Video: Have you hugged your gay kids today? February 20, 2008
Posted by dhconcerts in Health, Peace, Justice and Equality, Quoting Others, Video/YouTube.trackback
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Peterson Toscano … ‘uncharacteristically serious and undeniably poignant video’.
You don’t know this, but when Mom and Dad came back from that weekend, they were depressed. They couldn’t eat. A light went out of their eyes.
He asked his dad what he experienced in the program and he said,
They made it seem like we were to blame.
His mother died still believing she was somehow at fault.
“Professionals” told her she failed as a parent … It’s wrong. It’s cruel. It’s really awful … I’m thinking about her today.
The video on Good-As-You is linked from YouTube. The title is Parents and the Ex-Gay Movement. This is the text that accompanies the video on YouTube.
Ex-Gay survivor Peterson Toscano talks about the harm that came to him and his parents because of the Family & Friends weekend at the Love in Action residential program that tells people they can find freedom from homosexuality. Now openly gay, Peterson speaks out about the harm of reparative therapy and ex-gay ministries.
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