![]() ![]() Of the two of us, Mark has been the prolific writer and researcher. Mark and I discuss that story in this interview. By 2006, we came out with the sexual identity therapy framework. ![]() Right away, I asked Mark Yarhouse to collaborate. In 2005, I began a process of developing a framework to help guide therapists who worked with religious clients conflicted by their sexual orientation. However, I did not simply criticize change therapy, I wanted to find an alternative for people who struggled morally with their sexual orientation. That story is summarized in this Yahoo News account by Jon Ward. All of the posts on reparative therapy and sexual orientation change efforts in general would take hours to review. I chronicled that change on this blog from the beginning in July 2005. After realizing that I had been moving in the wrong direction with my earlier claims, I became a critic of reparative therapy. ![]() My experience with “I Do Exist” drove me back to the research on change and sexual orientation. Gradually over the next couple of years, I became aware of that and stopped selling the video in early 2007. It was shown all over the world, but ultimately it was not an accurate portrayal of reality for at least 4 of the participants. I showed the film at a conference of change therapists in November of that same year to great fanfare. It was supposed to be a documentary style account of five former gays who had become straight through religious means. ![]() I released the advocacy film “I Do Exist” in July 2004. ![]()
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