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Attempts To Change Sexual Orientation – Reparative Therapies

University of California Psychology Dept, Davis. An excellent, concise and easily accessible summary of the facts, figures and procedures of various studies on whether sexuality can or ought to be changed. Valuable ammunition as a resource against the arguments of religious fundamentalists.                 

                        http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_changing.html

What about psychotherapy for GLBT people?

From the public health pages of the website of King County, Seattle, Washington USA. A very sensible grouping of straightforward common sense information presented with honesty and integrity.

                        http://www.metrokc.gov/health/glbt/psychotherapy.htm

American Psychiatric Association - Answers to Your Questions About Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality

                        Comprehensive, honest answers by an the most eminent organization of psychiatrists to the most frequently asked questions.

http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/answers.html

Human Rights Campaign (USA)  “Finally Free: How Love and Acceptance Saved Us From the Ex-Gay Ministries”

America’s flagship national lesbian and gay rights lobby group. Lots of valuable resources, such as "Finally Free" the excellent collection of testimonies by men and women who have survived "ex-gay" ministries – go to the following URL and ALLOW POP-UPS to view (and save) the pdf file: http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=About_HRC&CONTENTID=31569&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm

http://www.hrc.org

Evidence In Support of an Equal Age Of Consent

Findings from the scientific literature to support equality of age of consent
for same-sex and different-sex sexual behaviours.
May 2001 paper prepared for the Committee on Gay and Lesbian Law Reform (W.A.) by Dr Vivienne Cass, Ph.D., M.Psych., B.Psych., Teach.Cert. Source: From the website of West Australia’s Gay And Lesbian Equality ( GALE) http://www.galewa.asn.au/. (Also see their comparison of ages of consent across Australia: http://www.galewa.asn.au/~galewa/ageofconsent.shtml )

Pride & Prejudice (Australian school-based 6 week anti-prejudice, anti-homophobia program)
A formally evaluated, school-based approach to sexual diversity and homophobia.  A six-week program with easy-to-follow session plans, handouts and evaluation tools.  A six-part, complementary video featuring young gay and lesbian people discussing their lives and experiences. Do you work in or with a school where homophobia is an issue? Sick and tired of hearing students say "that's so gay"?

Know something has to be done but not how to do it? Shown to have significantly changed student attitudes toward gay men and lesbians after 6 weeks. (Health Promotion Journal of
Australia, Dec 2001)

www.prideandprejudice.com.au

The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing The Myths (a Parody with a Purpose)

 

Jim Burroway invites the reader to download and share a pdf file of his compact and carefully crafted October 2006 tome - which is by no means a throw away parody, but rather an attractively packaged,and very effective example of how facts can be deliberately misused (especially by gay-haters) in order to achieve desired ends.

 

 

http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com:80/Articles/000,015.htm

 

The Knitting Circle

Who’s gay? Search by topics or names. An extensive website set up and maintained by the gay staff at South Bank University, London – with great and up to date information on men and women past and present.

Index of people: http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/people.html

Index of topics: http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/topics.html


 

Bent Links

“Since Bentlinks inception we have grown to become one of the internets premier gay lesbian bisexual and transgender resource sites. Now approaching 11,000 links, the site and its co-projects receive tens of thousands of visits a month - from GLBTI people resident in countries all over the world.” (a Brisbane based site)

http://www.bentlinks.com

"Karl Heinrich Ulrichs" Files

Celebrate 175 years of Gay Pride on 28th August 2000. Read the inspiring story of one of the first modern and very outspoken gay activists.

http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/celebration2000

pnash2@aol.com

Greg Weir's Archive Material

Greg has been a prominent Brisbane gay activist for over 20 years. (Now lives in an exotic location near Sydney with his mum.) He has an extraordinary collection of material stored at the National Library:

http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/8915.html

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