Change of Heart: 'Boy Erased', 'The Miseducation of Cameron Post' and Gay Conversion Therapy

In a society in which huge advances have been made in the rights and acceptance of same-sex-attracted people, vestiges of Western society's homophobic past persist – one of the most confronting being the so-called gay conversion therapy offered by some Christian organisations. Delving into a pair of new films that, in different ways, explore the experience of undergoing this 'treatment' – with all its harms and complexities – Adolfo Aranjuez finds affecting depictions of young people who need support rather than suppression.

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Talking Society, middle years, senior secondary, Garrard Conley, Living Hope Ministries, Anthony Venn-Brown, Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, homosexuality, Joel Edgerton, Desiree Akhavan