Pray Away

PRAY AWAY provides interviews with a handful of former leaders of the gay "conversion" movement, which used therapy and faith-based counseling to try to change people's sexual orientation or gender identity. The interviewees talk about their own journeys, how they became a part of the movement, and how they feel now about gay conversion, which opening credits affirm has been roundly denounced as harmful by most major medical and health agencies. Archive footage from interviews, meetings, church sessions, and national conferences shows how the movement gained steam and political sway in the 1990s and early 2000s. One subject who is still involved in his own faith-based campaign to help people overcome homosexuality is also profiled.