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‘Love In Action’ Ex-Gay Ministry Closes Residential Program | Ex-gay survivor Peterson Toscano reports today that Love in Action has apparently ended its ex-gay residential program in Memphis. LIA was founded in 1973 shortly after the American Psychological Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder and is the oldest established ministry of Exodus International. It also has affiliations with Focus on the Family and the American Family Association. LIA will continue to offer harmful Christian-based ex-gay therapy, but no longer through a live-in facility. A similar live-in ministry targeting youth, known as Love In Action’s “Refuge” program, shut down in 2007. The demise of Refuge is chronicled in the new documentary film, “This Is What Love In Action Looks Like.”