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Contents:
- 5 THGS I LEARNED AT A 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' CAMP
- TERRIFYG PHOTOS RECREATE THE HORRORS OF GAY 'CONVERSN THERAPY' CENTERS
- HORRIFIC GAY NVERSN MPS LIKE THIS ONE ARE LEGAL STAT THAT’VE BANNED EX-GAY THERAPY
- FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
- 'KIDNAPPED FOR CHRIST,' PLANNED DOCUMENTARY, AIMS TO EXPOSE 'EX-GAY' EXPERIENC IN CHRISTIAN REFORM SCHOOLS
5 THGS I LEARNED AT A 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' CAMP
A gay teen claimed the mp owner beat him wh a belt and said, "I'm gog to get the mon out of you and make you straight.” * gay reform camps *
"Wh my first weeks therapy, I was told every other gay person on Earth had been executed.... By the end of the so-lled 'treatments, ' I believed the ernment was lookg for me bee the gays had brought AIDS to Ameri and that I now had this disease ragg through me.
" That is, they assumed that bee he was gay, 's bee his ntrollg mother and adbeat dad had nfed and irreparably trmatized his genals. In fact, they uldn't fd any trma to blame Sam's homosexualy on at all.
4 They Physilly Torture You For Beg Gay. Later ssns would clu pper heatg ils, needl my fgers, and electric shocks, " all while Sam was shown gay porn.
TERRIFYG PHOTOS RECREATE THE HORRORS OF GAY 'CONVERSN THERAPY' CENTERS
ABC News' Brian Ross tak to plac that many claim no longer exist -- Christian mistri or mps where gay teens are sent by parents who want their children to change their sexualy. * gay reform camps *
Antos777/iStock/Getty Imag Of urse, no one explaed why they had a stockpile of gay porn on hand.
Obvly, spe the old sayg, you n't "heatg-il the gay away. In fact, he got so ed to reprsg his te self that, even after he me out, he wasn't entirely sure how to be: When he got to llege and first enuntered the gay muny, he immediately "me out a ball of glter. " He embraced a sparkly, Freddy Mercury-stage-show-liftyle bee he saw a bunch of out-and-proud homosexuals and thought that was how was done.
HORRIFIC GAY NVERSN MPS LIKE THIS ONE ARE LEGAL STAT THAT’VE BANNED EX-GAY THERAPY
A satiril play about about gay reform mps prov skewerg stereotyp is the bt weapon—even Spokane * gay reform camps *
"I'm very flamboyant, and that's partly bee of how I was troduced to the ia of other gay men existg.... I found out what a gay person looked like, and realized that was how I was supposed to act.
2 There's A Reason Some Gays Are So "Flamboyant". Go to a hardware store on the day of the gay pri para and you might hear an old du wh a beer gut lament, "Why do them gays have to be so flamboyant? The vast majory of homosexuals are -- shocker -- jt people.
FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
I thought that I'd heard all when to ex-gay mistri. The movie "But I'm a Cheerlear" shows the edic si of ex-gay rehabs which exist the U.S., but are dwdlg sce the closg of Exod Internatnal. It has recently e to my attentn that there exists several foreign ex-gay reform mps… * gay reform camps *
But if you see somebody sportg an outlandish stume, 's not about makg homosexualy look fun to help "turn kids gay" (if Sam's gayns uld survive electroshock torture, then we're pretty sure another kid's straightns n survive a few paras and some sequ boas); 's about showg closeted gay kids that homosexualy isn't tomatilly a lifetime of misery. 1 Both Fah And Homosexualy Can Be Equally Intolerant.
I'm the middle ground: From some fah muni, I'm attacked for beg gay. From some gay muni, I'm attacked as beg Christian. Fally some mon ground between tolerant homosexuals and tolerant Christians: tolerance!
For more sir perspectiv, check out 5 Reali of Beg Gay a Country Where It's Illegal and 6 Shockg Reali of the Secret 'Troubled Teen Indtry'. A new llectn of photos is providg a strikg ― and horrifyg ― visual recreatn of the barbaric practice of gay “nversn therapy” and the impact has on s victims.
'KIDNAPPED FOR CHRIST,' PLANNED DOCUMENTARY, AIMS TO EXPOSE 'EX-GAY' EXPERIENC IN CHRISTIAN REFORM SCHOOLS
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Photographer Paola Pares first learned of the “Clis Dhomosexualizacn” her home untry of Ecuador four years ago om a iend. After pletg a project lled “Unveiled” that documented her own g out procs ― cludg filmg herself wh three meras as she me out to her parents ― Pares cid the foc of her next work would be on the gay “nversn therapy” clics.