340 pages
English language
Published Feb. 7, 2017
4 stars
(3 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- Sexuality
- Biography
- Gay men
- Ex-gay movement
- Sexual reorientation programs
- Childhood and youth
- Identity
Places
- United States
- Arkansas