Several dozen people demonstrated outside the DFW Airport Marriott, where the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) held its annual conference. Members discussed the use of therapy to suppress someone’s homosexual desires. The message from the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender groups protesting the events is that homosexuality needs no cure because it is not an illness and that attempts to convert gays is destructive and based on quack science.

This Truth Wins Out video tells the story of four courageous women who married closeted gay men. They had no idea that their husbands were “ex-gay” and the experience was traumatizing.

In this exclusive National Coming Out Day video, these survivors warn about the harm done by ex-gay programs that promote marriage as a cure for homosexuality - whether explicitly or implicitly. Not only do these marriages almost always fail, but they hurt the innocent spouses and children and treat them as props or collateral damage. While ex-gay organizations, such as Exodus and Focus on the Family, love to show the wedding pictures, they never show you the divorce papers. This video is a powerful reality check and a warning for those who would marry thinking that it will help them go from gay to straight.

This Truth Wins Out video tells the story of four courageous women who married closeted gay men. They had no idea that their husbands were “ex-gay” and the experience was traumatizing.

In this exclusive National Coming Out Day video, these survivors warn about the harm done by ex-gay programs that promote marriage as a cure for homosexuality - whether explicitly or implicitly. Not only do these marriages almost always fail, but they hurt the innocent spouses and children and treat them as props or collateral damage. While ex-gay organizations, such as Exodus and Focus on the Family, love to show the wedding pictures, they never show you the divorce papers. This video is a powerful reality check and a warning for those who would marry thinking that it will help them go from gay to straight.

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Lester Leavitt, believing what his Mormon Church taught him about overcoming his attraction to men, married Barbara in 1981. After 23 years together, they both now know the Truth about that advice - there is no such thing as “ex-gay” and these marriages do not work.

In this video, Barbara speaks out at a press conference countering the “Family Impact Summit” - a gathering of right wing extremists that are creating such families doomed to failure. 

On Sept. 20 2007, the right wing brought right wing leaders together to gay bash in Brandon, Florida. The gathering was called the Family Impact Summit.

A coalition of progressive groups, led by Equality Florida gathered to counter the symposium. This is the video of Wayne Besen’s remarks, the Executive Director of Truth Wins Out. TWO is an organization that counters the so-called “ex-gay” myth.

Barbara Leavitt, a Woman Whose Marriage Ended After ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy Did Not Cure Her Husband Warned Against Such Marriages

TAMPA, Fl — Truth Wins Out’s Executive Director Wayne Besen spoke at an Equality Florida press conference today to counter the rabidly anti-gay Family Impact Summit. Besen, the author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth,” said right wing organizations were embracing so-called ex-gay ministries to cloak their discriminatory aims.

“The Family Impact Summit is a cynical political ploy to use gay baiting to energize voters in a critical election year,” said Wayne Besen, Executive Director of Truth Wins Out. “The red meat conservatives are using so-called ex-gays as cover for their extremist views. By exploiting these vulnerable people, they are pretending to love gay people, when in reality they simply love discrimination.”

Barbara Leavitt also shared her story at the press conference in front of Bell Shoals Baptist Church. She discussed how her life was upended because her gay husband was told that marriage could help cure him of his homosexuality. Earlier in the year, Truth Wins Out featured her and her husband Lester in a video that can now be seen on YouTube.

“I want you to know that when ex-gays marry straight women, it hurts both the man and the woman and any children that come,” said Leavitt. (Read More)

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“Ex-gay” group Exodus International swears they love gay people when in front of the mainstream media. When talking to their right wing base or Christian media, however, they don’t sound quite so loving.

Truth Wins Out’s latest video, “The Two-Faced Love of Exodus International” shows a series of mean-spirited clips from Exodus International’s TV show “Pure Passion.”

Within the first fifteen minutes of the show, the hosts repeatedly denigrate the lives and families of GLBT people - referring to them as perverse or sexually broken. Exodus may talk a good game, but the truth is, their disdain for openly gay people does not lie far below their surface professions of love. In essence, when they say they “love” gay people, they are bearing false witness.

“Ex-Gay” group Exodus International swears they LOVE gay people when in front of the mainstream media. When talking to their right wing base or Christian media, however, they don’t sound quite so loving.