Actress Chloë Grace Moretz has opened up about her own family's brush with the ideology behind 'conversion therapy', offering a touching insight into the plot of her new film, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, in which she plays a gay teenager who is sent to a treatment centre called God's Promise.
“I have two gay brothers. We were raised in small town in northwest Georgia [in a] very Christian baptist town," Moretz said.
"So when my brothers came out, it was fairly jarring to the community."
She continued, reflecting on her family's spirit of acceptance: "We were very blessed to have my mother who was very progressive, but nonetheless, they dealt with a lot of self-hate when they came out.
"And they tried to – which is very common in the community that we grew up in – 'pray the gay away' on their own before coming out to the family, which I was unaware of during the time.
"[It’s] shocking."
The actress also cemented her role as an LGBTIQ+ activist, saying: ‘I’m very much an activist. I’ve been an advocate and an ally for the LGBT community for a very long time."
She added: "The content I’m putting out is some form of activism."
