From Page to Screen: Boy Erased

Presented By
David Donovan, Trey Hock, Kaite Stover

The Library wraps up this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series with a final screening and discussion of a film adapted from a book, the quietly powerful drama Boy Erased (2018; R; 115 min.). Based on Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley, it follows the son of a Baptist preacher (Lucas Hedges) who is outed as gay to his parents (Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman) and is forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program.

Post-screening discussion is led by psychoanalyst David Donovan; filmmaker and critic Trey Hock; and the Library’s director of readers’ services, Kaite Stover.

Presented in partnership with the Greater Kansas City and Topeka Psychoanalytic Center.

This event is co-sponsored by: Greater Kansas City and Topeka Psychoanalytic Center

From Page to Screen: Boy Erased

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Reception: Following
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Adults