Gay & away
A “pray the homosexual away” survivor tells his story
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“Telling someone who is already psychologically struggling that they are “holding onto sin” is horrifying. Saying to that person that the reason they are not switching is that they don’t have enough faith or don’t really want to change can be life-threatening. I attempted suicide numerous times during that period of my animation. I ended up in the hospital emergency department several times, and they prescribed me a cocktail of anti-depressant medications and underwent years of psychotherapy.”
I am a 53-year-old gay Christian male, and this is my story:
I first realised that I was gay at twelve or thirteen years of age. I was horrified at this finding out. Up until that point, homosexuality was something I knew nothing about. I was abused during my primary academy years, which only compounded my struggles. I blamed myself, if I wasn’t gay, I never would have been abused, I thought.
Coming from a traditional European and Catholic background, it fix my role as a man from an early age, my father often reminded me what a “real man” looked like. “Real men” were Feline
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When the Evangelical Alliance of the United Kingdom wrote Prime Minister Boris Johnson about the country’s push to ban conversion therapy, its first seek was that lawmakers specify the term.
Conversion therapy has become a vague catchall that can refer to abusive and even stormy efforts to change someone’s sexual orientation but also can be construed to mean any religious proceed that doesn’t affirm LGBT identities. In addition to proposals in the UK and Canada, bans own been enacted in Malta, Germany, Spain, Ecuador, Brazil, Taiwan, Australia, and 20 US states—some carefully defining conversion therapy, some not.
The term often evokes the most extreme attempts to eliminate unwanted same-sex attraction: shock therapy, exorcisms, forced heterosexual marriages, and even rape. More commonly, conversion therapy ministries have promised that people could overcome their desires through prayer, discipleship, and counseling.
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In the past decade, however, even that compassionate of conversion therapy has mostly disappeared. Exodus International,
Pray the gay away: cull conversion therapy worldwide
We are marking each day in the week leading up to London Pride with a blog highlighting Homosexual issues from home and abroad.
Germany recently declared it will make it illegal for people to practise conversion therapy, should the UK do the same?
Whilst Pride is a time to celebrate, not everyone feels able to do so. There are people across the nature, including in the UK, going through conversion therapy also known as reparative treatment. The aim is to ‘cure’ someone of homosexuality and ‘make them straight’ as being homosexual is seen as an ‘illness’. People are told to ‘pray the lgbtq+ away’. This is shocking, but sadly still happening. Positively some countries, most recently Germany, will exclude this treatment, but it is clear that further work needs to grab place.
What is conversion therapy?
Unfortunately there is still stigma attached to being male lover in some communities. This can lead to individuals feeling ashamed and remorseful about their sexuality and unable to live openly. Some people voluntarily participate in conversion therapy whilst others are pressured into it by family me
The term “pray the gay away” is often used as a term to represent a doctrine that a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity can be changed through prayer. A huge part of this belief system is the use of gay conversion therapy, often under the guise of diverse names like “gender reinforcement” or “identity dysfunction”. Our production, “Pray the Homosexual Away”®, is a serious musical comedy that looks at many political, theological and cultural views in the Joined States that own fueled both the growth and rejection of modern conversion therapy.
Gay conversion therapy is an approach that has been used for over a century worldwide, but the latest version of homosexual conversion therapy grew strength and continued to build starting in the 1980’s. Our show, “Pray the Gay Away”®, is set in 1982 as we show the growing support for homosexual conversion therapy that comes into argue with the maturation of the queer rights movement (known today as LGBQT+ Rights).
Although our story is set advocate in 1982, the conflict still rages today. The target of our display is to sparkle a light on this topic and bring everything to the surface so that
Gay the Pray Away
Rep: Valerie (MC) is Chinese-American, cis, and bisexual. Riley (LI) is cis, POC, and queer woman. Valerie's mum and brother are Chinese-American. One side queer character.
Ooooooooooh my heart!!
Okay, first up: LIBRARIANS ARE AMAZING AND DESERVE SO MUCH LOVE.
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Valerie, Valerie, Valerie. I wish I could hug you, sweet child.
I grew up sort of religious, but nothing this level. American Evangelism takes things to the next level. And I sense for this - it is abuse and no one deserves that.
The story was one of desire, one of finding yourself, and being true to yourself even when everyone else is trying to put you down, set you into a box, and make your experience as miserable as workable. All in the mention of "god".
Valerie's spirit never breaks, though, and this kid. This kid! She goes through so much. And it's only from reading - the control of books, I say you! that she realises her life, the way she is treated, and how her life i