Three men with three very different stories and experiences of ex-gay, reparative or what has become known conversion therapy. Meet comedian and Gay Conversion School Drop Out Anthony Menchetti, author and gay Christian advocate Anthony Venn-Brown and former leader of Liberty Christian Ministries, Haydn Sennitt. Anthony Venn-Brown, details his 6 months in an ex-gay residential program, [...]
Survivors tell their horror stories of ex-gay therapy treatments in Australia By Rohan Smith Published News.com.au May 19, 2015 SOME were starved and forced into exorcisms, others were banned from masturbating and brainwashed into believing they could “pray the gay away”. The bizarre, humiliating, deadly “treatments” some gay Australians were subjected to by so-called “ex-gay” [...]
I have been monitoring ex-gay/reparative/conversion therapy leaders,organisations and activities for nearly two decades. I've seen, heard and experienced a lot in that time. Do people get help from ex-gay/reparative/conversion ministries? Has anyone suicided because of an ex-gay/reparative/conversion program? What is your attitude towards 'former' homosexuals who get married? Why are you so committed to seeing [...]
Australia’s anti-gay churches shift focus to Asia Pacific April 19 – 25, 2014 Issue 8 By Luke Williams This article was first published in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on Apr 19, 2014 as "Exporting anti-gay churches” The little group met last Saturday at Ramsgate Community Church, on the southern flank of Sydney. [...]
Vigil honours victims of gay therapy Posted April 17, 2014 by Staff Writer & filed under City News. By Declan Gooch On a drizzly Saturday night, as the city’s party hotspots cranked into gear, a small group of people sat silent inside Oxford Street’s Stonewall Hotel to remember those traumatised by so-called gay conversion therapy. [...]
Living Waters Australia (LWA), one of the foremost and longest running ex-gay/conversion therapy programs in this country will cease operations next month. Ron Brookman, the Australian director, gave several reasons for his decision in a newsletter to followers last week. Many in the gay community are applauding this move as this means only a handful [...]
One of the few remaining ex-gay/reparative/conversion therapy organisations in Australia has announced the appointment of a new leader after the resignation of Haydn Sennitt last year. The December newsletter reads: "The Liberty Committee is excited to announce that Allan Starr has been appointed as our new part-time Pastoral Worker. He will begin with us in [...]
MEDIA RELEASE | 5th July 2013 ‘Gay cure’ therapy will continue ….(to disappear)” Recent mainstream media reports about the closing down of world's leading 'gay cure' organisation, Exodus International, and its impact on Australia have been misleading claims Anthony Venn-Brown. The Sydney Morning Herald's headline, which went out to hundreds of Fairfax outlets, read [...]
The last person who came from the US telling us how horrible being a homosexual is, was Adam Hood. His meetings were closed down, he was sent home packing and seems to have disappeared off the planet. Maybe he returned to the dreaded 'homosexual lifestyle'. Now we have a visit from Wayne Blakely, approaching 60 [...]