In your heart do you want to change?”Ĭommitting to the twelve day program, Jared spends hours a day with a small group of LGBT youth working on exercises that explore the evil roots of their same sex attraction. Jared doesn’t really have an option after his father coldly states, “You can’t live here if you’re going to go against our beliefs. The couple are shocked at the news, but in an attempt to be supportive in their own way, they enrol him in the Love In Action program, a church-supported “ex-gay camp,” based on the idea that homosexuality is an affliction, curable through public confession, and the reinforcement of gender stereotypes.
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Everything seems to be going to plan until a college friend outs Jared as gay. Jared would make any parent proud, he gets good grades, plays on the basketball team, and is in a steady, but chaste, relationship with a beautiful girl from school. Jared (Lucas Hedges) belongs to a typical middle-class Arkansas family, with his doting mother, Nancy (Nicole Kidman), and Baptist minster father, Marshall (Russell Crowe). Enjoying its Canadian premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, Boy Erased adds itself to the queer history books alongside Brokeback Mountain, Call Me By Your Name and Moonlight.īased on Garrard Conley’s haunting memoir, Boy Erased follows the teenage son of a Baptist pastor who is forced into an abusive gay-conversion therapy program by his parents.
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Queer cinema has become so rich in recent years that gay film fans are spoilt for choice in endearing themselves to the next must-see movie. Each year the film loving LGBT community hunts through the festival season in search of its token treasure.