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  • Truth Wins Out Calls On Comedian Tracy Morgan to Respond to Allegations of Anti-Gay Tirade Onstage at Nashville Show
    11 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Questions Whether Morgan’s 30 Rock Boss Tina Fey Was Aware Of Morgan’s Allegedly Hateful Beliefs About LGBT People
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 8, 2011
    Contact: Wayne Besen Phone: 917-691-5118 Email: wbesen@truthwinsout.org
    MEMPHIS, TN: – Truth Wins Out is alarmed at allegations that well-known comedian Tracy Morgan departed from his usual stand-up routine to unleash an anti-gay tirade during his June 3 performance at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Eyewitness Kevin Rogers, (…)

  • PFOX Cried Wolf
    27 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    It was the oddest event in my fifteen-year activism career.
    I had ventured to Orlando, Florida last summer to attend the National Education Association’s annual meeting. Crashing the conference was the so-called "Ex-Gay Educators Caucus," a sham organization run primarily by anti-gay lobbyists, who are attempting to get the viewpoints of "former homosexuals" into public schools. To counter their presence, I staged a press conference outside the huge convention center. (…)

  • A Hero Gets His Due
    26 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Anything But Straight
    by Wayne Besen
    About three years ago, I was lounging in a Montreal hotel room when I got a call from activist Mike Rogers. I was unaware of who he was, but this intense stranger began interrogating me for information about - well, I don’t even remember what the topic was anymore. But, I do recall that he was about the toughest advocate I had encountered in quite some time. As I hung up the phone I thought, "thank God this guy is on our side."
    In an era of softer (…)

  • Warren Throckmorton - Dr. Blog
    25 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    Every now and again, a snake will show its fangs. Case in point is Dr. Warren Throckmorton, one of America’s leading "ex-gay" therapists. Last week, a Nebraska-based website so obscure it was inaccessible by popular search engines such as Google, was discovered by right wing activists. What the website had to say was quite disturbing.
    "Without GSA [gay straight alliance] access, students are forced to simply kill classmates who taunt & bully - shooting, stabbing (…)

  • New Study: Purge or Be Purged
    2 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    A weighty new study released last week suggested that if you can’t make your podgy friends purge, you might have to purge your podgy friends. Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that having a portly pal increased a person’s chances of becoming obese by a whopping 57-percent. That’s right, the weight of your friend Jim matters more than how much weight you lift in the gym.
    The most amazing part of the research (…)

  • Blind At The Holy See
    23 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    In the wake of sex scandals involving children, the Roman Catholic Church should either change its mores or close its doors. Since 1950, the United States arm of the church has paid an astounding $2 billion to settle claims of childhood sexual abuse. Yes, that is billions with a capital "B" that could have gone towards raising orphans, housing the homeless and feeding the "foodless." Instead, the church has had to reach deep inside its pockets, because some priests can’t (…)

  • The Pious Publishers Are Already In Heaven
    10 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    Charlene Cothran (Venus magazine) and Michael Glatze (Young Gay America magazine editor) were gay niche publishers who discovered that peddling fiction is much juicer (and potentially more profitable) than selling straight news on gay life. The newly minted "ex-gay" stars tell us they have seen the light - unfortunately, it appears to be the spotlight - as they now parade themselves in the Christian media, pawning their terrific tales of transformation. Cothran and Glatze (…)

  • The Right’s Crisis in Confidence
    24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    In sports, it is known that confidence is the main ingredient that separates great players from those who are merely good. A legend, such as Michael Jordan, could miss ten shots in a row, but he would still expect the eleventh shot to fall. The average player, on the other hand, would start having doubts after a few missed baskets, even if he has the same physical talents as the star.
    After tossing a generous number of political bricks, the religious right is in the midst (…)

  • No Couching Message In Furniture Mogul’s New Ad Campaign
    9 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    Mitchell Gold is an openly gay, Jewish furniture magnate who is larger than life in small town America. Where most people leave New York to live unassumingly in the countryside, Gold has brought charisma and pizzazz to the sleepy hamlet of Taylorsville, North Carolina.
    Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams furniture factory is the largest employer in the area. It has offered Gold a unique opportunity to converse intimately with a wide variety of people in rural America. In many (…)

  • Time To Reboot
    31 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    The beginning of each college semester at the University of Florida was always exciting. It brought fresh faces from new places and renewed hope for the possibility of young love. Inevitably, there would be one guy in class that instantaneously caused my eyes to pop out and my head to swivel like a bobble head doll.
    What I always found interesting, however, was that the person who initially turned my head, often turned me off by the end of the year. Meanwhile, there would (…)