Posted on 06/20/2018 3:27:17 PM PDT by Ennis85
It's not unusual for a writer to dedicate a book to their parents - but for Garrard Conley to have dedicated Boy Erased to his mother and father and thanked them in the acknowledgements is more surprising, given that it is all about what they put him through.
They are the ones who told him he had to go through "gay conversion therapy" or leave the family forever.
Conley had been outed to his parents by his rapist after being assaulted in college. But, to his Baptist preacher father and his mother, the crime was in him being gay.
They lived in Arkansas, in Bible belt southern US, where it was taught that yoga is wrong and Harry Potter is evil. Conley, both terrified of (and conflicted by) his sexuality, felt at the time there was only one solution - to go through with the controversial practice.
"I had believed there were actual demons possessing me," Conley tells BBC News. "I had lived 18 years of my life in this almost cultish environment. It was cult-lite."
The programme he was sent to was "a full-on cult", he says, but he found the strength to break out of it and the path his family expected him to take.
He went on to study queer theory and is now living with his husband in New York, having written of his experiences in Boy Erased.
Now a film is being made of that memoir by actor and director Joel Edgerton, with Lucas Hedges starring as Conley. Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman will play his parents, with Troye Sivan starring as another victim of conversion therapy.
"I waited 10 years before I wrote a word of the book," Conley explains. "I was so worried about looking stupid -
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Worry no more.
Nicole Kidman’s career must have taken a dive to work for this trash.
Kinda concerned for Russell Crowe myself these days. Check out the gut on him in recent videos.
It's a crime in God's eyes. It's a deadly sin, just like adultery.
We live in a world that is pro-evil and anti-Christ.
He was sexually assaulted by a homosexual and bbc pink just glosses over that.
#MeToo
They seek to normalize their behavior to achieve easier access to MOLEST YOUR CHILDREN!
>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2009/06/05/a-major-study-of-child-abuse-and-homosexuality-revisited/<
On page 37, the other relevant result relates to men.
The 13th research question addressed, of homosexual men who have been molested, what percentage were molested before self-identification as homosexual men, and what percentage were molested after self-identification as homosexual? Of homosexual men who were molested, 68% were molested before self-identification as homosexual, and 32% were molested after self-identification as homosexual.
Homosexuals raping or killing folks seldom gets the air time that people even merely dissing homosexuals sometimes seems to get.
“..He went on to study queer theory ....”
Pffttt!!!
Destined for sure to be required reading in all public schools.
Maybe the best approach would have been to forget the therapy but just tell the kid that, while they still love him, his lifestyle is wrong and destructive of society, and they will not make it easy for him to spread his pervision to younger family members.
Harry Potter is not evil. It’s boring tripe.
CC
What theories do queers have and which have they proven false (rejecting their own premise)?
They lived in Arkansas, in Bible belt southern US, where it was taught that yoga is wrong and Harry Potter is evil. Conley, both terrified of (and conflicted by) his sexuality, felt at the time there was only one solution - to go through with the controversial practice.
yeah, so evil they had a Harry Potter convention.
Theres An Epic Harry Potter Convention Coming To Arkansas You Dont Want To Miss
The wizarding world of Harry Potter is arriving in Arkansas this month. The first annual DiaCON Alley of the Ozarks will be happening at the Fayetteville Town Center on March 17th, 2018. Wands at the ready as we Slytherin to take a peek.
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/arkansas/hp-con-ar/
Sandusky smiles......
Only if you dont care if your child burns in hell for all eternity
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