Surviving Gay Conversion Therapy with Garrard Conley (extended interview)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased, talks about surviving ex-gay therapy, Troye Sivan, the cultural importance of Mommie Dearest and how he doesn't feel like a victim in this amazing interview. Subscribe for more LGBTQ+ content: goo.gl/bdtZLo
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Garrard Conley's memoir, Boy Erased, is about his time going through gay conversion therapy when growing up as a christian son of a minister in the American South. The book is being released as a Hollywood film later this year. Garrard is being played by Lucas Hedges, the film also stars Troye Sivan, Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman. Apparently people can smell Oscars!
I think this is a hopeful interview, even though Garrard went through something so difficult. He is living proof that you can come through the end of something like the ex gay movement and not just survive, but thrive.
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You are a charming interviewer who makes the other person very comfortable!
That's very kind, thanks!
Jazza John Your interview made me order the book!
Should have insisted on comission XD
Very long and drawn-out conversation. What we really needed to know was what his background was and what the conversion therapy actually consisted of. What we had instead was an extended period of two men flirting with each other. That's not to say that the conversation was not interesting - it's just it would have been better to set the scene very clearly and chronologically comparing thoughts and feelings of experiences at the time to the recollection in hindsight.
This is really a super interesting conversation, that seems very casual, but us actually really informative and in lack of a better word .. deep
#profound. Glad you liked it :)
Yes, profound! That works. (the struggle of trying to communicate in other languages than your native one)
Such a great interview!! Thank you for this
This was great. Thanks for sharing & bringing awareness to this book & these practices. I'm ordering my copy right now.
It's worth it! Brilliantly written.
7:54 - "It takes a gay to ask the right questions." - Garrard Conley has several fantastic quotations, but this one is near the top. And we are going to be holding him to his editor saying those scenes are for "another book" (8:25).
great conversation
The movie is wonderful and heart-wrenching! Jazza...you are interesting to watch.
Thank you so much!
It was a really interesting interview! I don't know if it's my tablet or not, but at the end of each clip the audio is not in sync with the video.
Why'd ya have to notice my poor editing? 😭😭😭
He's so smart. Thank you for sharing your experience.
I can't wait till November I've watched the trailer on repeat
He really focuses on the world's problems as a whole as he answers questions. I want to read the book so that I can understand more about this.
Read it! It's amazing.
Jazza John I will definitely look for it!
love this!!!!! well done!
Thank you!
Since I first watched this hot interview (sorry!), I read the book and made use to order it with just that cover.
And I think called it a "harrowing read' somewhere, because it sounded appropriate and something people would want to hear.
Sure enough I got quite a few up votes, but to be honest I laughed (silently while my soul was doing the weeping. Like the paid mourners on a pharaoh's burial. I was tearing my hair, goddammit!) an inappropriate amount of the time I read it.
It *is* funny, which doesn't take away any of the serious matter of the topic.
By the way, the cover of that edition stains very easily.
Very informative love your channel ❤️
Thank you! 😁
Jazza John 😄 yay no TH-camrs have ever replied to my comment thank you!
BOOM! Here I am again ;)
Jazza John omg 😮
Ookey let's get heavy in there, because it's my reality?
I'm HIV positive (and doing very greatly, thank you very much!) and I was always totally open about it in the neighbourhood where I used to live (ok, I was outed, clocked, whatchit by my "community?'
An acquaintance of mine beat me in the face for saying "Hi"' to him.
Police arrived, several straight friends testified, but I didn't prosecute.
Such a hassle...
i wish the interviewer would let him SPEAK
I know right, what a dick.
i love you and i aprecciate all what you do
Thank you so much!
as a conversion therapy survivor myself, i relate so much to him except for me personally i drifted from God and religion
Conversion Therapy has saved so many gays.
i ship it
In all seriousness, do you actually need numbers to validate your existence?
If I did I'd probably upload more often.
Jazza John Lol, if only ;)
Glad to hear it, anyway.
I really wanted to press the like button but this video has 69 likes, so...
Thank you for not ruining it ;)
They act like he was in a concentration camp. The fact that he mentions a comparison of these places to Nazis. Just dramatic and too much.
Well go to a conversion therapy and see how its like maybe? Many young gay youth have been sent to conversion therapy where many have commited suicide, is it on the level of voncentrayion camps obviously no but is this a big issue that still exist today yes.
NYCGirl Rdu There are thousands of people still caught up in these conversion camps. And they’re responsible for a lot of suicides. It’s not exactly not Nazi-like.