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Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:30
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 Film Documentary on
Ex Gay Movement Released
Psychiatrists' Work Now Commercially Available
The Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists documentary film have announced the release of their film, Abomination: Homosexuality and the Ex-Gay Movement, now available through its website, http://www.aglp.org/, Amazon.com and CustomFlix, the distributor (http://www.customflix.com/Store/ShowEStore.jsp?id=226180).
The release of Abomination: Homosexuality and the Ex-Gay Movement marks the culmination of a three-year effort by the AGLP to counter an increasing amount of misinformation about gay people and homosexuality which is being put forth in the media.
"This documentary is AGLP's professional response to those who have made it their mission to pathologize homosexuality to religious communities for an increasingly political goal," it said in a press release, adding that "Abomination: Homosexuality and the Ex-Gay Movement poignantly illustrates how these so called "therapies" have left devastated individuals and families in their wake."
The film's staff includes Director/Producer: Alicia Salzer, MD, and Co-Producer/Camera/Editor: Anat Salomon. It is a thirty one minute DVD. The film profiles the journeys of four gay Christians who did everything possible to become heterosexual by following the “treatment” protocols of the so-called ex-gay ministries.
At times heartbreaking, at other times hilarious, the approaches taken by these religious groups range from shock therapy and hypnosis to “gender coaching.” Ultimately the “therapy” fails, even for the ministers in charge as they repeatedly scandalize themselves by "relapsing into gayness".
Some of “Abomination’s” subjects spent decades in torment before they ultimately re-defined every aspect of their values, morals and beliefs to allow themselves to accept a gay and Christian identity. But self-acceptance eluded Mary Lou’s daughter, Ana, who committed suicide. Her daughter’s death causes a change of heart in this fundamentalist Christian mother who comes to realize that “Jesus Christ himself would not have treated her the way I did”.
“Abomination” is a poignant testimony to the healing power of love on the road to self-acceptance. It is also a film about human rights and the fragility of our liberty in an increasingly fundamentalist America.
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