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Prayers for Bobby : a mother's coming to terms with the suicide of her gay son
- Title
- Prayers for Bobby : a mother's coming to terms with the suicide of her gay son / Leroy Aarons.
- Author
- Aarons, Leroy.
- Publication
- San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, [1995], ©1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HQ75.8.G75 A25 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 271 pages : portraits; 23 cm
- Summary
- Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy. He was a nice, hardworking kid from the suburbs who attended church and was loved by his family. When at age fifteen he realized that he was gay, he came upon a conflict for which he found no solution: His family and his religion taught him that his sexual orientation was a sin.
- Through Bobby's poignant journal entries, his mother's reminiscences, and Leroy Aarons's keen journalistic insight we relive the emotional torment that eventually led Bobby to take his own life.
- Subjects
- Gay men > Family relationships > United States
- Griffith, Robert Warren, 1963-1983
- Homophobia > United States > Religious aspects
- Gay men > Suicidal behavior > United States
- Gay men > United States > Diaries
- Griffith, Mary, 1934-
- Parents of gays > United States
- Homosexuality > United States > Religious aspects > Christianity
- Religious fundamentalism > United States
- Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays
- ISBN
- 006251122X (cloth)
- 0062511238 (pbk)
- LCCN
- 94045141
- OCLC
- 31660414
- ocm31660414
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries