Strudwick’s Gay ‘cure’ therapy exposé: was it entrapment?

  Last night, Amnesty International in Northern Ireland hosted their annual Belfast Pride Lecture in Belfast’s Europa Hotel. The exhibition hall was nearly packed to the gunnels; everyone crowding in to hear Patrick Strudwick’s thoughts on “The dangerous world of gay ‘cures’”. In 2010 journalist Patrick Strudwick published “The Ex-Gay Files: The Bizarre World of Gay-to-Straight Conversion” in The Independent, chronicling a year of undercover investigation of therapists claiming to be able to ‘convert’ gays and lesbians to heterosexuality. In some countries, ‘gay conversion therapy’ is used as a form of punishment amounting to torture against gay people. Strudwick’s exposé shone a spotlight … Continue reading Strudwick’s Gay ‘cure’ therapy exposé: was it entrapment?

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Jonathan Loved David

On Sunday 24 July, my husband Andrew delivered a talk in All Souls’ Church, Belfast as part of the inaugural Faith and Pride event during Belfast Pride Festival. The talk was entitled Jonathan Loved David, and the text is available for download here. Andrew was heard on BBC Radio Ulster as part of William Crawley‘s programme Sunday Sequence. You may still be able to hear him in that on BBC iPlayer about 20 minutes into the programme. It’s well worth a listen. It was rather clever of the Rev. Stafford Carson to comment on the talk before it was even … Continue reading Jonathan Loved David

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Belfast Pride Festival 2011

Politician states Pride is ‘totally repugnant’ – when will the DUP learn?

With the DUP snubbing yesterday’s Belfast Pride event at Stormont, Michael wonders how long it will be before they come on board on the issue of LGBT rights. Continue reading Politician states Pride is ‘totally repugnant’ – when will the DUP learn?

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