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Published August, 2001Page(s) 2pp (26-7)

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10-2-e August 2001

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Men's IssuesTestimonials

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NARTH Editors
Regent University Law Review Challenges Mainstream Gay-Rights Perspective
Canadian Teacher’s Suspension Upheld by Court
A Family Counselor In Spain Uses The Internet To Help Individuals Struggling With Unwanted Same-Sex Attractions
New York: Man With Super-HIV Strain Has Sex With 100 Men
“Advocate” Magazine Describes Drug-Related Depression In MSMs
American Counseling Association Supports Free Choice In Therapy
Gay-Affirming Canadian Psychologists Propose Redefining What Constitutes Child Sexual Abuse
Researchers Claim To Have Genome Scan Of ‘Sexual Orientation’ In Men
‘No Name Calling Week’ Cited As Misguided Gay Activism
Study Published In Sexual Abuse Journal Suggests Pedophilic Orientation Influenced In Utero
‘The British Journal Of Psychiatry’ Publishes Study On Mental Illnesses Of Gays And Bisexuals
Dr. Julie Harren-Hamilton Becomes President-Elect Of NARTH
NARTH Conference Highlights
Medical Issues
Recent Speaking Engagements of NARTH Officers
Letters to the Editor
Another Tribute to Harold Voth
Attorney Counters Gay Activism in Schools with NARTH Resources
Interview with Louis A. Berman, author of The Puzzle; Exploring the Evolutionary Puzzle of Male Homosexuality
NARTH Board Member Jeffrey Satinover Testifies In Gay Marriage Debate
The Myth of the Gay Gene
AMA Endorses Same-Sex Adoptions
Gay Fathers of Quadruplets Split
Gay Psychologist Creates New Terms for Use in the Social Debate
Reorientation Counselor Addresses Polish Parliament
Lutheran Church Studies on Sexuality Considers Options, Reparative Therapy
Canadian Government Surveys Says Only 1 % Claim To Be Gay
Psychoanalysts Hold Annual Conference; Discuss Removal of GID Diagnosis
Judges Rule In Favor Of Lesbian Partner as “Dad”
Gay Group in A.P.A. Urges Psychologists To Become Political Activists
“Gay Sheep” Study Offers Intriguing Evidence
British Psychologist Argues For Multiple Sex Partners
TV Scriptwriting Trend Portrays Sexuality as Fluid
Dr. Throckmorton Appears On ‘The O’Reilly Factor’
Flawed Studies Used For Promoting Same-Sex Marriage, Says Policy Institute
Scientists Find Emotional Experiences Deeply Embedded In Brain Structures
NARTH Members Working Around The World To Help Individuals With Unwanted SSA
Destructive Trends In Mental Health: The Well-Intentioned Path To Harm
Social Work Today Debates Reparative Therapy
Rare STD Spreads Among Gays In Canada, Massachusetts
Many HIV-Positive Males Unaware They’re Infected
American Psychiatric Association Endorses Gay Marriage At Convention
“Little Black Book – Queer In The 21st Century” Handed Out To Massachusetts Teenagers
The Wife Of A Same-Sex Struggler Speaks Out
Reorientation Therapy is Prohibited in Brazil, Says NARTH Supporter
NARTH Members Say Gender-Identity Disorder of Childhood Diagnosis Should Remain in the Psychiatric Manual
A Boy, His Two Mothers, And Psychosexual Development
Educator Examines “Coming Out” Process, Sexual Fluidity In College Students
Researchers Survey Trauma Faced By “Two-Spirited” People
Psychologist Analyzes Teenagers’ Talk About Homosexuality
Oprah Winfrey Show Features Children with Gender Identity Disorder
Reorientation Panel Said to Be Well-Received at APA
Thoughts on Rediscovering One’s True Self
Study Of Bisexual/Gay Teens in Thailand Reveals Serious Risks
Social Workers Urge Mainstreaming of Gay/Lesbian Adoption
Pediatrics Group Urges Pro-Gay Counseling for Teenagers
New Gay Book Discusses “Sex As Prayer”
Gay Men’s Group To Present Sessions On Transgenderism And Sadomasochism At Religion Conference
Law of Nature Excludes Homosexuality, Says Australian Physician
“Crystal Meth” New Drug Of Choice On Gay Party Circuit
Perceptions Among Men With Unwanted Same-Sex Attractions (SSA) of the Factors Contributing to the Development of Their Homosexual Feelings
Division 44 Psychologist Urges Colleagues To Be Social-Political Advocates
States To Grapple With Gay Adoption Bans
HIV Rates Rising Dramatically In Asia Among Gays/Bisexuals
Boston Globe’ Columnist Concerned Over Freedom Of Conscience And Gay Adoption
Catholic Charities Of San Francisco Will Stop Placing Children In Gay Homes
Former APA President Describes His Work With SSA Clients
Corrections Needed On Wikipedia
Gender Identity Disorders In Childhood And Adolescence: A Critical Inquiry And Review Of The Kenneth Zucker Research
Four Principles Of Growth
Gender Identity Disorders: UK Physician Investigated Over Rushed Sex Change Operations
Sexual Reorientation Supported in Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
Spitzer Study Just Published Evidence Found for Effectiveness of Reorientation Therapy
Gay Marriage How We Arrived at the Altar
NARTH Board Member Jeffrey Satinover Testifies in Gay Marriage Debate
Former APA President Supports NARTHs Mission Statement, Assails APA’s Intolerance of Differing Views
Study of Male Triplets Lends Support to Neurohormonal Theory of Sexual Orientation, Say Psychologists
NARTH Members Working Around the World To Help Individuals With Unwanted SSA
Ethical Treatment For People Who Present With Unwanted Homoerotic Attractions
NARTH’s Annual Conference
WHAT IF I DON’T CHANGE?
NARTH RESPONDS WITH GOOD SCIENCE
APA’S NEW PAMPHLET ON HOMOSEXUALITY
Change is Not Possible? Letter to a Psychology Professor – 06-01 April 1998 – 3pp (20-22)
From Tolerance to Affirmation: One School’s Experience with a Gay-Affirmative Program
NARTH Conference Set for Los Angeles on October 23-24
NARTH Conference Set for Los Angeles on October 23-24
Indoctrination 101: Professor Lifts the veil on the radical takeover of liberal arts classrooms and curriculum
A Mother’s Letter to NARTH
Catholic Medical Association Rejects APA Stance on Homosexuality
“Dr. Laura” Interviews Psychiatric Association’s Robert Spitzer
Dr. Spitzer Clarifies His Position
“Listen to Ex-Gays Too”
The Dilemma over “Moral Intuition” and its Relevance to Science (Refs)
Gay Men Discuss Problem of Unsafe Sex in Poz
Making Schools “Safe” Means “Refashioning Values” in Massachusetts
Symposium on Reorientation Therapy to Be Held at Psychological Association Meeting (Refs)
NARTH Signs On to Full-Page Newspaper Ad
On the Right to Self-Determination: APA Cancels Debate
Our Response to Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth (Refs)
Two NARTH Research Studies Published
NARTH Annual Conference in Los Angeles Disrupted
NARTH Fact Sheet Opens Public Debate
Reorientation Therapists Applaud the Journal Psychotherapy for Yarhouse Article
Coming Out of the Gay World
Ex-Gays Picket American Psychiatric Association
NARTH Notes (Refs)
Lively Speakers, No Protesters at NARTH’S 1999 Conference
Defying the Reigning Orthodoxy: The Price of Activism and Interview with J. Edward Pawlick
New Study Confirms Higher Level of Psychiatric Disorders Among Men and Women Engaging in Same-Sex Behavior
Democracy and Psychiatry Interview with Joseph Nicolosi Sr
Judaism and Homosexuality
Political Correctness in the Medical Profession
On Chat Rooms
Gay Parenting Does Affect Children Different, Study Finds
Remembering the Is/Ought Distinction
APA Defends Scientific Freedom: NARTH Says Freedom Must Include the Right to Sexual Reorientation
Can NARTH be Denied the Right to Advertise in APA Publications?
Film Critiques Orthodox Jewish View of Sexuality
New Film Portrays Pedophile in Sympathetic Light
Robert Bork on Gay Marriage
15,300 School Superintendents Receive NARTH Pamphlet
Five Research Studies of Interest (Refs)
Former APA President Condemns APA For Barring Research
New Study Refutes Prior Claim that Pedophilia Results in Little to No Harm (Refs)
Book Review: No Basis: What the Studies Don’t Tell Us About Same Sex Parenting by Robert Lerner PhD and Althea Nagai PhD
A Father’s Search For Understanding
The Baha’i Teachings on Homosexuality
The Sexual Deviations, 3rd Edition by Ismond Rosen, MD (1996)(Refs)
Gender-Identity Disturbance in Children
Book Review: From Straight and Narrow? Compassion and Clarity in the Homosexuality Debate by Thomas Schmidt PhD
One Man’s Struggle
Destabilizing the Categories of Sex and Gender: The Case of the Transgendered Student
France French Academie National de Medecine 2022-2-25 Communique Medecine Translation and Notarized from Brooks
Swedish NBHW 2022-2-2 Updated Recommendations PRESS RELEASE Translation and Notarized from Brooks notes
Which Gay Teens Attempt Suicide?
Female Homosexual Development
Fact Sheet: Is There a ”Gay Gene”?
Fact Sheet: The Causes of Male Homosexuality
Fact Sheet: The Problem of Pedophilia
Homosexual Advocacy Groups & Your School
Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Unwanted Same-Sex Attractions and Behavior
A Formal Response to the Report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation
NARTH Response to APA 2009 Task Force Report
NARTH Statement on Sexual Orientation Change
NARTH’s Response to the American Psychological Association (APA) Public Interest Directorate Public Comment Solicitation Program Second Round Concerning APA’s Proposed Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients
Narth’s Response to the American Psychological Association (APA) Public Interest Directorate Public Comment Solicitation Program Second Round Concerning APA’s Proposed Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients
Official NARTH Statement on SB 1172—Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE)

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