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Contents:
- 5 THGS I LEARNED AT A 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' CAMP
- FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
- NETFLIX FILM ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTS AB BY GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
- ‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?
- NETFLIX’S ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTARY WILL REMD YOU THAT GAY CONVERSN IS STILL GOG ON
- RELATIV LOOK TO EE TEEN WHO WAS SENT TO ALLEGED 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' MP
- ‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE
- NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' IS A HUMANIZG LOOK AT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY SURVIVORS
- ‘THE MISTN OF CAMERON POST’ REVIEW: GAY-CONVERSN DRAMA IS TIMELY, TOO TIMID
- THIS TEENAGER HAS BEEN FORCED TO A GAY NVERSN MP WH NO PE
- DON’T ‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ - WE’RE ‘BORN PERFECT’
5 THGS I LEARNED AT A 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' CAMP
Netflix has released the trailer for 'Pray Away,' a new documentary that vtigat gay nversn therapy programs. * pray away the gay camps *
"Wh my first weeks therapy, I was told every other gay person on Earth had been executed.... By the end of the so-lled 'treatments, ' I believed the ernment was lookg for me bee the gays had brought AIDS to Ameri and that I now had this disease ragg through me. " That is, they assumed that bee he was gay, 's bee his ntrollg mother and adbeat dad had nfed and irreparably trmatized his genals.
FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
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In fact, they uldn't fd any trma to blame Sam's homosexualy on at all.
Later ssns would clu pper heatg ils, needl my fgers, and electric shocks, " all while Sam was shown gay porn. Antos777/iStock/Getty Imag Of urse, no one explaed why they had a stockpile of gay porn on hand.
Obvly, spe the old sayg, you n't "heatg-il the gay away.
NETFLIX FILM ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTS AB BY GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
'Mistn of Cameron Post' dramatiz a journey through 'pray the gay away' youth mp — 's both timely and way too timid. Our review. * pray away the gay camps *
In fact, he got so ed to reprsg his te self that, even after he me out, he wasn't entirely sure how to be: When he got to llege and first enuntered the gay muny, he immediately "me out a ball of glter.
‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?
Netflix documentary Pray Away, exec-produced by Ryan Murphy, trac the history of nversn therapy wh regretful lears of the “ex-gay” movement * pray away the gay camps *
" He embraced a sparkly, Freddy Mercury-stage-show-liftyle bee he saw a bunch of out-and-proud homosexuals and thought that was how was done. "I'm very flamboyant, and that's partly bee of how I was troduced to the ia of other gay men existg....
NETFLIX’S ‘PRAY AWAY’ DOCUMENTARY WILL REMD YOU THAT GAY CONVERSN IS STILL GOG ON
Camp New Grace is a "pray away the gay" mp outsi South Park that seeks to "cure" young homosexuals, based on the mistaken belief that homosexualy is a choice. * pray away the gay camps *
I found out what a gay person looked like, and realized that was how I was supposed to act. Go to a hardware store on the day of the gay pri para and you might hear an old du wh a beer gut lament, "Why do them gays have to be so flamboyant? The vast majory of homosexuals are -- shocker -- jt people.
But if you see somebody sportg an outlandish stume, 's not about makg homosexualy look fun to help "turn kids gay" (if Sam's gayns uld survive electroshock torture, then we're pretty sure another kid's straightns n survive a few paras and some sequ boas); 's about showg closeted gay kids that homosexualy isn't tomatilly a lifetime of misery.
RELATIV LOOK TO EE TEEN WHO WAS SENT TO ALLEGED 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' MP
1 Both Fah And Homosexualy Can Be Equally Intolerant. I'm the middle ground: From some fah muni, I'm attacked for beg gay.
Fally some mon ground between tolerant homosexuals and tolerant Christians: tolerance!
‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE
For more sir perspectiv, check out 5 Reali of Beg Gay a Country Where It's Illegal and 6 Shockg Reali of the Secret 'Troubled Teen Indtry'. 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.
NETFLIX'S 'PRAY AWAY' IS A HUMANIZG LOOK AT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY SURVIVORS
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.
‘THE MISTN OF CAMERON POST’ REVIEW: GAY-CONVERSN DRAMA IS TIMELY, TOO TIMID
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.
THIS TEENAGER HAS BEEN FORCED TO A GAY NVERSN MP WH NO PE
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. Stat, nversn therapy remas enmic many nservative, relig muni—and as Pray Away documents, is groundg a new generatn of believers s rhetoric as part of larger culture wars beg waged over gay and trans rights.
DON’T ‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ - WE’RE ‘BORN PERFECT’
But many of the movement’s early lears and figureheads have sce rented; many s g out (or back out) as gay and speakg out about the harm they experienced—and that they ed. This was also a product of [his] havg grown up a homophobic and transphobic environment, both terms of the world he was raised , but also specifilly the relig worldview.
And jt like much of male Christiany, Catholicism remas a homophobic and transphobic environment for many people.