Surviving gay conversion therapy

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Growing up in a fundamentalist Christian family in America’s Bible Belt, Garrard Conley had doubts about his sexuality but had to hide it from his community and family, especially his father who was a pastor. When Garrard was at university, he was outed, and his parents felt they had no choice but to send him to a gay conversion therapy camp in a bid to ‘cure’ him of homosexuality. Garrard was soon desperate to leave. Help would come from an unlikely place. (A longer version of this interview was first broadcast in June 2018) Presenter: Jo Fidgen Producer: Maryam Maruf (Photo: Garrard Conley. Credit: Colin Boyd Shaffer)