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She came out to her mom at 17 and the next thing she knew she was being hustled off to conversion therapy.
Julie Rodgers is the author of Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story. She is a writer, speaker, and leader in the movement working for full inclusion for LGBTQ people in Christian communities. She is featured in Pray Away (2020), a documentary about the "pray the gay away” movement. A Netflix Original presented by Ryan Murphy, Pray Away will begin streaming on Netflix in August. Julie's writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Time.
She came out to her mom at 17 and the next thing she knew she was being hustled off to conversion therapy.