Well-Known Ex-Gay Therapist Com Out as Gay, Seeks To Date Men | Southern Poverty Law Center

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• M BOOTH HEALTH APPOTS PETER MATHON GAY CHIEF IMPACT OFFICER
• WELL-KNOWN EX-GAY THERAPIST COM OUT AS GAY, SEEKS TO DATE MEN
• ONCE-PROMENT 'NVERSN THERAPIST' WILL NOW 'PURSUE LIFE AS A GAY MAN'
• EXCLIVE: INTERVIEW WH THE ‘GAY NVERSN’ THERAPIST WHO ME OUT AS GAY
• M BOOTH HEALTH APPOTS PETER MATHON GAY CHIEF IMPACT OFFICER

M BOOTH HEALTH APPOTS PETER MATHON GAY CHIEF IMPACT OFFICER

Is Diana Mathon gay? Apparently Diana Mathon is gay and that #7 is her gf acrdg to the Canadians. Wow is everyone the Spir gay?

NEW YORK — M Booth Health has named Peter Mathon Gay s first chief impact officer. In the newly created role, Mathon Gay is rponsible for drivg the overall impact of the agency’s work through creativy and sight-rmed strategy across the bs. Before jog M Booth Health, Mathon Gay lnched and served as chief creative officer of IPG Dxtra Health Integrated Solutns, leadg health creative for Interpublic Group’s 27 munitns, experiential, and specialist agenci.

TWO is a thk tank and advocy anizatn that works agast right-wg extremism and anti-LGBT prejudice and has also spent years trackg the ex-gay movement. “Conversn” or “ex-gay” therapy is the harmful and psdoscientific practice of attemptg to make homosexual or bisexual people heterosexual and to keep trans people om affirmg the genr wh which they intify. Acrdg to TWO, Mathon's fellow ex-gay lear Rich Wyler announced his ex a post to a private Facebook group that TWO acquired.

WELL-KNOWN EX-GAY THERAPIST COM OUT AS GAY, SEEKS TO DATE MEN

Wyler is director and founr of the famo ex-gay program “Journey to Manhood, ” which Mathon helped sign. He has gone om bisexualy to exclively gay.

And I realized that was time for me to affirm myself as gay. They me om my own homophobia and narrow mdns.

ONCE-PROMENT 'NVERSN THERAPIST' WILL NOW 'PURSUE LIFE AS A GAY MAN'

“What you n take om this, ” Mathon ntued, “is that my time a straight marriage and the ‘ex-gay’ world was genue and scere and a rich blsg to me. Mathon jos a growg list of proment people who have left the ex-gay movement.

Those clu Michael Bsee, one of the origal founrs of the well-known ex-gay group Exod (the U. Branch shut down 2013); John Plk, the poster-child for ex-gay group Love Won Out; John Smid, former director of ex-gay group Love In Actn and Tim Rymel, former outreach director at Love In Actn.

EXCLIVE: INTERVIEW WH THE ‘GAY NVERSN’ THERAPIST WHO ME OUT AS GAY

Mathon began his profsnal trag  ex-gay therapy the early 1990s when he worked Utah wh ex-gay Mormon anizatn Evergreen Internatnal. He holds a master’s gree unselg and guidance om Brigham Young Universy, and traed unr the late Joseph Nilosi, a proment ex-gay therapist who spent his life phg nversn therapy.

Nilosi, who believed that male homosexualy was a velopmental disorr ed by childhood trma and “genr nfn, ” was a founr and past print of the Natnal Associatn of the Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy (NARTH), perhaps the bt-known secular anizatn phg nversn therapy the U. Now the NARTH Instute, ’s embedd wh the ex-gay anizatn Alliance for Theraptic Choice and Scientific Integry, which lnched about the same time as the NARTH rebrand.

One of the unrlyg premis of ex-gay therapy is that LGBT people need to act acrdance wh a strict genr bary, which will help them be heterosexual. Mathon’s webse lled “Genr Wholens, ” which was supposed to help members of the LDS fah stgglg wh beg gay or bisexual, lnched 2013.

M BOOTH HEALTH APPOTS PETER MATHON GAY CHIEF IMPACT OFFICER

Mathon’s 2013 book, Beg a Whole Man, purports to help men stgglg wh homosexualy to “reach their mascule potential” and to “enjoy muny wh other men. This may beg the qutn, “Are you sayg that wholens will cure homosexualy?

I haven’t found anythg that “cur” homosexualy. Homosexualy is not a disease. The ex-gay dtry suffers setbacks, but rebrands and keeps gog.

The ex-gay dtry has taken several hs recent years, cludg the loss of proment lears and groups.