Below is a selection of media coverage & interviews related to my work.
CBC News (interview about federal ban on conversion therapy), December 15, 2019
The Calgary Star, December 8, 2019
CBC News, July 13, 2019
CBC The National (spotlight on conversion therapy “survivors” in Canada), July 9, 2019
Tri-City News, July 5, 2019
“Introducing a bill to end the practice of conversion therapy in British Columbia,” press conference in Victoria, BC, Canada, on May 27, 2019
CTV News, May 27, 2019
CHEK News, April 14, 2019
NYC LGBT Center Second Tuesday Series (Facebook Q&A), March 12, 2019
Broadway World (Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company presents reading of play adaptation of INHERITANCE OF SHAME), March 2, 2019
BBC News, December 21, 2018
Fashion Magazine, November 1, 2018
Drew Marshall Show (interviewed with former “ex-gay” leader, Alan Chambers), October 27, 2018
Vancouver Writer’s Festival FaceBook interview, October 20, 2018
Minorities in Publishing (podcast interview)
Minorities in Publishing (transcript of podcast)
The Good Men Project, July 8, 2018
BC Global News, “BC man fights to have gay conversion therapy banned across Canada” (interview with journalist Coleen Christie)
Atheist Republic (author interview)
PBS NewsHour, “How a survivor of ‘conversion therapy’ became the driving force behind Canada’s first ever ban,” June 7, 2018
The Star Vancouver, “Vancouver council votes unanimously to ban conversion therapy,” June 6, 2018
The Georgia Straight, “Vancouver becomes first Canadian city to ban anti-LGBT conversion therapy,” June 6, 2018
Vancouver City Council meeting of June 6, 2018, when Canada’s first municipal bill to ban conversion therapy was discussed (beginning at 10:54:08), I delivered my personal testimony (at 11:11), and a motion was passed to ban conversion therapy in the city limits of Vancouver, BC.
The Star Vancouver, “Motion to ban conversion therapy in Vancouver to be presented at City Hall,” May 22, 2018
KFI Radio (interview with Elizabeth Espinosa), April 22, 2018
Brevity (review of INHERITANCE OF SHAME), March 14, 2018
VICE, March 12, 2018
Ambush Magazine, February 27, 2018
LA Talk Radio “The Writer’s Block”
Humanist Voices, “On Conversion Therapy,” January 28, 2018
Canadian Atheist, “In Conversation,” January 28, 2018
X-tra, January 5, 2018
Vancouver Courier, December 22, 2017
X-tra, October 23, 2017
Gay Times, October 2017
The Advocate, “17 New Books About LGBT Families,” September 28, 2017
Face2Face interview with David Peck, August 23, 2017
The Georgia Straight, July 26, 2017
The Atlantic, July 10, 2017
The Globe and Mail (review of INHERITANCE OF SHAME), June 23, 2017
Seattle Book Review, June 3, 2017
KFI Radio (interview with Elizabeth Espinosa)
SAD Magazine (author interview), June 6, 2017
KQED Review, May 21, 2017
PinkNews, May 19, 2017
Q Voice News, May 18, 2017
LGBTQ Nation, May 17, 2017
VICE, “I Lost Six Years of My Life to Gay Conversion Therapy,” May 17, 2017
THIS magazine (excerpt from INHERITANCE OF SHAME), May 17, 2017
Largehearted Boy Playlist (music playlist inspired by memoir), May 16, 2017
Kirkus Reviews (review of INHERITANCE OF SHAME), May 16, 2017
Foreword Reviews (review of INHERITANCE OF SHAME), May 16, 2017
Lambda Literary Review (review of INHERITANCE OF SHAME), April 25, 2017
Q&As with the Matthew Shepard Foundation, April 11, 2017