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«It took really hard work to get my brain canada goose parka outlet back and to recover canada goose outlet shop from the emotional and psychological damage that I had experienced under that care,» Peterson Toscano, a theatrical performance activist, stated on NPR. Toscano spent 17 years in canada goose jacket outlet store conversion therapies and faith based ex gay programs. Today he’s the co founder of «Beyond Ex Gay,» an online community to help ex gay survivors.

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For example, «Pray the Gay Away?,» an episode of the television series Our America with Lisa Ling, that aired on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network on March 8 of this year, Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International, an ex gay organization, spoke about his sure fire remedy for us LGBTQ «prodigal» children, and how his organization can help us reconcile our faith, mend our sinful lives, and finally walk away from our supposedly wrong headed «lifestyle» choice.

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«It meant probably walking away from my religion, not having the wife and children of my future that I would expect, lots of shame and conflict with family and others. It was just devastating to contemplate,» Rich Wyler, who grew up in a Christian conservative family, stated on NPR.

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canada goose store Paulk, a former drag queen known as Candi and a one time first runner up in the Miss Ingenue Pageant, is presently married to a self proclaimed former lesbian who also underwent counseling in an «ex gay» ministry run by Exodus International. Today, they both don the drag of being heterosexually married. They prominently graced the cover of Newsweek in August 1998, appeared on 60 Minutes and Oprah, and wrote the book that gave Focus on the Family its name for its «ex gay» conferences: Love Won Out, a memoir depicting the Paulks’ flight from gayhood. canada goose store

«Conversion» therapies are a tool used by right wing religious organizations to raise money and advocate against LGBTQ civil rights.