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Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son
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Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son Paperback - 1996

by Leroy Aarons

Bobby Griffith, at the age of 15, realized that he was gay and in conflict with his religious upbringing. Through Bobby's journal entries and his mother's reminiscences we learn of the emotional torment that led Bobby to take his own life. Prayers for Bobby takes readers through his mother's anguish and disbelief to her transformation from biblical literalist to enlightened parent.


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Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy ...and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict-for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was "wrong"-Bobby chose to take his own life.

Prayers for Bobby, nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby to this tragic conclusion. But it is also the story of Bobby's mother, a fearful churchgoer who first prayed that her son would be "healed," then anguished over his suicide, and ultimately transformed herself into a national crusader for gay and lesbian youth.

As told through Bobby's poignant journal entries and his mother's reminiscences, Prayers for Bobby is at once a moving personal story, a true profile in courage, and a call to arms to parents everywhere.

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I first learned of the Griffith family in a 1989 article in the San Francisco Examiner.

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  • Title Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son
  • Author Leroy Aarons
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperOne, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date September 20, 1996
  • ISBN 9780062511232 / 0062511238
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.01 x 5.3 x 0.67 in (20.35 x 13.46 x 1.70 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Gay men - United States, Gay men - Family relationships - United
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94045141
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Library Journal, 05/01/1998, Page 121
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