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Contents:

• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY DOC ‘PRAY AWAY’ RELEAS EMOTNAL TRAILER (EXCLUSIVE)
• KEV BAN RUNS A KILLER GAY CONVERSN CAMP NEW TRAILER FOR BLUMHOE SLASHER PIC ‘THEY/THEM’
• NETFLIX FILM ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTS AB BY GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• WHAT HAPPENS GAY NVERSN THERAPY? 'CAMERON POST,' 'BOY ERASED' SHOW SRY REALY
• KEV BAN STARS NEW HORROR ‘THEY/THEM’ ABOUT GAY CONVERSN CAMP
• A GAY CONVERSN THERAPY SURVIVOR FDS LOVE IN THIS BOLD NEW FILM
• MDG THERAPYMENTAL HEALTH AND POP CULTURE MEETMA MENUSKIP TO PRIMARY NTENTSKIP TO SENDARY NTENTHOMECONTACTABOUT (SORT OF)NOVEL “MDG THERAPY”SCREENPLAYDISCLAIMER/PRIVACY/COMMENTS POLICY SEARCH POST NAVIGATN ← PREV NEXT →GAY CONVERSN THERAPY: MOVI AND MEMOIRS
• BOY ERASED DON’T SOFT-PEDAL THE HORRORS OF GAY CONVERSN THERAPY, AND THANK GOD FOR THAT
• FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
• ‘THEY/THEM’ REVIEW: KEV BAN MCL THROUGH GAY CONVERSN SLASHER
• A 'HOPEFUL STORY' WH GAY CONVERSN THERAPY DRAMA 'BOY ERASED'
• HOW JOEL EDGERTON'S NEW MOVIE BOY ERASED TACKL GAY NVERSN NTROVERSY
• “THE MISTN OF CAMERON POST,” REVIEWED: AN EMPATHETIC BUT UNIMAGATIVE TALE OF GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY DOC ‘PRAY AWAY’ RELEAS EMOTNAL TRAILER (EXCLUSIVE)

Netflix has released the first trailer for “Pray Away, ” the Ryan Murphy- and Jason Blum/Blumhoe Televisn-produced documentary about the so-lled “ex-gay” movement. 3 on the streamer, chronicl the rise and fall of Exod Internatnal, a group found the 1970s by five members of an evangelil church that claimed gay people uld bee straight if they “pray away” their homosexualy. Gay nversn therapy was also the subject of “Boy Erased, ” a 2018 bgraphil drama directed by Joel Edgerton, based on Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir of the same name and starrg Lus Hedg, Nile Kidman, Rsell Crowe and Troye Sivan.

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KEV BAN RUNS A KILLER GAY CONVERSN CAMP NEW TRAILER FOR BLUMHOE SLASHER PIC ‘THEY/THEM’

As explored the documentary, barely any lears had any kd of trag psychology, unselg or human the scen, the film shows a symbtic fancial relatnship formed between select psychologists and the nversn therapy movement: Exod required credibily, and psychologists required se you missed:Matt Damon's e of a gay slur any ntext 2021 is unacceptable and embarrassgIn rearchg "Pray Away, " director Kriste Stolakis disvered "the vast majory of nversn therapy anizatns are actually n by LGBTQ folks who claim that they have changed themselv, " she tells USA TODAY. In the same mographic, an timated 57, 000 youths will face nversn therapy om a relig adviser or pastoral film also featur a current lear of the nversn therapy movement, Jefey McCall, who found Freedom March, a lennial--driven "ex-gay" group. " An endg pot the film strik like lightng: As long as homophobia and transphobia exist more generally, nversn therapy won't vanish.

NETFLIX FILM ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTS AB BY GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

"It don't matter if dividual lears fect, unfortunately, at this pot, bee we have a larger culture of homophobia and transphobia that's sentially trag new potential lears to take their place, " Stolakis says. "'There's no textbook for this':'Never Have I Ever' Season 2 shows there's no one way to be gay. Netflix has released the trailer for Pray Away, a new documentary that vtigat the abe brought on by gay nversn therapy programs — featurg terviews wh the program lears themselv.

WHAT HAPPENS GAY NVERSN THERAPY? 'CAMERON POST,' 'BOY ERASED' SHOW SRY REALY

The film centers on Exod Internatnal, an Evangelil gay nversn program that began as a Bible study group between five gay men who wished to help each other leave the “homosexual liftyle.

” Shortly after s ceptn the Seventi, the group received 25, 000 letters om LGBTQ people askg for help, leadg Exod Internatnal to rapidly grow to the largt gay nversn therapy program the world.

Cast & crewUser reviews2022A psychologist practicg nversn therapy has a chance enunter wh a young gay activist, rultg his own epiphany ncerng the very practice he was nductg. A psychologist practicg nversn therapy has a chance enunter wh a young gay activist, rultg his own epiphany ncerng the very practice he was nductg.

KEV BAN STARS NEW HORROR ‘THEY/THEM’ ABOUT GAY CONVERSN CAMP

A psychologist practicg nversn therapy has a chance enunter wh a young gay activist, rultg his own epiphany ncerng the very practice he was productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview Excellent documentaryAn amazgly thorough and sightful story of nversn therapy and LGBTQIA+ history New York Cy. Gay nversn therapy is more than jt a "South Park" ntroversial practice – which emotnally abive, often extreme methods to "cure" people of their homosexualy – has been a subject for edic fodr the ribald animated seri, as well the 2000 film satire "But I'm a Cheerlear. " But reparative therapy is still a ighteng realy for thoands of LGBTQ people, who often enter "ex-gay" programs at the sistence of pastors, unselors and loved on.

A GAY CONVERSN THERAPY SURVIVOR FDS LOVE IN THIS BOLD NEW FILM

Two new films are aimg to show the paful reali for kids gay nversn programs: awards ntenr "Boy Erased" ( theaters Nov. More:$90K donated to send gay valedictorian to llege after parents reject himRelated:Chloë Grace Moretz go to gay nversn therapy  'Mistn'"Boy" stars Lus Hedg and is based on the 2016 memoir by Garrard Conley, who entered Love Actn, an ex-gay Christian mistry, after beg outed to his parents (played by Nile Kidman and Rsell Crowe) 2004 at age 19.

MDG THERAPYMENTAL HEALTH AND POP CULTURE MEETMA MENUSKIP TO PRIMARY NTENTSKIP TO SENDARY NTENTHOMECONTACTABOUT (SORT OF)NOVEL “MDG THERAPY”SCREENPLAYDISCLAIMER/PRIVACY/COMMENTS POLICY SEARCH POST NAVIGATN ← PREV NEXT →GAY CONVERSN THERAPY: MOVI AND MEMOIRS

' For rearch, "Cameron Post" director Diree Akhavan and -wrer Cecilia Fgiuele terviewed survivors, watched sermons and read materials ed ex-gay programs. At one therapy mp, Shurka and other men were asked to re-create the moments that "ma" them gay.

MoviKev Ban ns a gay nversn mp the first trailer for 'They/Them'.

The movie centers around a group of teens who go to an isolated gay nversn mp, only to be hunted down by a myster killer.

BOY ERASED DON’T SOFT-PEDAL THE HORRORS OF GAY CONVERSN THERAPY, AND THANK GOD FOR THAT

Inpennt filmmaker Kerst Karlhuber explor the lgerg effects of gay “nversn” therapy her first full-length feature, “Fair Haven, ” and The Huffgton Post has an exclive clip om the film. The romantic drama, which hs select theaters Friday, follows Jam (played by Michael Grant), a young gay man who returns to his fay’s New England farm after receivg nversn therapy treatment.

Cast & crewUser reviewsTrivia2018R1h 55mThe son of a Baptist preacher unwillgly participat a church-supported gay nversn program after beg forcibly outed to his son of a Baptist preacher unwillgly participat a church-supported gay nversn program after beg forcibly outed to his son of a Baptist preacher unwillgly participat a church-supported gay nversn program after beg forcibly outed to his productn, box office & pany Vios42More like thisReview Incredible but movgBoy Erased is the adaptatn of Garrard Conley's memoirs published 2016. Jared is neteen years old when his parents learn about his homosexualy.

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

Below are remend movi and memoirs about beg victimized by gay nversn therapy, which is fed the openg to Netflix’s new documentary Pray Away:Reparative or ‘nversn’ therapy is the attempt to change a person’s sexual orientatn or genr by a relig lear, licensed unselor, or peer support groups. Pray Away (2021)Richard Roeper, Chigo Sun-Tim: “…(T)he ma storyl center on four former lears of the ex-gay movement om a generatn ago…. Skillfully terweav prent-day terviews wh archival footage of the proment figur the movement — all of whom have renounced their rol and are now livg as out gays or bisexuals.

‘THEY/THEM’ REVIEW: KEV BAN MCL THROUGH GAY CONVERSN SLASHER

”David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: “A soberg acunt of Christian terventn rooted toxic homophobia. ”Dan Callahan, The Wrap: “…(W)e see footage of many so-lled ‘ex-ex-gays’ when they were beg tortured by their mistri alongsi footage of them lookg far happier after they ped. The Mistn of Cameron Post (2018)Gay nversn therapy at a Christian center is what the tle character of The Mistn of Cameron Post (Chloë Grace Moretz) is subjected to when “ught” beg a lbian teenager the 1990’s.

A 'HOPEFUL STORY' WH GAY CONVERSN THERAPY DRAMA 'BOY ERASED'

For Garrard Conley, sharg his story was the key to repairg thgs wh his But I’m a Cheerlear (1999)This is fictnal, a satire starrg Natasha Lyonne as Megan, a teenage cheerlear who is forced to go to Te Directns, a mp that aims, via a form of gay nversn therapy, to program the gay right out of s prumably misguid atten. Two Addnal Memoirs (Not Films)One of The Thgs First: A Memoir by Steven Ga (2016)Meghan Dm, New York Tim, summariz:For Steven Ga, growg up as a ‘homo’ Brooklyn the 1950s and ’60s meant beg ‘a eak, nature’s mistake, ’ so at 15 he tri to kill himself by punchg through the wdowpane of his grandparents’ bra and girdle store.

Threatened wh hospalizatn a dumpy state mental facily Queens, he talks his way to a six-month stay at the famed Payne Whney clic, the ‘Ivy League of psychiatric hospals, ’ where former patients have clud Marilyn Monroe, Carson McCullers, Jean Stafford and William Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That’s When My Nightmare Began by Alex Cooper (2016)Another 15-year-old, this time female, another wronghead attempt by society to fix the gayns. An adaptatn of the 2016 gay nversn memoir by Garrard Conley, the movie proceeds wh solemn tensy as hs some now-faiar not.

HOW JOEL EDGERTON'S NEW MOVIE BOY ERASED TACKL GAY NVERSN NTROVERSY

The urge to dramatize gay nversn has now given enough novels, memoirs, and films that the events n feel route. ” Wrten and directed by Joel Edgerton, who also sts himself as the head of the ex-gay practice, Boy Erased tri (like other siar films) to gsy up the narrative wh agmented jumps back and forth between s protagonist’s sexual awakeng and his experience at the facily, wh tense home enunters between.

Unlike, say, this year’s Mistn of Cameron Post, which n’t rist turng s facily to a gay-nversn Breakfast Club, Boy Erased’s patients are sketched only heartbreakg flash: a pale, petrified teenage girl; a former football player who looks permanently on the verge of tears; a boy who appears daily wh new, unexplaed bis. Whether a great movie about the gravy of gay nversn might ever be ma is a trickier, and for now still unanswered, qutn.

“THE MISTN OF CAMERON POST,” REVIEWED: AN EMPATHETIC BUT UNIMAGATIVE TALE OF GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

Gay Conversn Therapy. Cast & crewUser reviewsTriviaTV Movie2019TV-141h 27mWhen a teenager reveals that she is gay to her vout Mormon parents, they ci to send her to a nversn therapy home a teenager reveals that she is gay to her vout Mormon parents, they ci to send her to a nversn therapy home a teenager reveals that she is gay to her vout Mormon parents, they ci to send her to a nversn therapy home productn, box office & pany More like thisReview Biased but Te. It's a movement that's born out of a larger culture of homophobia and transphobia that still persists the majory of Christian church today.

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

It wasn't until the suici of his iend, who was also part of the "ex-gay" movement, that he reevaluated everythg.