his position of leadership in the ex-gay hierarchy (is it literally a pyramid scheme?). Graves was an uber leader in the movement with a devoted following—until he was stripped of his license to practice by Colorado’s State Board of Registered Psychotherapists for sexually assaulting a client. Doubtless this was only the tip of the iceberg; reports have surfaced of Graves’ seductive manner when treating clients, his use of “touch therapy” in his practice, not to mention his penchant for posing shirtless. One can easily see how the position of head shrink for a troop of gay youths struggling with their sexuality could provide the ideal setup for a not-so-ex-gay narcissist like Graves. Patients have been forming crushes on their elderly analysts since Freud, so imagine the personal dynamic when both parties have a history of samesex attraction and the therapist is actually quite hot. Whether Graves ever “cured” anyone of homosexuality by this method is unknown; presumably he got his paycheck either way. Straight Porn and Reality The Daily Wire’s right-wing superstar Michael Knowles advanced his war on porn by charging that Pornhub is actively trying to turn cisgender, straight men into gay and trans people. “Stop looking at porn, if for no other reason than the senior writers here are saying they want to make you gay and trans,” he stated flatly. We won’t ask the age-old BTW Revelation Fact: Lesbians in the U.S. earn twenty percent more on average than do heterosexual women. However unexpected the news, this disparity goes back quite a few years and has never been fully explained. Sure, lesbians are less likely than straight women to have children, who can be a drag on women’s careers. Feminists have always maintained that men are the problem, as they contribute much less to household maintenance than do their female partners, and studies show that lesbian couples do tend to divide the housework much more equally. Nevertheless, even after controlling for these factors, according to researcher Aria Velz, lesbians still come out ahead. It turns out lesbians are better educated than their straight sisters, and they’re more likely to live in cities. While shattering any lingering stereotype of a lesbian as someone who drives a pickup in the exurbs, this fact challenges the narrative of lesbians as an oppressed minority, or turns it into one of overcoming barriers. Money for Nothing Wayne Besen is back with new research on an old exposé, one of many in which he exposed “conversion therapy,” aka the “ex-gay movement,” as a cultic, money-making operation that attracts “the shadiest of charlatans.” This one goes back to 2009, when one Jayson Graves was forced out of 10 TheG&LR Jayson Graves
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