Professor Calls for “Cure” for Homosexuality to Prevent Disease

metroweekly.com:

at the University of Texas at Dallas are asking for a professor to be held accountable after he called for a “cure for homosexuality.”Timothy Farage, 71, a computer science professor at the university, came under a barrage of criticism for a tweet that many LGBTQ people have blasted as “homophobic.”The tweet, posted last week, linked to a Daily Mail tabloid article highlighting the fact that the overwhelming majority of monkeypox infections have occurred in gay men.“Can we at least try to find a cure for homosexuality, especially among men?” Farage tweeted. “Homosexual men have anal sex, which can lead to a variety of diseases.”Almost immediately after the tweet was posted, LGBTQ student organizations at UT-Dallas called out Farage for being homophobic and accused him of posing a danger to the LGBTQ campus community.“Being LGBTQ+ is not a ‘medical disorder,’ and LGBTQ+ students do not need to be ‘cured,” read a statement from UT-Dallas’ Rainbow Coalition, which is composed of six campus organizations. “Not holding a professor accountable for such statements is unacceptable.

Merely disavowing Farage’s actions actively makes our campus less safe.”Farage attempted to defend his comments in an email to The Mercury, the university’s student-run paper, in response to request for comment.“First, it should be noted that this tweet was in response to an article about monkeypox, a disease that is mostly confined to men who have sex with men,” Farage wrote. “This is true for some other diseases as well.

So, I was being compassionate by asking if a cure for homosexuality could be found. I don’t know if it can, but I’d like to see research about it.