For over half a century, organizations and individuals promoting ex-gay, conversion and/ or reparative therapy have pushed the tenet that a person may be able to, and should, alter their sexual orientation. Their so-called treatments or therapies have taken various forms over the decades, ranging from medical (including psychiatric or psychological) rehabilitation approaches, to counselling, and religious healing.
Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction provides an in-depth exploration of the disturbing phenomenon of gay conversion 'therapy' and its fictional and autobiographical representations across a broad range of films and books such as But I'm a Cheerleader! (1999), This is What Love in Action Looks Like (2011) and Boy Erased (2018). In doing so, the volume emphasizes the powerful role the arts and media play in communicating stories around conversion practices. Approaching the timely and urgent subject from an interdisciplinary perspective, contributors utilize film theory, queer theory, literary theory, mental health and social movement theory to discuss the medicalization and pathologizing of queer people, the power of institutions ranging from church, psychiatry and family (sometimes in alliance), and the real and fictional voices of survivors.
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Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction
Stories of Repentance and Defiance
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Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction
Stories of Repentance and Defiance
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Dedication
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Series Editors’ Introduction
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1 Memoirs and Memoirists
- 1 ‘A Life of Unlearning’: The Author Reflects
- 2 ‘Being Gay, Being Christian’: The Professional Reflects
- Part 2 Stories of Repentance and Defiance in Documentaries and Biopics
- 3 ‘I remember Feeling Like I was Sitting on the Wrong Side of the Circle’: Documentary Film and the Exposition of Conversion Practices
- 4 Three Films, Conversion Practices and the Paratext: I am Michael, Michael Lost and Found, and Once Gay – Matthew and Friends
- Part 3 Memoir, Film and Fiction
- 5 But I’m a Cheerleader: Awkward and Flippant, Accurate and Ground-breaking
- 6 Save Me: Reconciling Queerness and Christianity
- 7 The Quiet Violence of Denying Queerness in the Novel and Film, The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- 8 Defined by their Abjection: Boy Erased and the Limits of Queer Victimhood in Activist Cinema
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
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