Pray away the gay camp

The Lies and Dangers of Efforts to Modify Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity

Organizational Positions on Reparative Therapy

Declaration on the Impropriety and Dangers of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts

We, as national organizations standing for millions of licensed medical and mental health nurture professionals, educators, and advocates, come together to articulate our professional and scientific consensus on the impropriety, inefficacy, and detriments of practices that seek to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender culture, commonly referred to as “conversion therapy.”

We withstand firmly together in sustain of legislative and policy efforts to curtail the unscientific and dangerous perform of sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts.

American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry

"The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry finds no evidence to support the application of any “therapeutic intervention” operating under the premise that a specific sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression is patho

Leaving Gay Lifestyle

leaving lgbtq+ lifestyle

Alliance for Therapeutic Choice
The Alliance exists to encourage human flourishing by promoting a more finalize truth, informed by Judeo-Christian values and natural law, about the science of sexual orientation and biological sex through education, advocacy, clinical training for mental health therapists, and referral for professional mental health counseling. 

Changed
CHANGED is a society of friends who once identified as LGBTQ+. Today, we celebrate the adore of Jesus and His freedom in our lives.

Courage
Courage is an apostolate of the Catholic Church that ministers to those with queer attractions and their loved ones. This website is obtainable in English, Spanish, German and French. This website applications contact information for the central office in Connecticut; chapter listings in each state; member testimonies; conferences; retreats; sports camps; and communication about Priests with Courage, priests who minister to persons struggling with homosexuality; and information about EnCourage, a ministry that helps relatives and f

Netflix’s Pray Away shows us the horrors of religious conversion practices - here’s why we need a ban without exceptions

Netflix’s new documentary Pray Away follows the actions of Exodus, a religious group who told LGBTQ+ members – and their families – that they could change who they were. 

This essential film follows survivors and former leaders of the group, many of whom have now renounced the ‘church’.

While it can be easy to think of conversion practices as something of the past, they can – and do – still happen to lesbian, gay, bi, trans, homosexual, intersex and ace people across the United Kingdom today.

So, what actually are conversion practices?

Conversion practices are any intervention that seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Conversion practices work towards one purpose, and that goal is to ‘cure’ someone from being sapphic, gay, bi, trans, ace, intersex and/or queer.

Conversion practices are one-directional: the intention is to earn a person to change or cancel their sexual orientation or gender identity. This is the opposite of ap

Michele Bachmann Clinic: Where You Can Pray Away the Gay?

July 11, &#; -- A former patient who sought help from the Christian counseling clinic owned by GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, told ABC News he was advised that prayer could rid him of his queer urges and he could eventually be "re-oriented."

"[One counselor's] path for my therapy would be to read the Bible, pray to God that I would no longer be gay," said Andrew Ramirez, who was years-old at the time he sought help from Bachmann & Associates in suburban Minneapolis in "And God would forgive me if I were straight."

In the past, Marcus Bachmann has disputed the clinic has treated gay patients this way. But Ramirez's account, which was first reported by The Nation, is similar to the counseling session that appears on modern undercover video shot by a gay rights activism group last month. That footage shows another counselor at the Bachmann clinic telling a gay gentleman posing as a patient that, with prayer and effort, he could eventually lea