Garrard Conley

Boy Erased

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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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304 printed pages
Original publication
2018
Publication year
2018
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    I knew it would be impossible to ignore this movie, that my parents would soon be calling to ask if I’d seen it, and I thought seeing it with Charles and Dominique might give me some perspective, allow me to mock it in some way
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    Then, one night in early May, for reasons I can’t remember, something drew me to his dorm. It could have been the crushing loneliness I often felt during that period of my life.
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    The counselor wasn’t here, not in this place, though he had already patterned his thoughts into the white mass my mind had become.

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