WAYNE BESEN

'Wayne Besen' is a gay rights advocate in the United States. He is a former spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign.
Besen, a gay man, was never personally involved in the ex-gay movement, but says he has interviewed hundreds of former and current ex-gays.
In 2000, he photographed ex-gay activist John Paulk in a Washington D.C. gay bar. Paulk claimed he was simply there to use the washroom, but Besen and other witnesses allege he was drinking and flirting for over twenty minutes. Besen went public with the story, and wrote about it in his book ''Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth''. The book was nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards in 2003. [1]
In June 2006, Besen founded Truth Wins Out, a non-profit organization to counter ex-gay ministries. He also launched www.RespectMyResearch.org, to document right wing distortions of science, particularly by Focus on the Family.
Besen graduated from the University of Florida with a B.S. in broadcast journalism in 1993.[2]

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★ www.waynebesen.com

★ Anything but Straight (official website)

★ Truth Wins Out, of which Besen is the Founding Executive Director