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Contents:

• HGTV ON HULU: JT THE GAY COUPL, PLEASE!
• HOE, MD TAK ON NVERSN THERAPY AND THE "GAY CURE"
• NETFLIX’S ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTARY WILL REMD YOU THAT GAY CONVERSN IS STILL GOG ON
• GAY ‘NVERSN’ THERAPY OFFICIALLY NOUNCED HOE MEASURE
• CHIP AND JOANNA GA AND THE ANTI-GAY NTROVERSY OVER HGTV'S FIXER UPPER, EXPLAED
• WHE HOE SEEKS TO BAN GAY ‘NVERSN’ THERAPY
• FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
• HGTV ON HULU: JT THE GAY COUPL, PLEASE!
• DIRECTOR OF QUEER CLASSIC 'BUT I'M A CHEERLEAR' WANTED TO 'MAKE A GAY "CLUELS"'
• 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY SURVIVORS SHARE HORRIFIC EXPERIENC IN NEW DOCUMENTARY

HGTV ON HULU: JT THE GAY COUPL, PLEASE!

Gay people: we’re jt like regular people, bee we are regular people. But while I love a good fictnal gay (shout out to the legendary T Andromedon) and a good realy gay (RuPl’s Drag Race), I am nowhere near that flashy and/or fabulo my day-to-day. That’s what mak the gays of the home-based realy show so revolutnary!

And every now and then, you get a gay uple. Real talk: the HGTV shows may be the only shows on TV to show what gay people are actually like!

The episos let gay upl see themselv on TV while buckg all the stereotyp seen on scripted shows.

HOE, MD TAK ON NVERSN THERAPY AND THE "GAY CURE"

The gay episos are diamonds the renovated rough; they’re hard to fd but they she so brightly. Here are all of the gay episos of HGTV shows rangg om Property Brothers to Hoe Hunters that you n currently stream on Hulu. He tells them he dated Ted for three tells the team he's not gay and Cotter jt had a csh on him.

Ted went though "nversn" therapy which volved beg jected wh different meditn while he watched gay porn. He had a brief physil relatnship wh Cotter, but he is not gay. " He starts havg massive wants Tb to give Ted a spal hangs out wh Thirteen at the gay bar.

Courtney: And then we also have not Asexual, jt gay, and the closet.

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

This would be like if a gay person was beg told that they’re really straight. Courtney: There are plenty of gay and lbian people onle who will argue that Asexuals are not opprsed bee we don’t have to suffer thgs like murro hate crim or nversn therapy. My origal tent was to troduce and legimize , bee I was stck by the rponse most of you experience, which is siar to the prejudice the Homosexual muny has received.

Royce: Well, you mentned before that oftentim the bt way to thk about thgs is to put another muny place, and Hoe uld have talked about Homosexualy by jt havg a patient who was gay. As Twter acunt PatrtTak, which monors right-wg extremism, not, Oz has also removed rpons om LGBTQ anizatn GLAAD and GLSEN to the episo om the show’s se along wh a 2012 blog post that Oz wrote argug that “the bate ntu” over a proposed gay nversn therapy ban California. The two “ex-gay” activists stayed and rebutted statements by opponents throughout the show.

Oz prented the anti-LGBTQ anizatn Natnal Associatn for Rearch & Therapy of Homosexualy’s (NARTH) reprentative Julie Haton as an “expert. Ron DeSantis lled “anti-bs” bate over his “Don’t Say Gay” war wh Disney. The first thg that Netflix’s Pray Away documentary do is remd viewers that gay nversn therapy is not a thg of the past.

GAY ‘NVERSN’ THERAPY OFFICIALLY NOUNCED HOE MEASURE

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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.

CHIP AND JOANNA GA AND THE ANTI-GAY NTROVERSY OVER HGTV'S FIXER UPPER, EXPLAED

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. 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.

WHE HOE SEEKS TO BAN GAY ‘NVERSN’ THERAPY

A California ngrswoman has troduced a Hoe rolutn askg all stat to ban gay “nversn” therapy. “Beg transgenr, gay, lbian, or bisexual is not a disease to be cured or a mental illns that requir treatment.

Gay rights groups, cludg the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights and Human Rights Campaign, support state bans, which are currently California and New Jersey, as well as Washgton, D. Other groups support sexual-orientatn change efforts (SOCE): The clu tra groups for therapists who offer SOCE unselg; former homosexuals who say they benefed om the therapy; and others who believe people, cludg mors, have the nstutnal right to obta the unselg of their choice.

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

Conversn therapy is any one of a number of behavral therapi signed to change sexual orientatn om homosexual to heterosexual.

But the Ga’ populary — alongsi speculatn about their offscreen relig beliefs and polics — has land them at the center of an anti-gay ntroversy. In particular, their fah and their beliefs on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ rights have e to qutn due to the anti-gay views held by the pastor of their church.

HGTV ON HULU: JT THE GAY COUPL, PLEASE!

BuzzFeed brought up qutns about the Ga’ pastor and why Fixer Upper never featur gay upl. And why hasn’t Fixer Upper ever featured a gay uple while other HGTV shows have — is bee the hosts believe what Seibert preach? Specifilly, she c Seibert’s ments that most LGBTQ people are LGBTQ bee they were abed, and that he believ ’s possible for gay people to bee straight if they m to dog so:.

I’ve worked wh people for over 30 years — I have seen hundreds of people personally change their directn of same-sex attractn om a homosexual liftyle to a heterosexual liftyle. Conversn therapy is banned five stat and Washgton, DC; the Amerin Psychologil Associatn stat that nversn therapy and ex-gay mistry (the ia that sexualy n be changed through relign) n be dangero:. [S]uch efforts [nversn therapy or ex-gay mistry] have ser potential to harm young people bee they prent the view that the sexual orientatn of lbian, gay, and bisexual youth is a mental illns or disorr, and they often ame the abily to change one’s sexual orientatn as a personal and moral failure.

What we do know is that there hasn’t been a gay uple featured on any of Fixer Upper’s 40-pl episos to date (the upl featured also tend to be whe); that fact was the apparent impet for Aurthur’s article.

DIRECTOR OF QUEER CLASSIC 'BUT I'M A CHEERLEAR' WANTED TO 'MAKE A GAY "CLUELS"'

Is the lack of gay upl featured on Fixer Upper the Ga’ choice, and if is, then is discrimatn?

Ameri’s gay muni are bet wh elevated rat of anxiety, prsn, substance abe, and suici. The roundabout logic French — that gay people would be ls sad if they jt listened to God, whom he argu has told people that ’s okay to discrimate agast gay people and make said gay people sad — is really somethg. There’s a b of glossg over of Seibert’s quot about nversn therapy and discrimatn agast gay upl (you n hear those quot full this 2015 sermon he gave rponse to the legalizatn of same-sex marriage), as well as generalizg the BuzzFeed piece wh the claratn that “liberals hate the Christian fah.

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

As mentned above, 2014 the channel nceled a proposed show, Flip It Forward, bee s hosts, David and Jason Benham, were volly anti-gay.

David Benham spoke to a nservative talk show September 2012 and said, “Homosexualy and s agenda... Over 700, 000 people Ameri have been subjected to nversn therapy, the dangero and ntroversial ex-gay treatment.