Before Columbus: Conversion
The religious conquest of Latin America
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The religious conquest of Latin America
A survivor of conversion therapy navigates the New York dating scene.
In this special report, VICE gets exclusive access to one of the hundreds of gay-conversion-therapy organisations, groups, and sessions in the United States. At the Journey into Manhood program, men pay more than $600 to
In 2019, some still consider homosexuality as a disease that needs to be cured. Focusing on movements with roots in the United States, which draw on both religion and psychiatry to justify so-called conversion therapies,
This message explains why divorce, alcohol and drug addiction, immorality, and abortion are so prevalent within the Church today. Are our churches really filled with true believers?
Straight is a hilarious and subversive excursion into the world of conversion therapy, where homosexuals are reputedly made straight. Join acclaimed writer/performer David Schmader as he plunges into the heart of this da
Two Mormon boys with a dark secret knock on an atheist woman's door, leading to an unexpected confrontation.
Rev. Horace Brightray, pastor of a New England village church, is ordered by his physician to seek another climate. He goes to Agua Caliente, where he attempts to hold services in the hotel dining room, but nobody attend
Hiram Flint is about to foreclose a mortgage on widow Wilson's ranch. Maude, the widow's daughter, pleads with Flint for further time. He says he might consider it and tries to make love to the girl, who spurns him. This
Simon Atkins is on a personal journey for BBC Three exploring different religious attitudes to being gay. He wants to find out if Judaism is more tolerant of his sexuality than his Catholic faith, but is it a case of bet
A titled Englishwoman proves more than a match for the fearsome Captain Brassbound.
An Unlikely Mormon shows the real Glenn Beck. But be careful, Glenn's enthusiasm for his faith is contagious. Glenn Beck is not the man he used to be. “My life changed,” says Glenn. “I may look the same. I may sound the
An Unlikely Mormon shows the real Glenn Beck. But be careful, Glenn's enthusiasm for his faith is contagious. Glenn Beck is not the man he used to be. “My life changed,” says Glenn. “I may look the same. I may sound the
Alma the Younger and the Sons of Mosiah rebel against their parents and work to destroy the church of Christ. In answer to their parents’ prayers, they are visited by an angel. Alma is struck as if dead and his soul suff
In Conversions II, the second in a trilogy of films interrogating the rigidity of gender binarism, the artist attempts to feminize his unquestionably male body by hiding his genitals between his legs. By casting his own
Lynn Marie Kirby’s Lenten Light Conversions is a “hybrid” work, created first by exposing raw film to light inside St. Ignatius during the forty days between Lent and Easter, then edited on digital video. --Michelle Hyun
The final installment of the Conversions trilogy.
In these three exercises, Acconci plays with trans-gender illusions, manipulating and altering his own body parts to suggest sexual transformations.
By illustrating the phenomenon of conversion therapy, Rien à guérir reminds us of the importance of reflection and ongoing education on the issue of minority rights. Their names are Mehdi, Jean-Philippe, Khadija, Fabienn