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Contents:

• 5 THGS I LEARNED AT A 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' CAMP
• ‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?
• IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY – DETRO
• PRAY THE GAY AWAY® THE MIL
• FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
• ‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE

5 THGS I LEARNED AT A 'PRAY AWAY THE GAY' CAMP

Few thgs are as pellg as a good story, and the Zakar Tws have mastered the art of storytellg, Pray the Gay Away foc on key issu today’s society. The book tak a edic look at the brothers’ journey om awkward teenagers fightg agast societal stereotyp post 9/11 Ameri, to livg separate liv while regnizg sexual and emotnal feelgs for other boys, to rejog their relatnship when they e out to each other, and to fally face the future together a world where gay is still a bad word and g out to their mom shattered and reformed their fay and relig Zakar Tws have ma several appearanc and have been terviewed several publitns as they promote their advocy for LGBT rights, which they believe start wh the dividual and the dividual’s journey.

They have appeared almost every gay magaze North Ameri sce 2015, cludg OUT Magaze, Instct, the Gay Letter. They have appeared on Comedy Central and terviewed by other pennt statns on their unique story the hop of normalizg LGBT the Gay Away has been self-published by Michael and Zach and is sellg on Amazon (#1 LGBT release s first day) and onle on Barn & Noble as the brothers start their natnal book tour. “Pray the Gay Away” tells the story of Michael and Zach Zakar g out to their mother who is a potty-mouthed, gay-hatg, vout Catholic.

‘PRAY AWAY THE GAY’ HAS GONE AWAY. WHY ARE GOVERNMENTS TRYG TO STOP IT?

"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.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRAY THE GAY AWAY?

In fact, they uldn't fd any trma to blame Sam's homosexualy on at all. 4 They Physilly Torture You For Beg Gay.

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.

PRAY THE GAY AWAY – DETRO

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.

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" 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.... I found out what a gay person looked like, and realized that was how I was supposed to act. 2 There's A Reason Some Gays Are So "Flamboyant".

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

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.

1 Both Fah And Homosexualy Can Be Equally Intolerant. I'm the middle ground: From some fah muni, I'm attacked for beg gay.

‘PRAY AWAY’ REVIEW: ATONG FOR AN ANTI-GAY STANCE

From some gay muni, I'm attacked as beg Christian. Fally some mon ground between tolerant homosexuals and tolerant Christians: tolerance!

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'.

Exod Internatnal, evangelilism’s flagship ex-gay mistry, shut down 2013 after former lear Alan Chambers said had ed pa and harm to too many people and that more than 99 percent of those who’d sought help there hadn’t actually experienced an orientatn change. While mistri cludg Exod Internatnal and Foc on the Fay ed to preach that homosexual sire should be elimated, most evangelil church, pastors, and mental health profsnals today emphasize chasty amid sir that might last a lifetime.