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

Contents:

• GAY THE PRAY AWAY: HEALG YOUR LIFE, LOVE, AND RELATNSHIPS OM THE HARMS OF LGBT CONVERSN THERAPY KDLE EDN
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY: THE EXTRAORDARY LIV OF BIBLE BELT GAYS HARDVER – OCTOBER 1, 2012
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY (A SOUTHERN THG) PAPERBACK – MARCH 2, 2014
• NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' LOOKS BEHD THE CURTA OF THE 'EX-GAY' MOVEMENT
• ‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE
• ‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?
• CAN CATHOLICS “PRAY AWAY THE GAY?”
• IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY BOOKS
• PRAY AWAY: THE FAILURE OF NVERSN THERAPY FOR GAY PEOPLE
• “LOVE NEVER FAILS” OM THE MIL “PRAY THE GAY AWAY”®

GAY THE PRAY AWAY: HEALG YOUR LIFE, LOVE, AND RELATNSHIPS OM THE HARMS OF LGBT CONVERSN THERAPY KDLE EDN

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PRAY THE GAY AWAY: THE EXTRAORDARY LIV OF BIBLE BELT GAYS HARDVER – OCTOBER 1, 2012

" ― The Gay and Lbian Review"Bartons ptivatg and engagg rearch v to nsir the challeng facg lbian and gay youth livg the Bible Belt. This is a book to be valued by tors, social workers, mental health unselors, and others seekg a eper unrstandg of the fear and hatred experienced by gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr youth that will hopefully lead to improved support of gay youth and the velopment of safe spac.

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PRAY THE GAY AWAY (A SOUTHERN THG) PAPERBACK – MARCH 2, 2014

" ― Sacramento Book Review"I highly remend Pray the Gay Away to anyone wh an tert ntemporary queer experience, Bible Belt Christiany, and the tersectn of the two. Id go so far as to say s required readg for anyone who r about what means to be gay Ameri today. Cook ― The Femist Librarian"Bernatte Barton tak on a vivid si tour of Bible Belt Ameri that privileged gay folks om more liberal parts of the U.

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

" -- Eric Marc, thor of Makg Gay History"[S]heds cril light upon the ways Christiany affects the everyday liv of sexual mori regardls of their own relig intifitn. Rather than seeg her rponnts as passive victims, Barton shows her dience that Bible Belt gays have an timate unrstandg of nservative Christiany that n help all to unrstand nflicts Amerin culture.

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

" ― Genr and Society"Pray the Gay Awaysh a soberg light on the eedoms and forts that many of take for granted.

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

" ― News Review"[The thor] draws on a trove of ethnographic data, cludg -pth terviews wh Bible Belt gays, viss to the Creatn Mm and a lol megachurch, attendance at an Exod Internatnal nference for ex-gays, and her own experienc as an openly lbian profsor....

" ― Metapsychology"The thors tal of gay life this area of the untry, where anti-gay evangelil Prottantism holds sway, range om the harrowg to the mundane.... Worthwhile readg for anyone terted what means to be gay an overtly hostile environment.

She is the thor of The Pornifitn of Ameri: How Rnch Culture is Rug Our Society, Stripped: More Stori om Exotic Dancers, and Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordary Liv of Bible Belt Gays.

CAN CATHOLICS “PRAY AWAY THE GAY?”

As Rodgers reunts Pray Away, a new Netflix documentary on the “ex-gay” movement wh wtern Christiany, and her book Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story, Chelette preached an enticg, sid gospel of change: that Rodgers’ attractn to women was due to an sufficient bond wh her mother as a child, that such attractns uld be nrologilly altered by mted study, that to do otherwise would be a disappotment to God and the muny that had formed the backbone of her life to date. The 100-mute film, directed by Kriste Stolakis and executive produced by Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum, exam the stctively mon practice and s larger “ex-gay” movement, often led by LGBTQ+ people who themselv believed they had changed, several of whom later renounced their the film outl, nversn therapy is neher a specific practice nor sgular movement; ’s “this plex amalgamatn of old psdo-psychology that’s disproven, the spirual belief that you don’t have a place God’s kgdom if you don’t change, and then this culture that surrounds you wh the msag that are pable”, Stolakis told the Away foc particular on Exod Internatnal, the non-prof, ter-nomatnal anizatn found 1976 by five evangelil Christians, which propelled and popularized the ia that was possible – and preferable – to change one’s sexual orientatn.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?

” As the film not s da, youth who experienced some form of nversn therapy are more than twice as likely to die by Away clus numero figur who were formerly volved the ex-gay movement, om Exod -founr Michael Bse (who left the anizatn 1979) to former Fay Rearch Council spokpeople Yvette Cantu and John Plk. The segments wh McCall monstrate how the ex-gay movement’s iology has ntued unr a different name, through social media works rather than through tradnal media, wh msagg updated to the era of Instagram empowerment.

’ Photograph: NetflixThat “eedom” (om beg gay) is still one found nial, rejectn, a basele belief that anythg other than straight is broken and sful. “A fg part of this movement is that ’s an example of homophobia and transphobia wield outwards, ” said Stolakis.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY

“As long as a culture of homophobia and transphobia ntu – our church, our muni, our untry – you will see somethg like this.

“Jt like what we saw polilly wh the ex-gay movement, has real polil implitns for other trans people bee eher directly or directly, supports anti-trans legislatn, which we’re seeg bee ubiquo this untry. ”For Rodgers, whose weddg to a woman is clud the film’s fal scen, the toll of ex-gay movement is visible, personal, years of directg imposed shame ward.

Jack knows he is gay but he his his sexualy om everyone for fear of how they will react.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY BOOKS

Their son Andrew Colls has afflicted wh the s of gayns and they are hopg beg around good people will redirect Andrew’s sful ways. What will happen to Jack, the preacher’s son and town football star if anyone found out he was gay? When Amerin documentarian Kriste Stolakis set out to make her but feature film, she knew she wanted to she a light on the “ex-gay” movement, which nsists of those that believe a person’s genr inty or sexual orientatn n be changed.

Really is a movement of hurt people hurtg other people, of what ternalized homophobia and transphobia looks like when is wield outward. Shot before the Covid-19 panmic, the film chronicl the rise — and subsequent fall — of Exod Internatnal, a nversn therapy anizatn that, acrdg to the team behd the the film, began as a Bible study group the 1970s nsistg of five evangelil men who were lookg to help one another leave the “homosexual liftyle.

But years after risg to stardom the relig right, many of the “ex-gay” lears, whose own same-sex attractns never went away, have sce e out as LGBTQ and disavowed the very movement that they helped to grow.

PRAY AWAY: THE FAILURE OF NVERSN THERAPY FOR GAY PEOPLE

Stolakis’ list of terviewe “Pray Away” clus Randy Thomas, the fal vice print of Exod Internatnal; Yvette Cantu Schneir, the former head of Exod’ women’s mistri; and John Plk, one of the most bt-known “ex-gay” people the world.

“Somethg my team and I talked about a lot makg this film is, this really is a movement of hurt people hurtg other people, of what ternalized homophobia and transphobia looks like when is wield outward, ” said Stolakis, whose other directorial creds clu “The Typist” and “Where We Stand. ”While many former lears have renounced and spoken out agast the “pray the gay away” movement, Stolakis said “the larger culture of homophobia and transphobia, ” particularly relig muni, has allowed the movement to ntue wh younger lears, even wh the dissolutn of Exod Internatnal 2013 and the legalizatn of same-sex marriage the U. Alone, nearly 700, 000 lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr adults have been subjected to some form of nversn therapy durg their lifetime, acrdg to a 2019 report om the Williams Instute at the UCLA School of Law.

“LOVE NEVER FAILS” OM THE MIL “PRAY THE GAY AWAY”®

”Wh “Pray Away” set to but more than 190 untri on Netflix this week, Stolakis wants to make one thg clear to every prospective viewer: The “ex-gay” movement was never led by jt “a uple of bad appl.