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.”

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…

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.

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 news magazine, Sullivan states: “No civil rights movement has ever succeeded in this country without the support of the churches….

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…

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…

Edman Chapel at Wheaton College is named for V. Raymond Edman, the evangelical college’s president from 1940 to 1965. His lesbian granddaughter, Liz Edman, is interviewed in the January issue of the newsletter of the Wheaton College Gay and Lesbian Alumni/ae Association. Liz Edman, a seminary graduate,

Edman Chapel at Wheaton College is named for V. Raymond Edman, the evangelical college’s president from 1940 to 1965. His lesbian granddaughter, Liz Edman, is interviewed in the January issue of the newsletter of the Wheaton College Gay and Lesbian Alumni/ae Association. Liz Edman, a seminary graduate, has worked for four years as a chaplain…

In memoriam to theologian/psychol-ogist Henri Nouwen who died in September, the popular evangelical magazine, Christianity Today, devoted all of its November 11th “Reflections” page to excerpts from his works. CT states that this beloved Catholic writer “left behind a wealth of insights that have brought encouragement and ministered to thousands.”