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Netflix has released the trailer for 'Pray Away,' a new documentary that vtigat gay nversn therapy programs.

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WHAT HAPPENS GAY NVERSN THERAPY? 'CAMERON POST,' 'BOY ERASED' SHOW SRY REALY

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 * movies about gay conversion therapy *

Gay nversn therapy is more than jt a "South Park" ntroversial practice – which emotnally abive, often extreme methods to "cure" people of their homosexualy – has been a subject for edic fodr the ribald animated seri, as well the 2000 film satire "But I'm a Cheerlear. " But reparative therapy is still a ighteng realy for thoands of LGBTQ people, who often enter "ex-gay" programs at the sistence of pastors, unselors and loved on.

Two new films are aimg to show the paful reali for kids gay nversn programs: awards ntenr "Boy Erased" ( theaters Nov. More:$90K donated to send gay valedictorian to llege after parents reject himRelated:Chloë Grace Moretz go to gay nversn therapy  'Mistn'"Boy" stars Lus Hedg and is based on the 2016 memoir by Garrard Conley, who entered Love Actn, an ex-gay Christian mistry, after beg outed to his parents (played by Nile Kidman and Rsell Crowe) 2004 at age 19.

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

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' For rearch, "Cameron Post" director Diree Akhavan and -wrer Cecilia Fgiuele terviewed survivors, watched sermons and read materials ed ex-gay programs. At one therapy mp, Shurka and other men were asked to re-create the moments that "ma" them gay. 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.

NETFLIX FILM ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTS AB BY GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

When Alex me out as gay, the 15-year-old's parents issued a stark ultimatum: unrgo nversn therapy or clear out of the fay home the northern English cy of Wakefield. * movies about gay conversion therapy *

"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. A young man returns to his fay farm, after a long stay ex-gay nversn therapy, and is torn between the expectatns of his emotnally distant father, and the memori of a past, lovg relatnship he has tried to bury.

Chris and RJ rne five years after g out to their fai and their church as gay men, where the factors that led to their separatn are revealed as they mourn the ath of their mutual iend Rodney. A fish-out-of-water edy about a nservative Southern mom who disvers that her only son is gay.

A sex and dg-addicted young man who is forced to a Christian-n mistry an attempt to cure him of his "gay afflictn, " where stead he is faced wh the tth his heart and spir. 2 teachers fall love at a time when is a crime to be homosexual.

THEY/THEM REVIEW: A SLASHER GO TO GAY CONVERSN CAMP CLEVER HORROR MOVIE

Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story: Directed by Jefey G. Hunt. Wh Addison Holley, Nilette Pearse, Ian Lake, Sarah Booth. When a teenager reveals that she is gay to her vout Mormon parents, they ci to send her to a nversn therapy home Utah." data-id="ma * movies about gay conversion therapy *

What happens when religly nservative Christian parents have children who "bee homosexual?

Dr Christian Jsen lv to the world of gay nversn therapy the US and the UK by gog unrver and ttg different 'cur' to see if there is any tth behd their claims. Set a parallel universe where the sexual bias favors homosexuals, Eric, a stgglg heterosexual, adms himself to a straight nversn mp.

Filmmaker Zach Meers is hopg to shed light on the vert and often adly methods volved so-lled gay nversn therapy wh a stirrg new documentary.

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

“When homophobia and transphobia prevail, the nsequenc are stigma, discrimatn, and vlence.

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

“My fay disowned me, ” said Gee Barasa, a 28-year-old gay, genr-nonnformg Kenyan livg South Ai. ”“I have tried to move on, but the relig unselg really affected me, and up to now, I have a hard time believg if there is even a God the first place, ” said Jay Angwenyi, a gay man livg  Kenya.

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