?We were doing what we thought God wanted us to do.? If one constantly hears they are sinful when they go to church, they may quit going?or, they may seek to change. For LGBTQ+ people, for several decades, this often meant trying not to be gay?to change their life. Pray Away, from director Kristine Stolakis,…
I recently had a chance to visit via Zoom with Kristine Stolakis, the director of Pray Away, a Netflix documentary about the ?ex-gay? movement and conversion therapy that hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ+ people underwent in the last fifty years. The basis of that therapy has been discredited and denounced by medical and psychological groups…
The films I?ve chosen for today are very much focused on issues that touch the lives of many people. These are films that in many ways are ?ripped from headlines?. It?s worth noting that two of the films include coverage of issues dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, even though that is not the main point…
Based on the memoir of Garrard Conley, and written and directed by Joel Edgerton, Boy Erased?is based on a true story that shows us the struggle of coming out, particularly in a religious home, and the dangers of conversion therapy. Jared Eamons (Lucas Hedges) was the son of a pastor and grew up in a…
