‘Boy Erased’ Review: Lucas Hedges Shines in Gay Conversion Therapy Drama | TIFF 2018

For all the social progress made over the last decade or two, especially in terms of marriage equality, we still have a long way to go when it comes to admitting that being part of the LGBTQ community is not a choice. “Gay conversion therapy” not only exists, but is given to (or forced upon) hundreds of American teenagers every year, who are told they must “pray the gay away” and change their base selves. Arkansas native Garrard Conley was one of those teenagers, and his life story serves as the basis for writer/director Joel Edgerton’s new drama …

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