Annotated
Bibliography

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"Ex-Gay"
Movement

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Frederick Arthur Ide, Homosexuals Anonymous: A Psychoanalytic and Theological Analysis of Colin
Cook and His Cure for Homosexuality, Tangelwuld Press, 1987.
Ide does an expose of Colin Cook and Homosexuals Anonymous.

Ralph Blair, Etiological and Treatment Literature on Homosexuality: An Evangelical Affirmation of
Gay Rights, Intimacy, Nevertheless Joy, New York, Evangelicals Concerned, 1991.
Reviews gay treatment issues from a theological, psychological, and spiritual perspective.
Documents the failure of the ex-gay movement.

Douglas C. Halderman, "Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy for Gay Men and Lesbians," in
Homosexuality: Research Implcations for Public Policy, (revised edition) ed. by John C. Gonsiorek &
James D. Weinrich, Newbury Park, Sage Publications, 1991, pp. 149-160.

Timothy P. Murphy, "Redirecting Sexual OrientationL techniques and Justifications," The Journal of
Sex Research, vol. 29, # 4, 1992, pp. 501-523.
Murphy gives an overview of the techniques used and raises a number of questions why most
reorientation techniques are directed towards men and why their continual usage with the history of
a high failure rate.

Sylvia Pennington, ExGays? There are None, Hawthorne, Lambda Christian Fellowship, 1989.
Heterosexual Pentecostal documents the failure of the ex-gay movement from experience. A number
of anecdotal stories about the failure of Homosexuals Anonymous.
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