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Contents:
- DR. OZ APPEARS TO HAVE SCBBED GAY CONVERSN THERAPY SEGMENTS FROM HIS WEBSE
- DR. OZ, SELF-PROCLAIMED GAY ALLY, TO HOST RALLY AT VENUE THAT BANS SAME-SEX MARRIAG
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
DR. OZ APPEARS TO HAVE SCBBED GAY CONVERSN THERAPY SEGMENTS FROM HIS WEBSE
In July and aga September, embattled Pennsylvania Senate ndidate Dr. Oz exprsed support for a Senate bill to protect same-sex marriage, a parture om the more nservative wg of his party. In realy, the noted New Jersey rint is hardly an LGBTQ rights supporter, speakg out agast trans athlet and backg bills mimickg Florida’s humanizg “don’t say gay” legislatn. * oz on gay rights *
In realy, the noted New Jersey rint is hardly an LGBTQ rights supporter, speakg out agast trans athlet and backg bills mimickg Florida’s humanizg “don’t say gay” yet, seems Oz’s mpaign don’t want you to know any of this.
Oz Show’s webse appears to have scbbed all of s 2012 segments about gay nversn therapy, cludg a three-part terview wh an anti-LGBTQ “reparative therapy” advote, subsequent terviews wh advot at GLAAD and GLSEN rebuttg the pro-nversn therapy segments, and a blog post om Oz about the “bate” around nversn moreRom-Com or Horror Movie?
” He said he ultimately nclud that “not enough published data [supports] posive rults wh gay reparative therapy” and exprsed ncern for s impacts on mors. But even givg a platform to extremists advotg for the torture of LGBTQ children the name of rpectg “both sis” and “multiple perspectiv” is reprehensible ’s Senate mpaign did not immediately rpond to a requt for the removal of the gay nversn therapy segments om his webse was liberate, ’s unclear to whom, exactly, Oz is panrg.
DR. OZ, SELF-PROCLAIMED GAY ALLY, TO HOST RALLY AT VENUE THAT BANS SAME-SEX MARRIAG
A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island. * oz on gay rights *
Backg ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislatn. On April 6, Oz appeared on a podst hosted by right-wg personaly John Frericks and endorsed the Florida law, dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” by opponents, that prohibs elementary schools om acknowledgg to younger stunts that LGBTQ people and fai exist.
He slammed the Disney Company as “wards” and “disgenuo” for speakg up for LGBTQ rights and agast DeSantis’ law and blasted the “woke liberal media” for g the phrase “‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. Givg crence to ex-gay nversn therapists.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
In November 2012, Oz was nmned by LGBTQ rights anizatns for an episo of his program that prented a reprentative of an ex-gay nversn therapy group as an “expert.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
” The segment featured Julie Haton of the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy falsely claimg — whout any challenge — that harmful and bunked so-lled “reparative therapy” uld change people’s sexual orientatn. I have not found enough published data supportg posive rults wh gay reparative therapy, and I have ncerns about the potentially dangero effects when the therapy fails, pecially when mors are forced to treatments, ” he wrote. More recently, Oz has spoken out agast transgenr athlet and backed legislatn that mimics Florida’s humanizg “don’t say gay” law.
Oz Show, he platformed advot for gay nversn therapy, which actual medil experts have poted out amounts to the abe and torture of LGBTQ children.
THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
3, The Philalphia Gay News reached out to all four ndidat for Senate and Governor: Fetterman, Oz, Mastriano, and Shapiro, to ask their stanc on marriage equaly and LGBTQ rights issu. The Philalphia Gay News submted seven requts to Oz’s team, as well as a half-dozen requts via Twter which we ced Fetterman’s swift reply, but received no rponse. Fetterman’s mpaign told the Philalphia Gay News that the Democratic pol recently had celebrated the 9-year anniversary sce he officiated the first same-sex marriage Allegheny County fiance of Pennsylvania’s then-ban on same-sex marriage.