Apr 11, 2025 | Acceptance, Healing Work, Self-worth, Spirituality
By Sholom–At Brothers Road, we’re all on a path of becoming—becoming more whole, more honest, more at peace. And one of the most courageous steps we take along that path is the decision to let go. Letting go doesn’t mean giving up. It doesn’t mean pretending...
Apr 10, 2025 | Acceptance, Possible Causes, Self-identity, Self-worth
By Rich Wyler — People have been asking and researching the question of what “causes” same-sex sexual attractions for as far back as homosexuality or same-sex sexual behaviors have been recognized. Of course, direct causation is almost impossible to prove....
Dec 2, 2022 | Acceptance, Being Real, Change, Choices, Core Needs, Courage, Friendship, Healing Work, Male Bonding, Marriage, Possible Causes, Self-identity, Self-worth, Spirituality
By Rich Wyler, Brothers Road Recently, pop singer and former missionary David Archuleta gave national media interviews in which he embraced a gay or queer identity and said he was stepping away from religion because he couldn’t reconcile his religion with his...
Jul 26, 2021 | Acceptance, Assertiveness, Being Real, Change, Healing Work, Self-identity, Self-worth
Guest blog by Eric ([email protected]) — I have been involved in what’s being described as “conversion therapy” (whatever that is). I have participated both in individual therapy and groups. I’ve spent years in rooms and circles of like-minded men who span the...
Feb 19, 2021 | Core Needs, Healing Work, Male Bonding, Marriage, Porn Addiction, Possible Causes, Self-identity, Self-worth
Blog by Rich Wyler, Director, Brothers Road — A woman called me feeling devastated. Her husband says he loves her and even seems to enjoy intimacy with her, but he keeps falling back into an old habit — using porn. And not just any porn. Male porn. Gay porn. She was,...
Feb 11, 2021 | Acceptance, Being Real, Change, Core Needs, Healing Work, Jewish, Male Bonding, Self-identity, Spirituality
Guest Blog by Josh — I am a 35-year-old Orthodox Jew, loving husband, father of five beautiful children, a leader in my community, and a striving Torah Jew—who experiences same-sex attraction. I not only live with same-sex attraction, but I thrive with it. Through my...
Feb 1, 2021 | Acceptance, Being Real, Change, Core Needs, Courage, Healing Work, Possible Causes
Guest Blog by Stephen Done— “Ironically, Gay Affirmative Therapy and ‘reparative’ therapy agree on what the homosexual man needs and desires: to give himself permission to love other men.” — Joseph Nicolosi, Reparative Therapy of Male...
Feb 1, 2021 | Acceptance, Assertiveness, Being Real, Core Needs, Courage, Healing Work, Self-worth
Guest Blog by Sholom — As men, we’re constantly comparing trying to figure out who is really the alpha male. We’re comparing the size of our muscles, who has the deepest voice, who can run the fastest, make the most money and a slew of other things I...
Feb 1, 2021 | Acceptance, Healing Work, Self-worth, Spirituality
Guest Blog by A.J. Benjamin — I used to be gay. Sort of. But I don’t really consider myself “ex-gay,” either. The “gay” label is a social construct that, to me, has no objective basis in true reality. When we don’t understand something, we tend to make up all sorts of...
Jun 26, 2019 | A Wife's Journey, Male Bonding, Marriage
By Rich Wyler, Founder & Director of Brothers Road — What do men who are married to women but who also experience varying degrees of same-sex attractions wish their wives understood about them and their SSA? As head of a non-profit, international community of men...
