13 very gay and very good books you should read this Pri Month | Mashable

Contents:

• EX GAY BOOKS
• ANYTHG BUT STRAIGHT: UNMASKG THE SNDALS AND LI BEHD THE EX-GAY MYTH 1ST EDN
• EX-GAYS?: A LONGUDAL STUDY OF RELIGLY MEDIATED CHANGE SEXUAL ORIENTATN PAPERBACK – SEPTEMBER 24, 2007
• 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
• WHAT COM AFTER THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT? THE SAME THG THAT CAME BEFORE.
• WHAT ABOUT EX-EX-GAYS?
• WHEN AN EX-GAY MAN RETURNS TO A GAY LIFTYLE
• MY EX-GAY FRIEND
• WHY WE DON’T REVIEW EX-GAY BOOKS
• AMAZON PULLS BOOKS BY THORS WHO ONCE INTIFIED AS GAY, LBIAN
• EXGAY CALLG
• GAY REVERSAL ADVOT SAY SCHOOL LIBRARI BANNG THEIR 'EX-GAY' BOOKS
• THE EX-GAY CHRISTIANY MOVEMENT IS MAKG A QUIET EBACK. THE EFFECTS ON LGBTQ YOUTH ULD BE VASTATG.
• CHRIS DAMIAN WRSUBSCRIBESIGN {"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","URL":","MAENTYOFPAGE":","HEADLE":"AN EX-GAY ENCYCLOPEDIA FOR CATHOLICS","SCRIPTN":"IF A CATHOLIC GIV YOU A BOOK ON LGBTQ+ QUTNS, YOU N CHECK THIS LIST TO SEE IF THE THOR PROMOT EX-GAY THEORI AND NVERSN THERAPY.","IMAGE":[{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":"}],"DATEPUBLISHED":"2022-01-19T21:31:49+00:00","DATEMODIFIED":"2022-01-19T21:31:49+00:00","ISACCSIBLEFORFREE":TE,"THOR":[{"@TYPE":"PERSON","NAME":"CHRIS DAMIAN","URL":","SCRIPTN":"JD, MA CATHOLIC STUDI | ATTORNEY WRG ON CATHOLICISM, HOMOEROS, CREATIVY, RACE, TRMA, ABE CHRISTIAN CULTUR, AND LAW","INTIFIER":"ER:11988131","SAMEAS":["],"IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"}}],"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"CHRIS DAMIAN WR","URL":","SCRIPTN":"CATHOLICISM, (HOMO)SEXUALY, CREATIVY, RACE, PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY, LAW","TERACTNSTATISTIC":{"@TYPE":"INTERACTNCOUNTER","NAME":"SUBSCRIBERS","TERACTNTYPE":","ERINTERACTNCOUNT":1000},"INTIFIER":"PUB:394119","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"},"IMAGE":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","NTENTURL":","THUMBNAILURL":"}}}SHARE THIS POSTAN EX-GAY ENCYCLOPEDIA FOR COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERAN EX-GAY ENCYCLOPEDIA FOR CATHOLICS

EX GAY BOOKS

Natnally known activist Wayne Ben spent four years examg the phenomenon of ex-gay mistri and reparative therapiterviewg lears, attendg nferenc, and visg mistri unrver as he accumulated hundreds of hours of rearch. The origal ntent and novel material the book clus: a first-ever prehensive history of the ex-gay mistri and reparative therapy the si story of the night the thor photographed ex-gay poster boy John Plk si a gay bar the thor's disvery that Anne Plk lied about beg a lbian and has admted to havg a strong attractn to men BEFORE she beme ex-gay prevly undisclosed bizarre techniqu ed by the ex-gay mistri and reparative therapists the thor's exclive -pth terviews wh leadg ex-gay learsthey disclose their ept secrets, hidn sir, and te motivatns an extraordary new study that shows that most ex-gay lears have suffered om substance abe or severe emotnal problemswhile many ex-gay lears claim they were unhappy beg gay, this report helps prove that their dissatisfactns me not om their homosexualy, but om poor life choic and irrponsible behavr new revelatns that one of the natn's leadg reparative therapists hailed om a secretive cult that was sndalized for practicg nu therapyFrom the thor: Through my extensive experience, I have learned that the extraordary claims ma by the ex-gay groups are whout mer and the efficy of their programs is dub at bt and harmful at worst... Anythg but Straight: Unmaskg the Sndals and Li Behd the Ex-Gay Myth is an sential read for activists on both sis of the ex-gay fence, fay members of gays and lbians, Gay, Bisexual, Lbian, and Transgenr church members, psychiatric and social science profsnals, and anyone who has alt wh g out issu.

And while you n always zy up on the uch and prs play on a movie about queer love, the LGBTQ books will take thgs one step of the classics, bt-sellers and new releas on this list put gay characters at the heart of the story — or at the very least, are wrten by thors who intify as LGBTQ+.

ANYTHG BUT STRAIGHT: UNMASKG THE SNDALS AND LI BEHD THE EX-GAY MYTH 1ST EDN

Your refully executed rearch mands a substantial and credible reexamatn of current, polilly driven, polilly rrect dogma that homosexual orientatn is immutable and that the theraptic addrs thereof threatens patient well-beg. D., Associate Profsor of Psychology and Fellow for Psychology and Public Policy, Grove Cy College, thor of the Sexual Inty Therapy Framework, and producer of I Do Exist)"Rearch the ntroversial area of homosexualy is ght wh iology and plagued by a arth of science. It is the kd of scientific rearch I had md when the mid-1970s I troduced my succsful rolutn the APA Council of Reprentativ that homosexualy is not a disease, but a plex nstellatn of factors that requir scientific vtigatn to further our unrstandg of s etlogy, s many parameters and s subjectivy to change.

D., Former Print, Amerin Psychologil Associatn; Distguished Profsor, Universy of Nevada, Reno; Print, Cummgs Foundatn for Behavral Health)"Profsors Jon and Yarhoe provi a well-signed, nceptually and philosophilly sophistited longudal study of terventn efforts aimed at changg homosexual orientatn. Yarhoe has published over eighty peer-reviewed journal articl and book chapters and is thor or thor of several books, cludg Unrstandg Genr Dysphoria, Morn Psychopathologi, Unrstandg Sexual Inty, Sexualy and Sex Therapy, and Homosexualy and the Christian.

EX-GAYS?: A LONGUDAL STUDY OF RELIGLY MEDIATED CHANGE SEXUAL ORIENTATN PAPERBACK – SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

As Stott wrote Issu Facg Christians Today back 1982, “In every discsn about homosexualy we mt be rigoro differentiatg between this ‘beg’ and ‘dog, ’ that is, between a person’s inty and activy, sexual preference and sexual practice, nstutn and nduct. The church’s sponsorship of openly avowed but repentant homosexuals learship posns would be a profound wns to the world ncerng the power of the Gospel to ee the church om homophobia and the homosexual om guilt and bondage. Yet this was the Christian visn of Lovelace and Henry, Ockenga and Ellt, Kantzer and Colson, Lewis and Graham, Schaeffer and Stott, and a young gay evangelil Anglin who felt too aaid to e his own name, even though he was still a virg.

As I watch evangelil church and nomatns fumble their way through discsns of sexual orientatn and inty, often enforcg the language and tegori of a failed ex-gay movement, we’re missg the real battle: The surroundg culture has nvced the world that Christians hate gay people. Send, the term "ex-gay" has lots of different meangs (some lears like the term, while others don't), rangg om, "I ed to be volved same-sex relatnships, and I am no longer am, " to, "My romantic and sexual sir have changed om homosexual to heterosexual, " along wh everythg between.

The bottom le is that homosexual practice, unr all circumstanc, is sful, and nothg n possibly change that fact, but is equally te that there is liberty and new life J, and those willg to take up the cross and follow Him will never need to look back.

13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH

He also had a key posn wh Foc on the Fay, where he beme a well-known media figure ttifyg to his mment to heterosexual fay life and the tradnal, Biblil unrstandg of sexualy, which holds that a gay inty is a false nstct, not part of our human sign. But now, all that life has a reparative therapist who has worked wh thoands of homosexually oriented men seekg change, I believe I am a unique posn to speculate on the recent, John’s story is a utnary tale about ex-gay celebry.

I will, however, speak of psychologil patterns I have seen other SSA (same-sex attracted) men who have gone om “ex-gay” back to “gay” their many SSA men, the ept problem they mt wrtle wh is not sexual inty, but re inty. This perdic disillnment leav behd vastated dividuals who have vted eply the person; John’s se, Anne, his wife of 20 gay muny wants to ame chang om ex-gay back to gay as proof that people who experience SSA were simply signed and created for homosexualy, but we would be ceived if we believed this simplistic re inty is the foundatnal problem, we spect a breach the primary attachment wh the mother. From my clil experience, there is a particular kd of client who, although he is eply dissatisfied wh gay life and do succeed velopg good heterosexual functng, will, over time, stggle to mter the self-disciple and matury to put a hard day’s work, e home to wife and fay, help the children wh the homework, have dner and settle down to a good nversatn wh his wife, and go to bed.

WHAT COM AFTER THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT? THE SAME THG THAT CAME BEFORE.

” Unrneath the boredom and rtlsns remas this ep, chronic ’s not jt about needg to fd a partner of a different genr; ’s about gettg attentn, flirtg, beg ma to feel special, distractg onelf om one’s chronic dissatisfactn wh life through parti and other high-animatn activi, such as the gay muny offers on s well-known, dg-saturated party circus.

Nohels, we did nclu that aspects of the documentary would be stantly regnizable by and disturbg to former clients of ex-gay mistri bee the film pulled so readily on var theori of what homosexualy, and some terviewe claimed that they were no longer gay. Ex-gay narrativ equently nta many, if not all, of the followg elements: theorizg var  of homosexualy, g qutnable statistics and studi employg flty methodologi to argue for orientatn change, emphasizg promiscuy and other risky behavrs as nstuent parts of “the gay liftyle, ” heavily referencg 7 passag of Scripture that speak to same-sex sexual activy, assertg that God created all people wh the pacy for heterosexual relatnships, and suggtg that ’s possible for someone to go om gay to straight. 1Adam Sass Surrenr Your Sons1Adam Sass Surrenr Your SonsNow 29% Off'Lost' meets 'Boy Erased' Adam Sass' pellg YA but about Connor Major, a gay teenager who out to his sgle mother and ends up beg forcibly sent to a nversn therapy facily on a remote island.

WHAT ABOUT EX-EX-GAYS?

"Advertisement - Contue Readg Below19Elon Green Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New York19Elon Green Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New YorkLast Call ptur a time New York Cy—the late '80s and early '90s—that was extremely unsafe for gay men. This was not only due to the ongog AIDS crisis, but also bee a serial killer was preyg on the patrons of gay bars; somethg that went unrreported by the media, and, as thor Elon Green argu, neglected by law enforcement. "Amazon's cisn is no surprise sce today's culture is vg to the goals of the LGBTQ polil movement, which have always clud the silencg [of] any disapproval of homosexualy, " Dallas said an email to The Christian Post Monday.

After a long stggle wh unwanted homosexualy that fally led to emotnal and spirual healg, Richard Cohen earned a master’s psychology om Antch Universy and has been unselg dividuals and fai and stctg groups for more than a .

WHEN AN EX-GAY MAN RETURNS TO A GAY LIFTYLE

It is based on rearch iated when the thor met a heterosexual married man named Noel Mosen 1987 who told her that he had prevly been a promiscuo gay man for more than 20 years, 10 of them as a gay polil activist. Ronald Bayer prents the five se study of how the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn Board of Tste 1973 removed homosexualy om s official Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of mental diseas, after years of hostile and disptive lobbyg tactics of gay rights monstrators. Twelve experts — scientists, psychologists, philosophers and lawyers — vtigate the of homosexualy, the moraly of homosexual acts, and the appropriate social and polil rponse to the effort to legimize homosexualy.

MY EX-GAY FRIEND

Goldberg’s wily acclaimed book, Light the Closet: Torah, Homosexualy, and the Power to Change, Los Angel: Red Heifer Prs, 2nd prtg, 2009 is the only one of s kd that uniquely and passnately synthized Torah prciple wh transformatnal healg procs. Bchemistry and his journalist wife exame the rearch lerature on geic of homosexualy and fd that, takg a mastream scientific posn, the scientific evince do not support the popular ia that homosexualy is geic, trsic or fixed. Replete wh personal stori om parents, children and ex-homosexual stgglers, A Parent’s Gui to Preventg Homosexualy offers passn and hope for all those parents who seek to lay a foundatn for a healthy heterosexual inty their children.

WHY WE DON’T REVIEW EX-GAY BOOKS

The thor lays out the personaly characteristics and velopment fluenc most mon among homosexual men seekg to change, such as “fensive tachment” om fathers, peers and malens generally, and prents psychotheraptic mols for revery. This book is the send of two volum based on papers livered at a nference sponsored by the Amerin Public Philosophy Instute at Geetown Universy June 1997 to exame how the Amerin people should unrstand and rpond to the public issue of homosexualy.

Neher n "You Don't Have to Be Gay, " which scrib thor Jeff Konrad's stggle to overe his unwanted same-sex "Baby Be-Bop, " the g-out story of a gay teen, which clus scriptns of his sexual enunters bathroom stalls wh men he never talks to, mak the do "Love & Sex: Ten Stori of Tth, " which scrib a gay teen's relatnship wh his tutor wh excerpts like: "Matt had one leg locked between me, so that his d—- was smashed between his stomach and my thigh. "Ask why the "ex-gay" books aren't makg the cut, and the answers say the books simply haven't been reviewed by the proper stutns; others say the ia the books promote — that homosexualy is a treatable ndn — n be psychologilly damagg to Executive Director Rega Griggs says the group jt wants anyone stgglg wh unwanted same sex attractns to know all of the optns available to them — but she says most schools won't even accept "ex-gay" materials ee of charge.

AMAZON PULLS BOOKS BY THORS WHO ONCE INTIFIED AS GAY, LBIAN

"Click here to see some of the banned said she'd hoped the Amerin Library Associatn uld help, so she asked the anizatn to issue a statement durg Banned Books Week earlier this month urgg schools not to ban "ex-gay" books.

"We would have appreciated even a statement om the ALA's director of tellectual eedom, Debra Caldwell-Stone, that ex-gay books are clud their diversy policy — stead, she said that the policy 'speaks for self, '" Griggs om to Caldwell-Stone were directed to Amerin Library Associatn Media Relatns Manager Macey Moral, who asked for more rmatn about PFOX's allegatns and then failed to return follow-up e-mails and phone ALA's annual Banned Books Week is tend to draw attentn to "the harms of censorship by spotlightg actual or attempted banngs of books across the Uned Stat, " acrdg to the associatn's Web event also strs the importance of the associatn's Library Bill of Rights, which stat:— Librari should provi materials and rmatn prentg all pots of view on current and historil issu. — Librari should operate wh all persons and groups ncerned wh ristg abridgment of ee exprsn and ee accs to says the chairman of the ALA's Supervisors' Sectn of the Amerin Associatn of School Librarians ignored that policy when PFOX tried donatg "ex-gay" books to her school district Virgia. Fairfax and Montgomery unty schools did not rpond to 's requt for ment, but Griggs said they also rejected the donatn of 'ex-gay' books, while a search of the Fairfax onle library talogue shows too has "Love & Sex" and "Baby B-Bop" s high school Legal, which reprented Metro DC Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays a lawsu over Montgomery County's excln of "ex-gay" rmatn s sexual orientatn health curriculum, says the schools rerve the right to make the choic.

"All of the leadg medil, theraptic, psychiatric and social work anizatns have a fair unanimy here about claims relatg to the so-lled ex-gay movement or so-lled reparative therapy where the central ia is that the groups would like to try to change people's sexual orientatn or genr inty, and the nsens is that 's unnecsary and damagg and n be severely harmful to people, " she here to see the Amerin Medil Associatn's policy regardg sexual here to see the Amerin Amy of Pediatrics clil report on Sexual Orientatn and here to see Amerin Psychiatric Associatn Posn Statement on Therapi Foced on Attempts to Change Sexual matas that the ments om the anizatns are not based fact or science. Addnally, the Inter is rife wh stori of LGBTQ people who have reported sufferg psychologil harm as a rult of participatg the programs and proment Christians are quietly tryg to rurrect ex-gay Christiany, and the new rnatn is hipper and perhaps more evolved. Yet beneath the smetic tweaks ss the same msage that has damaged many liv over many s: If you’re a Christian wh same-sex attractns, change is both possible and first wave of Amerin ex-gay Christiany the 1970s alced around mistri and anizatns specifilly voted to the e.

EXGAY CALLG

But the current wave is far more centralized, beg led by pennt thors and personali who are embedd the nservative Christian world rather than segregated to an issue-specific views differ ever so slightly om the next while orbg tightly to siar them, such as the possibily of “former homosexuals” havg a healthy heterosexual marriage, differentiatg between one’s behavr and inty, and a ubiquo, if obligatory, nod to church’ historil failur to love people who intify as of the movement’s most articulate lears is Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, a former women’s studi profsor at Syrace Universy who says she “adopted a lbian inty” her 20s as a rult of beg fluenced by femist philosophy.

For Butterfield, homosexualy is not an inty that scrib who a person is but, rather, a sful actn that a person do — but n stop preach her gospel of change through her popular books, speech at Christian nferenc and church, and is the unmistakable msage of the life she now liv. ”When I prsed her, the thor of “Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been” said that she has never met anyone who has experienced a plete change sexual orientatn, but she add that she has read stori about people who have. At least not claims that his parents’ divorce and an experience of sexual asslt created same-sex sir him at a young age, but he preach that J is helpg him overe his homosexual I spoke to him, he said he “had to make a choice of my fah over my feelgs.

Many Amerins believed at the time that homosexualy was a mere matter of choice, and worse, a s that would endanger one’s eternal their mds, same-sex-attracted Christians who wanted to live a life of hols uld supprs their sexual sir through some mixture of prayer, spirual disciple and therapy. Mistri and anizatns rose up and preached the ex-gay eventually the movement was plagued by shiftg public opn, and ex-gay Christiany’s most proment lears began repudiatg the movement and tellg the tth about s failur.

GAY REVERSAL ADVOT SAY SCHOOL LIBRARI BANNG THEIR 'EX-GAY' BOOKS

” Acrdg to the New York Tim, Dert Stream Mistri end s affiliatn wh Exod ‘due to lear Alan Chambers’s appeasement of practicg homosexuals who claim to be Christian” as well as his qutng of the realy of ‘sexual orientatn change. It clus the poorly-supported claim that “16 year olds sayg they have an SSA or Bi-orientatn are 25 tim more likely to change towards heterosexualy at the age of 17 than those wh a heterosexual orientatn are likely to change towards bi-sexualy or homosexualy.

THE EX-GAY CHRISTIANY MOVEMENT IS MAKG A QUIET EBACK. THE EFFECTS ON LGBTQ YOUTH ULD BE VASTATG.

” The “two solid rourc” remend by the book are Courage and Retegrative Therapy Associatn promot reparative therapy and enurag s practice among licensed Rtored Hope Network is the ex-gay anizatn that took the place of Exod Internatnal after was shut Ruth Instute is a Louisiana-based Catholic anizatn that seeks to bat the “sexual revolutn.

" He discs Emotnal Deprivatn Disorr and wr, " this particular perspective we mt distguish between the totally or aquately affirmed dividual who is always heterosexually oriented on the one hand, and the partially or totally unaffirmed dividual who n be eher heterosexually or homosexually oriented on the other.

The reason for claimg that all fully affirmed dividuals are heterosexually oriented is that any of the factors which very early life e the nate predisposn to a heterosexual orientatn to change to a homosexual one are at the same time tractors om or obstacl to full affirmatn. Whether this orientatn is nstutnally termed -- hormonal, geic, or otherwise -- or the rult of early life environmental fluenc, or both, is, the ntext of the particular perspective prented this paper, of ls importance than the always prent and monly reported associatn between the dividual's homosexual orientatn and a disturbance of his or her sense of worth and inty. In my opn, this disturbance has both a al and effectual relatnship wh the homosexual orientatn and, when treated succsfully, has a cidly beneficial effect on the person's pacy for happs even whout a change sexual orientatn.

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The sectn on "science" nsists of says by Satover, Nilosi, and non lawyer Cormac Casanova works wh Livg Waters and promot ex-gay Pl Check is former director of Courage Internatnal and current director of the Shre of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Lra Hayn is a retired psychologist who has fend nversn therapy, as well as a General Board Member of the ex-gay anizatn Internatnal Feratn for Theraptic and Counselg Choice and a member of the Sexual Attractn and Inty Commtee for the Catholic Medil Associatn. He is a Courage speaker and board member, former NARTH member (before the group was shut down) and promoter of ex-gay narrativ and nversn change retreats, cludg the Journey Into Manhood retreats where participants would be required to participate group nudy.