
July 9th, 2010
The dark green one.
If you want to collect actual data on readership, you should check out statcounter.com
Mario Marin
July 9th, 2010
Infrequent… well, never-commented-before-but-has-boxturtlebulletin-in-his-daily-RSS-feeds reader here from central Mexico.
AMPGlass
July 9th, 2010
Daily reader from Southern Illinois (Carbondale to be exact), but a future resident of the Netherlands.
Joe in California
July 9th, 2010
From Los Angeles County nestled in the foothills near Pasadena!
Keep ’em coming!
Candace
July 9th, 2010
Miami, FL…. that probably counts as a foreign country.
Soren456
July 9th, 2010
US of A; MA; Brookline/Cambridge/Nantucket (but never all at once).
MaskedBandit
July 9th, 2010
From the United States (Utah).
Tom
July 9th, 2010
Illinois, USA
Neil
July 9th, 2010
Melbourne, Australia. I’m a daily reader and may have commented once or twice. This site is an excellent resource.
Piper
July 9th, 2010
Amarillo, TX
I’m glad I’m not the only Texan here! When I first started Commenting I was living in Tacoma, WA.
Arnaud
July 9th, 2010
Daily reader from France.
Mark
July 9th, 2010
Tel Aviv, Israel
Robin
July 9th, 2010
daily reader – keep it up!
Beijing
A.
July 9th, 2010
west virginia :-)
found you through freedom to marry’s blog roll
Kath
July 9th, 2010
Melbourne, Australia – daily reader and very grateful for this site
Richard Rush
July 9th, 2010
The Northeast megalopolis, USA
cowboy
July 9th, 2010
Land of Zion a.k.a. the State of Deseret
volpi
July 9th, 2010
italy, umbria perugia
johnathan
July 9th, 2010
Daily reader, occasional commenter here in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
antarcticub
July 9th, 2010
Ross Island, Antarctica
Frequent reader on ice
sam
July 9th, 2010
Knoxville, TN
And to Adrian T above, I’m looking for Spain’s much more beautiful men to win Sunday, and then I’m going to figure out how to marry David Villa!
Lynn David
July 9th, 2010
Backwoods of Indiana.
Tysa
July 9th, 2010
Santa Clara, California, USA
Piet Dhont
July 10th, 2010
Daily reader fron Utrecht, Holland
CB
July 10th, 2010
San Diego, CA
Alex
July 10th, 2010
Hi,
Occasional reader from Belgium here.
;-)
Rene van Soeren
July 10th, 2010
Daily reader from Nijmegen, The Netherlands. I work for COC Netherlands, the Dutch LGBT organisation.
Uki
July 10th, 2010
Where’s Indonesia? :(
Uki
July 10th, 2010
I’m from Indonesia, happy to have a website like this with much more cultural-neutral, since other sites are too ‘western’ :P
Deacon Barry
July 10th, 2010
Another Scottish daily reader here!
Malcanoid
July 10th, 2010
Reader from Staffordshire England. Thanks and best wishes.
Wirrrn
July 10th, 2010
Pert, West Australia!
The Lauderdale
July 10th, 2010
Beverly, MA. I know the U.S. is covered, but I just love saying it. 8)
JuhaniV
July 10th, 2010
Espoo, Finland
Regan DuCasse
July 10th, 2010
Hello, EVERYONE!
Studio City, Los Angeles, California
Wow…this is such a tiny planet!
David C.
July 10th, 2010
Vista, in northern San Diego County, beautiful, sunny, southern California.
Timothy Kincaid
July 10th, 2010
I’ll continue to update this from time to time as others respond.
But, I’ll admit that it never occurred to me that I’d need a map with Antartica on it. I don’t know what we’ll do if we have any readers on the space station.
:)
ian
July 10th, 2010
Daily reader on the northern beaches of Sydney, Australia
George Bingham
July 10th, 2010
Kansas City, Missouri here!
Mihangel apYrs
July 11th, 2010
Caerdydd, Cymru (Wales) in th UK.
Almost a daily reader, along with Pam’s House Blend, Holy Bullies, and Joe My God (also Huff Post)
It’s nice to see that there are people in the US fighring the Right and the Fundies so hard
Keep writing and we’ll keep reading (and commenting, and squabbling, and bitching……
Argos
July 11th, 2010
Milwaukee, WI, USA here.
Tyler
July 11th, 2010
i am writing my master’s thesis about uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill, and your blog has been very helpful!
i am from the columbus, oh, usa, but i just wanted to point out that you have at least one reader in uganda: the blogger gay uganda links to your site… so you can add that to your map :)
Alice
July 11th, 2010
Bologna, northern Italy!
Your web site is the best source I’ve found to keep updated on LGBT issues world wide. Well done!!
andrew
July 11th, 2010
bulgaria
Dotty Daphon
July 11th, 2010
Australia.
Roger
July 12th, 2010
Daily reader & infrequent commenter from Brazil here. Your work is awesome, keep on!
Erik
July 12th, 2010
Portland, Oregon.
Selly
July 13th, 2010
Regular reader, currently living in Ghana.
Amii aka NoxiousNan
July 13th, 2010
Frequent reader/sometimes commenter from Nevada
Jon
July 13th, 2010
I first started reading your articles in Ethiopia, continued reading them in the Ukraine, and still read them here in the USA :-).
Timothy Kincaid
July 14th, 2010
As commenters on other threads identify their location, I’ll try and update the map. It may be a bit inconsistent.
Adam
July 15th, 2010
Infrequent reader from Hants, UK. Really appreciate your work.
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