TY  - BOOK
AU  - Conley,Garrard
AU  - Hansen,André
TI  - Boy Erased
SN  - 978-0-00-829490-8
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Zürich
PB  - Secession Verlag für Literatur
KW  - Schwul
KW  - Autobiografie
KW  - Religion
KW  - Queer in der Kirche
N2  - 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 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 stronger in his faith in God for his brush with sin. Instead, even when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Garrard found the strength and understanding to break out in search of his true self and forgiveness. 

By confronting his buried past and the burden of a life lived in shadow, Garrard traces the complex relationships among family, faith, and community. At times heart-breaking, at times triumphant, this memoir is a testament to love that survives despite all odds.
Garrard Conley is the author of the acclaimed memoir

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