is a powerful exploration of identity, faith, and survival, first published as a 2016 memoir by Garrard Conley and later adapted into a 2018 film. It chronicles Conley's harrowing experience with gay conversion therapy and the emotional toll of growing up in a fundamentalist community. The True Story (Memoir)
Garrard Conley grew up in a strict Baptist family in Arkansas, where his father was a pastor. In 2004, while in college, Conley was sexually assaulted by a peer and subsequently outed to his parents. Boy Erased