Chloë Grace Moretz On Growg Up Wh Gay Siblgs

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• CHLOë GRACE MORETZ ON GROWG UP WH GAY SIBLGS AS CHRISTIANS
• CHLOë GRACE MORETZ IS WORKG ON A DOCERI ABOUT 'GAY NVERSN' THERAPY
• CHLOE GRACE MORETZ PLAYS A GAY TEEN SENT TO CONVERSN CAMP TRAILER FOR 'CAMERON POST'
• CHLOE GRACE MORTEZ CONSULTED SURVIVORS OF GAY CONVERSN THERAPY FOR ‘THE MISTN OF CAMERON POST’ — SUNDANCE 2018
• CHLOë GRACE MORETZ'S NEW FILM EXPLOR GAY 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN THE TMP ERA

CHLOë GRACE MORETZ ON GROWG UP WH GAY SIBLGS AS CHRISTIANS

”While starg as a kid sent to anti-gay nversn therapy Diree Akhavan’s 2018 film, The Mistn of Cameron Post, Moretz proved herself a ft LGBTQ+ ally, at the least, talkg about her gay brothers to whom she’s extremely close — one served as her bs manager, the other her actg ach. Moretz also talked extensively about gay nversn therapy and about how both of her brothers tried to “pray the gay away” while growg up a small, largely Baptist town Geia. "While starg as a kid sent to anti-gay nversn therapy Diree Akhavan's 2018 film, The Mistn of Cameron Post, Moretz proved herself a ft LGBTQ+ ally, at the least, talkg about her gay brothers to whom she's extremely close -- one served as her bs manager, the other her actg ach.

Moretz also talked extensively about gay nversn therapy and about how both of her brothers tried to "pray the gay away" while growg up a small, largely Baptist town Geia. As she helps to raise awarens of morn-day gay nversn mps wh her new film, the actrs gets vol on sexualy, droppg out of blockbters and why you won’t see her kissg on the street.

It’s the actrs’ send trip to the gay vatn spot a month, after visg for the first time two weeks ago to show her new film, The Mistn of Cameron Post, at the Provcetown Film Ftival. “I have two gay brothers my fay and we love beg surround by gay people and gay thgs. She lov bikg, she lov lobster, she lov Massachetts, and ’s so gay that she’ll jt f***g die.

CHLOë GRACE MORETZ IS WORKG ON A DOCERI ABOUT 'GAY NVERSN' THERAPY

Moretz asked her mother about growg up as a woman the South and talked to Trevor and her other brother Col about growg up gay.

Danforth novel of the same name, The Mistn of Cameron Post stars Moretz as a ’90s teen sent off to a gay nversn therapy mp.

“We wanted to show the light moments, the moments where ’s really great to be gay and ’s really great to meet other gay people [and] what that looks like, ” Moretz brothers approved. “We grew up an area Geia where ‘prayg the gay away’ is a very real thg. There were several people our small town that apparently prayed the gay away and are now fe relatnships wh their wiv.

CHLOE GRACE MORETZ PLAYS A GAY TEEN SENT TO CONVERSN CAMP TRAILER FOR 'CAMERON POST'

"The actrs has about her experience growg up wh two gay brothers a relig town. “I have two gay brothers. "She add: "And they tried to – which is very mon the muny that we grew up – 'pray the gay away' on their own before g out to the fay, which I was unaware of durg the time.

“I thk people n really nnect to this film across the board – ’s a John Hugh film a lot of ways… ’s jt gay people are the leads, stead of straight people. The Mistn of Cameron Post, the story of a teenage girl sent to a gay nversn centre – God’s Promise – after beg ught havg sex wh her bt iend, was the first to do actor appeared more than 40 films before she was legally able to drk, cludg ‘Kick Ass’ 2010It was the film’s director, Diree Akhavan, to whom Moretz was ially drawn. “Havg two gay brothers, and growg up a part of the muny, ’s always been obv to me the amount of edy that you e to get over the bigotry and obstacl you’re faced wh.

CHLOE GRACE MORTEZ CONSULTED SURVIVORS OF GAY CONVERSN THERAPY FOR ‘THE MISTN OF CAMERON POST’ — SUNDANCE 2018

I personally don’t want to see people posted all over my phone makg out”) has faced cricism for playg a gay character, but says there are more important nversatns (Rex) (Rex Featur)A recent article on queer erasure cema name-checked Cameron Post, alongsi a handful of other proment films, as an example of a straight actor playg a gay lead role.

“She says, ‘I don’t see myself as a homosexual, I don’t see myself as anythg. Though the film is set 1993, practisg gay nversn therapy on children is still legal 36 stat the US. “There’s no face to beg gay, there’s no one type of gay person.

CHLOë GRACE MORETZ'S NEW FILM EXPLOR GAY 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN THE TMP ERA

Beg gay is beg human.

She is then sent to a “gay nversn centre” has been a longtime supporter of the LGBTQ muny and has talked of her love for her two openly gay brothers. “I grew up fightg on their behalf bee broke my heart to see that y, they n stand up for themselv, but people wouldn’t listen, ” she said an terview wh the Gay Tim.

“So I took upon myself wh their blsg to go out there and talk about , and to tell people, ‘Hey, beg gay is not a big al at all. Moretz plays an 11th-grar 1993 who, after gettg ught makg out wh a girl, is sent to God’s Promise, a Christian gay nversn mp. Lydia Marsh (Jennifer Ehle) and the brother whose homosexualy she supposedly cured, Reverend Rick (John Gallagher Jr.

“Havg two gay brothers and growg up a natural advote for the L. K movie should ever be are eded excerpts om the ’ve said this movie was personally important bee your brothers are gay.

Their biggt thg was that they’ve never felt that a movie has aquately picted gay people general but pecially young gay people. "I have two gay brothers and two straight brothers, and my gay brothers were treated horrifilly until they grew up and unrstood how to al wh , " tells Moretz to Seventeen magaze a ver story of s September issue.