🚨 Content Warning: This episode discusses conversion therapy, religious trauma, and anti-LGBTQ+ practices. Listener discretion is advised.

In this explosive episode of Queer Story Time, host Stevie sits down with Matt Ashcroft (Matt Ash TV on YouTube) and Wayne Besen (Truth Wins Out), two fierce advocates exposing the pseudoscience and deep harm behind conversion therapy.

This episode doesn’t hold back as Matt and Wayne reveal:

• 🔍 Jayson Graves’ harmful practices and connections to the ex-gay movement
• Matt and Wayne share their firsthand experiences, discuss the global resurgence of ex-gay ministries, and reveal the dangerous influence of right-wing megachurches and authoritarian governments in fueling anti-LGBTQ+ movements.
• They also call out major organizations like The Trevor Project for their questionable role in advocacy and funding, and break down how conversion therapy groups continue to rebrand and infiltrate mainstream society.

If you've ever wondered about the real dangers of conversion therapy, the financial power behind anti-LGBTQ+ movements, or how to fight back and protect queer youth, this is an episode you cannot afford to miss.

Topics Covered in This Episode

✔️ The hidden power structures keeping conversion therapy alive

✔️ How wealthy megachurches and right-wing governments fund anti-LGBTQ+ movements

✔️ The false hope & emotional manipulation used by ex-gay ministries

✔️ Why conversion therapy is a fraudulent, harmful practice that never works

✔️ How survivors can reclaim their identity, power, and truth

✔️ The global expansion of conversion therapy, from Hungary to Russia

✔️ What YOU can do to expose, fight, and end these harmful practices

👉 Tune in now and join the fight against conversion therapy!

Key Quotes from This Episode

• 🗣️ "Conversion therapy is built on a house of cards—of lies. It didn’t work in 1998, and it won’t work in 2025." – Wayne Besen
• 🗣️ "The love bombing you’re experiencing is fake. The moment you start being yourself, they will abandon you." – Matt Ashcroft
• 🗣️ "Survivors, we need your voice. The only way we win this is through education, not silence." – Stevie

Where to Find Our Guests

• 📌 Matt Ashcroft (Survivor, Advocate, Content Creator)
• 📺 YouTube: Matt Ash TV
• 📌 Wayne Besen (Founder of Truth Wins Out, LGBTQ+ Advocate)
• 🌎 Website: Truth Wins Out

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Host: Stevie Inghram, M.S., YT, AWC, NMS-4 (She/They)