Women & the Ex-Gay Movement

[Shana A]

Women & the Ex-Gay Movement
by: peterson toscano
Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 16:43:27 PM EDT

( - promoted by Pam Spaulding)

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=CE5A8A80C92D89D2DE9CE2CEAA76266C?diaryId=6399

This Thursday, in a conference call open to the public, Darlene Bogle and Christine Bakke will share their experiences as lesbians in the Ex-Gay Movement.

For a while I have been considering how the Ex-Gay Movement is an anti-fem movement. Most of the participants in it are male with curriculum and treatment plans geared towards "male issues." Many of the men involved have felt the need to "change" after years of taunting for being sissies. They learned both on the playground and from the pulpit that the world does not value feminized men.