anti-LGBTQ movement ex-gay movement http://homosaurus.org/v2/ex-gayMovement http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005005425 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ex-gay_movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-gay_movement https://homosaurus.org/terms/ex-gayMovement https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q849216 Individuals and organizations that encourage people to refrain from entering or pursuing same-sex relationships, eliminate homosexual desires and to develop heterosexual desires, or to enter into a heterosexual relationship. It relies on the involvement of individuals who formerly identified themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual but no longer do; these individuals may either claim that they have eliminated their attraction to the same sex altogether or simply that they abstain from acting on such attraction. ex-gay movements The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies