Wayne Besen - Author, Activist, Columnist, Public Speaker

Thursday, September 15, 2005

'Ex-Gay' Richard Cohen Makes Ass Of Himself On Howard Stern

Richard Cohen, left, Displays His Morals On The Howard Stern Show

Former Moonie and naked cult member Richard Cohen was on Howard Stern this morning to make an ass of himself, talking about his bizarre "transformation" from gay to straight. In typical fashion, he was a buffoon and a self-promoting media ho, who plugged his book every six seconds. Two things he failed to bring up:

1) He was kicked out of the American Counseling Association for malpractice (whoops!)
2) He once left his wife and child to have sex with men in New York City (Yikes!)

Sounds like a real success story!

27 Comments:

What a psycho creep. Lord knows who he is really sodomizing.

Lou
Oklahoma
posted by Anonymous, at 9/15/2005 12:15 PM

Wayne, maybe it would be a good idea to call his program or drop him a line and let him know about that psyhcopath Cohen.

Robert, Bayside, NYC.
posted by Anonymous, at 9/15/2005 12:18 PM

hahaha.
posted by Anonymous, at 9/15/2005 12:54 PM

Wayne, isnt he the putz that Penn and Teller profiled and totally trashed on their episode about the "traditional family"?
Saying this guy MADE an ass of himself is a bit redundant; he done did that a loooong time ago.
Gary (NJ)
posted by Anonymous, at 9/15/2005 1:08 PM

Yes, it is the same clown from Penn and Teller. I will be debating him on Real Life with Mary Amoroso on Jersey's CN8 on Sept. 20.
posted by Wayne Besen, at 9/15/2005 1:12 PM

Wayne
Did you mean Sept 23rd for Real Life? I checked online and it looks like that show is only on friday nights?! The 20th is a tuesday.
thanks
posted by Anonymous, at 9/15/2005 3:35 PM

Perhaps it is a taped show. for Friday. I'll have to check.
posted by Wayne Besen, at 9/15/2005 5:53 PM

Regan, I am speaking from a 20+ year out of the closet, unashamed gay man who had not even heard of the ex-gay movement until came across Wayne's website a few months back. What I have learned since is that it is entirely based on religion and is not supported in mainstream mental health practices. The whole premise is false to begin with because these people are attempting to correct something that(a) cannot be corrected, (b) cannot be corrected through the use of psychotherapy, (c) does not require correction. It is based on the premise that homosexuality is a set of human behaviours and is not "a person" per se. Anyone who is gay and particularly, out of the closet can attest to the fact that being attracted to one of the same sex is both physical and emotional, some people cannot get past the physical due to embedded or societal shame and live a double life or a life of endless one night stands. This however, is not exclusive to gays and is an issue with all humans who shut down the emotional side of the sexual experience. Being ex-gay is impossible. Myself, Wayne, Robert, Gary etc could all go on national television right now and proclaim that we were "former homosexuals" and convince the masses that one can change one's sexual orientation. Truth is, nothing changes in sexual orientation, it is innate, instinctive, and unchangeable as any heterosexual could also proclaim. The people who claim to be ex-gay are flat out lying, or are completely brainwashed and shamed into saying so, or are doing it for the money. Those that one reads about or hears about, ie Richard Cohen, Mike Haley, Melissa Fryear, Alan Chambers are in it for the money and the attention as pointed out by Regan. The religous groups that pay these people are very rich and powerful and have tapped into a group of people willing to prove to the world a complete lie that homosexuals do not exist and should be marginalized or forced to accept something that they are not. Tim W.
posted by Anonymous, at 9/15/2005 11:00 PM

BC Waterboy, excellent! It definitely brings bisexuality into question too, now if only we could get every gay man and woman fired up about everything else, we'd be in great shape when it comes to the election in 2008. Just wish those log cabin people would stop supporting their gay-hating leaders and face reality. If [they]all voted en masse against their party in 2008, it would have a profound effect on republican moderates and hopefully produce a few more Weld's, but the kind of Weld who don't flip flop for political expediency. One million plus log cabin votes going to the other party can make a huge difference in the outcone of an election.

Robert, Bayside, NYC.
posted by Anonymous, at 9/16/2005 9:29 AM

As a gay Jew - I'll bet he's also a self-hating Jew.......
posted by Anonymous, at 9/16/2005 6:51 PM

He was a self-hating Jew who left the religion to join the Moonies.
posted by Wayne Besen, at 9/16/2005 9:19 PM

Curious about the context of Mr Leatherman, was that a mockery or was it to show that Cohen leadeth not into temptation?
posted by Anonymous, at 9/17/2005 12:06 AM

Robert from Bayside

The Log Cabin people DON'T support gay-hating leaders. Some gay Republicans do, but not LCR. (For example, they didn't endorse Bush last time... though he did get a million gay votes.)

They don't view their job as providing political cover for the bigoted Republicans but rather as advocates for change in the party. In some ways this is more honest than some gay activists who support anti-gay Democrats over pro-gay Republicans (though that is, thankfully, becoming less common in our community).

It can't be said that Republicans in general support gay equality. LCR has a really tough job and most folks couldn't begin to do it.

I wish they were more successful.

But I'll be happy with what progress they make. For example, just this week 30 Republicans joined most of the Democrats in Congress to pass a gay and trans inclusive hate crimes bill.

(sorry to be off the subject)

Timothy
posted by Anonymous, at 9/17/2005 7:22 PM

I disagree with you guys. I heard about Richard's appearance on this show with nude men and was looking up info on this.

Although i haven't yet read much on it, his creditability is not shot with me because i've been greatly helped by his book "Coming Out Straight" and Ex-gays do exist, because I'm one.

Richard Cohen may not make the smartest decisions i guess. I don't know much about him. I did hear about the ACA and it is interesting that he did not contest it, but his book has helped me and a lot of people.

Though these words are the ones people often emphasize, i have made changes. The change is not total yet. But i've been able to almost completely eliminate Same-sex attraction as i deal with issues of brokenness and abuse. Shockly i'm slowly developing attractions for female when this did not exist in the past. I'm not forcing this attraction or focusing on girls in anyway intentionally. it is coming autocatically as i deal with my hidden issues.

Thanks for letting me speak. Change is possible. we do exist. It is unfortunate that not many of us speak out.

It is worth noting that most of my therapy came from books. I did try therapy with some therapists like NARTH and got few results. Nicolosi has a great book that has helped me a lot but i typically feel that therapy can be a waste. I don't have problems with therapy in particular however. Some of my friends say they have had great success with reparative therapists but my experience with one in NARTH and a few with two other groups is that it was a waste. As i mentioned much of my success in overcoming my attractions which were strong and now are almost non-existant, came from reading books by reparative therapists. I say almost just to allow for possibility of it popping up which it does not. I want to wait a few years or month to say it is total. but for the last few months the difference is evident.

I'm not saying however that therapy sessions with Reparative Therapists are bad. I'm just saying that it didn't work well for me and it costs a lot of money. Richard Cohen has teleconferences which i thought i would give a try to see what it is like and is if i can uncover some issues from my painful past.

Similar to Michael Jackson, and i've now learned other blacks, like myself, i suffer not only from SSA but also a lack of racial identity. These two issues developed simultaneously as i rejected my own parents and longed for more loving, caring parents in which i thought white people provided the solution. Thus i've always wished i was white and i've been attracted to white males and disidentified with blacks.

Thanks again

I'm a 27 year old Southern African American.
posted by Anonymous, at 11/25/2005 3:16 AM

I'm not gay but I love my gay husband-to-be. One day, when the law allows it, we will get legally married.

The fact is, I'm a bisexual male. I've had satisfying romantic emotional and sexual relationships with both women and men. Many gay men are very uncomfortable with this idea, just as many straight men are uncomfortable with gay men and/or with bisexuality.

Even as I love my husband-to-be, I can still find certain other men and certain other women sexually attractive. I imagine that gay men who try to convert to straight and report 'success' are simply discovering the part of them that can be attracted to women. But this does not necessarily mean that they will cease to be attracted to men.

The real question is, why is it a problem to be a man attracted to men? The answer is, it isn't a problem; homophobia is the real problem.

You'll notice that the ex-gay movement has a focus on gay men and not on lesbians. I think this is also significant.

Everyone should be free to follow their desires and to follow their heart. The 'ex-gay' movement likes to pretend that gay rights champions are trying to stop them from following their heart. What gay rights champions are trying to do is expose their inherent homophobia -- why do they want to change? If they feel an attraction, why is that wrong?

The only kind of reason that can be given is religious. And of course they are free to pursue their religion. But they are not free to pass religion off as science nor as therapy. And one person's religion shouldn't be forced onto the rest of us as law.

-- A bisexual husband-to-be
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