“The book for me is personal as well as political. A lot of people, myself included, were raised to believe that religion and sexual minorities were incompatible—that it really is God versus Gay. Personally, I chose the ‘God’ side for ten years, repressing my sexuality and cutting myself off from other people. Even when I finally gave up, I still thought that coming out would be the end of my religious life. In fact, it was the beginning of it.”
How the Ex-Gay Movement Serves the Right’s Attack on Democracy
The discredited practice of “ex-gay therapy” is at the center of today’s culture wars, with the Christian Right seeking to expand its reach to include transgender people and California banning the so…
A new book reveals the historical roots and conservative uses of the positive thinking movement, showing how it encourages victim-blaming, political complacency, and a culture-wide flight from realism.