Contents:
- FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
- MY SO-CALLED EX-GAY LIFE
- OVER 400 EX-GAY SURVIVORS SHARE DETAILS OF THEIR EXPERIENCE TRYG TO CHANGE THEIR ORIENTATN
- THE EX-GAY SURVIVOR CONFERENCE
FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
We have begun to implement strategi to let others know the reali and damagg effects of ex-gay and relig abe. Beyond Ex-Gay is an onle muny and rource for those of who have survived ex-gay experienc.
We believe that ex-gay experienc e more harm than good. Certa people who currently intify as ex-gay say they are ntent as such. Not that was all bad: Some of received posive help through our ex-gay experienc.
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. 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.
MY SO-CALLED EX-GAY LIFE
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.
"Are you gay? My mom is a problem solver, and the next day she hand me a stack of papers she had prted out om the Inter about reorientatn, or "ex-gay, " therapy. "The gay liftyle is very lonely, " she told me about Dr.
OVER 400 EX-GAY SURVIVORS SHARE DETAILS OF THEIR EXPERIENCE TRYG TO CHANGE THEIR ORIENTATN
Joseph Nilosi, a clil psychologist California who was then print of the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy (NARTH), the untry's largt anizatn for practners of ex-gay therapy. Nilosi's rner office had emerald-green rpet and mahogany bookshelv led wh tl like Homosexualy: A Freedom Too Far and Homosexualy and the Polics of Tth. " Although I might never feel a spark of excement when I saw a woman walkg down the street, as I progrsed therapy, my homosexual attractns would dimish.
Until I had spoken wh Nilosi, I had rigned myself to the ia that, sirable or not, my life would have to acmodate the fact that I was gay. The other men-four or five altogether-were their forti and fifti and talked about their years the "gay liftyle, " which had yield only unhapps. They were tired of the club scene, the dg e, the promiscuy; their relatnships didn't last; they plaed that gay culture was youth-obssed.
THE EX-GAY SURVIVOR CONFERENCE
If that was what beg gay meant-and wh 30-pl years on me, they would know-then I wanted to be normal, too.