An alternative perspective to "ex-gay" treatment, reparative therapy, and other attempts to "cure" same-sex attractions.
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Founded on September 24, 1999, exexgayministry is "a group
for those who question the effectiveness and safety of 'ex-gay' therapies.
We affirm that all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and straight
individuals may live morally, psychologically, and emotionally healthy
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attempts or are considering "ex-gay" treatment. Group membership is
not limited to former participants of "ex-gay" ministries, but also
includes people who have attempted to change or repress their same-sex
attraction and/or gender identity. We also welcome those who are
currently participate or are considering participating in an "ex-gay"
program and would like another perspective of the experience. |
| Articles critical
of or in response to "ex-gay" ministries |
| Advocate.com: "Ex-gay pride"
| http://www.advocate.com/html/stories/839/839_paulk.asp
John Marble's June 5, 2001 The Advocate interview with "ex-gay" poster boy, John Paulk, after Paulk was caught at a gay bar. "In an exclusive interview, John Paulk sets the record straight about his high-profile fall from grace in a Washington, D.C., gay bar" Advocate.com: "Finding a real cure" | http://www.advocate.com/html/stories/821/821_exexgay.asp Chris Bull's September 26, 2000 The Advocate article on former "ex-gay" Wade Richards. Advocate.com: "Loving Themselves at Last" | http://www.advocate.com/html/stories/0399A/0399_cure.asp Lisa Bennett's 1999 The Advocate article: "Onetime ex-gays recall the spiritual struggle that finally led them to self-acceptance." PRA: Calculated Compassion "How The Ex-Gay Movement Serves The Right's Attack on Democracy." An extensive 1998 report by Surina Khan from Political Research Associates, the Policy Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and Equal Partners in Faith. 
HRC.org: It's Not About Hope, It's About Anti-Gay Politics: How to Respond to Anti-Gay "Change" Ads in Your Community. | http://www.hrc.org/publications/exgay_ministries/agpb.asp A manual published by the Human Rights Campaign in response to the 1999 "Truth in Love" "ex-gay" promotion campaign. HRC.org: Mission Impossible: Why Reparative Therapy and Ex-Gay Ministries Fail | http://www.hrc.org/publications/exgay_ministries/change.asp Kim I. Mills' 1999 Human Rights Campaign. Whosoever.org: "The Real Changes Taking Place: Ex-Gay Ministries' Changing Definition of 'Cure'" | http://whosoever.org/issue4/issue4_blair.html Reprinted article by Dr. Ralph Blair, founder of Evangelicals Concerned. |
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| Websites
critical of or in response to "ex-gay" ministries. |
| Anything But Straight
New! "Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth." The website for Wayne R. Besen's book on the "ex-gay" movement. Courage The website of a UK ministry that left the "ex-gay" movement after 14 years. The founder and director of Courage, Jeremy Marks, concluded that the "ex-gay" objectives were unrealistic and "unbiblical". ExExGay.com "Reparative Therapy: A Psuedo Science." The website of Jeffry G. Ford, MA, Licensed Psychologist. Ford is the former Executive Director of the "ex-gay" ministry Outpost. Ex-Gay Nomad "...an ongoing study of Christianity & Homosexuality with particular emphasis on the Ex-Gay Movement." Love Welcomes All 'A declaration of unity and support from clergy, congregations, and other people of faith through greater Kansas City', Missouri in response to Focus on the Family June 22, 2002 "ex-gay" conference. PFLAG Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays' website features a education page on Reparative" Therapy or "Ex-Gay" Ministries. QRD.org: Ex-gay "Ministries" Queer Resource Directory's collection of ex-gay links. Rembert S. Truluck Part of Dr. Rembert S. Truluck's website about "Steps to Recovery from Bible Abuse" includes a section entitled "Sexual Orientation & the "ex-gay" Fraud". Whosoever.org This online magazine for GLBT Christians features a collection of articles on the "ex-gay" movement. |
| Parody and other humorous links
related to the bizarre "ex-gay" experience. |
| BettyBowers.com: B.A.S.H.
(Baptists Are Saving Homosexuals). "Be a man, girl!" Betty Bowers' "ex-gay" ministry, BASH, "...guarantees that it will turn even the world's swishiest drag queen into an 'Ex-Gay' suitable for marriage" The Bradlands: Jon & Mike Hillarious real correspondence between Will & Grace's Executive Story Editor, Jon Kinnally, and Focus on the Family's "Gender Specialist", Mike Haley, regarding the infamous May 2, 2000 "ex-gay" episode, "Girls, Interrupted". 
Chick Habit The fanlisting site for the 1999, "ex-gay", parody movie But I'm a Cheerleader!. Ex-Straight Ministry Pamphlets produced and distributed by members of The Los Angeles Cacophony Society. 
Heteroy Cartoon that was broadcast on the October 24, 1998 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live. "Roy Fletcher and his "ex-gay" coalition use the power of the bible to convert homosexuals." (Image & description are from The SNL Archives.) 
The Onion: "Church Group Offers Homosexual New Life in Closet" "...a reformed homosexual whose natural sexual urges have been repressed with the help of the Lord." |
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Updated March 14, 2003