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Saving Alex : when I was fifteen I told my Mormon parents I was gay, and that's when my nightmare began Cover Image Book

Saving Alex : when I was fifteen I told my Mormon parents I was gay, and that's when my nightmare began

Cooper, Alex 1994- (author.). Brooks, Joanna 1971- (author.).

Summary: An inspiring, harrowing, and brave memoir by a young Mormon lesbian woman whose captivity and escape from an unlicensed residential treatment program resulted in a groundbreaking battle for LGBTQ rights that has impacted society and individual lives. Two days after Alex Cooper told her parents that she was gay, they signed their 15-year-old daughter over to a group of fellow Mormons who promised to cure Alex from her homosexuality. With the help of a dedicated legal team, Alex would eventually escape and make legal history in Utah by winning the right to live under the law's protection as an openly gay teenager. For the first time, Alex speaks out about her ordeal and its aftermath. This is a traumatic yet uplifting story of identity, faith, courage, acceptance, and freedom that reveals what happens when religion goes too far, and how a group of dedicated Americans and one young woman fought for her rights - and ultimately for us all.

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  • ISBN: 9780062374608
  • ISBN: 0062374605
  • ISBN: 9780062467393
  • ISBN: 0062467395
  • Physical Description: print
    248 pages ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : HarperOne, [2016]

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Cooper, Alex 1994-
Latter Day Saint gay people United States Biography
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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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