Garrard Conley
Memoirist and LGBTQ activist
Garrard Conley is an American author and LGBTQ activist. He wrote the memoir Boy Erased about his experience of conversion therapy.
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American Born 1985 in Memphis, United States
About Garrard Conley
Boy Erased tells of his childhood in Arkansas, where his fundamentalist family sent him to conversion therapy. The book was a New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a 2018 film of the same name. Conley is a survivor of conversion therapy, and he speaks and campaigns to end the practice. He also helped create the podcast UnErased, which looks at the history of conversion therapy in America. He studied at Auburn University and Brooklyn College, and has taught creative writing, including at Kennesaw State University. He is also a returned Peace Corps volunteer who served in Ukraine.