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Author Conley, Garrard, author.

Title Boy erased : a memoir / Garrard Conley.

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

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Location Call No. Public Note Status
 Davis Adult Biography  B CONLEY    DUE 04-09-24
 Davis Adult Biography  B CONLEY    CHECK SHELVES
Description 340 pages ; 22 cm
Content type text txt rdacontent
Format volume nc rdacarrier
Summary "A poignant account by a survivor of a church-supported sexual orientation conversion therapy facility that claimed to 'cure' homosexuality describes its intense Bible study program and the daily threats of his abandonment by family, friends and God, an experience that transformed the author's relationships and self-understandings"--NoveList.
"The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small-town Arkansas, Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality as a young man. 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, because of his brush with sin, stronger in his faith in God. Instead, even when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Garrard found the strength and understanding to search for his true self, empathy, and forgiveness. By examining and excavating 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"--Dust jacket.
Note The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. TXA
Contents "The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small-town Arkansas, Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality as a young man. 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, because of his brush with sin, stronger in his faith in God. Instead, even when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Garrard found the strength and understanding to search for his true self, empathy, and forgiveness. By examining and excavating 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." -- Dust jacket
Audience 1080L Lexile
Subject Conley, Garrard.
Gay people -- United States -- Biography.
Conversion therapy -- United States.
Ex-gay movement -- United States.
Gay people -- Identity.
Gay men -- United States.
Children’s Subject Gay people -- Biography.
Gay people -- Identity.
Genre Autobiographies.
Cover Title Boy erased : memoir of identity, faith, and family
ISBN 9781594633010 (hardback)
1594633010 (hardback)
9780735213463 (paperback)
9780525538981
0525538984
40026189944