Netflix’s ‘Pray Away’ examines the ex-LGBTQ movement through survivors and former leaders
conversion therapy, the so-called ex-gay movement is very much alive and thriving. Whether fueled by religion, politics, or pseudo-psychology, the movement’s belief system — which teaches people that being gay, bi, trans, or gender-nonconforming is a sin or sickness, a faulty trait to be eradicated through piety and prayer, or by clinical intervention — persists, and persistently causes irrevocable harm in the lives of the most vulnerable.“We know that nearly 700,000 people have gone through this in the U.S.