Wednesday, April 29, 2020

No exodus: Pray Away

SEXUALITY: Former survivors & leaders of the gay conversion therapy movement contend with its aftermath.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. That aphorism could easily be the tagline for Kristine Stolakis’ debut feature Pray Away, which was selected for this year’s Tribeca Film Festival Documentary Competition. Stolakis, whose work is informed by an eclectic background in anthropology, journalism, politics, and community art, has crafted a fascinating character-centric study of a long-discredited movement that, nevertheless, continues to thrive. This in spite of its founders’ near-religiously zealous efforts to kill it off year after year.


To read my critique visit Modern Times Review.

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