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Contents:

• PRAY THE GAY AWAY® THE MIL
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY® "A SER MIL EDY"
• IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?
• ‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE
• ‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’ LIVE: ZAKAR TWS INVE AUDIENC TO THEIR LGBTQ COMEDY PLAY
• NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT
• WHAT DO “PRAY THE GAY AWAY” MEAN?
• MEET THE GAY TWS WHO HAVE A PLAY ABOUT THEIR LIFE

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®.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY® "A SER MIL EDY"

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.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?

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

‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE

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. The real diseas are homophobia and heterosexism, not homosexualy.

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

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.

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.

NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT

Cast & crewUser reviewsTrivia2021PG-131h 41mFormer lears of the "pray the gay away" movement ntend wh the aftermath unleashed by their actns, while a survivor seeks healg and acceptance om more than a of lears of the "pray the gay away" movement ntend wh the aftermath unleashed by their actns, while a survivor seeks healg and acceptance om more than a of lears of the "pray the gay away" movement ntend wh the aftermath unleashed by their actns, while a survivor seeks healg and acceptance om more than a of productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview Excellent trailer, super slow documentaryI thk Ryan Murphy is the print of Netflix gay seri producg partment.. First of all when I saw trailer, i thought this is an eye openg, promisg documentary but is super slow and we are watchg old discsns about homosexualy. Movi|‘Pray Away’ Review: Atong for an Anti-Gay Stance ADVERTISEMENTIn this documentary, people who had promoted the ia that sexual orientatn uld be changed exprs their AwayDirected by Kriste StolakisDocumentaryPG-131h 41mThe Netflix documentary “Pray Away” profil several people who, the public sphere and the ntext of Christiany-cloaked “nversn therapy, ” peddled the ia that homosexualy uld be changed, and who now regret the sufferg they ed.

Michael Bsee, a founr of Exod Internatnal, nsired one of the major anizatns that preached that sexual orientatn uld be changed, was both an early promoter and an early harms nversn therapy , and the tactics , aren’t news at this pot, and “Pray Away” is more tertg when foc on how most of s subjects eventually embraced gay and bisexual inti spe havg formerly been so public their homophobia. In typil tw fashn, they fish each other’s sentenc, and durg prs terviews — like their latt wh Between The L for their tobgraphil play “Pray the Gay Away” — nothg is different.

WHAT DO “PRAY THE GAY AWAY” MEAN?

“I didn’t thk Michael was gay at all. Eventually, after a stt at Wayne State Universy, the tws cid to drop out and put effort to their 2017 tobgraphy, “Pray the Gay Away.

“‘Pray the Gay Away’ was spired after me and my tw brother me out and my mom threw holy water on , ” Zach Zakar said. “We also wanted to touch base on more than jt beg gay, so the book follows lot of our experienc life wh beg the outsirs along wh our mom on this journey, ” Michael Zakar said. Right now, we’re the procs of talkg to TV producers, but we kd of need a rume and currently our rume is ‘Pray the Gay Away, ’ the book and play.

“We’re seeg what happens after this current productn to see if we should step up and do different productns or ntue wh ‘Pray the Gay Away, '” Michael Zakar said.

MEET THE GAY TWS WHO HAVE A PLAY ABOUT THEIR LIFE

“There’s always hop to stay wh ‘Pray the Gay Away’ for 10, 000 years, but if other opportuni arise then other opportuni arise. “But we don’t want to be trapped as always beg known as gay.

Right now, we’re known as the gay tws and we want to be known as the tws. Obvly, our market right now is beg gay. So our send book is more funny and sexual based, though obvly ’s gay sex.

But don’t be fooled, Michael and Zach are mighty proud of “Pray the Gay Away” and are eager to prent to live dienc.