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A gay youth is sent to a Christian-backed gay conversion camp by his parents which ignites protests against the organization. An important and emotional documentary on the on-going religious intolerance against homosexuality.

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A stirring documentary about gay teens who are sent to a Christian fundamentalist conversion camp by their parents and the young people who eventually fought against it.
This is What Love in Action Looks Like comes from Morgan Jon Fox, the director behind OMG/HaHaHa, Away (A)wake and Blue Citrus Hearts.
This is an important work that shows that, while it is still not entirely accepted - or even safe - to grow up gay in conservative Christian environments, we can always take a stand for what is right.

Review

When 16-year-old Zach told his parents that he was gay, they panicked, believed that something was psychologically wrong with him and then sent him to Love In Action, a religious organization that promises to “cure” homosexuality. Founded in 1973, Love in Action is the oldest and largest ex-gay organization in the US and takes the position that homosexuality is strictly behavioral and can be cured. Originally for adults, they had recently begun a program for teens, many sent involuntarily. Their draconian methods for sexual “redemption” prompted filmmaker Morgan Jon Fox to both become active in the ensuing protest against the group as well as document it all through interviews with several youths who had been in the program, the then current director of "Love in Action" (himself, a “former gay”) and the many young protesters who were compelled to mobilize against the organization.

An important look at gay youth, intolerance and skewed religious beliefs.

-- Raymond Murray