The Pray Away Netflix documentary will center on the rise of the “Pray the Gay Away” movement as told by former members of Exodus International, a group founded in the 1970s by a five “ex-gay” men in an evangelical church who felt prayer and their faith could cure them of their hoxosexuality and find out why they were that way.
What followed, and what will be told in Pray Away, was the formation of the largest conversion therapy organization the world has ever seen.
In the years following the rise of Exodus International, many of its core members, who were superstars of the religious right for a time, have expressed regret for their actions and the movement they helped start and push all those years ago.
What started out as a small group became something much larger and dangerous in the years following after the men received 25,000 letters from people in similar situations who also wanted to be cured.