Official This Is What Love In Action Looks Like Teaser 2011

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In the summer of 2005, Zach, a 16-year-old boy from Memphis, Tennessee wrote on his MySpace blog that he had told his parents he was gay. Within days of his coming out, his mother and father would send him to Love In Action (LIA), a fundamentalist Christian program that refers to homosexuality as an addictive behavior. The depressed and fearful teenager shared his feelings on his blog.

"This Is What Love In Action Looks Like" documents the widely controversial and inspirational story of what The New York Times referred to as "A modern day message in a bottle."

In the documentary, former Love In Action director John Smid as well as former adult and teenage clients share their hearts on these experiences. In addition, local bloggers, community activists and classmates of Zach tell their stories of becoming involved with what would become an international news story.

Concerned people around the world awaited news of how Zach was doing during his eight weeks in Refuge. By the time he emerged in late July 2005, there was a barrage of headlines in the international press, including Good Morning America, CNN, The New York Times, Time Magazine and The Advocate among others.

In the years since it began, with all the media coverage and investigations, Zach had declined to tell his story. Until now. The teenager whose MySpace blogs began it all gives an exclusive interview for the documentary.

"This Is What Love In Action Looks Like," is directed by award winning filmmaker Morgan Jon Fox ("Blue Citrus Hearts," "OMG/HaHaHa").

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[choongd]

Christian conversion therapy : Fear, self-hatred, denial, guilt, conditional love, humiliation, suppression, subjugation, paranoia and superstition.

All in all, I have to admit, it is a very powerful psychological cocktail. It's bound to produce results. Just not the kind they think that they're getting but whatever, such is life.

[thesloopyable]

Hi Zach,

I wrote to you and prayed for you at the time. Your wonderful girlfriend wrote back and I knew by those things she said of you, as well as your own words, then and later, that you would survive and make this world a better place for all to live. You inspired me and I used your story to help suicidal gay youth understand their significance and their parents to understand the harm of reparative therapy.

God bless you

[CinnabonChan]

I really hope these disgusting pseudoscience brainwashing camps are exposed for what they are. If the people who ran them were treated the same way in prison, it would actually be an abuse of their human rights.

[doobiesmoke15]

So what happened to him?