Ernest Dumas writes this week about Garrard Conley, an Arkansas native whose biography about being the son of a Baptist preacher forced into a church-supported gay conversion program is the basis for the coming movie "Boy Erased" starring Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman. Dumas encountered Conley when he and his mother talked recently at the David and Barbara Center for Oral and Visual History at the University of Arkansas.
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