Download Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That's When My Nightmare Began AudioBook Free
Days and nights after Alex Cooper informed her parents she was homosexual, they drove Alex from their house in Southern California to Utah, where they signed over guardianship to fellow Mormons who guaranteed to save lots of Alex from her homosexuality. For eight harrowing weeks, Alex happened captive within an unlicensed "residential treatment program" modeled on the many "restorative" boot camps scattered across Utah. Alex was bodily and verbally abused and forced to stand facing a wall structure for up to 18 hours per day wearing a heavy backpack packed with stones. "God's plan will not apply to homosexual people," her captors informed her, using trust to punish and terrorize her. With the help of an ardent legal team in Salt Lake City, Alex would eventually get away and make legal history in Utah by earning the to live under the law's security as an openly homosexual teenager. Saving Alex is a horrific yet uplifting history of identity, trust, courage, popularity, and freedom that reveals what happens when religion should go too much and how a group of dedicated Americans and one young woman fought on her behalf rights, including locating the durability and courage to be herself, and how her history has inspired countless others along the way.
