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There's a theory called Besen's theory, developed in 1972 to figure out the value of broadcast time.
Pat LaMarche: A Nation of Caylee Anthonys Pat LaMarche 2011
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Wayne Besen, then the associate director of communications of the Human Rights Campaign, captured that Kodak moment as he snapped a picture of the then-37-year-old Paulk in a Washington D.C. gay bar.
Irene Monroe: NPR's Foxification of Ex-Gay Rhetoric Irene Monroe 2011
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Besen pointed to the Manhattan Declaration app, which was released last October on the back of a 5,000-word petition drawn up by several Christian groups, and opposed LGBT rights and gay marriage.
Gay rights groups attack iPhone confession app for Roman Catholics 2011
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In the moment, pandemonium broke out in the bar, as the series of flashes from Besen's camera were assumed by some to be those of a homophobe harassing a patron.
Irene Monroe: NPR's Foxification of Ex-Gay Rhetoric Irene Monroe 2011
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"This is cyber spiritual abuse that promotes backward ideas in a modern package," said Besen.
Gay rights groups attack iPhone confession app for Roman Catholics 2011
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Wayne Besen, then the associate director of communications of the Human Rights Campaign, captured that Kodak moment as he snapped a picture of the then-37-year-old Paulk in a Washington D.C. gay bar.
Irene Monroe: NPR's Foxification of Ex-Gay Rhetoric Irene Monroe 2011
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Wayne Besen, a gay-rights activist who has sought to discredit the so-called "ex-gay" movement, welcomed the APA findings.
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In the moment, pandemonium broke out in the bar, as the series of flashes from Besen's camera were assumed by some to be those of a homophobe harassing a patron.
Irene Monroe: NPR's Foxification of Ex-Gay Rhetoric Irene Monroe 2011
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"Ex-gay therapy is a profound travesty that has led to pointless tragedies, and we are pleased that the APA has addressed this psychological scourge," Besen said.
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“These new defenders of the Mormon faith have long been the most prolific Mormon-bashers in the nation,” said Wayne Besen, executive director of the Brooklyn-based gay-rights group Truth Wins Out.
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