“Welcome to our crisis, already in progress,” says fellow camper Darcy Culpepper to Connor Major, the hero of Adam Sass’s phenomenal new debut YA horror novel Surrender Your Sons. It’s Connor’s first morning at Nightlight Ministries, the gay conversion therapy camp to which he’s been dragged by the burly men his mother hired to kidnap... Continue Reading →
Film Review: Pray Away ★★★★1/2
Featured in Tribeca 2020’s Awards Competition, Pray Away looks at the destructive history of conservative Christian “reparative therapy”, a shocking misnomer for a practice with no medical or psychological basis. Through the stories of key “defectors” from the movement, the compelling documentary examines a contradictory worldview of trying to help when it's actually hurting. The... Continue Reading →