Bob Davies, director of the Exodus “ex-gay” network, sent out an appeal for money in September: “Our bank accounts are empty!” That was his bad news. His good news was about “the worldwide media exposure Exodus has received” as a result of the national “ex-gay” ad campaign this summer and all the publicity it generated…
“Toward hope and healing for homosexuals” was the grab-line at the top of the full-page ad in The New York Times on July 13. (Similar ads appeared in The Washington Post and USA Today.) Under this grab-line was a big picture of Anne Paulk, identified as “wife, mother, former lesbian.”
“Oscar & Ellen” by Calvin Miller; “The DeGeneres Degeneration” by R. Albert Mohler, Jr.; “Freedom from Homosexuality” by Linda Joyce Zygiel, SBC LIFE, August 1997.
Rutherford Institute founder John Whitehead, has produced a radio spot entitled “Gays Have Rights, Too.” The Rutherford Institute, a legal organization of the Religious Right, had long been active in attacking the “radical homosexual agenda.” But Whitehead now supports the U. S. Supreme Court ruling against Colorado’s antigay Amendment 2 and is now defending some…
“One on One” by Dan Woog, “Bedtime Story” by Anne Stockwell, “Meditations on Monogamy” (an interview with Deepak Chopra) by Judy Wieder, “High Fidelity” (an excerpt from a book by Eric Marcus), “Hip to be Square” by David Heitz, “The Other M Word” by John Gallagher, “What Century is this Anyway?” by Edmund White, The…
Our Families, Our Values: Snapshots of Queer Kinship edited by Robert E. Goss and Amy Adams Squire Strongheart (Harrington Park, 1997), 290 pp.
For “the key to the next 30 years of gay America” writes The New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan, “keep your eye on the churches.” In an essay in The Advocate, the national gay and lesbian newsmagazine, Sullivan states: “No civil rights movement has ever succeeded in this country without the support of the churches.
“The Bible Condemned Usurers, Too” by John Corvino, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Fall 1996; “My Absolutely Inappropriate Religious Bias” by John Suk, The Banner, July 29, 1996; “Homosexuality Gets on Our Agenda” by John Suk, The Banner, April 14, 1996; “If You’re Offended by What We Print, Read On” by Harvey A. Smit,…
Amid all the fundamentalist Ellenphobia, with its viciousness as well as adolescent jokes — like Jerry Falwell’s calling her “Ellen DeGenerate” — one sad but overlooked consequence to fundamentalism’s unpreparedness for homosexuality even within its own community is the fact that the father of actress Anne Heche, Ellen DeGeneres’s girlfriend, was a fundamentalist minister who…
“Revelation and Homosexual Experience: What Would John Wesley have said about this Debate in the Church?” by Don Thorsen. Christianity Today, November 11, 1996.