Notorious ‘Ex-Gay’ Conversion Therapist Jayson Graves Reportedly Fired After TWO Investigation
Arizona Rehab Center Confirms That Graves No Longer an Employee Delray Beach, FL – Truth Wins Out today confirmed that infamous “ex-gay” conversion therapist Jayson Lee Graves is no longer working for Canyon Vista Recovery Center in Mesa, Arizona. “Due to HR regulations, we can’t provide information on employment history, but we can confirm that […]
Freedom March Cynically Rebrands for Pride Month After Founder Comes Out as Transgender
Freedom March Grifters Reboot as Rainbow Revival The Freedom March is a right-wing Christian fundamentalist organization that exists to help LGBTQ people “pray away the gay.” They also claim to help people transition out of being trans. So, it was a really bad day for the Freedom March when its founder, Jeffrey McCall, announced online […]
Pro-LGBTQ clergy reclaim the Christian faith from right wing fundamentalists
Right wing Christian fundamentalists would have you believe that they own the Bible. In truth, they often distort the Bible and replace messages of love and acceptance with hate and intolerance. The truth is, there are many Christians who reject bigotry and embrace LGBTQ people. Millions of pro-LGBTQ Christians say that it is time to […]
Jared’s Journey: A powerful Conversion Therapy Survivor Story
When Jared Dixon worked up the courage to come out to his parents it didn’t go well. His father said that being gay was “abnormal.” His mother and father began pressuring Jared to try “ex-gay” conversion therapy. This is a discredited practice that falsely claims to change sexual orientation or gender identity through prayer or […]
Former ‘Ex-Gay’ Leader Takes Bandages off Eyes
In 2012, then-Exodus President Alan Chambers decided to abandon the “ex-gay” industry. He said no one changes and it harms people. “It was the continual unwrapping of the bandages around my eyes. My [gay] feelings haven’t changed and nobody else’s feelings that I ever met have changed. It began to chip away my belief that […]
TWO Releases New Publication Featuring Historic Interviews with Former ‘Ex-Gay’ Leaders
To the Dark Side and Back Gets Inside the Minds of Former Ex-Gay Leaders and Answers the Question: ‘Why Did They Do it?’ WASHINGTON – Truth Wins Out (TWO) released To the Dark Side and Back today, a new 110-page multi-media, interactive publication which features Executive Director Wayne Besen interviewing seven former “ex-gay” leaders. The […]
Former Ex-Gay Leader: You cannot change your sexual orientation
Randy Thomas is former Vice President of the now defunct Exodus International (1976-2013), which was the world’s largest “ex-gay” ministry before it shut down because no one was changing their sexual orientation from gay-to-straight. Today, he is out of the closet and going to “marry a dude.” In this video, he warns of the grave […]
WATCH: ‘Ex-Gay’ Conversion Programs are a Freak Show
Promoters of “ex-gay” programs love to talk about (non-existent) sexual orientation or gender identity “change”. What these groups hate to discuss is their wacky, unethical, unprofessional and psychologically abusive methods. When people actually see what “ex-gay” conversion programs do, they are repulsed and see it as quackery.
WATCH NOW: Former Ex-Lesbian Leader Denounces Conversion Programs
Yvette Cantu Schneider worked as a policy analyst at the Family Research Council (1998-2001). She ran an ex-gay ministry in Virginia called “Grace Christian Fellowship and was a consultant for Fellowship of Christian Athletes (2001-2007). Yvette was a speaker at Focus on the Family’s “ex-gay” roadshow Love Won Out. She was the Director of Women’s […]
‘Ex-gay’ Conversion Therapy is even More Bizarre than you Imagine
Many people have heard of “ex-gay” conversion therapy, but few actually know what it entails. While the leaders claim they have “changed”, their sexual behavior paints a different portrait. Conversion programs also preach bizarre ideas that are far outside mainstream psychology.