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You are here: World News 'Ex-Gay' Brazilian Leader Comes Out, Says 'Ex-Gays' Don't Exist (Towelroad)

'Ex-Gay' Brazilian Leader Comes Out, Says 'Ex-Gays' Don't Exist (Towelroad)

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John Aravosis at Americablog Gay points us to this interview with Brazilian 'Ex-gay' leader Sergio Viula, "one of the founders of the Movement for the Healthy Sexuality (MOSES), an evangelical NGO which helps people interested in quitting homosexuality," who tells Brazilian site The Flying Teapot Project that he's gay and 'ex-gay' groups are a complete farce:

In fact, ex-gays don’t exist – it’s pure self-suggestion. I started going to church and noticed that homosexuals didn’t know how to deal with their ‘difficulties’, due to lack of orientation by their leaders, so I decided to found the Movement for the Healthy Sexuality (MOSES), with João Luiz Santolin and Liane França. That was when I started saying – at very opportune moments – that I was ex-gay.

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Complete article at Towelroad : http://bit.ly/rvgx9W