Boy erased : a memoir of identity, faith and family /
by Conley, Garrard.
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BookPublisher: London : William Collins, [2019]Description: 340 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780008294908 (pbk.) :; 0008294909 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 920 CONSubject(s): Conley, Garrard | Gays -- United States -- Biography | Sexual reorientation programs -- United States | Ex-gay movement -- United States | Biography | Biography | Gay/Lesbian InterestSummary: 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 19-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 programme that promised to 'cure' him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends and the God he had prayed to every day of his life.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Paperback | Southport Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 920 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002963763X |
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Originally published: United States: Riverhead, 2016.
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 19-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 programme that promised to 'cure' him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends and the God he had prayed to every day of his life.
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