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Contents:

• PRAY THE GAY AWAY® THE MIL
• WHAT DO “PRAY THE GAY AWAY” MEAN?
• NETFLIX’S ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTARY WILL REMD YOU THAT GAY CONVERSN IS STILL GOG ON
• PRAY AWAY: THE HARROWG TE STORY OF THE "EX-GAY" MUNY THE FILM
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY® "A SER MIL EDY"
• IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?
• FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
• ‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’ LIVE: ZAKAR TWS INVE AUDIENC TO THEIR LGBTQ COMEDY PLAY
• CAST OF PRAY THE GAY AWAY 2019
• CAN CATHOLICS “PRAY AWAY THE GAY?”

PRAY THE GAY AWAY® THE MIL

Theater Arts Guild prents the world premiere of Pray the Gay Away®, a ser mil edy. Pray the Gay Away® tak place 1980’s Monka, Mnota and shows the llisn urse of two boys beg subjected to the ntroversial practice of gay nversn therapy, the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod that says “homosexual behavr is trsilly sful”, a Youth Pri LGBTQ support group fightg for human rights, and the lol muny ught the middle.

For his fourth full-length mil, Conrad Askland, former mic director of Cirque du Soleil and Rock of Ag, has traed his satiril missile system on the cultural, polil and theologil forc that surround the paful world of gay nversn therapy and the “pray away the gay” movement. Pray the Gay Away® pulls up the rpet to expose the unrlyg U. Relig, polil and cultural attus surroundg homosexualy and our unrstandg of human rights.

Clergy public statement on the mil Pray the Gay Away®.

WHAT DO “PRAY THE GAY AWAY” MEAN?

The term “pray the gay away” is often ed as a term to reprent a belief that a person’s sexual orientatn or genr inty n be changed through prayer. A large part of this belief system is the e of gay nversn therapy, often unr the guise of different nam like “genr rercement” or “inty dysfunctn”.

Our show, “Pray the Gay Away”®, is a ser mil edy that looks at many polil, theologil and cultural beliefs the Uned Stat that have fueled both the growth and rejectn of morn nversn therapy. Gay nversn therapy is an approach that has been ed for over a century worldwi, but the morn versn of gay nversn therapy grew strength and ntued to build startg the 1980’s. Our show, “Pray the Gay Away”®, is set 1982 as we show the growg support for gay nversn therapy that to nflict wh the growth of the gay rights movement (known today as LGBQT+ Rights).

Here are a few articl to get you started on the topics of gay nversn therapy and the belief systems that are referred to as “pray the gay away”. 11, 2019 – A blast om the past the gay-rights wars – Seattle Tim.

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

9, 2019 – Teachers qu prott over what they nsir anti-gay policy at Christian school Shorele – Seattle Tim. GAY CONVERSION THERAPY.

Gay Conversn Therapy’s Disturbg 19th-Century Origs. Is possible to Pray the Gay Away?

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.

PRAY AWAY: THE HARROWG TE STORY OF THE "EX-GAY" MUNY THE FILM

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. 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. '” Plk left Exod 2003, three years after he was photographed gog to a gay bar. (Plk’s wife Anne cled to be terviewed for the documentary and ntu to spread anti-gay msagg as the head of a new Christian ex-gay mistry.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY® "A SER MIL EDY"

Her story is particularly tragic—after g out to her mom at 14, she was forced to see a man named Ricky Chelette who ran another relig ex-gay therapy anizatn lled Livg Hope. Rogers fally left the ex-gay movement after bearg wns to an emotnal, televised group therapy ssn 2013, which survivors of the ex-gay movement unload their trma onto Exod print Alan Chambers.

Chambers, too, was so shaken by the stori shared by the “ex-ex-gays” that he and others disband Exod that year, issug a public apology to the LGBTQ muny. You n’t help but wonr if McCall, like the ex-gay lears before him, will ever look back on that phone ll and acknowledge how much damage he likely ed.

Pray Away has only jt been released on Netflix this week, but 's been grippg dienc ever documentary, which was directed by Kriste Stolakis, tells the story of the -founrs of Exod Internatnal and the leadg figur of the ex-gay what spired to Stolakis to make the film and where are some of the film's key characters now? ***TRIGGER WARNING: THE BELOW ARTCLE DISCUSSES THEMES OF ABUSE AND GAY CONVERSION THERAPY***.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?

Pray Away tells the story of the 'pray the gay away' movement and explor the ep and lastg effects of nversn therapy. It foc on the -founrs of Exod Internatnal, which was formed 1976 and beme a leadg force the ex-gay movement. Much of the teachg behd suggts that those who are gay mt be sufferg om mental health problems due to eher sexual or physil abe by a parent or aquate or toxic parentg.

Exod Internatnal was a non-prof, ternomatnal Umbrella anisatn, that sought to help people who wished to change their homosexual sir. The anisatn, which was formed 1976, believed that nversn therapy and the re-orientatn of sexual attractn was possible or that they uld more lloquially “pray the gay away”. Bsee went on to bee an outspoken cric of Exod and the ex-gay movement and on 27 June 2007 Bsee - wh follow former Exod lears Jeremy Marks and Darlene Bogle issued a public apology for their rol the group.

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

He was the founr of Foc On The Fay's ex-gay mistry Love Won Out and the former chairman of Exod Internatnal North Ameri. He later renounced his ex-gay stat, nied that nversn therapy is effective and issued an apology for the harm he had ed 2013.

Livg her life as an openly gay woman, Rodgers found acceptance a new Christian muny and ntu to talk about her experienc as a survivor of nversn therapy orr to help at-risk LGBTQ 2021, she also released her tobgraphy, Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story, and lnched the Outlove Project - which along wh the Trevor Project seeks to help at-risk LGBTQ youth and prevent suici and self-harm. Theater Arts Guild prents the world premiere of Pray the Gay Away ®, a ser mil edy. Pray the Gay Away tak place 1980’s Monka, Mnota and shows the llisn urse of two boys beg subjected to the ntroversial practice of gay nversn therapy, the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod statement that “homosexual behavr is trsilly sful”, a Youth Pri LGBTQ support group fightg for human rights, and the lol muny ught the middle.

Pray the Gay Away pulls up the rpet to expose the unrlyg U.

‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’ LIVE: ZAKAR TWS INVE AUDIENC TO THEIR LGBTQ COMEDY PLAY

Few thgs are as pellg as a good story, and the Zakar Tws have mastered the art of storytellg, Pray the Gay Away foc on key issu today’s society. The book tak a edic look at the brothers’ journey om awkward teenagers fightg agast societal stereotyp post 9/11 Ameri, to livg separate liv while regnizg sexual and emotnal feelgs for other boys, to rejog their relatnship when they e out to each other, and to fally face the future together a world where gay is still a bad word and g out to their mom shattered and reformed their fay and relig Zakar Tws have ma several appearanc and have been terviewed several publitns as they promote their advocy for LGBT rights, which they believe start wh the dividual and the dividual’s journey.

They have appeared almost every gay magaze North Ameri sce 2015, cludg OUT Magaze, Instct, the Gay Letter. They have appeared on Comedy Central and terviewed by other pennt statns on their unique story the hop of normalizg LGBT the Gay Away has been self-published by Michael and Zach and is sellg on Amazon (#1 LGBT release s first day) and onle on Barn & Noble as the brothers start their natnal book tour. The revelatns surroundg Marc Bachmann's psychotherapy practice along wh his statements equatg gay people to barbarians reflect the eply held view among too many people that homosexualy is a psychologil or moral choice that n be altered and ed should be.

CAST OF PRAY THE GAY AWAY 2019

As someone who profs to help gays and lbians bee "straight, " Dr. There are several nservative relig anizatns, like Exod Internatnal and Homosexuals Anonymo, that claim to have helped people change their sexual orientatn through prayer, unselg, or a batn of both. Moreover, there are licensed mental health profsnals who practice what are lled reparative or nversn therapi signed to make gay people heterosexual.

CAN CATHOLICS “PRAY AWAY THE GAY?”

The bt-known group of such clicians is the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy (NARTH), led by psychologist Joseph Nilosi. He and his followers claim that gays and lbians suffer om a damagg blend of childhood trma, shamg their fai of orig, and chronic unmet needs for love and affectn om their same-sex parents.

Reparative therapy supposedly helps gay clients bee heterosexual by workg wh them to amelrate toxic feelgs stemmg om their damaged childhoods. Robert Spzer, a proment psychiatrist who, oddly enough, led the charge to remove homosexualy as a disease om the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual, had unrtaken rearch wh 200 women and men who unrwent reparative therapy and believed themselv to be "cured" of homosexualy, as evinced by their abily to engage sexual relatns wh the oppose sex, marry heterosexually, and nceive children. In fact, there are many reports of people unrgog treatments offered by ex-gay mistri who not only return to homosexualy but have also been trmatized by this so-lled therapy.