{"id":2296,"date":"2021-07-20T21:54:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T04:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2021-07-21T14:34:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T21:34:22","slug":"boy-erased-a-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakingcodesilence.org\/boy-erased-a-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy Erased: A Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boy Erased: A Memoir<\/a> <\/strong>\u2013 By Garrard Conley\u00a0\u2013 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 \u201ccure\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>