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Contents:

• BOY ERASED REVIEW – DARK TALE OF A TEENAGER'S 'GAY NVERSN' ORAL
• 'PEOPLE MAY CLAIM I'M GAY BUT I REALLY DON'T RE'
• NILE KIDMAN TOOK BOY ERASED ROLE TO RAISE AWARENS ABOUT GAY NVERSN THERAPY
• ‘BOY ERASED’ REVIEW: LUS HEDG AND NILE KIDMAN LEAD JOEL EDGERTON’S POWERFUL GAY CONVERSN DRAMA
• RSELL CROWE AND NILE KIDMAN STAR ‘GAY NVERSN’ DRAMA BOY ERASED
• ‘GASLIGHT’ SPARKS BATE AFTER ROXANE GAY SLAMS NILE KIDMAN’S LUCY

BOY ERASED REVIEW – DARK TALE OF A TEENAGER'S 'GAY NVERSN' ORAL

An open, genero performance om Lus Hedg rri this earntly tend movie om wrer-director Joel Edgerton, who has adapted the memoir by Garrard Conley about his paful experienc a Christian anti-gay nversn mp for teenagers Arkansas. Like Chloë Grace Moretz’s Cameron and Jack Nicholson’s McMurphy, Jared realis too late that he isn’t there for a fixed term (durg which he uld nceivably pretend to go along wh ) but fely, until the thori are satisfied that the gay has been prayed is an only child adored by his dad, a lay preacher wh a r alership, and his sweet-natured, tradnal mom.

His fellow trae – the old borstal phrase mak a certa sense – clu the agonised Jon (a rather broad performance om award-wng director Xavier Dolan) and the olly cynil Gary (played by Atralian sgg star and YouTuber Troye Sivan, who suppli the soundtrack song Revelatn) story pans out ways that are more or ls predictable, and the tradnal twist the tale about what homophob are supprsg wh themselv is supplied the closg creds. At all events, shows how homophobia creat crlo, fearful people vulnerable to the snake-oil n trick of “nversn”.

'PEOPLE MAY CLAIM I'M GAY BUT I REALLY DON'T RE'

But promotg her new film, Boy Erased, which Kidman plays the mother of a gay son (Lus Hedg), has predictably sparked qutns and prompted Kidman to break her silence on Isabella and Connor.

The 35-year-old Atralian actrs said: 'They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone's gay.

NILE KIDMAN TOOK BOY ERASED ROLE TO RAISE AWARENS ABOUT GAY NVERSN THERAPY

' Cise has already sued gay porn star Kyle Bradford for famatn after he claimed to have had an affair wh the Missn: Impossible star. Cast & crewUser reviewsTrivia2018R1h 55mThe son of a Baptist preacher unwillgly participat a church-supported gay nversn program after beg forcibly outed to his son of a Baptist preacher unwillgly participat a church-supported gay nversn program after beg forcibly outed to his son of a Baptist preacher unwillgly participat a church-supported gay nversn program after beg forcibly outed to his productn, box office & pany Vios42More like thisReview Incredible but movgBoy Erased is the adaptatn of Garrard Conley's memoirs published 2016. Jared is neteen years old when his parents learn about his homosexualy.

Actrs plays Nancy, the mother of Lus Hedg‘ character Jared, who is sent off to a gay nversn therapy program by his relig parents who hope he’ll be cured of his homosexualy. Durg a talk wh BAFTA, Nile revealed that her fellow Atralian approached her for the part and she signed up immediately after she had read the book, bee she wanted more people to bee aware of the practice of gay nversn therapy.

‘BOY ERASED’ REVIEW: LUS HEDG AND NILE KIDMAN LEAD JOEL EDGERTON’S POWERFUL GAY CONVERSN DRAMA

Gay nversn therapy was also the center of the 2018 movie The Mistn of Cameron Post, starrg Chloe Grace Moretz. Much like fellow Scientologist John Travolta, Tom Cise has long faced mors that he is secretly gay. '" Speakg wh Entertament Weekly, Kidman dismissed the mors that her hband was gay.

But she is remd of the importance of art every time a young man up to her and says that Boy Erased, the 2018 film about a gay teen (Lus Hedg) whose Baptist parents (Kidman and Rsell Crowe) force him to take part a nversn-therapy program, changed his life, was his life.

RSELL CROWE AND NILE KIDMAN STAR ‘GAY NVERSN’ DRAMA BOY ERASED

“Boy Erased” is neher the first, nor the bt, of this year’s films about the ccible of gay nversn therapy, but Joel Edgerton’s adaptatn of Garrard Conley’s memoir is most tertg for the ways that differs om “The Mistn of Cameron Post. Each of the extend flashbacks is harrowg and effably human one way or another, but they prevent om settlg to the disrdant rhythms of the therapy program, where a mtached bulldozer named Victor Syk (Edgerton, always pellg when he’s this clenched) tri to hate the homosexualy out of his charg.

Syk is a relig man, but we don’t often see him try to pray the gay away; he prefers g masculy as a sledgehammer, even enlistg a tatted ex-n played by Flea (y, that Flea) to sre the kids straight. At 19, Garrard Conley, a young homosexual man om Mounta Home, Ark., took his Baptist mister dad’s advice and entered a relig treatment center that claimed to make gay people straight by whompg them wh Bibl and guilt trips, and trag men ma effemate by not enough childhood sports to keep their hands off their hips and act macho. About 700, 000 Amerins have had such trag, and they tend to rema as gay as Conley — or as his “ex-gay” therapist, who now is married to a man and regrets his days nng a gay-nversn program.

‘GASLIGHT’ SPARKS BATE AFTER ROXANE GAY SLAMS NILE KIDMAN’S LUCY

“Like or not, there was a Christian ponent to Boy, ” he told wrer Peter LaBerge, “passn for myself and my parents and even my ‘ex-gay’ unselors, that n feel a b radil a te J-y way. The movie is a ltle clunky and obv, but that imagative sympathy gets you si the characters’ heads, so you unrstand why an telligent young man would give -gay-ifitn a try — ’s not like he was happy to rebuff his girliend’s French kiss, trmatize his parents and risk hellfire. Nile Kidman and Rsell Crowe are parents who send their son to a gay nversn mp "Boy Erased.