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pray the gay away en · VERB

(US, informal) To attempt to alter one's homosexuality through prayer.
- Another part of me thought that after I was married—and living with, sleeping with, and spending time with a "real" girl—maybe all my feelings would magically go away. I hoped for that outcome with a renewed intensity. I guess it was my own version of "praying the gay away," although it was more like "praying the girl away." 2019, Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve, Seal Press, page 194:
- This was my secret problem, my sin, and I earnestly hoped and prayed nearly every day of my life that it would be taken away from me. But of course, because it was an intrinsic part of me (albeit a part that I hadn't yet come to embrace), I was never able to pray the gay away. 2014, Chris Dicken, Donny Wong, The Bumpy Road to Married Bliss, HarperCollins UK, →ISBN:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
pray away the gay		alternative	lexicographic
prayed the gay away	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
prayed the gay away	Tense=Past		lexicographic
praying the gay away	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
prays the gay away	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic