Is It Possible to Pray the Gay Away? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• PRAY THE GAY AWAY
• MEET THE GAY TWS WHO HAVE A PLAY ABOUT THEIR LIFE
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY® THE MIL
• IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?
• ‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY® "A SER MIL EDY"
• ‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’: ZAKAR TWS INVE AUDIENC TO THEIR LGBTQ COMEDY PLAY
• TROY TWS E OUT 'PRAY THE GAY AWAY' THIS WEEKEND
• STATE WILL STILL PAY TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY
• MARC BACHMANN DEFENDS CLIC AGAST ‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’ CHARG

PRAY THE GAY AWAY

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When the Zakar Tws’ uber-Christian mom learned that both her sons are gay, she threw holy water at them and began quotg Levic. The Instagram mols turned their hilar and unique story to a bt-sellg book and now a stage play, Pray The Gay Away, appearg at the Cowl Center  Mneapolis om September 12 - 22. The hilarly and poignant play shows what ’s like growg up as gay, Iraqi-Amerin tws post 9/11 Ameri.

MEET THE GAY TWS WHO HAVE A PLAY ABOUT THEIR LIFE

Pray the Gay Away was spired the night Mom snuck to their bedroom and force fed them “holy grap, ” termed to “-gay” them. “It was nfg for our Mom, ” Zach said, “ Iraq, beg gay isn’t somethg that you discs openly.

Pray the Gay Away. Pray the Gay Away tells the story of Michael and Zach Zakar g out to their mother, who is a potty-mouthed, gay-hatg, vout Catholic.

The self-proclaimed “Middle-Eastern Mary-Kate & Ashley” duo published the book, “Pray the Gay Away”, 2017. The tle om somethg their mom, a vout Catholic, tried to do when Michael and Zach sat her down and told her that they are gay. After a start Fort Lrdale, “Pray the Gay Away” will be on stage Mneapolis (September 12-22, 2019) and Toronto (October 3-13, 2019).

PRAY THE GAY AWAY® THE MIL

Mike Martte: You didn’t know your brother was gay until a mix-up happened. ZT: Our Mom tried many ways to “-gay” . Michael Zakar: It’s fely improved sce the book’s release, but back when I got the tattoo, my mom, she said: “One thg I hate more than you beg gay is tattoos.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?

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‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?

“Pray the Gay Away” at the Cowl Center for the Performg Arts Mneapolis October 12-22, 2019 and at the St. 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®.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY® "A SER MIL EDY"

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.

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.

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

Moreover, there are licensed mental health profsnals who practice what are lled reparative or nversn therapi signed to make gay people heterosexual. 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.

TROY TWS E OUT 'PRAY THE GAY AWAY' THIS WEEKEND

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. The real diseas are homophobia and heterosexism, not homosexualy. It is important to regnize that the great majory of psychotherapy profsnals argue vociferoly that such "treatment" is uhil bee homosexualy is not an illns — rather the "illns" is our tolerance of sexual and genr behavrs fallg outsi rtrictive societal norms.

STATE WILL STILL PAY TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY

I also tell clients that reparative and nversn therapi, bis beg effective, are psychologilly harmful to gays and lbians, which is another reason I do not remend them and will not assist clients procurg such treatment. People like Marc and Michele Bachmann believe that acceptg and even celebratg gay and lbian people will evably lead to the moral cle of our society.

Exod Internatnal, evangelilism’s flagship ex-gay mistry, shut down 2013 after former lear Alan Chambers said had ed pa and harm to too many people and that more than 99 percent of those who’d sought help there hadn’t actually experienced an orientatn change. While mistri cludg Exod Internatnal and Foc on the Fay ed to preach that homosexual sire should be elimated, most evangelil church, pastors, and mental health profsnals today emphasize chasty amid sir that might last a lifetime. Even the Nashville Statement, a 14-pot manifto by the plementarian Council of Biblil Manhood and Womanhood, matas that homosexual sire may never change.

MARC BACHMANN DEFENDS CLIC AGAST ‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’ CHARG

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. Chalan-Amerin tws Zach and Michael were 17 when they told their mom, Iman, that they were gay. In the  sce, Zach and Michael, now 27, wrote and published a 2017 tobgraphy lled "Pray the Gay Away, " which they adapted to a play of the same name, and will n Thursday-Sunday at Royal Oak's Baldw Theatre.