The history of Exodus International spans further than the hour and a half documentary that sits down with some of the group's ex-members. Netflix's newest documentary Pray Away, from executive producers Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum, and director Kristine Stolakis, picks the organization apart eight years after it officially came to a close. Though the group had varying levels of influence from its 1976 founding to its 2013 dissolution, Exodus International is undoubtedly one of the most damaging Christian organizations to exist in the last half-century. Over the course of nearly 40 years, a group called Exodus International had a chokehold on the 'ex-gay' movement-a religious push suggesting that with work and therapy, people in the LGBTQ+ community could 'undo' their queerness.
