Mizzkyttie points us to an incident of parents trying to screw up their gay kids:
Last spring, I sat in my office listening to a student tell me he might not be able to get his paper in on time because his parents had thrown him out of the house for being gay (he was actually worried about the paper). A couple months ago, I sat at my computer screen crying as I read this diary at dKos. What the fuck is wrong with these people?!
Over at Pandagon, Amanda takes a look at some of the surveillance involved in the programs rules (Here’s my favorite one from the entire list: “The clients may not wear Abercrombie and Fitch or Calvin Klein brand clothing, undergarments, or accessories.”) Ex-Gay Watch has been following the situation as well.
The whole program rests upon the assumption that homosexuality is a result of gender-inappropriate socialization. Us queers didn’t learn the right ways to be men and women. Thus, women in the program are required to shave their legs and armpits twice a week, and men are forbiden from wearing bikini briefs. What they wish to creat is a world of Ward’s and June’s on valium, acting out the ideal family in a state of perpetual numbness. And that’s for the people who aren’t destroyed by these programs. This quote, provided by the Queer Action Coalition, shows us what the Anti-Gay Industry is really after (and make no mistake, these ex-gay “ministries” are virulently anti-gay and tightly linked to groups like AFA and FRC):
Yup, folks, that’s what this poor kid and the rest of us are up against.