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Contents:

• NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY GO DEEP ON 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY MOVEMENT
• FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
• WHAT IT’S LIKE TO SURVIVE GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• BOY ERASED AUTHOR GARRARD CONLEY REUNTS THE TRMA OF GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• FORMER LEARS OF GAY NVERSN PROGRAM REVEAL NSEQUENC OF DAMAGG 'THERAPY'
• FOUR VICTIMS OF GAY NVERSN THERAPY BRAVELY TELL OF THEIR EXPERIENC
• THE DAILY SHOW'S SEGMENT ON A VERY ANTI-GAY CHURCH HARLEM HAS A WONRFUL TWIST
• CELEBRI WHO HAVE SPOKEN OUT ABOUT THE INHUMANE PRACTICE OF GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
• NETFLIX’S ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTARY WILL REMD YOU THAT GAY CONVERSN IS STILL GOG ON
• MEGACHURCH PH NVERSN THERAPY ON INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK WH #ONCEGAY
• MEET THE NEW MILO! CATHOLIC, CELIBATE, OPENG GAY NVERSN THERAPY
• ‘I REALLY WAS BROKEN’: SURVIVOR WEL DOMIC PERROTTET AGREEG TO BAN GAY NVERSN PRACTIC

NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY GO DEEP ON 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY MOVEMENT

A new documentary set to probe the origs of the reparative therapy movement ― also known as “gay nversn” therapy ― is due out on Netflix next streamg platform on Monday unveiled the trailer for “Pray Away, ” which is produced by Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum for Blumhoe Televisn. “It wasn’t until I disvered lears of the movement, people who claimed that they had themselv changed om gay to straight who were teachg others to do the same, that I unrstood the pth of his hope and his rultg trma when he, of urse, was unable to change himself.

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.

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

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.

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO SURVIVE GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

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.

Then they “found God, ” and each bee a vout and active member of Exod Internatnal, an umbrella anizatn that nnected different groups across the untry that were all pursu of helpg people wh “homosexual sir” who wanted to rid themselv of those clatns and bee closer to God. At the cx of the groups is the ia that homosexualy is sick and Daily Beast’s ObssedEverythg we n’t stop lovg, hatg, and thkg about this week pop the help of what is monly referred to as nversn therapy, they uld return to the path toward goodns, toward God, and away om their homosexual urg. ” He is is among the former participants the ex-gay movement and lears who are terviewed the new documentary on Netflix lled Pray Away, which was directed by Kriste Stolakis and executive produced by Ryan Murphy and Jason talkg to the lears and survivors of nversn therapy, Stolakis chronicl the trma and pa flicted by the groups and exam how anizatns like Exod Internatnal manipulated people’s fah and sire for a relatnship wh God to nvce them to “pray away” their homosexualy.

”“This is a msage that we hope our film sends, which is that as long as some versn of homophobia and transphobia exist, some versn of the nversn therapi will ntue, ” Stolakis was important for her to feature lears of the ex-gay movement who have sce apologized for their volvement and spoken out about s harm; she wanted to show current lears and anizatns that there is a path out. There are always gog to be new lears sentially trag, ready to take this place if this larger culture of homophobia and transphobia ntu. When she was 16, she me out as gay to her mother, who beme antic and eventually got her dghter a meetg wh Rick Chelette, the executive director of Livg Hope.

BOY ERASED AUTHOR GARRARD CONLEY REUNTS THE TRMA OF GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

Chelette promised Rodgers’ fay that he would “heal” her, part by intifyg somethg her past—sexual abe, straed relatnships wh a parent—that gayns uld be “blamed” on. “My whole entire life was stctured around not beg gay, ” she was told to give up porn and playg softball, and to wear more makp to femize her appearance. “To have all the people e around and celebrate and celebrate our love, specifilly our gay, lbian love that space.

”Stolakis and Rodgers’ urgency makg Pray Away stemmed part om a sire to battle the assumptn that 2021, when “woke” and “clivy” are buzzwords, practic like gay nversn therapy don’t exist anymore.

When pop culture turns the ncept of gay nverstn therapy to a joke, as shows like Saturday Night Live have done several tim recent years, fosters an assumptn that, bee ’s beg lghed off, mt not be a ser problem morn society. When he was a 19-year-old llege hman 2004, Conley was sexually asslted and then outed as gay—by his asslter—to his eply relig parents. [In the Netflix show, five gay men makeover the liv, fashn, and hom of people and around Atlanta].

FORMER LEARS OF GAY NVERSN PROGRAM REVEAL NSEQUENC OF DAMAGG 'THERAPY'

One of the most startlg l the book is realizg that the “homosexualy” part would be weirr for him to handle than the rape part.

Former lears of a ntroversial gay nversn program who stggled wh their own 'same-sex attractns' have opened up about their regrets over participatg the harmful therapy a new Netflix documentary.

Premierg on Augt 3, Pray Away chronicl the rise of the 'ex-gay movement' wh a foc on Exod Internatnal, an Evangelil mistry that claimed to be able to 'cure' people of their homosexual sir. In the powerful trailer for the film produced by Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum for Blumhoe Televisn, former advot for gay nversatn therapy tail how suici attempts and panic attacks were brought on by the psdoscientific practice. Mt watch: Netflix's new documentary Pray Away chronicl the rise of the 'ex-gay movement' Invtigatn: Premierg on Augt 3, the upg film foc on Exod Internatnal, an Evangelil mistry that claimed to be able to 'cure' homosexualyExod Internatnal began as a Bible study the 1970s.

FOUR VICTIMS OF GAY NVERSN THERAPY BRAVELY TELL OF THEIR EXPERIENC

Its five founrs were all stgglg wh beg gay the Evangelil church, and they started the group to help each other leave the 'homosexual liftyle. Like many members of the anizatn, Chambers, who has a wife and children, had himself lived a 'gay liftyle' before marryg a woman. John Plk, a gay man who was an advote for the ex-gay movement the late 1990s and early 2000s, reunts his experience the documentary's trailer.

Lookg back: John Plk, a gay man who was an advote for the ex-gay movement, opens up the trialer about his regret over beg a 'figurehead' for nversn therapy Reprsed: Plk was an advote for gay nversn therapy the late 1990s and early 2000s, claimg worked on him Tth: 'I ached to be loved — and to love a man, ' he says, lookg back at his time wh Exod Internatnal 'I beme a figurehead for this movement.

THE DAILY SHOW'S SEGMENT ON A VERY ANTI-GAY CHURCH HARLEM HAS A WONRFUL TWIST

Cantu Schneir was a vol reprentative of the anti-gay movement before she renounced her work and beme an advote for the LGBTQ muny. ' Former nversn therapy poster-child Julie Rodgers was a celibate gay Christian om the ag of 17 to 26 before she helped shut down Exod Internatnal.

Out: Julie Rodgers was a celibate gay Christian om the ag of 17 to 26 before she helped close Exod Internatnal Misled: 'I went to my first Exod nference when I was 17 years old, ' she rells. 'I remember feelg like this is the path to be good' New msage: 'We are killg ourselv by not embracg who God created to be, ' says Randy Thomas, the former vice print of Exod Internatnal who me out as gay 'I went to my first Exod nference when I was 17 years old, ' she rells the film.

Gay people uld be saved, ' he Exod Internatnal is no longer open, other 'pray away the gay' programs have popped up s place.

CELEBRI WHO HAVE SPOKEN OUT ABOUT THE INHUMANE PRACTICE OF GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

But Jayne hadn't survived a terrible crash, she'd merely emerged om a therapy ssnYterday, the Queen's Speech, the Government fally mted to troducg legislatn to ban the 'abhorrent' practice, which is based on the belief that beg lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr is a mental illns that n be 'cured' ssns tend to achieve that 'cure' are sometim siar to tradnal exorcisms, which the subject's feelgs are characterised as a 'vil' that mt be forcibly st out. Joe Hyman, 28, om North London, was 17 and stgglg wh his homosexual feelgs, he signed up for an onle therapy urse to 'cure' himIn the 2018 survey of fah and sexualy, anised by the Ozanne Foundatn, 22 participants said they had unrgone forced sexual activy wh, or volvg, someone of the oppose most mon reason given was that their sir were 'sful'.

'Michael Kg, a profsor of psychiatry at Universy College London and expert on the strs and stigma suffered by gay and lbian people, explas why nversn therapy is so dangero and futile. When he was 17 and stgglg wh his homosexual feelgs, he signed up for an onle therapy urse to 'cure' him. Pictured: A scene om 2018 gay nversn film Boy Erased'Talkg therapy sounds more nocuo than some of the more extreme "cur" of nversn therapy, such as electric shocks.

'Then I heard about young Jewish gay people beg physilly molted real-life group therapy ssns.

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

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MEGACHURCH PH NVERSN THERAPY ON INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK WH #ONCEGAY

You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web this documentary, a gay filmmaker shows his Che fay's road to acceptg him and his growg fay the Uned Stat. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Kramer's semi-tobgraphil drama to life this HBO film, tellg the story of the creatn of the Gay Men's Health Crisis at the height of the AIDS epimic.

Tellg the te story of a young man who is subjected to a gay nversn therapy program, the film featur a number of LGBTQ+ intifyg stars, cludg Cherry Jon and Troye nowMy Own Private Idaho (1991)This ntent is imported om youTube.

Starrg Sean Penn and Ee Hirsch, the 2008 movie tells the story of Harvey Milk, who beme inic the LGBTQ+ muny for beg the first openly gay person to be elected to California ernment.

MEET THE NEW MILO! CATHOLIC, CELIBATE, OPENG GAY NVERSN THERAPY

You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web Hanks and Denzel Washgton star one of the first mastream Hollywood movi to tackle the subject of HIV/AIDS, homosexualy, and homophobia. The first thg that Netflix’s Pray Away documentary do is remd viewers that gay nversn therapy is not a thg of the past. 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.

‘I REALLY WAS BROKEN’: SURVIVOR WEL DOMIC PERROTTET AGREEG TO BAN GAY NVERSN PRACTIC

John Plk, for stance, was the poster child for the “former homosexual” who succsfully nverted to the straight liftyle.

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.