Former ‘ex-gay’ leader: Programs are harmful and don’t work.

John Smid once ran the "ex-gay" group Love in Action, recently portrayed in the film Boy Erased by Joel Edgerton. Smid now breaks his silence on his earlier work.

The new film, Boy Erased, has sparked heightened interest in sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE). The movie tells the story of a young gay man whose religiously conservative family, desperate to turn him from gay-to-straight, enrolls him in Love In Action…