'Passag' director nounc 'dangero' NC-17 ratg on a film pictg a gay love story

The 100-mute film, directed by Kriste Stolakis and executive produced by Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum, exam the stctively mon practice and s larger “ex-gay” movement, often led by LGBTQ+ people who themselv believed they had changed, several of whom later renounced their the film outl, nversn therapy is neher a specific practice nor sgular movement; ’s “this plex amalgamatn of old psdo-psychology that’s disproven, the spirual belief that you don’t have a place God’s kgdom if you don’t change, and then this culture that surrounds you wh the msag that are pable”, Stolakis told the Away foc particular on Exod Internatnal, the non-prof, ter-nomatnal anizatn found 1976 by five evangelil Christians, which propelled and popularized the ia that was possible – and preferable – to change one’s sexual orientatn.

” As the film not s da, youth who experienced some form of nversn therapy are more than twice as likely to die by Away clus numero figur who were formerly volved the ex-gay movement, om Exod -founr Michael Bse (who left the anizatn 1979) to former Fay Rearch Council spokpeople Yvette Cantu and John Plk.

The segments wh McCall monstrate how the ex-gay movement’s iology has ntued unr a different name, through social media works rather than through tradnal media, wh msagg updated to the era of Instagram empowerment. ’ Photograph: NetflixThat “eedom” (om beg gay) is still one found nial, rejectn, a basele belief that anythg other than straight is broken and sful. “A fg part of this movement is that ’s an example of homophobia and transphobia wield outwards, ” said Stolakis.

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“As long as a culture of homophobia and transphobia ntu – our church, our muni, our untry – you will see somethg like this. “Jt like what we saw polilly wh the ex-gay movement, has real polil implitns for other trans people bee eher directly or directly, supports anti-trans legislatn, which we’re seeg bee ubiquo this untry.

”For Rodgers, whose weddg to a woman is clud the film’s fal scen, the toll of ex-gay movement is visible, personal, years of directg imposed shame ward. Over the urse of nearly 40 years, a group lled Exod Internatnal had a chokehold on the "ex-gay" movement—a relig ph suggtg that wh work and therapy, people the LGBTQ+ muny uld "undo" their queerns.

As members ntued to leave the mistry, nounce nversn therapy, and rume their liv as gay, lbian, bisexual, and trans people, the anizatn always reced more people willg to be fac for the group.

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Worthen, who has been emed the "Father of the Ex-Gay Movement, " spent a good chunk of the 80s travelg the world and startg more ex-gay mistri. Eventually, Worthen and his wife turned the res of Love Actn over to John Smid, an "ex-gay" who served as Executive Director om 1991 to 2008. Gay bar.

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Eventually, Plk left the ex-gay mistry 2003. In 2004, he said, "For s ex-gay mistry has been centered around the USA.

In a statement, he spoke out agast reparative therapy, suggtg that while the practice of homosexualy was still a s his ey, reparative therapy did not remedy homosexualy people. The new Netflix documentary Pray Away exam the Exod "ex-gay" movement that was found the '70s by five men the evangelil church who sought to pray the gay word got out about the group that was seekg to ex the "homosexual liftyle, " the men received more than 25, 000 letters om folks hopg to do the same, and spurred the formatn of Exod Internatnal, the largt and most ntroversial nversn therapy anizatn the world, acrdg to the film's synopsis for the film om executive producers Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum reads:"But lears stggled wh a secret: their own 'same-sex attractns' never went away. Focg on the dramatic journeys of former nversn therapy lears, current members, and a survivor, Pray Away chronicl the 'ex gay' movement's rise to power, persistent fluence, and the profound harm .

The film opens wh 13-year-old Chengxi (Joseph Huang) claimg he always knew his dad was gay.

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(He's played by a terrific Roy Chiu, whose raw, prickly performance has no trace of the mcg-younger-gay-lover onscreen stereotype. Sanlian's storyle, particular, feels retrogra, both her views on gay men and her rtoonish attempts to keep a handle on her son by any means necsary – cludg an obssn wh sendg him off to llege Canada.

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In the photograph of the alleged msag Howard allegedly msaged: “Now I want you to know I'm not like gay or anythg. More on Towleroad about Dwight Howard and gay athlet.

John Plk and his wife Anne appeared on the ver of Newsweek magaze 1998 as the face of Christian ex-gay therapy. Such visual reenforcement is nstant “Pray Away, ” as we see footage of Plk and many other so-lled “ex-ex-gays” when they were beg tortured by their mistri alongsi footage of them lookg far happier after they ped.

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

FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY

WHAT IS EXOD INTERNATNAL, THE EX-GAY CHRISTIAN GROUP AT THE CENTER OF NETFLIX'S PRAY AWAY?

PRAY AWAY GO DEEP INTO THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT THAT BEGAN THE '70S

'DEAR EX': A MAN DI, LEAVG BEHD A WIFE, A SON AND A SECRET GAY LOVER