Troy Mayor Tells High School GSA Students Being Gay Is A Mental Disease

Embattled first-term Troy, Michigan Mayor Janice Daniels — famous for writing on Facebook an anti-gay slur in response to news New York had passed a marriage equality law — is again under fire for telling students yesterday from the Troy High School gay-straight alliance (GSA) who had invited her to an anti-bullying forum design to stem the tide of suicide, that she wanted to bring a team of psychologists with her to testify that homosexuality is a mental disease.

The Troy Patch published this report today:


“There were a lot of disturbing things that were said in that meeting,” said GSA member and Troy High School senior Skye Curtis.

According to Curtis and others who attended the meeting – including GSA member Zach Kilgore and lesbian couple Amy and Tina Weber – Daniels, while discussing mental health and suicide among members of the LGBT community, at one point suggested putting together a panel of psychologists to show that homosexuality is dangerous to your mental health.

“She definitely meant it in quite a negative connotation,” Curtis said.

“The mayor of Troy told my daughter this afternoon that she wants to bring in a panel of psychologists to explain to the high school’s Gay-Straight Alliance that homosexuality is a mental disease,” Rodney Curtis, Skye’s father, wrote on his Facebook page