8 Gay Conversn Therapy Survivors on Cameron Post

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The former director of an "ex-gay" mistry that endorsed "straight boot mps" has married his same-sex partner.

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

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. * ex gay camps *

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.

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 *

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.

8 PEOPLE ON SURVIVG GAY CONVERSN THERAPY

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.

Conversn therapy, also known as “reparative” or “ex gay” therapy, refers to the practice of “curg” LGBTQ inti.

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

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.

'EX-GAY' CAMPS, THERAPY PROGRAMS ATTRACT CONTROVERSY

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

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

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.

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