By his late 20s, Casey Gerald — a “poor, black, orphan queer” — had achieved everything society could wish of a young man. But in an unhinged world, what does that mean? His new memoir is a vital missive to these cracked-up times.
Boy Erased author Garrard Conley on his elegant memoir (and soon-to-be film) about the year in which his Southern Baptist upbringing collided with his sexual awakening as a gay man.
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