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Pray the Gay Away: Rhetorical Dilemmas of the American Ex-Gay Movement

Webster, Travis Allan

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2008, Master of Arts, Miami University, English: Composition and Rhetoric.
The Ex-Gay Movement marks a contemporary, traditionally North American emergence of "reparative" therapies and ministries that attempt to convert gay men and lesbians into "straight" identities. Pray the Gay Away theorizes these reparative rhetoric(s) as arenas that create discursive spaces of tension - what I call "second closets” for "ex-gays" in virtual and material contexts. Through digital, rhetorical analyses, this thesis investigates the performative and linguistic reactions of ex-gays exhibited in online testimonies on pro-ex-gay websites, while examining rhetoric(s) of counter-hegemonic, online communities that seek to work against the Ex-Gay Movement.
LuMing Mao, Dr. (Committee Chair)
Michele Simmons, Dr. (Committee Member)
Madelyn Detloff, Dr. (Committee Member)
52 p.

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  • Webster, T. A. (2008). Pray the Gay Away: Rhetorical Dilemmas of the American Ex-Gay Movement [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1217868518

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Webster, Travis. Pray the Gay Away: Rhetorical Dilemmas of the American Ex-Gay Movement. 2008. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1217868518.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Webster, Travis. "Pray the Gay Away: Rhetorical Dilemmas of the American Ex-Gay Movement." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1217868518

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)