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Wayne Besen is the Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out and author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth” (Haworth, 2003). In 2010, Besen was awarded the “Visionary Award” at the Out Music Awards for organizing the American Prayer Hour, an event which shined a spotlight on the role American evangelicals played in the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
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Aw, Rachel, I’m a crier too, and dammit, you just made me cry! My parents never knew I was gay. If they had, I know my dad would have supported PFLAG, and my mom, for religious reasons, would not.
I never thought I’d see an open lesbian or gay man in a prestigious news position, like you or Anderson Cooper have. I never thought I’d live to have the right to marry, yet here in Iowa, I have had the right for several years.
It’s an amazing world. Now, pass the kleenex, there’s something in my eye…