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Contents:

• NETFLIX FANS HORRIFIED AS RYAN MURPHY DROPS FIRST TRAILER FOR HARROWG GAY NVERSN THERAPY DOCUMENTARY
• RYAN MURPHY ON GAY MARRIAGE RULG: “FOR THE FIRST TIME I KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO TLY BE AN AMERIN”
• 'I MA GAY SIKICKS THE LEADS': HOW RYAN MURPHY CHANGED TV FOR EVER
• THE PROM’S RYAN MURPHY WAS TOLD ‘HE ULDN’T HAVE A SGLE GAY CHARACTER’ WHEN HE STARTED OUT TV
• 'DAHMER' CREATOR RYAN MURPHY CRICIZ NETFLIX FOR REMOVG LGBTQ TAG: 'IT WAS A STORY OF A GAY MAN'

NETFLIX FANS HORRIFIED AS RYAN MURPHY DROPS FIRST TRAILER FOR HARROWG GAY NVERSN THERAPY DOCUMENTARY

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RYAN MURPHY ON GAY MARRIAGE RULG: “FOR THE FIRST TIME I KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO TLY BE AN AMERIN”

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'I MA GAY SIKICKS THE LEADS': HOW RYAN MURPHY CHANGED TV FOR EVER

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THE PROM’S RYAN MURPHY WAS TOLD ‘HE ULDN’T HAVE A SGLE GAY CHARACTER’ WHEN HE STARTED OUT TV

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I’ve thk I’ve always been a gay in. NETFLIX has dropped the first trailer for the Ryan Murphy documentary about a look to the horrifyg 'ex-gay' movement.

'DAHMER' CREATOR RYAN MURPHY CRICIZ NETFLIX FOR REMOVG LGBTQ TAG: 'IT WAS A STORY OF A GAY MAN'

Pray Away follows the rise and fall of of Exod Internatnal, a group found the 1970s by five members of an evangelil church who said gay people n “pray away” their homosexualy to bee straight. 4The Netflix documentary Pray Away follows the rise of Exod - a relig group dited to 'ex-gay' therapyCred: Netflix. Murphy - known for Amerin Horror Story, Pose and Glee - produced the powerful documentary alongsi Jason Blum and lifts the lid on the movement that sparked gay nversn therapy globally.