[1][2] Organizations in the ex-gay movement such as Exodus International offer conversion therapy, with the claim that an LGBTQ person's involvement in the programming can change their sexual orientation to heterosexual.
[4] The American Psychiatric Association describes conversion therapy as ineffective at changing sexual orientation, and as harmful to the LGBT person's well-being.
In April 2007, Toscano and Bakke founded Beyond Ex-Gay, an on-line resource for ex-ex gays.
In June 2007, together with Soulforce and the LGBT Resource Center at University of California, Irvine, they organized the first-ever Ex-Gay Survivor Conference.
[citation needed] In 1979, Exodus International's co-founder Michael Bussee and his partner, Gary Cooper, quit the group and held a life commitment ceremony together.