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Monday's Headlines. No Surprises: More Ex-Gay Action in Irvine

Posted by Janine Kahn in News Roundups

October 15, 2007 9:06 AM

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  • More ex-gay Irvine action: Over the weekend, the devil snuck into Irvine and the mainstream media said nary a word. On Saturday, Focus on the Family's homosexuality-quashing Love Won Out conference came to Mariners Church (the event was interestingly categorized under "MarinerScare" on the church website). Soulforce, the group that came forward to counter ex-gay ministry Exodus International in Irvine last June, was strangely silent. Randy Thomas, executive vice president of Exodus, comments on the lack of protest at the event over at his blog.


    In other gays and the church news, The Liberal OC blog has a post up on an interesting documentary on the subject now showing in -you guessed it- Irvine.


  • Street breathes sigh of relief: OC Supervisor John Moorlach wants embattled Treasurer Chriss Street stripped of his investment powers over the county’s $6.2 billion portfolio, but he's willing to wait till District Attorney Tony Rackauckas finishes investigating the guy. Peggy Lowe at the Register reports that Moorlach's decision will save Street from defending himself in front of the Board of Supes this week, as previously planned.

  • Still somewhat lost in OC: Today's LA Times Orange County section's in better shape than usual (Moxley usually catches it brimming over with non-OC stories). Most stories are from the county this morning, but one Sacramento tale is thrown into the mix.

  • Life in the barracks: In case you missed it, some unflattering shots of schools in the Capistrano Unified School District went up on OCWeekly.com over the weekend.

  • Today at 10:30 a.m.: Frank Van Nostrand, public affairs specialist for the Social Security Administration will discuss “Tough Questions About Social Security.” Details here.

 

Comments (3)

  1. Peterson Toscano says:
    October 15, 2007 18:31

    I came from Connecticut to Irvine this summer to help organize the Ex-Gay Survivor Conference (Soulforce and The LGBT Resource Center at UC Irvine co-sponsored it along with my group www.BeyondExGay.com). People came from all over the country and even from the UK and Austraila to attend, but what was strangely lacking was local support and a local presence. Very few citizens of Irvine came out even though we contacted all of the major LGBT supportive groups and churches.

    Ultimately we have to be able to stand up in our own backyards and speak out. In this case it seems no one in Irvine stepped up to do that work.

    We have thousands of ways to express our concerns and exercise our activism, not just in the form of a protest. (Surely we are more creative than that) Right now on-line people are posting their narratives and videos expressing in detail the kind of harm they experience because of ex-gay conversion therapy and the new healthy lives they are forming as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. This sort of activism speaks to thousands and potentially millions.

    -Peterson Toscano
    BeyondExGay.com (bXg)

  2. Janine Kahn says:
    October 15, 2007 18:54

    I remember you, Peterson. That play you put on at UC Irvine for the survivor conference was flat-out awesome. I'm sorry to hear that about the local LGBT groups, but hurrah for creative activism.

  3. Peterson Toscano says:
    October 15, 2007 19:35

    Thanks Janine! and I often refer people to the piece you wrote. You captured the pain and the hope of many of the people who attended the conferrence.

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