Boy Erased: A Memoir
by Garrard Conleyliterary work· published 2016
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Boy Erased: A Memoir is a 2016 memoir by Garrard Conley recounting his childhood in a fundamentalist Arkansas family that enrolled him in conversion therapy. According to The Week, it aims to bridge the cultural divide—"one that makes gay conversion therapy seem a natural choice in some places and unfathomable in others". It was adapted into the 2018 film Boy Erased.
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Boy Erased: A Memoir was adapted into a 2018 film.
Boy Erased2018 · film · 115 min · dir. Joel Edgerton · IMDb ↗Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.
