Matt Smethurst shar 20 quot om Jackie Hill Perry’s ‘Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been’ (B&H, 2018).
Contents:
- WOMAN RELLS BEG HELD AGAST HER WILL DURG GAY CONVERSN THERAPY AS TEEN: 'I WANTED TO DIE'
- GAY RELATNSHIP BREAKUP CAN BE PROBLEMATIC. HERE’S HOW TO AVOID THE RISKS
- "I REALIZED I WAS GAY": MEN WHO CAME OUT LATER IN LIFE ARE SHARG WHAT IT WAS LIKE FOR THEM TO REVEAL THAT TTH AND LIVE AUTHENTILLY
- ‘HE BROKE MY HEART TO A BILLN PIEC’: WHEN A STRAIGHT WOMAN FALLS LOVE WH A GAY MAN
WOMAN RELLS BEG HELD AGAST HER WILL DURG GAY CONVERSN THERAPY AS TEEN: 'I WANTED TO DIE'
Woman, 23, Rells Beg Held Agast Her Will as a Teen Durg 8 Months of Gay Conversn Therapy: 'I Wanted to Die'" emprop="scriptn * life of a gay girl was broken *
The teen, who was raised Mormon, didn’t plan on tellg her parents that she was gay jt yet, but the obv mark on her neck forced the nversatn.
“I didn’t f to the relign beg gay, but I didn’t expect my parents’ reactn to be as drastic as was. She quickly learned that her parents were forcg her to gay nversn therapy.
GAY RELATNSHIP BREAKUP CAN BE PROBLEMATIC. HERE’S HOW TO AVOID THE RISKS
She says she would also receive beatgs and was forced to wear a backpack filled wh rocks “to feel the physil burn of beg gay.
"I REALIZED I WAS GAY": MEN WHO CAME OUT LATER IN LIFE ARE SHARG WHAT IT WAS LIKE FOR THEM TO REVEAL THAT TTH AND LIVE AUTHENTILLY
“He was also the print of the gay-straight alliance and he put me touch wh Salt Lake Cy attorney Pl Burke, ” she says.
A judge allowed her to go home, but orred her parents to allow her to date girls, attend danc and jo her school’s gay-straight alliance. “The ia that homosexualy needs to be cured or fixed the first place is misreprentatn, ” says Stt McCoy of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
‘HE BROKE MY HEART TO A BILLN PIEC’: WHEN A STRAIGHT WOMAN FALLS LOVE WH A GAY MAN
For years I’ve noticed the divergence between my straight iends and my gay iends. In our lifetime, the gay muny has ma more progrs on legal and social acceptance than any other mographic group history. As recently as my own adolcence, gay marriage was a distant aspiratn, somethg newspapers still put sre quot.