"Ex-gays" beware: the man who caught "ex-gay" John Paulk in a gay bar debunks the movement in a new book.The "ex-gay" movement knows no more active nor ardent foe than Wayne Besen Wayne Besen is a gay rights advocate in the United States. He is a former spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign. Besen, a gay man, was never personally involved in the ex-gay movement, but says he has interviewed hundreds of former and current ex-gays. , the man who in 2000 caught "former" homosexual John Paulk John Paulk (b. 1963) is a former leader of Focus on the Family's Love Won Out conference and former chairman of the board for Exodus International North America. His claimed shedding of homosexuality is also the subject of his autobiography Not Afraid to Change. in a dingy dingy used as a description of fleece wool; the wool is lacking in brightness. Washington, D.C., gay bar. Just this August, Besen exposed the shocking sexual practices of Michael Johnston for the Welsh footballer see Michael Johnston (footballer) Michael Johnston is an American who is notable for identifying as ex-gay, and for using his HIV-positive status to deliberately infect his sexual partners. , leader of Virginia's ex-gay Kerusso Ministries and--until then--Paulk's de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. replacement as 'most visible former homosexual." Besen spent four years researching and writing Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth, a book that offers enlightening and often disturbing insight into the people who run the nation's loose confederation of ex-gay ministries and the desperate folk who seek them out. "I saw the damaged people, ruined lives, shattered dreams "Shattered Dreams" is a single by Russian pop star Sergey Lazarev. This is his first solo thing outside Soviet zone and it was the first international single released in UK properly. This is also a cover of Johnny Hates Jazz and it is rearranged. , and broken families that came from this," says Besen. "The most important thing the book reveals is that these programs are ridiculous, they're a failure, and they do nothing but destroy lives across the board. As one ex-gay in the book told me, there are no graduates, only dropouts." The former Human Rights Campaign spokesperson has just begun an exhaustive 47-city book tour that will continue through April. I'm playing to packed houses everywhere, which is very exciting," he says. "I've met several [ex-gays] along the way, and it's rewarding, because some of them have even said that my work on the issue helped them come out of it. And I think that's the best thing I can hear. That's wonderful." |
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