Love In Action Ends Residential Program | Memphis Gaydar

Love In Action Ends Residential Program | Memphis Gaydar

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Undercover at an "Ex-Gay" Camp

Over at Alternet, you can read all about how Ted Cox went undercover at a "Journey Into Manhood" camp, Matt Taibbi-in-The Great Derangement-style. What does it feel like for a man, learning to be a man, with the help of other men? It involves isolation and strange rituals and "Native American flute music" and re-enactments of junior high school gym class humiliations.

Oh! It also involves spending the day participating in astoundingly homoerotic activities:

"My weekend was filled with crying, singing, and wrestling, as 30 men struggled to overcome their attraction to other men. It was also the first time I felt another man's erection."

Ted Cox, What Happened When I Went Undercover at a Christian Gay-to-Straight Conversion Camp

De-Constructing the "Ex-Gay" Myth Conference

Beyond Ex-Gay is having an "ex-gay" survivors conference in Memphis this week (Feb. 22-24) featuring a number of events and workshops to counter Focus on the Family's anti-gay "Love Won Out" Conference. For more information and resources visit Deconstructing the Ex-Gay Myth: A Weekend of Action and Art It's good to see somebody organizing events to expose the truth about the "ex-gay" movement.

Personally, I don't have any problems with religious fanatics who want to repress their own homo-desire, but when they align themselves with political groups who oppose the civil rights of LGBT people, I have a problem. I believe many people are "bisexual" and should have the right to choose their own sexual preference and identity, and that includes those who want to choose a "straight" life. We should not, however, allow the anti-gay religious right to make the issue of choice the basis of our civil rights. People should have the right to choose their sexuality, just like they have the right to choose their religion. No one should be forced to "change" to suit other people's religious beliefs. And we should respect the rights of those who Choose to Be Gay!

One of the organizers of the conference, and one of the founders of Beyond Ex-gay, Peterson Tuscano has posted some videos about his experiences with Love in Action in Memphis.

Here's a preview of one of the films being shown at the conference, "This Is What Love in Action Looks Like"

Brainwashing "Ex-Gay" Ministries Fail to "Cure" Homosexuality

Here's a good article exposing the "ex-gay" ministries, "Ex-Gay" Ministries Brainwash Thousands, including the Memphis-based cult "Love in Action" and its looney leader John Smid, and survivors including our own Peterson Tuscano.

Here are more resources on the "ex-gay" movement and its victims:

Beyond Ex-Gay

Truth Wins Out

Ex-Gay Nomad


And here are some Facts About Sexual Orientation to counter the anti-gay propaganda of the "ex-gay" groups.

Was Church Gunman Gay? The Fatal Cost of "Ex-Gay" Ministries

There are reports that Matthew Murray, 24, the young gunman who shot and killed four church members and then himself at Colorado's New Life Church, was struggling with his bisexuality, and was thrown out of an anti-gay youth ministry (Youth With a Mission) with links to ex-gay groups. As reported by Richard Rothstein on his blog Proceed At Your Own Risk:

"Mathew Murray posted on his blog that he had written letters to his mother, complaining that the church had forgiven Haggard, but not him. Last summer, he wrote, "People like us are going to go to hell, according to Christians." He lists several reasons why. Reason number seven is bluntly stated, "I'm bisexual." In other postings, Murray wrote, "... I can never get a female date. I am at least able to get some male action."And later, he wrote about confronting his mother about his bisexuality.Murray wrote that he told her, "Using drugs, alcohol and having gay sex, I'm just trying to do what any Christian pastor would do. At least I'm not doing meth like Ted Haggard."Murray also noted that the Church forgave Haggard.He posted, "I want to know where was all the love, mercy and compassion for my supposed imperfections?"In 2002, Murray was dismissed from the Youth With A Mission group for what they described as "health reasons." Youth With A Mission has been described as "associated with the ex-gay organization Exodus International, has been criticized by some as a 'cult' and attacked for 'brainwashing' members and promoting anti-gay messages."Rothstein concludes his above-linked post with, "At least in Iran, the executions of gay men are swift. In the United States we prefer to slowly drive our gay children insane so that they grow up to be monsters."

Thanks to Joe My God

There's an article up now on 365gay.com