‘Pray the Gay Away’

Contents:

• IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY: THE EXTRAORDARY LIV OF BIBLE BELT GAYS HARDVER – OCTOBER 1, 2012
• NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT
• 'GAY AWAY' GIMMICK NDY AT MANOBA STORE OFFENDS PARENTS
• ‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?
• 5 THGS I LEARNED AT A 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' CAMP
• ‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY
• WE SPRAY, WE PRAY, WE'RE NOT GAY
• GAY THE PRAY AWAY: HEALG YOUR LIFE, LOVE, AND RELATNSHIPS OM THE HARMS OF LGBT CONVERSN THERAPY KDLE EDN
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY PAPERBACK – NOVEMBER 27, 2017
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY MUGS
• THE GAY BLOOD SPRAY K

IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?

The revelatns surroundg Marc Bachmann's psychotherapy practice along wh his statements equatg gay people to barbarians reflect the eply held view among too many people that homosexualy is a psychologil or moral choice that n be altered and ed should be.

There are several nservative relig anizatns, like Exod Internatnal and Homosexuals Anonymo, that claim to have helped people change their sexual orientatn through prayer, unselg, or a batn of both.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY: THE EXTRAORDARY LIV OF BIBLE BELT GAYS HARDVER – OCTOBER 1, 2012

Moreover, there are licensed mental health profsnals who practice what are lled reparative or nversn therapi signed to make gay people heterosexual. He and his followers claim that gays and lbians suffer om a damagg blend of childhood trma, shamg their fai of orig, and chronic unmet needs for love and affectn om their same-sex parents.

NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT

Reparative therapy supposedly helps gay clients bee heterosexual by workg wh them to amelrate toxic feelgs stemmg om their damaged childhoods. Robert Spzer, a proment psychiatrist who, oddly enough, led the charge to remove homosexualy as a disease om the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual, had unrtaken rearch wh 200 women and men who unrwent reparative therapy and believed themselv to be "cured" of homosexualy, as evinced by their abily to engage sexual relatns wh the oppose sex, marry heterosexually, and nceive children.

In fact, there are many reports of people unrgog treatments offered by ex-gay mistri who not only return to homosexualy but have also been trmatized by this so-lled therapy. It is important to regnize that the great majory of psychotherapy profsnals argue vociferoly that such "treatment" is uhil bee homosexualy is not an illns — rather the "illns" is our tolerance of sexual and genr behavrs fallg outsi rtrictive societal norms.

I also tell clients that reparative and nversn therapi, bis beg effective, are psychologilly harmful to gays and lbians, which is another reason I do not remend them and will not assist clients procurg such treatment.

'GAY AWAY' GIMMICK NDY AT MANOBA STORE OFFENDS PARENTS

People like Marc and Michele Bachmann believe that acceptg and even celebratg gay and lbian people will evably lead to the moral cle of our society.

This is a book to be valued by tors, social workers, mental health unselors, and others seekg a eper unrstandg of the fear and hatred experienced by gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr youth that will hopefully lead to improved support of gay youth and the velopment of safe spac.

‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?

" ― Sacramento Book Review"I highly remend Pray the Gay Away to anyone wh an tert ntemporary queer experience, Bible Belt Christiany, and the tersectn of the two.

5 THGS I LEARNED AT A 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' CAMP

Cook ― The Femist Librarian"Bernatte Barton tak on a vivid si tour of Bible Belt Ameri that privileged gay folks om more liberal parts of the U. " -- Eric Marc, thor of Makg Gay History"[S]heds cril light upon the ways Christiany affects the everyday liv of sexual mori regardls of their own relig intifitn. Rather than seeg her rponnts as passive victims, Barton shows her dience that Bible Belt gays have an timate unrstandg of nservative Christiany that n help all to unrstand nflicts Amerin culture.

‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’

" ― News Review"[The thor] draws on a trove of ethnographic data, cludg -pth terviews wh Bible Belt gays, viss to the Creatn Mm and a lol megachurch, attendance at an Exod Internatnal nference for ex-gays, and her own experienc as an openly lbian profsor.... " ― Metapsychology"The thors tal of gay life this area of the untry, where anti-gay evangelil Prottantism holds sway, range om the harrowg to the mundane.... She is the thor of The Pornifitn of Ameri: How Rnch Culture is Rug Our Society, Stripped: More Stori om Exotic Dancers, and Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordary Liv of Bible Belt Gays.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY

When Amerin documentarian Kriste Stolakis set out to make her but feature film, she knew she wanted to she a light on the “ex-gay” movement, which nsists of those that believe a person’s genr inty or sexual orientatn n be changed.

WE SPRAY, WE PRAY, WE'RE NOT GAY

Shot before the Covid-19 panmic, the film chronicl the rise — and subsequent fall — of Exod Internatnal, a nversn therapy anizatn that, acrdg to the team behd the the film, began as a Bible study group the 1970s nsistg of five evangelil men who were lookg to help one another leave the “homosexual liftyle. But years after risg to stardom the relig right, many of the “ex-gay” lears, whose own same-sex attractns never went away, have sce e out as LGBTQ and disavowed the very movement that they helped to grow.

Stolakis’ list of terviewe “Pray Away” clus Randy Thomas, the fal vice print of Exod Internatnal; Yvette Cantu Schneir, the former head of Exod’ women’s mistri; and John Plk, one of the most bt-known “ex-gay” people the world. “Somethg my team and I talked about a lot makg this film is, this really is a movement of hurt people hurtg other people, of what ternalized homophobia and transphobia looks like when is wield outward, ” said Stolakis, whose other directorial creds clu “The Typist” and “Where We Stand.

GAY THE PRAY AWAY: HEALG YOUR LIFE, LOVE, AND RELATNSHIPS OM THE HARMS OF LGBT CONVERSN THERAPY KDLE EDN

”While many former lears have renounced and spoken out agast the “pray the gay away” movement, Stolakis said “the larger culture of homophobia and transphobia, ” particularly relig muni, has allowed the movement to ntue wh younger lears, even wh the dissolutn of Exod Internatnal 2013 and the legalizatn of same-sex marriage the U.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY PAPERBACK – NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Alone, nearly 700, 000 lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr adults have been subjected to some form of nversn therapy durg their lifetime, acrdg to a 2019 report om the Williams Instute at the UCLA School of Law.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY MUGS

”Wh “Pray Away” set to but more than 190 untri on Netflix this week, Stolakis wants to make one thg clear to every prospective viewer: The “ex-gay” movement was never led by jt “a uple of bad appl. ”“As long as that larger culture of homophobia and transphobia exists — be our church, any relig muny, our polil sphere or our culture — some versn of nversn therapy and the ex-LGBTQ movement will ntue, ” she explaed.

ManobaA novelty em that claims to "cure gayns" has been removed om a store's shelv Gimli, Man., after parents exprsed shock that the product was available store owner says addn of novelty product was an 'hont mistake''Gay Away' gimmick ndy at Gimli store offends parentsNovelty em that claims to "cure gayns" has been removed om a store Gimli, Man., after parents exprsed shock that the product was available there. A novelty em that claims to "cure gayns" has been removed om a store's shelv  Gimli, Man., after parents exprsed shock that the product was available of "Gay Away: The origal gay pill" were on display alongsi other gag products si the store.

"A parent, who did not want to be named, said his 12-year-old dghter brought a pack of Gay Away home bee she had qutns about what was about. Johnson and others said the product is offensive and uld send hurtful msag to the gay and lbian store's owner told CBC News on Wednday afternoon that she has removed the gag em om shelv after receivg lls om ncerned parents.

THE GAY BLOOD SPRAY K

Rachelle Mistelbacher apologized and sisted that her bs is still a fay store, and the addn of Gay Away was an oversight and an "hont mistake. "Calls to Lghrat, the Toronto-based pany that produced Gay Away and other gag ems, were not returned on an email sent to CBC News on Friday, Lghrat said Gay Away's creator believ 's a "pro gay product that pok fun at not gays but rather those people opposed to gay liftyl.

"The spiratn for this product was born out of the ignorance of amongst others relig anizatns and others society who suggted that homosexualy was a 'curable disease or ndn' and a liftyle choice, " the pany's email stat pany add that Gay Away has been sold hundreds of North Amerin retailers sce 2008.

Exod Internatnal, evangelilism’s flagship ex-gay mistry, shut down 2013 after former lear Alan Chambers said had ed pa and harm to too many people and that more than 99 percent of those who’d sought help there hadn’t actually experienced an orientatn change. While mistri cludg Exod Internatnal and Foc on the Fay ed to preach that homosexual sire should be elimated, most evangelil church, pastors, and mental health profsnals today emphasize chasty amid sir that might last a lifetime.