{"id":3749,"date":"2015-07-14T17:19:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T17:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2015-07-14T17:19:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T17:19:05","slug":"the-summer-i-wasnt-me-by-jessica-verdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3749","title":{"rendered":"The Summer I Wasn’t Me by Jessica Verdi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite the fact that the American Psychiatric Association put forth a resolution in 2009<\/a> stating that “there is insufficient evidence that sexual orientation change efforts work,” there are still numerous facilities and therapists that claim they can “cure” homosexuality. \u00a0It breaks my heart and makes me angry, in equal measure, when I hear about teens being sent off to so-called conversion therapy camps.\u00a0 To put it plainly, I find the notion that GLBTQ people can\/need to be “fixed” is simply horrifying. \u00a0I recognize that some people’s religious views are the reason they don’t condone homosexuality, but I reject the implication that one’s religious beliefs can or should be forced upon anyone else.\u00a0 Though some some places [California, New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington D.C.] have passed laws banning conversion therapy for minors, I am appalled that so many states haven’t stepped up.\u00a0 Hopefully, books like The Summer I Wasn’t Me <\/em>and The Miseducation of Cameron Post<\/a><\/em> can help to open people’s eyes and to bring about further change.<\/p>\n

Lexi knew that she was a lesbian since she was in elementary school. And she also knew, for just as long, that she would prefer to hide this fact because the rest of her South Carolina community was adamantly against homosexuality.\u00a0 She almost told her father when she visited him on his death bed, but she was terrified that her final memory of him would be of his disapproval and disappointment. \u00a0After his death, Lexi’s mom fell into a deep depression. \u00a0Though Lexi did what she could to try and make things easy for her mom, nothing seemed to work.\u00a0 So, one day, when Lexi accidentally left out a journal in which she had drawn pictures of a girl she liked, her mom completely freaked.\u00a0 The only thing that seemed to make her mom happy was the possibility that Lexi could be “cured” at a special camp called New Horizons.\u00a0 And even though Lexi wasn’t sure it would work, she was willing to do whatever it took to make her mom happy again. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the fact that the American Psychiatric Association put forth a resolution in 2009 stating that “there is insufficient evidence that sexual orientation change efforts work,” there are still numerous facilities and therapists that claim they can “cure” homosexuality. \u00a0It breaks my heart and makes me angry, in equal measure, when I hear about teens … Continue reading The Summer I Wasn’t Me by Jessica Verdi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}