“After a fair amount of teasing by author Garrard Conley on social media in the years since his scorching memoir Boy Erased was optioned as a film project (forgivable, since how often does one find out that Nicole Kidman is going to play one’s mother?), a trailer has finally arrived that introduces reading and non-reading audiences alike to this incredible true story.
“Set for an nomination-friendly November release, “Boy Erased” will explore the world of anti-gay religious conversion therapy, which minors can still be involuntarily subjected to in many states.
“A willing participant for reasons we won’t spoil here, Conley has emerged as a unique voice in the movement to ban conversion therapy; his is one of the most painful coming out stories imaginable, and yet far more common than most non-LGBTQ people may realize, and his mother has become a tremendous cheerleader for the book and film.”
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