Truth Wins Out founder Wayne Besen speaking in Lincoln, at University of Nebraska on the “ex-gay” myth.
In this video, he discusses how Exodus harms its clients when it claims that the group does not heal people — only God can. But, the group does set itself as the middleman and conduit to God.
When Exodus fails to deliver and the promised “change” does not occur — Exodus’ victims often blame themselves and feel abandoned by God. This can cause trauma and psychological damage.
Besen also discusses how so-called “ex-gay” groups do not keep statistics. They simply make them up as they go along.
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour University of Nebraska
7PM
NE Union Auditorium Lincoln, NE
February 8, 2011
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour Topeka, Kansas
Kansas Equality Coalition
Dillon House
404 SW 9th St.
4PM – 5:30PM
February. 9, 2011
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour
Oklahoma State University Classroom Building 313 Stillwater, OK
Sponsored by the Sexual Orientation Diversity Association
6PM
February 10, 2011
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour Oklahoma City
Sponsored by Cimarron Alliance Foundation
Church of the Open Arms
31st & North Pennsylvania
6:00-7:30
February 11-13
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour Arkansas
Details (TBA)
February 19
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Church
2810 Atlanta Highway Montgomery, Alabama
6:30 PM
February 21
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour Memphis, TN
Rhodes College
2000 North Parkway 7 PM
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour Des Moines, Iowa
First Friday Breakfast Club
7AM, Hoyt Sherman Place
February 5, 2011
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour Des Moines, Iowa
Plymouth UCC Church, (hosted by the Willits Committee)
4126 Ingersoll Avenue
7PM
February 6, 2011
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour Des Moines, Iowa
Plymouth UCC Church
4126 Ingersoll Avenue
The Forum
10:10 to 10:40
February 7, 2011
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour University of Nebraska
7PM
NE Union Auditorium Lincoln, NE
February 8, 2011
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour Topeka, Kansas
Kansas Equality Coalition
Dillon House
404 SW 9th St.
4PM – 5:30PM
February. 9, 2011
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour
Oklahoma State University Classroom Building 313 Stillwater, OK
Sponsored by the Sexual Orientation Diversity Association
6PM
(Details TBA)
February 10, 2011
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour Oklahoma City
Sponsored by Cimarron Alliance Foundation
Church of the Open Arms
31st & North Pennsylvania
6:00-7:30
February 11-13
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour Arkansas
Details (TBA)
February 19
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Church
2810 Atlanta Highway Montgomery, Alabama
6:30 PM
February 21
National “Pray Away The Gay?” Winter Speaking Tour Memphis, TN
Rhodes College
2000 North Parkway 7 PM
This video offers a snapshot of the work performed by TruthWinsOut.org.
Mission: TruthWinsOut.org is a non-profit organization that counters right wing propaganda, exposes the “ex-gay” myth and educates America about gay life.
Creed: TruthWinsOut.org is resolute in its belief that ex-gay programs are a politically motivated fraud designed to exploit vulnerable clients for financial gain and pass anti-gay legislation. Attempts to change sexual orientation are patently offensive, discriminatory by definition, theologically shaky, uniformly unsuccessful and medically unsound. TruthWinsOut.org firmly believes that ex-gay programs can damage families, lower self-esteem, generate guilt and shame and sometimes lead to suicide. The organization holds as self-evident that the world would be a better place without ex-gay programs, which are an unnecessary and destructive hindrance to the natural coming out process.
TruthWinsOut.Org aims to end the dangerous practice of ex-gay therapy in all of its injurious forms. The organization will tirelessly advocate against such programs, vigorously disseminate educational material, and doggedly pursue actions that will help undermine the so-called ex-gay myth.
This video traces the career of Wayne Besen, from 1993-2007. Video clips come from his first organization, Sons & Daughters of America, founded in 1993; show him as a news reporter in Maine; show his tenure at the Human Rights Campaign and end with his current job as founder of Truth Wins Out, a Brooklyn-based non-profit that counters the so-called ex-gay myth.
With a gift of $35 to Truth Wins Out, you can receive an autographed copy of "Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth."
