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Antoine Dodson, the YouTube viral video star who boasts 53 million views, says he has suddenly quit being gay. 

The leader of an "ex gay" boot camp in South Africa is facing trial after revelations of torture, starvation and death of gay teens in his care have taken the continent by storm. 

The Echo Wild Game Rangers Course was advertised to parents as a place to turn boys into men, with the subtext and promotional materials promising to turn effeminate gay teens into straight masculine guys. But what some parents got back after sending their teens to 'course' general Alex De Koker were not strapping macho-fied men, but frail, near-death sons with stories of unimaginable torture. 

It's been a whirlwind of a month for John Paulk, the former founder and leader of Love Won Out, an "ex gay" and conversion therapy group created by hate group Focus on the Family. After coming out as still in fact gay gay gay, Paulk has decided to denounce the movement he once championed and to apologize to the LGBT community. 

So, what does Paulk have to say?

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie found himself in quite a pickle this week when he didn't exactly come out against "ex-gay" therapy, which is currently facing court time in his state. After facing backlash and a PR nightmare from his Democratic gubernatorial challenger, Christie's office released a statement of clarification late Thursday night.

Students of Maryland's Prince George County Public Schools have been saved from appalling experiments of dangerous ex-gay therapy after local media caught wind of a dangerous program being taught in the district.

There is a small but YouTube-friendly group of French gay men who are opposed to marriage equality rights in France that have banded together to fight the country's pending legislation. Banding together under the name Homovox, the group has released videos on YouTube detailing their opposition to civil equality—videos which the National Organization for Marriage of course has copy + pasted into their own materials here in the States. 

We're not sure that the public faces of Exodus International meant their 2012 blooper reel to be hilarious in the ironic way that it actually is, but at least it gets us laughing. Follow the jump to see "ex gay" men getting comfortable before camera and we're sure you'll note just how successful the denounced methodology they base their lives on is during such candid moments!

President Obama has selected another controversial anti-gay figure to provide his inaugural benediction. Move over, Rick Warren; this time around its Pastor Louie Giglio of the Georgia-based Passion City Church who will deliver the prayer at Obama's second inauguration. 

Someone sniffed too many poppers on New Year's Eve. We're not even a week into 2013 and there's already too much cray-cray circling the Internet, namely thanks to self-labeled "ex gay porn star" Joseph Sciambra. In a video that will be studied by psychiatry students for decades to come, Sciambra claims gay men give birth to the devil anally. 

Feel better about your own sanity by watching Sciambra's video after the jump!

We're right up there in the North Pole alongside Santa Claus, as far as Paul Scalia, son of vehement homophobe Justice Antonin Scalia, is concerned. Looks like the rotten apple doesn't fall far from the tree. 

Hubbub over the source of homosexuality has taken over the Internet this week thanks to that comprehensive new study linking conditions during gestation to LGBT babies.

On Wednesday, we heard hate group leader Bryan Fischer abandon his pro-life convictions to allow for abortions in the case of a detectable gay fetus; today we get a promise from David Pruden, vice president of the National Association for the Research and Treatment of Homosexuality, to keep promoting the dangerous and discredited "ex gay" therapy even if the theory is proven true. 

The recent challenges to California's ban on "ex gay" therapy for minors provided sound-off points for Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night's the Colbert Report. Check out Stephen's fruit-filled take on conversion therapy after the jump!