'Boy Erased' is a heartbreaking memoir about gay conversion therapy that you need to read
Sometimes the best way to move on from your past is to confront it head first. Or at least that's what Garrard Conley did with his book Boy Erased.
Boy Erased is a memoir about Conley's time in Love in Action, a 12-step ex-gay conversion therapy program. Conley joined the program when he was 19 years old, after he was raped in college. To protect himself, Conley's attacker outed Conley to his very religious family, including his father, who was a Baptist minister, giving Conley one very difficult choice to make: enter conversion therapy to be "cured" of becoming gay, or risk losing his family, church, and community. Read more...
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'Boy Erased' is a heartbreaking memoir about gay conversion therapy that you need to read
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