The “Ex-Gays” Who Desecrated the Memory of Pulse

Brian Rainey
Nov 2 · 12 min read
Photo Credit: Michael Rivera, Wikimedia Commons

This week a handful of self-hating bigots trekked to Washington, DC to lobby against LGBTQ+ rights. These so-called “former homosexuals” and “former transgenders” were targeting the Equality Act, which protects LGBTQ people from discrimination and the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act, which categorizes “ex-gay” reparative therapy in exchange for money as fraud — because of course it’s fraud. With the…

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Academic, student of the Bible, amateur theologian

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