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• 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.

You'll overe your homosexualy. 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. "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.

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

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. 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.

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.

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

" 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. 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.

' 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'.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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….

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

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.

”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.

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

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. 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.

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

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. 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.

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

It wasn't until the suici of his iend, who was also part of the "ex-gay" movement, that he reevaluated everythg. Interview highlights clu extend web-only answers and have been eded for length and clary: Interview Highlights Thomas on how he joed the "ex-gay" movement and Exod Internatnal I was out of the closet the '80s. They also had a group for the gays, and unrneath all of that olns there was this toxic theology that said that you need to overe homosexualy.

Stolakis on what the ex-gay and nversn therapy movement looks like today Conversn therapy and the ex-LGBTQ movement has always been practiced lolly.

It's bee very lennial-driven bee there are younger people who've grown up homophobic and transphobic environments who are ready and willg to take the place of people like Randy. Blumhoe’s new slasher “They/Them” (the slash is pronounced) turns the very real horror of gay nversn therapy to a bloody nightmare. In his new movie Boy Erased, the Atralian actor and director Joel Edgerton tak si a Christian program that is supposed to "cure" people of homosexualy.

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

Joel Edgerton (center) directed Boy Erased, which stars Lus Hedg (left) as a llege stunt sent away to a gay "nversn therapy" center.

But what pelled the Atralian actor and director most to adaptg Boy Erased — wrer Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir about his time gay-nversn therapy — was the opportuny to explore the thor’s relatnship wh his voutly Christian parents.

” BOY ERASED Boy Erased follows Conley’s experience at Love Actn, a California-based Christian ex-gay program where his Baptist parents sent him after he was outed durg his first year at llege. Kidman and Crowe spent time wh their real-life Conley unterparts to unrstand the nuanc of their relatnship wh their gay son, whom they raised Arkansas. Conley tails the close bond to his mother and his ep rpect for his father, a r salman who was about to be ordaed as a Baptist mister when he disvered that his son is gay.

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

The most revealg tails volve the perverse psychologil strategi by which the center’s lears try to change the teens’ sexual orientatn: nyg that there is such a thg as a homosexual person, and claimg that homosexualy is a choice of behavr, not an inty.

“The Mistn of Cameron Post” shows that nversn therapy is wrong; that homosexualy is neher a sickns nor a s; that fai forcg their children to such therapy are monstro; that the officials of such facili are, however virtuo or even sacred they may nsir their motiv to be, stctive and abive. One of the extraordary aspects of Lee’s film is that isn’t so much a story of hate-filled people and their victims as is a story of mediatn, the wist sense: the power of law to mediate between vlent racists and potential victims, and also the power of media (cludg movi) to perpetuate those nearly the entirety of “The Mistn of Cameron Post” is set wh the nf of the God’s Promise facily, the real subject of the film is the enforcement of the law that allows parents to send their children to such facili and to force them to stay there, and also the attus of the law, and the mor, regardg homosexualy particular and children’s rights general. What do the muny members at the der thk about the nearby center, about the gay teens who are hoed there?

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

What’s missg om “The Mistn of Cameron Post” is imagatn—practil imagatn, social imagatn, emotnal imagatn, a visn and a sense of the place that the characters and the story hold the world around them, and that opprsed and abed gay teens still hold the untry and the world today.

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

“First of all, I’m gay, ” he said, “and this movie is gog to be gay non. "Alex AvilaAnd Gay Tim, a Brish LGBTQ news se, celebrated Friday, the day of the film’s official release, as “Barbie day“ and lled the world-renowned doll a “queer cultural phenomenon.

PicturIn an terview wh Fandango, actor Kate McKnon, who is openly gay and plays “Weird Barbie” the film, said Barbie is about “imagatn. Many also flagged the teased scene which Barbie, now the real world, exchang a longg look wh Ameri Ferrera’s Gloria character; though, the relatnship between the two turns out to be a tribute to motherhood and the tradnal, nuclear before the film’s release, Robbie all but squashed the mors that some or any of the Barbi and Kens would be gay, tellg the Brish LGBTQ magaze Attu: The dolls don’t “actually have sexual orientatns. There are brief appearanc by Earrg Magic Ken and Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken, both of which Mattel has always nied were tentnally gay-d.

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

”As far as the queer-d trailers and promotnal clips for the new “Barbie” film, Rand poted to a phenomenon known as “gay wdow advertisg, ” or the practice of advertisers gturg to queer dienc a way that will go over the heads of those who would disapprove.