Love In Action was founded by Frank Worthen in 1973. Gary Cooper and Michael Bussee were not co-founders of Exodus International. Your post is filled with one lie after another:
"I questioned Michael Bussee about this a few years ago, and he said that Gary was a volunteer in the ministry at that time, and he picked up conference guests at the airport who were arriving for the conference! So much for Gary's role as 'co-founder' of Exodus. "Gary died about five years ago of HIV/AIDS-related illness. Michael is now in another "long-term" relationship with a man -- I don't have details.
"Michael and Gary 'married' each other publicly in the MCC about 1982 (not sure of exact year). I have never heard anyone question Michael about how Gary got AIDS if they had been 'married' (and supposedly sexually faithful) since the early 1980s. They are always presented as the 'happy gay couple' in anything that I have seen. I suspect there is another story 'off the record' about how many sex partners Gary had during their 'marriage.'
The Role of Michael Bussee or Gary Cooper in the Founding of Exodus
The anti-gay media campaign launched by the religious right in 1998 was opposed and condemned by Exodus International and there affiliate ministries.
The torture and murder of Matthew Shephard was not in any way connected with the ex-gay movement and to bring up this tragedy in your pack of lies simply demonstrates the lengths that some in the gay community will go to obfuscate the truth.
What is it about ex-gays that scares you and others?