Saving Alex : when I was fifteen I told my Mormon parents I was gay, and that's when my nightmare began
Title:
Saving Alex : when I was fifteen I told my Mormon parents I was gay, and that's when my nightmare began
Author:
Cooper, Alex, 1994- author.
ISBN:
9780062374608
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY :
HarperOne,
[2016?]
©2016
Physical Description:
248 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue : dead end -- Families are forever -- Cracks in the plan -- Just this one girl -- Opening up -- "Get out. Just go!" -- Welcome to Utah -- "I'm going to be here a long time" -- "You think you are gay, but that's not how God made you." -- Free to choose -- The burden of homosexuality -- Invisible -- Giving in -- Going back to school -- Can't take another day -- Safe -- Going home -- Standing strong -- Moving on -- Sharing my story.
Abstract:
The author recalls her experiences as a teenager in an unlicensed Mormon treatment program intended to cure her of lesbianism, detailing the beatings, verbal abuse, and cruelty she endured, as well as the historic legal case surrounding it.
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