[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="470"] Jonathan Davis (L) and Etienne Uzac[/caption]

Newsweek got some new bosses last year when the magazine was acquired by IBT Media. But a recent profile piece in The Guardian reveals the mag's new co-owner and chief content officer, Jonathan Davis, is a proponent of conversion therapy to turn gays straight.

In a Facebook post last year, Davis, 31, described as "shockingly accurate" a Christian Post article in which ex-gay advocate Christopher Doyle defended the practice and declared that most homosexuals are just sissies who were  molested as children:

In twenty-three years, we have found that 99 percent of our clients who experience homosexual feelings have very sensitive temperaments. Or, as Lady Gaga says: "Baby, they were born that way!" This is what I believe to be the foundation for the development of SSA – a sensitive nature.

Factor that with a few other variables − usually detachment from the same-gender parent and peers, an over-attachment to the opposite-gender parent and peers, and early sexual initiation and/or sexual abuse – and there is a good chance a person will experience SSA.

Davis claimed the op-ed “cuts like a hot knife through a buttery block of lies." But he insists his views on homosexuality don't have "any bearing on my capacity here as the founder of the company—I’m not sure how it’s relevant. People believe all sorts of weird things. But from a professional capacity, it’s unrelated.”

IBT Media, which also produces the International Business Times, has given money to Olivet University, a Christian college in San Francisco  Davis once worked at Olivet, and IBT co-owner Etienne Uzac was once the school's treasurer.

Well, we're guessing we won't see more Newsweek covers like this one.

“Laverne Cox has reshaped the way Americans see transgender people and raised the bar in diverse representations of the LGBT community in entertainment,” says GLAAD president Sarah Kate Ellis. “She is not only a talented actress, but a truly transformational leader in the LGBT equality movement. Through her tireless commitment to building understanding and acceptance through education and advocacy, Laverne is moving equality forward both on and off the screen.”

Page cited Cox as an inspiration when the Juno actress came out as a lesbian at a recent HRC gala.

Mirella Salemi asserted Edward Globokar, onetime owner of Mary Ann's, broke New York City Human Rights Law by demanding she attend the meetings. Salemi also claimed Globokar told her to dress more “effeminately,” marry a man and have children.

Courthouse News Service reports a three-judge panel ruled Salimi "was retaliated against for objecting to his offensive comments, choosing not to attend workplace prayer meetings and refusing to fire another employee because of his sexual orientation.”

Globokar's argument that he was merely exercising his First Amendments rights was rejected by the judges.

At least three people have stepped down from the board of Mozilla Firefox after the company named as CEO Brendan Eich, a donor to California's anti-gay Prop 8 campaign. The Wall Street Journal reports former Mozilla CEOs Gary Kovacs and John Lilly, as well as  Ellen Siminoff of online education startup Shmoop, left the board last week after Eich's promotion was announced.

Mozilla has issued a statement defending its record on diversity and LGBT rights, but even some employees have called on Eich to leave the company.

— Kat Braybrooke (@codekat) March 27, 2014