Some items are only available on campus or will require authentication via EUID and Password at the point of use.

Advanced Search

Boy erased: a memoir

Garrard Conley
Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:
New York : Riverhead Books, 2016

AvailabilityUpdate URL to this section

Location Call Number Availability Request
HQ75.8.C665 A3 2016 Ask at the Service Desk Request pickup

More Details

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.
Author/Creator:
Conley, Garrard , author
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Boy erased: a memoir [by Conley, G.]
Subjects:
Conley, Garrard
Gay people — United States — Biography
Conversion therapy — United States
Ex-gay movement — United States
Gay people — Identity
Gay men — United States
Gays
Sexual reorientation programs
Ex-gay movement
Gays — Identity
Gay men.
United States
Genres:
Autobiographies
Biographies
Physical Description:
340 pages ; 22 cm
Call Numbers:
HQ75.8.C665 A3 2016
ISBNs:
9781594633010
1594633010
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
2015024641
OCLC Numbers:
912140697