Occasionally, a seminal work appears that becomes a defining piece, a turning point, or breakthrough in a particular area. Considering the religious LGBTQ conversion movement, the Netflix documentary Pray Away could very well be that work.
It’s definitely a MUST SEE, MUST SHARE documentary.After mental health professional organisations realised that gay and lesbian people were not sick and their decades of cruel, and at time barbaric treatments, had failed, the Christian Church stepped into the space.
The “ex-gay” movement, later to become more commonly known as “conversion therapy”, was born. This was not solely a US phenomenon though, as I was in a Christian residential program to become straight in 1972, four years before Exodus was.