PFOX Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays

Resources

PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays)

Subscribe to the PFOX email list to receive periodic emails on ex-gay news and activities.

PFOX sponsors an e-mail discussion group at Yahoo Groups. It is comprised of parents, friends, and spouses of strugglers, as well as ex-gays. You can just read the email postings or join in the discussion at any time with your particular day to day hopes and struggles. If you would like to join, send a blank e-mail to: ex-gay-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

Be sure to download our PFOX brochures, flyers and posters for distribution to public schools, churches, universities, libraries, exhibit booths, counselor’s officers, diversity centers, and anywhere you see gay literature. Inclusion of the ex-gay message is the way to spread the word that change is possible and tolerance for those who have changed is necessary. PFOX brochures are appropriate for secular settings too.

PFOX maintains an ex-gay speakers bureau for local events, schools, conferences and church engagements. Whether you are looking to address the origin of homosexuality, or an encouraging testimony of overcoming homosexuality, PFOX can help!

College and High School Students! Students, teachers and administrators can distribute ex-gay brochures on campus, request ex-gays speakers for gay events and diversity programs, hang ex-gay posters around school, place ex-gay books in the school library, create safe places for those who support alternatives to homosexuality, initiate ex-gay forums and school programs, post ex-gay links on the school website, and place brochures in campus centers, counselor’s offices or diversity departments. Contact PFOX and let us know what you’re interested in doing so we can send you the appropriate materials and help. Also be sure to take a look at our student brochures and invite an ex-gay speaker to your club or school.

Interested in starting an Ex-Gays & Friends Club at your high school or college? Some clubs are started as conservative student clubs which include the ex-gay perspective. We can help you start those too!

If you are a parent, sibling, or friend of someone in homosexuality, check out our list of groups to see if there is a local PFOX group in your area. If you would like to start a PFOX group, please fill out the application. PFOX groups hold regular support group meetings.

Want to volunteer for PFOX and work to advance the ex-gay community? Please fill out our volunteer application.

Additional resources for those struggling with unwanted same-sex attractions and their families and friends

Genesis Biblical Counseling. Joe Dallas provides pastoral phone counseling to clients around the world. It is accessible, simple, and confidential, offering the convenience of a phone call, plus the expertise of a recognized professional. More Information and to Sign Up  

Live Hope Ministry offers separate secure online forums for those struggling with unwanted same- sex attractions. Discussion forums are available for teens, single women, single men, married men, or married women. Register and join the particular forum that applies to your situation.

People Can Change runs online support groups where men who have left homosexuality and resolved same-sex attraction problems give and receive support to those struggling with same-sex attractions. All men who are conflicted over their sexuality and sincerely want to know what it takes to change to a more heterosexual orientation, and want to give and receive mutual support for change, are welcome. Men who have always been heterosexual are also welcome, on condition that their sole motivations are to give support and increase their own understanding, compassion and sense of brotherhood with us. These are not religious groups. Men of all faiths -- or no faith -- are welcome. We do not discuss or debate religion, although men are welcome to share their own personal spiritual journeys.

Call NARTH (National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality) at 818-789-4440 for the names of therapists in your area who specialize in reorientation therapy. To learn more at the NARTH website.

If you are seeking an ex-gay ministry in your area that helps strugglers out of the lifestyle, Exodus posts a list or call them at 407-599-6872 or email at info@exodus-international.org.

Exodus also has a youth website.

Powerful Change Ministry Group (PC) is a national fellowship of 11 Christian African-American led ministries whose goal is to advocate change for same-sex strugglers among people of color. PC members work diligently to raise awareness in the Black community on the need for holistic ministry to affected individuals as well as their families. Contact: DL Foster, National Coordinator at 404-362-0505 or 404-326-1414 or www.witnessfortheworld.org.

HOPE Ministries is a ministry for Christian men to resolve homosexuality by Bill Consiglio, LCSW, author of "Homosexual No More." Provides an Internet-based Mentoring Program for "Sexual Orientation Resolution Therapy," free short-term consultation by e-mail and a 40-day intensive follow-up program of mentoring and accountability for men overcoming compulsive and addictive homosexual behavior. H.O.P.E. Ministries teaches that "homosexuality is not about sex, it's all about the underlying emotional need for love, acceptance, belonging and inclusion with a person of the same gender." Hope Ministries of Connecticut, 876 Shepard Ave, Hamden, CT 06514. Telephone (203) 248-5274. Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00-5:00. E-mail allthings@counsellor.com Web site www.christianlifesight.net/hopeministries.htm

Jayson Graves, M.MFT, Sexual Addiction & Same-Gender Attractions Specialist Healing for the Soul is the private Sexual Addictions Recovery practice of Jayson Graves, M.MFT. Jayson serves a national and international clientele using an innovative, faith-based approach that can involve individual and/or couples therapy over the telephone. Healing for the Soul also pioneered the use of Sexual Addiction Recovery Groups over the telephone using a teleconference system. For more information about tele-groups or to schedule a therapy appointment, call toll-free 719-590-SOUL (7685) or email help@healingforthesoul.org or www.healingforthesoul.org.

Focus on the Family. For parents or strugglers -- Over the past 25 years, Focus on the Family has developed a nationwide Christian counseling referral system. Their counseling staff would be happy to speak with you and recommend any counselors available in your geographic area. To speak with a counselors' assistant and receive a referral to a counselor in your area, call (719) 531-3400 from 9-4:30 (Mountain time) Monday through Friday, and ask for the Counseling department.

Homosexuals Anonymous at 610-921-0345 or http://members.aol.com/Hawebpage

Courage for Catholics at 212-268-1010 or NYCourage@aol.com or http://www.courageRC.net.

Evergreen International for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") at 1-800-391-1000 or 801-363-3837. E-mail: info@evergreeninternational.org. Web site: www.evergreeninternational.org.

Transforming Congregations for Methodists at 215-938-8770 or generalinfo@transformingcong.org or http://www.transformingcong.org.

One By One for Presbyterians at 716-586-6180 or mail@oneby1.org or http://www.oneby1.org.

JONAH for Jews at 201-433-3444 or http://www.jonahweb.org (Note: JONAH also has a referral list of secular reorientation therapists)

See the referral directory for national and world-wide ex-gay ministries.

See http://aacc.net/resources/find-a-counselor to find a counselor from the American Association of Christian Counselors – for both strugglers or their parents

Sexaholics Anonymous. See www.sa.org for meetings near you.

List of Ministries for Transgenders:

Some ex-gay websites to check out:

National ex-gay Conferences to attend that may tour near your area:

Teen ex-gay websites:

Spanish language websites:

 The Spanish language book Comprender y Sanar la Homosexualidad is available through the publisher: www.libroslibres.info

The Spanish language book La Gracia de Dios y el Vecino Homosexual by Alan Chambers at www.exodusbooks.org or kwhite@exodus.to.

PFOX (Padres y amigos de Ex-Gays y Gays) ofrece un foro de discussion on-line en Yahoo Groups en http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExGaySpanish. Los miembros que componen este foro son personas que tratan de lidiar con una homosexualidad no deseada, aunque mayormente lo componen familiares y amigos de éstos. A través del mail, los miembros del foro se comprometen a apoyarse diariamente los unos a los otros. Así que se puede participar en el foro o bien simplemente leyendo los mensajes que se envían, o bien tomando parte en la discusión mediante comentarios de las propias luchas y esperanzas del día a día. ¡Te invitamos a unirte a nosotros! Si quieres participar del foro, envía un email en blanco a la siguiente dirección, asegurándote bien de que los caracteres de la dirección son los correctos:
ExGaySpanish-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

PFOX -- Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays
Supporting the right of homosexuals and lesbians to choose change ~ P O Box 510 - Reedville VA 22539, 804-453-4737, pfox@pfox.org, www.pfox.org

Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) is a non-profit organization supporting the ex-gay community and families touched by homosexuality. You can join PFOX by sending a tax-deductible donation to the above address or donate online. All donors receive the PFOX Press newsletter.

This list is provided for information purposes only. If you find that any of the above phone numbers, e-mail addresses, or web sites don't work, please send us an email at pfox@pfox.org so we can update our list of resources.