Former 'Ex-Gay' Lears Denounce 'Conversn Therapy' In A New Documentary : NPR

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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.

MY SO-CALLED EX-GAY LIFE

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.

OVER 400 EX-GAY SURVIVORS SHARE DETAILS OF THEIR EXPERIENCE TRYG TO CHANGE THEIR ORIENTATN

"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. 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.

THE EX-GAY SURVIVOR CONFERENCE

" 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.

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