Pray the Gay Away (2021)

 'Pray the Gay Away' is a Ryan Murphy produced documentary on the Evangelical gay conversion therapy movement, particularly a now defunct group called Exodus. The highlight of the film is seeing all these former members of Exodus leadership who have left the movement, a mass exodus if you will. Gay conversion therapy is now a highly discredited approach to dealing with homosexuality though it still has vocal advocates. One other thing I thought interesting about the film is seeing how many of these ex Exodus leaders stayed religious, of course migrating to more accepting churches. In a modern world where a major contemporary narrative is people leaving religion, to see those who fight so hard to hang on to it, despite having many reasons not to do so, is quite intriguing. ***