1. Garrard and the Story of Job

UnErased: The Deportation of Adoptees in America

Focus Features, Treefort Media, Limina House

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This is a modern day story of Job. It starts with Garrard Conley, a young gay kid growing up in rural Arkansas, trying to find a place to stand between a devout father and unforgiving God, and ends in a dramatic escape from an ex-gay camp and the smuggling out of a book that overturns an industry.

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0:00.0	This is Unerased, a series about the hidden history of conversion therapy in America.
0:07.0	I'm Jad I Bumrod.
0:09.0	According to a survey by the Williams Institute at UCLA, nearly 700,000 people have, these are currently living
0:17.0	human beings, have gone through some version of conversion therapy. That's equivalent to the city of Boston, the entire city of
0:24.7	Boston. Picture that in your mind. This series is going to tell some of those
0:29.5	stories from all different angles. We're releasing it in conjunction with the movie Boy Erased
0:34.5	from Focus Features which was based on a memoir by Garrett Conley. Now Garrett,
0:39.2	Garrett is a gay man, and 14 years ago, he spent two weeks in one of these programs that tried
0:48.8	to turn him straight.
0:51.1	So we'll sign you in if you sign your name real quick and then I'll do all the other stuff.
0:57.0	Didn't go well.
0:59.0	And a few months ago we came to the Smithsonian of all places.
1:06.2	To look back on that time, because when Garrett left that program, literally ran out screaming
1:10.8	for his life, he smuggled out a bit of contraband. Wow.
1:17.0	An archivist led us into this very dramatic room. Do it, do we sit here?
1:21.0	Yeah, I was thinking I just put up the table where there's light.
1:25.0	This is perfect.
1:26.0	A lot of mahogany, velvet curtains.
1:28.0	They sat us at a table,
1:30.0	okay.
1:31.0	It was right under a spotlight.
1:32.0	I feel so formal. And then... Okay, it was right under a spotlight.
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