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Author Conley, Garrard, author.

Title Boy erased : a memoir of identity, faith, and family / Garrard Conley.

Publication Info. New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
©2016

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 Moore Stacks  HQ75.8.C665 A3 2018    Available  ---
Edition First Riverhead Books paperback movie tie-in edition.
Description 340 pages ; 21 cm
Summary "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 institutionalized 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 heart-breaking, at times triumphant, this memoir is a testament to love that survives despite all odds."--Publisher's website.
Subject Conley, Garrard.
Conley, Garrard.
Gays -- United States -- Biography.
Gays.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Conversion therapy -- United States.
Conversion therapy.
Ex-gay movement -- United States.
Ex-gay movement.
Gay people -- Identity.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Gays -- Identity.
Gay men -- United States.
Gay men.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Subject Homosexuals.
Ex-gay movement.
Gay men.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
ISBN 0525538984 (softcover)
9780525538981 (softcover)
9781594633010