Netflix’s ‘Pray Away’ Documentary Will Remd You That Gay Conversn Is Still Gog On | Decir

Contents:

• FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
• NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' IS A HUMANIZG LOOK AT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY SURVIVORS
• 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY SURVIVORS SHARE HORRIFIC EXPERIENC IN NEW DOCUMENTARY
• NETFLIX’S ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTARY WILL REMD YOU THAT GAY CONVERSN IS STILL GOG ON
• GAY CONVERSN THERAPY DOC ‘PRAY AWAY’ RELEAS EMOTNAL TRAILER (EXCLUSIVE)

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

NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' IS A HUMANIZG LOOK AT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY SURVIVORS

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.

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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.

'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY SURVIVORS SHARE HORRIFIC EXPERIENC IN NEW DOCUMENTARY

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. Stat, nversn therapy remas enmic many nservative, relig muni—and as Pray Away documents, is groundg a new generatn of believers s rhetoric as part of larger culture wars beg waged over gay and trans rights. But many of the movement’s early lears and figureheads have sce rented; many s g out (or back out) as gay and speakg out about the harm they experienced—and that they ed.

NETFLIX’S ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTARY WILL REMD YOU THAT GAY CONVERSN IS STILL GOG ON

This was also a product of [his] havg grown up a homophobic and transphobic environment, both terms of the world he was raised , but also specifilly the relig worldview. And jt like much of male Christiany, Catholicism remas a homophobic and transphobic environment for many people. Many of the subjects Pray Away discs their experience the ex-gay movement, at least retrospect, as not changg their sexualy as much as enuragg them to supprs .

How do you thk the ex-gay movement ntu s practice given that track rerd? One thg I’ve learned om spendg time this world is, let’s say, [when you’re part of] a fah muny that’s homophobic or transphobic and you fd a Bible study group or a nversn therapy support group happeng at your church—that may actually be the first time you feel any fort, sharg any part of your inty.

As well as tellg the stori of a number of the ex-gay movement’s former lears, Pray Away featur the activist Jefey McCall, who se himself as both an ex-gay and ex-trans dividual. Do you see many parallels between the ex-gay and the transn movements, as well as the wir moral panic over trans people? The anti-trans sentiment that we’re seeg build our world is fely a ntuatn of the ex-gay movement and the nversn therapy movement.

GAY CONVERSN THERAPY DOC ‘PRAY AWAY’ RELEAS EMOTNAL TRAILER (EXCLUSIVE)

My uncle went through hell; I was very prepared to make a film about straight, homophobic people makg LGBTQ people hate themselv—but that’s not what I found. Our re creative team [workg on the documentary] was prised of people wh a direct relatnship to the issu: gay and trans nversn therapy survivors, queer people who grew up evangelil.

Do you see the ex-gay movement as ever “dyg out, ” as Yvette Cantu Schneir, prevly an ex-gay lear and policy analyst wh the anti-gay Fay Rearch Council, puts at one pot?

The reason the nversn therapy movement ntu is that is based on a larger culture of homophobia and transphobia. The fact is that many church might stay they’re agast nversn therapy, but if a trans kid or a gay kid to their pastor, the silence n be afeng.