Um, can we say “highly biased” reporting here.  The only “Sad” fact in this there are still homophobic people who would like to invalidate and degrade the love that millions and millions of healthy, sane and well-adjusted American gays and lesbians (and their families) experience each and every day of their lives. This sort of misleading, inaccurate and agenda-driven propoganda is still being shoveled onto the public. Smart, caring and informed people simply ignore this - the clueless ones should try to focus on what’s missing in their lives that they should find hating another human being so appealing.

I haven’t read such a bizarre work of fiction since SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES.  Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons...please substantiate!

It’s always interesting to read the comments of folks critical of this kind of science. The hostility of the gay community is clearly indicative of deep inner conflict. The real issues are not addressed, only anger and accusation are expressed.

I see nothing hostile in the first two posts.  They’re charming considering the article’s vitriol and quack citations.  Matt, I shudder to think you consul vulnerable young people who are confronting their sexual orientation.  Make some friends in the gay community.  You will learn and grow so much.

Can’t seem to keep your prejudice on a leash, can you, Rick?
I found a very fascinating excerpt in your interview:

“I’m referring, mainly, to little boys who act feminine. In our practice we find that when fathers get very involved in the lives of these boys, teaching them how to kick a soccer ball at an early age—4 or 5—these children over the course of a year or two can change remarkably.”

Hmm… I don’t suppose that you’re implying that, without a father to tell them to be masculine, little boys would just *naturally* grow up to be gay?

Oh, and here’s a tasty tidbit:

“Numerous studies show an inability to maintain a commitment, rampant promiscuity and resultant serious depressive illness. In his book, The Sexual Organisation of the City, E. Laumann reported that among homosexuals in five urban areas the average length of a relationship was six months.”

Fascinating. Now, go do research to find the average length of relationships of HETEROSEXUAL couples in those five urban areas. I can guarantee you that they’ll be similar, if not worse. Know why? Cities aren’t know for their huge moral base. Whores of all sexual orientations live in cities. The average length of relationships is GOING to be low. Maybe we should take a look at Las Vegas, see how long straight people stay together there. Oh, and then say “this is how long straight people stay together” and pass it off as legitimate research. Try again, Rick.

And! You have the gall to talk about self-hatred and depression as if Homosexuals are hard-wired to hate themselves! Well, check this out: there would be a lot less gays in therapy if there were a lot less ignorant gay-bashers to put them there.

Well, I’m going to side with the Land Down Under on this one. 

I’ve been faithful to my same sex partner for almost eight years now. I live in Dublin city.

As a closeted youth my first same sex partner and first love hung himself because he could not come to terms with homophobes negative percepttions and opinions of him.

Live your own life and let us live ours.

Thank you,

As a teacher in Florida I am very well aware of the gay lobbies push for promoting homosexuality in teh schools! As teachers we need to show that there is freedom from homosexuality. I was a lesbian for over 20 years and am now free.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/exgaydiscussionboard/

Wow^^ I managed to miss this article for the longest time. But, actually… it seems Anonymous has most of what I would normally say covered^^;

So… I guess that leaves me to say that I’m also agreeing with Australia, mate ~_^

But I do feel obligated to address another little something^^

Carrie^^

I won’t go so far as ‘promoting’ homosexuality per say, but it should certainly be respected and treated as equal; especially in ‘teh schools’.
Oh, and I checked out your posted website… I can honestly say I feel genuinely sorry for every person who ‘gave testimony’, because it seems that their ‘coming out’ experience horribly tainted by trying to ‘fix’ them, and there seems to be no-one willing to explain to them what the word “bisexual” means.
I hope you find your own true SO, be it straight, gay, or bisexual; but please refrain from suggesting a ‘cure’ to perfectly fine homosexuals.

Have a nice day, all^^

Ok, I have to say that I am mildly appalled by some of the obviously twisted ‘facts’ that Dr. Fitzgibbons is broadcasting. As was said, it is easy to look at one group with disdain while averting one’s eyes from those like themselves with the same traits and moralistic standpoints. In the same area, did he bother to research how long a relationship in *general* tend to last, be it homo or hetero? Somehow I doubt that, as it will undoubtedly discredit his ‘work’.

Carrie, as I understand what it is you are trying to say, but not even *touching* on a subject leaves the risk of ignorance towards it, leading to homophobia or other such things. I believe having the information available is extremely important for children who may one day experience the conflicting emotions themselves, or for those with same-sex parents.

It seems to me that people *need* everything to be either black or white, however, there is always something that falls outside of those lines. i.e. love and attraction. Perhaps those who are cured truly are just that. ‘Cured.’However, is there not a slight chance that they are bisexual, ignoring that part of themselves?
I am a lesbian, 20 years old, and I couldn’t be happier. I’m not depressed, anxious, wishing I were straight. I never went looking on drug store shelves for a magic ‘straight pill’, if you will allow me my exaggeration.
Being gay, for some, is just like being tall or short, fat or thin. It is as much a part as them as being straightis for another individual.
Live and let live. Reach for equality. When one reads a child Cinderlla, the next story should be King&King;. Make it a norm, and those who fall in the category of homosexual won’t need the closet at all.

In the state of Michigan 57% of HIV/AIDS victims are black MSM (men who have sex with men) and 39% of victims are white MSM (National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change program). This means that (if lesbian activist Renee McCoy, Director of the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion has got her figures right) 96% of HIV/AIDS victims in Michigan are MSM.
Just remember, folks: “AIDS Can Affect Anyone”.
In the whole of the United States the prevalence of HIV in MSM is sixty times higher than the general population (USFDA website).
A recent study has shown that MSM have a thirteen to fourteen fold greater risk of becoming infected with MRSA than the general population (Annals of Internal Medicine).
The list of diseases to which MSM are more susceptible goes on ad nauseam.
As a matter of public policy, for health reasons alone, homosexual behaviour should be actively discouraged.
All members of the public, especially the young, should be warned of the dangers associated with same-sex sexual behaviour, particularly male to male and more particularly anal intercourse.
Not to do so is an irresponsible abdication of society’s duty to protect the welfare of the young and vulnerable who are reliant on accurate information to make informed decisions regarding their personal welfare.
It is an outrage that young people are being deliberately denied relevant knowledge thus increasing their potential exposure to the above risks.
Shame on the gay lobby and shame on the rest of us for ceding to them the power to use misinformation, propaganda and half-truths to risk the health of our children.

I just noticed the grammatical as well as spelling errors in my previous post. Sorry, I was working on a Sociology essay at the same time, and I was rather distracted! =D

Regarding the section talking about “sports wound”: is it safe to say that women are attracted to men because THEY have poor hand eye cordination?  Or is it also safe to say that all gay men have poor hand eye cordination?  There are some athletes that are gay, how did they become so if sports came natural to them?  On the other hand, do less attractive women become lesbian because they long for the perfect feminine body as a child?  I thought we were suppose to be taught that that leads to eating disorders. 
This research, though credible, is highly biased and construed mixing misconceptions with half trues and using it as a weapon against the idea that homosexuals may indeed be normal.  If there were psychological milestones that steered a person toward SSA then the issue could be easily fixed with counseling.  Unfortuantely, studies will also show that when this is attempted the results usualy are accompanied with severe depression and anxiety.  Maybe this is where the mental disorders come from.  Not from being homosexual, but by trying to fit into a society that deems the very core of there desires unacceptable. 
There are however some heterosexual men that encounter SSA in there lives, and through self analysis and treatment are able to shed light on the fantasies and confusion.  These men, however, strongly identify themselves honestly as heterosexuals and are masculine succesful mentaly stable men.  It is just a matter of solving early childhood issues.  If this website conducts or pulls more research, perhaps the researchers should remove the chip on their shoulder and understand fairly what it is they are dealing with.

A probaganda should be taken to destroy the worst culture like this.
Thank you

When we react to a position that we disagree with terms like “highly biased”, “homophobic”, “ignorant” and “agenda-driven propaganda” we are doing the very same thing that we are saying that we are opposed to. When will we be unthreatened by people who see things differently than us? These terms are the same as calling an African American a “NIGGER” (a term that infers ignorance and degradation).

I admit that there are a lot of people who take the more conservative position on some of these things who come across in a rude manner. Is there not the same kind of prejudice from this opposite position? Yes. If your position is right you do not need to be threatened by another person’s view point. If what you say is true it will win out and you will also leave yourself less defensive to learning something new.

All,

Everything this article says is true.  I grew up like that and I ended up same-sex attraction.  I came out at age 16 and was the most open and pro-gay person imaginable.  I was a gay activist in college.  I was on TV, radio and in newspapers. 

But all the while I knew that something was serious amiss in the “gay” world. It just wasn’t what I thought it would be.  What I saw was drugs, depression, mental illness, instability, whiny political correctness, promiscuity, shallowness.  Most “gay” men acted worse than the stereotypes that they complain so loudly about.  But I chalked all of this up to society’s repression and maintained the myth that somewhere out there was a place where “gay” men weren’t such failures and head cases.  But I never found it, neither in the bars, nor in groups, nor among friends, nor on the net.

The real harm is done when young people swallow the myth of the “happy homosexual.” On our own, we are our biggest enemies.  “Gay” life is anything but.

In the last year or so, I’ve come to the same conclusion on my own that this article says.  Same-sex attraction is caused by trauma and bad experiences in childhood.  I’ve never met a single “gay” man who had a normal childhood.  In a public place like this few will admit that.  Many are too involved in the “gay” life to depart from its orthodoxies, the main one being that “we’re just like everyone else.” So when someone comes on here and says they had a normal childhood, I have to say that I just don’t believe it.  I have a good friend who used to tell me that he had a perfect childhood.  Then I found out later that his mother killed herself when he was 19.  He also described her as being a “nazi” with him as a kid. 

The fact is that as men with same-sex attraction, we all crave acceptance and love from a strong, real man.  We all long for acceptance from other strong and real men.  We’ve just eroticized it.  This is the cause of it, not biology.