Declining interest in the "ex-gay" movement due to its surging mainstream debunking has forced poor ol' Exodus International to cancel the 2012 edition of its annual "Love Won Out" conference.

Earlier this month we reported that noted psychiatrist Dr. Robert Spitzer had officially retracted a study he authored in 2001 that has since been used as key reference for the "ex gay" movement. Today, he's gone one step further by issuing a heartfelt apology to the LGBT community. 

A California Senate subcommittee approved a bill that will ban harmful and discredited "ex gay" therapy for kids under 18 on Monday. Details follow. 

London Mayor Boris Johnson was the first official to put his foot down and block those "ex gay" bus ads we reported on last week. At the time he chalked the decision up to London being a city that's "intolerant of intolerance." (Love that!) Well, yesterday he expanded on the motive behind his move in another articulate and applause-worthy quote. Read it, after the jump. 

Parents of schoolchildren in Montgomery County, Maryland were rightfully outraged in February after students returned home with fliers promoting "ex gay" therapy, handed out legally at schools by PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays). Having voiced concern to school officials, a policy change that'll thwart the indoctrination of kids into a lifestyle of hate might be on the way. Details follow.

Updated 5 p.m. EST

London Mayor Boris Johnson has blocked a campaign of "ex gay" therapy advertisements from running on his city's buses after international criticism today. 

“London is one of the most tolerant cities in the world and intolerant of intolerance," said Mayor Johnson in a statement. "It is clearly offensive to suggest that being gay is an illness that someone recovers from and I am not prepared to have that suggestion driven around London on our buses.”

Dr. Robert Spitzer has retracted his 2001 study that has become a major source of "evidence" for the "ex gay" movement. Details follow. 

In other news on the state of the union's hate groups released by the SPLC today, the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) seems to have become the main source for anti-gay "junk science" in arguments posited by leading homophobes. 

Members of the Anoka-Hennepin School Board refused to cave to the anti-gay PTA known as the Parents Action League yesterday when they voted to drop the policy that required teachers to take a "neutral" stance on homosexuality. They replaced it with a new policy that encourages acceptance and discussion on differences.  So what does the new policy entail, and what’s the backlash?

Thank Gaga we did not decide to satiate our daily pancake cravings in Paramus, New Jersey last month! Had we taken NJ Transit across the Hudson on the fateful morning ABC News' What Would You Do decided to conduct a social experiment on ex-gay therapy, we might be writing this from the East Jersey State Prison library. Thankfully, the only infraction we now risk being charged with while watching the eye-opening segment is a noise complaint from our neighbors as we yell at our screen. Follow the jump to see what we're talking about.

Updated (with video) Wednesday, 10:40 a.m. EST

Talk about trying to indoctrinate children! Maryland parents are enraged that anti-gay/ex-gay group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) sent school kids home with homophobic flyers claiming that no one is "born gay" and that everyone chooses their sexuality. Details and a video news report follow.  

Kidnapped For Christ, a documentary that exposes the evangelical practice of having "troubled teens" kidnapped in the middle of the night and sent to a foreign country to be straightened out by leading their lives in servitude, gets a new trailer. Follow the jump to learn about David, an 18-year old being held at the Dominican Republic's Escuela Caribe beyond his will for being gay.