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William769

(55,147 posts)
Tue Mar 6, 2012, 04:49 PM Mar 2012

Ricky Martin to Nancy Alvarez: We're Born This Way

Nancy Alvarez, the colorful former host of Univision's Spanish-language TV show Quién Tiene la Razon, has stepped in it again, this time telling AOL Latino that people are made gay by "mistakes made by their parents" in response to a tweet from Ricky Martin arguing that people are born gay and not made gay, as are heterosexuals born that way rather than "made straight."

According to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, which responded to Alvarez's comments with a column on today's AOL Latino, Martin took to Twitter "after the question was posed on an unfortunately biased segment about so-called conversion therapies that promise to change a person’s orientation on Univision nighttime newsmagazine program Aquí y Ahora, a show that usually produces fair, accurate and inclusive coverage of LGBT people."

Alvarez, who bills herself as a sexologist and a doctor, has previously said that she was concerned about gay parents and the effects they may have on their kids.

http://www.advocate.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/Music/Ricky_Martin_to_Nancy_Alvarez_Were_Born_This_Way/

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Ricky Martin to Nancy Alvarez: We're Born This Way (Original Post) William769 Mar 2012 OP
Du rec. Nt xchrom Mar 2012 #1
She sounds like Dr. Laura's Spanish-language counterpart. qb Mar 2012 #2
Another (R) sexologist? DCKit Mar 2012 #3
What a stupid woman. closeupready Mar 2012 #4
University of Santourm! William769 Mar 2012 #5
 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
3. Another (R) sexologist?
Tue Mar 6, 2012, 05:41 PM
Mar 2012

The only qualifications I think most of them have is being obsessed with what other people do in the privacy of their bedrooms... and that's just creepy, not a qualification.

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