The Ex-Gay Movement: Damaging Visibility

USC’s LGBT Resource Center is holding an intellectual discussion that features a representative from the group PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays) on Thursday November 2^nd. This event is meant to foster dialogue about the growing representation of Ex-Gay organizations and focus groups. PFOX contacted the LGBT center proposing that Ex-Gay Information should be available to students on campus. As the Communications Director for the Resource Center, I completely objected to the idea. Myself and several of my colleagues feel that a Pride Center is surely not the proper venue for Ex-Gay Literature. This issue prompted me to search for blog-posts that discuss sexual identity reformation and what type of artistic representations of it exists. I commented on two posts, one from a liberal perspective and one from a conservative perspective. I posted as "designosis" on the latter post. The conservative post discusses an upcoming by Exodus International book about educating churches on handling LGBT people. The second post I responded to is a very liberal report on an upcoming Ex-gay Television show called “Pure Passions.” Both sides of the Ex-Gay phenomeon proves that the issue is bound to become more controversial.