Texas uple who ran ex-gay mp for ‘troubled boys’ arrted, acced of traffickg children

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

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. 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.

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO EXPERIENCE 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.

Exod ternatnal ex-gay mistri are all about “helpg” people return to their God-given genr exprsn and, you know, back to heterosexual relatnships.

8 PEOPLE ON SURVIVG GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

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.

FORMER DIRECTOR OF ‘EX-GAY’ MISTRY LOVE ACTN MARRI SAME-SEX PARTNER

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 .

'EX-GAY' CAMPS, THERAPY PROGRAMS ATTRACT CONTROVERSY

There was really not much worse than beg gay. So, the day after I’d go to [nversn therapy] I’d bury myself the perdil sectn of the library and read articl about homosexualy and the more of those articl that I read, the broar perspective that I got.

For one of my class I had to wre a paper talkg about why I was gog to Hell for beg gay. I was g terms like “SSA” and not llg myself gay for a very long time. I gus now I intify as gay, and I fely believe there’s no changg that, and even if there was I don’t know that you should.

TEXAS UPLE WHO RAN EX-GAY MP FOR ‘TROUBLED BOYS’ ARRTED, ACCED OF TRAFFICKG CHILDREN

When I started realizg that I was gay, I officially me out and was still tryg to change at 15. From basilly about 12 to 21 I was dog some variatn of “prayg the gay away.

I had been raised to believe that beg gay is horrible and terrible and awful and sful, and you’re gog to go to Hell. But also I was gay.