Noli Irritare Leones

I’ve been ignoring this stuff, because I’ve been focused on the Godspell audition this week. But it turns out that some interesting stuff is going on right in Irvine, where I work: the Exodus Freedom Conference, for ex-gays or would be ex-gays, and the Beyond Ex-Gay conference, which presents a more skeptical take on the ex-gay movement. I kind of wish I could have checked these out, since they’re so close, but one can’t do everything, and for me this year trying for Godspell took priority. (Well, technically maybe I still could, since I think the one is still under way, and the other is beginning today, but it’s probably too last minute by now, and some back dental bills are waving their arms and begging for whatever the conference fee money would have been.) So, here’s a few words from some others:

Karen of Pursue God, a woman “fifteen years into my own journey through same-sex attraction,” checks out the Exodus conference, and finds hope (along with greater honesty than she’s previously seen about what’s meant by “change”).

Peterson Toscano, ex-gay survivor, creator of Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House (which I need to see one of these days), and a fellow Quaker, writes about both conferences in Misinformation, Outright Lies and Our Response.

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