Billy Bean: 'Ex-gay sports therapy is ludicrous'

Former Major League Baseball player and out gay man Billy Bean comments on "ex-gay" claims that playing sports will help make gay men heterosexual.

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[brathaspartan]

Lol

This is stupid. My brother is a year younger than me (20), and he's gay. He plays for the top rugby club in our province and expected to go proffessional. Any notion that sports going to 'cure' you from being gay is fucking ludicris. There's nothing to be 'cured' from.

[JadenTheCoolGuy]

Lol ex-gay therapy is funny. Toying with ex-gay's and their "forbidden attractions" is funnier. Trust me, I've tried it and I can tell you there is no better feeling than provoking an "ex-gay" into showing us how little he really has changed.

[GodCreatesGays2]

@oasisbeyond cries, "I'm not gay."

If you insist. :)

"Ex black, Ex tall?"

Right. Someone can be "ex-gay" about as much as they can be "ex-black" or "ex-tall".

(Pssst! That means...they can't.)

[oasisbeyond]

@GodCreatesGays2 you're dumb and I'm not gay. Ex black, Ex tall? what the fuc kdo you smoke during the day?

[djxthexmonferno]

@EdmundLawrenceSmith Hey, if you want to be exgay, that's your choice and I respect the fact that you are respectful about it. I'm just wondering if you are truly "ex gay" in the sense that your homosexual attractions are completely gone, or if you've just repressed them to such an extent that you are able to live a heterosexual life. From what I've seen, even ex-gay ministers end up realizing down the road that it's not something that can be "cured" and is just an innate part of who they are.

[Ranokian]

@EdmundLawrenceSmith Good for you! You do have the right to call yourself whatever you want. But what is Ex Gay? A change on the surface, or does it go deeper? To who are you attracted now? Men or women? One of the reasons it such a controversial subject is because it seems impossible to change that part of your personality. And of course the fact that many formal participants say its harmful. The succcess rate is low, and those ex gay organisations scheme with numbers they just cant support.

[RodTalon0000]

@brathaspartan Excellent comment :)

[GodCreatesGays2]

You can be an "ex-gay" about as easily as you can be an "ex-black" or an "ex-tall" person.

[DemonicEMT]

@EdmundLawrenceSmith You are an idiot.

[356ALX]

Fewer non-heteros will feel the need to stay closeted or turn into self-haters and homophobes themselves when strong rational homosexuals take over the wheel and tell 'gays' ...."yes, we want you along for the journey....but you're no longer driving."

[356ALX]

I'm sure that many of those posting who are making the claim of being 'happy ex-gays' are not 'happy' because they're now supposidly, and miraculously, not "gay'..... they're happy (relieved would be a better word) because they are approval seekers who have now been able to fool (there is a no more accurate word) their way back into the welcoming (conditional) and loving (conditional) arms of the 'good tribe', the self-proclaimed 'right kind of people'. Yep, 'fool' is the perfect word.

[EdmundLawrenceSmith]

I am an exgay and I am happy. Just as it is your rights to be gay, bisexual or whatever you want to be (which is not my business)… it is TOTALLY MY RIGHTS to be an exgay. Why can’t you just respect people like me for what we have decided for OUR OWN lives. No one has forced me into the exgay lifestyle. It is my CHOICE. Respect others IF you want to be respected! Stop bullying people just because they are different from you or refuse to believe what you believe…