In "Boy Erased" Russell Crowe y Nicole Kidman they want to "cure" their child's homosexuality
GAYLES.TV.- «You can not be born homosexual. That is a lie. It is a choice»Says the head of the group gay reorientation in the trailer for «Boy Erased«. Joel Edgerton writes, directs and co-stars in a film about conversion therapies and sexual reorientation in United States. The Australian tells the real story of Gerrard Conley who in 2016 wrote his experiences in a sexual conversion camp, in which he was put by his own parents at the age of 19, a fundamentalist family from Arkansas.
Russell Crowe y Nicole Kidman they interpret the parents of the protagonist, Lucas Hedges who at one point in the film confesses to them: »I think of men. I do not know why, and I'm sorry«. For many, Hedges has already established himself as the star of the moment. The homosexual singer Troye Sivan He is part of the project as an actor and also participates in the soundtrack. The performance of Hedges and of Kidman already begin to sound in the pools to be candidates for the Oscars. The movie will be released next November, but you can see the trailer.
Sexual conversion therapies date back to the late nineteenth century, when homosexuality was considered a pathology, although several scientists of the time (such as Albert Einstein) signed a document in favor of the rights of homosexual people. At the moment they are still legal in 41 of the states of North America. Nowadays it continues being a very thorny subject, mainly because they are therapies that are centered more and more in adolescents and minors, and testimonies of tortures are more frequent as the years advance.
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