“It’s undeniable that this movement causes harm,” said filmmaker Kristine Stolakis, whose late uncle hoped to 'cure' his trans identity with reparative therapy.
, who explain how they came to embrace reparative ― or “gay conversion” ― therapy, only to denounce the practice and acknowledge their true LGBTQ selves later.
Still, the film dispels the notion that the movement has diminished in scope even as the LGBTQ community has experienced major social and political strides. As one interviewee suggests, as long as “the underlying belief that there is something intrinsically disordered and change-worthy” about being LGBTQ exists, so will some form of conversion therapy.
Speaking to HuffPost, Stolakis said she first learned about conversion therapy from an uncle who was transgender. “He passed away a few weeks before I went to film school, and that was after a lifetime of deep mental health challenges ― addiction, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideations, all things I’ve learned are very common to people who go through this movement,” she said.The New Jersey-based filmmaker expected to encounter “people teaching LGBTQ people to hate themselves, essentially” when she met with former members of Exodus and other conversion therapy groups.
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