Christine Bakke (born June 3, 1971) is an American LGBT rights activist. Bakke spent four years in the

ex-gay movement The ex-gay movement consists of people and organizations that encourage people to refrain from entering or pursuing same-sex relationships, to eliminate homosexual desires and to develop heterosexual desires, or to enter into a heterosexual rela ...

attempting to alter her sexual orientation through

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. In addition to receiving pastoral counseling and discipleship training, she attended ex-gay programs, including Where Grace Abounds in

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and the Living Waters Program. (pag
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In April 2007, along with gay performance activist

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, Bakke co-founded Beyond Ex-Gay. In May 2007,

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featured Bakke's experience as an ex-gay survivor, or

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. She has also appeared on ABC's Good Morning America, and

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. Bakke participated in the Ex-Gay Survivor Conference held June 29-July 1, 2007 in

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and took part in Survivor Initiative, a series of press conferences sponsored by

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, whereby former ex-gays shared their experiences with the public as a witness and a warning about the dangers of the

. For the Survivor Initiative, Bakke designed original

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for each of the speakers to present.

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Rising Up Whole
Bakke's blog {{DEFAULTSORT:Bakke, Christine 1971 births Living people People self-identified as ex-ex-gay LGBT people from Colorado American LGBT rights activists 21st-century American LGBT people

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