Boy Erased by Garrard Conley6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “No decision I have ever made will haunt me more.” ![]() Knowing now what I did not know then - that many young people who experience conversion therapy do not survive it - I am grateful every day that my son is alive. “At the time, we didn’t know about the scientific consensus that no therapy can change a child from gay to straight. She wrote: “My husband and I pressured Garrard to change his sexual orientation. In an opinion piece for the Miami Herald, Conley’s mother Martha has opened up about her son’s traumatising experience, and said that sending him to conversion therapy was the “biggest mistake of her life”. The mother of Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased, has said that putting her son through conversion therapy was the “biggest mistake of her life”.īoy Erased is based on the true story of conversion therapy survivor Garrard Conley, who, as a teenager, was sent to a Christian conversion camp to “cure” him of his homosexuality.Ĭonley wrote about his harrowing experiences in a 2016 memoir-which served as the source material for the 2018 film of the same name, written by Joel Edgerton. ![]()
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