"pray the gay away" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prays the gay away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "praying the gay away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prayed the gay away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prayed the gay away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pray away the gay",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pray the gay away (third-person singular simple present prays the gay away, present participle praying the gay away, simple past and past participle prayed the gay away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "trans the gay away"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Chris Dicken, Donny Wong, The Bumpy Road to Married Bliss, HarperCollins UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To attempt to alter one's homosexuality through prayer."
      ],
      "id": "en-pray_the_gay_away-en-verb-bua182hs",
      "links": [
        [
          "homosexuality",
          "homosexuality"
        ],
        [
          "prayer",
          "prayer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, chiefly US) To attempt to alter one's homosexuality through prayer."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "conversion therapy"
        },
        {
          "word": "reparative therapy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pray the gay away"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "trans the gay away"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prays the gay away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "praying the gay away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prayed the gay away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prayed the gay away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pray away the gay",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pray the gay away (third-person singular simple present prays the gay away, present participle praying the gay away, simple past and past participle prayed the gay away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "conversion therapy"
    },
    {
      "word": "reparative therapy"
    }
  ],
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        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English rhyming phrases",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Chris Dicken, Donny Wong, The Bumpy Road to Married Bliss, HarperCollins UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To attempt to alter one's homosexuality through prayer."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "homosexuality",
          "homosexuality"
        ],
        [
          "prayer",
          "prayer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, chiefly US) To attempt to alter one's homosexuality through prayer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pray the gay away"
}