TY  - BOOK
AU  - Conley,Garrard
TI  - Boy erased: a memoir of identity, faith and family 
SN  - 9780008276980
U1  - 920.9306 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - William Collins
KW  - Conley, Garrard,
KW  - Gays
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Sexual reorientation programs
KW  - Identity
KW  - Ex-gay movement
KW  - Gay men
N1  - Movie tie-in; Originally published by Riverhead in the United States, 2016
N2  - The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to cure him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life. Through an institutionalised Twelve-Step Program heavy on Bible study, he was supposed to emerge heterosexual, ex-gay, cleansed of impure urges and stronger in his faith in God for his brush with sin. Instead, even when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Garrard found the strength and understanding to break out in search of his true self and forgiveness. By confronting his buried past and the burden of a life lived in shadow, Garrard traces the complex relationships among family, faith, and community. At times heartbreaking, at times triumphant, this memoir is a testament to love that survives despite all odds
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