We talked to 8 survivors of gay nversn therapy about seeg their own experienc reflected onscreen Diree Akhvan’s new film The Mistn of Cameron Post, starrg Chloe Grace Moretz.
Contents:
- FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
- WHAT IT’S LIKE TO EXPERIENCE GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
- 8 PEOPLE ON SURVIVG GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
- FORMER DIRECTOR OF ‘EX-GAY’ MISTRY LOVE ACTN MARRI SAME-SEX PARTNER
- 'EX-GAY' CAMPS, THERAPY PROGRAMS ATTRACT CONTROVERSY
- TEXAS UPLE WHO RAN EX-GAY MP FOR ‘TROUBLED BOYS’ ARRTED, ACCED OF TRAFFICKG CHILDREN
FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
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It's a movement that's born out of a larger culture of homophobia and transphobia that still persists the majory of Christian church today.
It wasn't until the suici of his iend, who was also part of the "ex-gay" movement, that he reevaluated everythg. Interview highlights clu extend web-only answers and have been eded for length and clary: Interview Highlights Thomas on how he joed the "ex-gay" movement and Exod Internatnal I was out of the closet the '80s.
WHAT IT’S LIKE TO EXPERIENCE GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
Hope for Wholens, an “ex-gay” mistry wh a prence at least 15 stat, advoted “eedom om homosexualy through J Christ.” * ex gay camps *
They also had a group for the gays, and unrneath all of that olns there was this toxic theology that said that you need to overe homosexualy. Stolakis on what the ex-gay and nversn therapy movement looks like today Conversn therapy and the ex-LGBTQ movement has always been practiced lolly. It's bee very lennial-driven bee there are younger people who've grown up homophobic and transphobic environments who are ready and willg to take the place of people like Randy.
8 PEOPLE ON SURVIVG GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
Conversn therapy, also known as “reparative” or “ex gay” therapy, refers to the practice of “curg” LGBTQ inti. The Cut spoke wh Deb Cuny, a 37-year-old tn worker, about the nversn therapy she endured when she was a sophomore llege. I was tght that homosexualy was a s.
If you were gay, you’d go to hell, simple. I’d talk about “lezzi” and “homos”; you know, I was that kid who spread mors about the PE teachers. It really sucks when you’re homophobic and you realize you’re gay.
FORMER DIRECTOR OF ‘EX-GAY’ MISTRY LOVE ACTN MARRI SAME-SEX PARTNER
Exod ternatnal ex-gay mistri are all about “helpg” people return to their God-given genr exprsn and, you know, back to heterosexual relatnships.
'EX-GAY' CAMPS, THERAPY PROGRAMS ATTRACT CONTROVERSY
She met people like them and they got to meet people like me; she even started workg wh a lol ex-gay mistry. I was fally full-on openly gay.
At one pot I asked: If you get the mon of perversn out, will I no longer be gay? In October, they both walked together their first pri para and Mom told me that durg a recent church event he spoke up agast homophobic ments ma by some ngregants. What It’s Like To Experience Gay Conversn Therapy.
Also known as “reparative” or “ex-gay” therapy, the programs e var forms of psychologil manipulatn, and sometim physil abe, to nont “same-sex attractns, ” or “SSA’s. Diree Akhvan’s The Mistn of Cameron Post (adapted om the novel by Ey Danforth), out now, follows a young gay woman named Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) who is sent away to a gay nversn mp the mid-1990s, where the close iendships she forms wh the other participants serve as a rpe om the ongog psychologil torments flicted upon her.
TEXAS UPLE WHO RAN EX-GAY MP FOR ‘TROUBLED BOYS’ ARRTED, ACCED OF TRAFFICKG CHILDREN
There was one really abive act, where three misters held me down for six and a half hours and were screamg my face, tryg to get the gayns out of me. I asked them, “Do this mean that I’m not gog to be gay anymore?
Well, there is this thg lled gaydar …” — some parts of the church believe gaydar is the abily to see a mon another person. Like the movie, there’s this whole iceberg scene [about disverg the “” of one’s homosexualy] and the girl the movie mocked .