Prayers for Bobby - A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son

Leroy Aarons

HarperOne

1996

288 páginas

9h 36m

ISBN-13: 9780062511232

Very painful and personal, this is the story of a mother's struggle to reconcile the tension between her deeply held religious beliefs and the suicide of her gay son. Mary Griffith came from a religious family and raised her four children to believe in God and live a Christian life. Their conservative Presbyterian church was the center of family life for every family member except Mary's husband, Bob. When 17-year-old Bobby confided to older bother Ed that he was gay, the family's life changed. Mary convinced Bobby to pray that God would cure him and to seek solace in church activities. Bobby did it all, but the church's hatred of homosexuality and the obvious pain his gayness was causing his family led him increasingly to loathe himself. Excerpts from a diary he kept, family photos, and letters written by Mary to her dead son make the book intense reading for both high-school and public library patrons.

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3 (Bom)

Prayers for Bobby conta a história de uma mãe e suas atitudes frente à homossexualidade do filho: as dificuldades impostas pelas crenças e mitos, a negação, o preconceito e tudo o mais que contribuiu para que a vida do Bobby se tornasse tão infeliz, que fez com que ele optasse pelo suicidio. A partir daí, a visão firmemente definida da Mary Griffith começa a mudar aos poucos, até ela se tornar um forte membro das organizações a favor de gays, lésbicas e simpatizantes.