Garrard Conley grew up in a fundamentalist Missionary Baptist church in Arkansas which regarded homosexuality as a sin. He struggled with his sexuality until, in his first year at college, after a traumatic sexual encounter, he was “outed” as gay to his parents. They sent him on a two-week course of conversion therapy …
28 June 2018, The Tablet
Garrard Conley's experiences as a gay man sent for sexual conversion therapy by his parents
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