Religion and Queerness: equally difficult to change?
Just found this Salon article about an ethnography of the ex-gay movement.

I thought it was interesting. And, from a queer by choice standpoint, the article does a good job about acknowledging that not all queer activists believe in a "gay gene." And more interestingly, at the end it seems to come to an interesting conclusion that a large part of the pain that "ex-gays" suffer is not just that they can't stop being queer, but that they can't stop being religious fundamentalists who believe that homosexuality is sinful.

The comparison between religion and sexual orientation is also pretty interesting from a queer-by-choice perspective. While lots of people would argue that they can't simply "choose" what to believe, nobody's really arguing that there's a "Christian Fundamentalist" gene. And for a lot of people in this community, queerness is an extension of values that are important to them. Anyway, food for thought.