Pray Away, executive produced by Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum, tak a look at the history of gay nversn group Exod Internatnal.
Contents:
- NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' IS A HUMANIZG LOOK AT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY SURVIVORS
- FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
- NETFLIX’S ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTARY WILL REMD YOU THAT GAY CONVERSN IS STILL GOG ON
- NETFLIX FILM ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTS AB BY GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
- GAY CONVERSN THERAPY DOC ‘PRAY AWAY’ RELEAS EMOTNAL TRAILER (EXCLUSIVE)
- STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘PRAY AWAY’ ON NETFLIX, A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE DEVASTATG IMPACT OF CONVERSN THERAPY & THE ‘EX-GAY’ MOVEMENT
- ‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE
NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' IS A HUMANIZG LOOK AT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY SURVIVORS
Netflix has released the trailer for 'Pray Away,' a new documentary that vtigat gay nversn therapy programs. * gay conversion camp documentary *
Featured promently are former “ex-gay” figur like John Plk and Julie Rodgers, who expla how they me to embrace reparative ― or “gay nversn” ― therapy, only to nounce the practice and acknowledge their te LGBTQ selv later.
The are victims of homophobia and transphobia, who are also perpetrators of homophobia and transphobia. The Amerin Medil Associatn, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn and the Amerin Amy of Pediatrics have all discreded the “ex-gay” movement spired two Hollywood films, “Boy Erased” and “The Mistn of Cameron Post.
FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
Netflix documentary Pray Away, exec-produced by Ryan Murphy, trac the history of nversn therapy wh regretful lears of the “ex-gay” movement * gay conversion camp documentary *
While havg an enunter wh a young gay rights activist, he fds himself lookg at his own practice of nversn therapy very differently. In Boy Erased, the son of a Baptist pastor stggled wh how beg outed as gay ptur his relatnships a nversative small town and then beg sent to a nversn therapy program led by a lear he don’t see eye-to-eye wh.
NETFLIX’S ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTARY WILL REMD YOU THAT GAY CONVERSN IS STILL GOG ON
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Cameron gets sent by her nt Ruth to God’s Promise, a gay nversn therapy center for teenagers that is n by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother Reverend Rick who claims that his sister’s methods cured him of his own homosexualy.
NETFLIX FILM ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTS AB BY GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
Boy Erased: Directed by Joel Edgerton. Wh Lus Hedg, Nile Kidman, Rsell Crowe, Malyn Cle. The son of a Baptist preacher unwillgly participat a church-supported gay nversn program after beg forcibly outed to his parents." data-id="ma * gay conversion camp documentary *
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.
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GAY CONVERSN THERAPY DOC ‘PRAY AWAY’ RELEAS EMOTNAL TRAILER (EXCLUSIVE)
* gay conversion camp documentary *
The first thg that Netflix’s Pray Away documentary do is remd viewers that gay nversn therapy is not a thg of the past. Dgs, alhol, homosexualy.
STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘PRAY AWAY’ ON NETFLIX, A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE DEVASTATG IMPACT OF CONVERSN THERAPY & THE ‘EX-GAY’ MOVEMENT
The star of 'They/Them,' which tak place at a gay nversn mp, is g the film's release to spotlight the unproven practice: 'To put anyone through such a shameful, paful procs when there is no chance of workg is terrible. Why? Where's the threat?'" emprop="scriptn * gay conversion camp documentary *
It’s shockgly siar to the ttimony given by the lears of the ex-gay movement over thirty years ago, several of whom are featured Pray Away after leavg the movement and formally apologizg to the LGBTQ muny.
John Plk, for stance, was the poster child for the “former homosexual” who succsfully nverted to the straight liftyle.
‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE
He appeared wh his wife Anne on the ver of Newsweek magaze 1998, and both of them appeared on talk show after talk show to reunt how both of them were gay, but ma a nsc effort to change. Plk soon joed the board of the Christian anti-homosexualy group known as Exod Internatnal, which was found 1976 and disband 2013. Bee I was dishont, ed people the dience—people that were stgglg wh homosexualy or had gay feelgs—to feel like, ‘There mt be somethg wrong wh me, bee I’m not like him.