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.
MY SO-CALLED EX-GAY LIFE
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. 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.
OVER 400 EX-GAY SURVIVORS SHARE DETAILS OF THEIR EXPERIENCE TRYG TO CHANGE THEIR ORIENTATN
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. 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.
THE EX-GAY SURVIVOR CONFERENCE
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.