Well, ain’t that a kick in the head

Would this dickhead lie to you? Spitzer back in 2000 at a press conference held outside the American Psychological Association (APA) meeting

In a move that will no doubt rankle the efforts of anti-gay institutions, the psychiatrist who published a controversial 2001 study proclaiming that “highly motivated” gay and lesbian people could change their sexual orientation is now retracting his initial claims.

Psychiatrist Bob Spitzer, who had ironically led the effort to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973, told American Prospect that he now wants to retract his study, while addressing several of the ample criticisms against its findings.

“In retrospect, I have to admit I think the critiques are largely correct,” said the 80-year-old Spitzer, who is now retired and suffering from Parkinson’s disease. “The findings can be considered evidence for what those who have undergone ex-gay therapy say about it, but nothing more.”

After noting that failed attempts to rid oneself of homosexual attractions “can be quite harmful,” he then requested writer Gabriel Arana print a retraction of his 2001 study, “so I don’t have to worry about it anymore.”

Interestingly, Arana claims to have undergone therapy for over three years with Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, co-founder and former president of the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), in an effort to change his own sexual orientation.

(Above/Below) At the American Psychiatric Association Convention in Chicago, fifty ex-gay ministry leaders from around the country gathered to protest the A.P.A.’s cancellation of the debate on reorientation therapy

Spitzer’s study, Arana noted in his article, was based on 200 interviews with so-called “ex-gay” patients, the largest sample amassed at that point. Though it did not make any specific claims about ex-gay therapy’s success rate, Spitzer’s “Can Some Gay Men and Lesbians Change Their Sexual Orientation? 200 Participants Reporting a Change from Homosexual to Heterosexual Orientation” originally concluded that it had, in fact, worked “for a highly select group of motivated individuals.”

Truth Wins Out’s Executive Director Wayne Besen, who criticized the study in his 2003 book, “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth,” praised the stunning reveral “Dr. Spitzer’s repudiation of his 2001 study is an earthquake that severely undermines the validity of ‘ex-gay’ programs,” Besen said in an email statement. “Spitzer just kicked out the final leg from the stool on which the proponents of ‘ex-gay’ therapy based their already shaky claims of success.”

Hold up a copy of this apology the next time some Right wing nut screams that being gay is a choice, even claiming that there’s medical evidence to support such claims.

Note that this news came nearly a month before the President of the United States came out in support of a gay marriage. Why has god forsaken his knuckle-dragging minions in just four weeks? 

Spitzer’s apology letter after cut

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Finally! Sonny better return too!!! WTF was/is his absence all about? The entire family thinks their family members were wiped out during an explosion, and Sonny isn’t at the wake. That’s cold… I’m sure the writers either forgot, or couldn’t afford to pay a another cast member to make an appearance. “Days” is about to go into hiatus for the London Olympics in July. Will Lexie please die already so we can get back to “Gays of our Lives” already?!  I give the soap one year to get Sonny (provided he returns) and Will to fuck each other, or there’s going to be trouble. I’m not asking for a porno (though, that would be sweet). Even implied sex would make this gay boy very happy! I’m sure the show will do it if nothing else than to drum up ratings again. They got a lot of mileage out of the Will likes dick storyline. 

Here’s Will, pre-I think I’m gay, grandma. The laugh Chandler delivers is so fucking (stereotypically) gay, it cracks my gay ass up! He also looks like Jack McBrayer from “30 Rock” for some reason. I also pegged Chandler as gay (like a lot of internerd people), but that guy-on-guy kiss he did in the show, well, let’s just say that was two blatant heteros pretending to be gay.

Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled gay program!