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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A poignant account by a survivor of a church-supported sexual orientation conversion therapy facility that claimed to "cure" homosexuality describes its intense Bible study program and the daily threats of his abandonment by family, friends and God, an experience that transformed the author's relationships and self-understandings,"--NoveList.
"The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small-town Arkansas, Garrard Conley was...
2) Conversion
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
A psychologist practicing conversion therapy has a chance encounter with a young gay activist, resulting in a change of heart.
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham met as teens at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy program-the dubious, unscientific, Christian practice meant to change a person's sexuality. After witnessing a devastating tragedy, they escaped in the night, only to take separate roads to their distant homes. They have no idea how each has fared through the years. Delia is a college basketball coach who prides herself on being an empowering...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
""A joyful, furious romp through dark places, Tingle proves he's as good at fear as he is at love." --T. Kingfisher, bestselling author of What Moves the Dead From beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus is a searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community face in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down. Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart...
Publisher
FilmRise
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cameron is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car. Run by the strict and severe Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, the center is built upon repenting for same sex attraction. In the face of intolerance and denial, Cameron meets a group of fellow sinners, including the amputee stoner Jane and her friend, the Lakota Two-Spirit Adam. Together, this group of teenagers forms...
Author
Publisher
Duet of Interlude Press, an imprint of Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Nicolas 'Nico' Hall is sixteen when he escapes from Dr. H's religious gay reprogramming institute in California. On his own, he assumes one identity after another to avoid recapture as he flees south to Peru and then to Mexico. Seven days older than Nico, Samuel 'Sam' Jonas Solomon is a privileged Upper West Side only child who idolizes James Bond. When his heart is broken, he vows that, like Bond, he's never going to trust in love again. Then he...
9) Act cool
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Transgender teen and aspiring actor August lands a spot at a prestigious performing arts high school in New York City, but he struggles to move past the life he left behind, with conservative parents who wanted to send him to conversion therapy.
10) Boy erased
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his parents. His parents struggle with reconciling their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends, and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into conflict with its leader and begins his journey to finding...
11) Cuckoo
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From Gretchen Felker-Martin, the acclaimed author of Manhunt, comes a vicious new novel about a group of teens who must stay true to themselves while in a conversion camp from hell. "A soaring, boundless ode to queer survival. It's flat-out mesmerizing."-Paul Tremblay, author of The Pallbearers. Club Something evil is buried deep in the desert. It wants your body. It wears your skin. In the summer of 1995, seven queer kids abandoned by their parents...
12) Boy erased
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jared, the son of a Baptist preacher, is forcibly outed by his parents and forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program.
Author
Publisher
Brown Paper Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The Inheritance of Shame details the six years author Peter Gajdics spent in a bizarre form of conversion therapy that attempted to "cure" him of his homosexuality. Kept with other patients in a cult-like home in British Columbia, Canada, Gajdics was under the authority of a dominating, rogue psychiatrist who controlled his patients, in part, by creating and exploiting a false sense of family. Juxtaposed against his parents' tormented past -- his...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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...
16) Blessed cure
Author
Publisher
Soaring Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Since he was a child, Acacio do Nascimento was a different boy from others. He rather playing with dolls to playing soccer, the hula hoop interested him more than cowboy pistols. Scared by the possibility of their son was a homosexual, Mara and Galdino submit Acacio since he was five years old to several treatments for him to become a normal boy like the others. In 1990 the World Health Organization (WHO) stopped considering homosexuality a disease....
17) LGBTQ+
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night. Titles include: The Danish Girl ; Call Me by Your Name ; Moonlight; ; 3 Generations ; Disobedience ; Boy Erased.
The Danish girl (2015) (120 min.): This remarkable love story which is inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe an Gerda Wegener, follows the evolution of the couple's marriage and work as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender...
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