Instagays, Unfiltered

Contents:

• YOUTUBER LOHANTHONY WAS ONCE AN OPENLY GAY TER STAR. NOW, HE'S AN ADVOTE FOR CHRISTIAN CELIBACY, AN IOLOGIL OF NVERSN THERAPY.
• DIVORCED COUPLE ARE COMMTED TO FAY AFTER HE COM OUT AS GAY: 'OUR LOVE IS DIFFERENT NOW'
• FD GAY INFLUENCERS IN SENDS
• INSTAGAYS, UNFILTERED

YOUTUBER LOHANTHONY WAS ONCE AN OPENLY GAY TER STAR. NOW, HE'S AN ADVOTE FOR CHRISTIAN CELIBACY, AN IOLOGIL OF NVERSN THERAPY.

As a young gay teenager, Qutal, better known as Lohanthony, beme a mastay among YouTube's ele for years through his thentic vios, often filmed om his laptop mera. Now, Qutal, 21, once an advote for LGBTQ rights and a role mol for gay children and teens around the world, has renounced his own sexualy, sayg a recent YouTube vio that he has chosen a life of "Christian celibacy" and moved on om the "sexual immoraly" of his past gay relatnships.

In a 41-mute vio posted Friday to his channel, where he has sce hidn nearly all of his past vios, Qutal said that g out as bisexual and then gay earlier life was like "tryg to f a circle to a square. Insir spoke to two LGBTQ advot who warned that Qutal's msage was rooted harmful homophobic sentiment the Christian muny, which n be dangero to young LGBTQ people and their fai.

DIVORCED COUPLE ARE COMMTED TO FAY AFTER HE COM OUT AS GAY: 'OUR LOVE IS DIFFERENT NOW'

It's unclear whether this kd of relig anti-gay language is permted on YouTube, per s most recent policy on hate speech. Advot for LGBTQ cln Christian church say Qutal is echog 'ex-gay' stigmatizatn that is iologilly siar to nversn Qutal has not referenced nversn therapy — a wily discreded and effective type of program that attempts to "nvert" LGBTQ people to heterosexualy — by name, many fans of the creator, as well as at least one other proment YouTuber, have qutned whether he unrwent and is enuragg such a program.

FD GAY INFLUENCERS IN SENDS

Qutal specifilly said he was choosg "Christian celibacy, " and although he never stated he had thought he was no longer gay, Qutal said he is choosg not to partake same-sex relatnships.

Matthew V, executive director of the pro-LGBTQ Christian anizatn The Reformatn Project and thor of "God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-sex Relatnships, " says Qutal's vio reflected a morn movement wh Christiany that replac mon nversn therapy language wh a new way of grapplg wh sexualy. "It's no longer popular, even a lot of nservative church, to uphold a te gay-to-straight narrative, the ia that all gay people uld do that if they jt tried, " V told Insir.

INSTAGAYS, UNFILTERED

"But there's kd of been a renstcted ex-gay movement that acknowledg that maybe you n't actually flip the swch om gay to straight, but you n still have a more vague kd of transformatn of your sexualy. "V said that the ia of nversn therapy beg a forced "brawashg" practice don't typilly reflect what real 'ex-gay' experienc look like for Christians.