Exodus Global Alliance

Exodus Global Alliance is a fundamentalist Christian umbrella organization that promotes conversion therapy, the perhaps pseudoscientific, harmful and ineffective attempt to change an individual's same-sex attraction to heterosexuality.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] The organization is based in Troy, Michigan and was formerly a part of the umbrella organization Exodus International in 2004 for its international outreach. On 28 May 2013, Exodus Global Alliance on, Exodus International pulled out of following the resignation of two founders [8] is a part of the modern "ex-gay" movement.

Exodus Global Alliance
Formation2004
PurposePromote conversion therapy and Fundamentalist Christian beliefs
HeadquartersTroy, Michigan, United States
Region served
Ontario, Canada; Australia; Cuernavaca, Mexico; Londrina, Brazil
Websitewww.exodusglobalalliance.org

References
  1. Ford 2001
  2. Cruz, David B. (1999). "Controlling Desires: Sexual Orientation Conversion and the Limits of Knowledge and Law" (PDF). Southern California Law Review. 72 (5): 1297–400. PMID 12731502. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 September 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
  3. Yoshino 2002
  4. Haldeman 1991, p. 149
  5. Cianciotto, Jason; Cahill, Sean (2006). "Youth in the Crosshairs: the Third Wave of Ex-gay Activism" (PDF). National LGBTQ Task Force. National LGBTQ Task Force Policy Institute. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 June 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2019. There is a growing body of evidence that conversion therapy not only does not work, but also can be extremely harmful, resulting in depression, social isolation from family and friends, low self-esteem, internalized homophobia, and even attempted suicide.
  6. Haldeman, Douglas C. (December 1999). "The Pseudo-science of Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy" (PDF). Angles: The Policy Journal of the Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies. 4 (1): 1–4. Retrieved 16 March 2018. Conversion therapy can be harmful.
  7. Glassgold 2009, p. 91: "As noted previously, early research indicates that aversive techniques have been found to have very limited benefits as well as potentially harmful effects."
  8. "Exodus International Withdraws from Exodus Global Alliance". exodusinternational.org. 12 June 2013. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.


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