Joining the ranks of bestsellers by Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Lee Dugard, 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 livesTwo days after Alex Cooper told her parents that she was gay, they took their fifteen-year-old daughter to Utah, where they signed over their parental rights to a group of fellow Mormons who promised to ...
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Joining the ranks of bestsellers by Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Lee Dugard, 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 livesTwo days after Alex Cooper told her parents that she was gay, they took their fifteen-year-old daughter to Utah, where they signed over their parental rights to a group of fellow Mormons who promised to "cure" Alex from her homosexuality. For eight harrowing months, Alex was held captive in an unlicensed "residential treatment program," one of several "therapeutic" boot camps scattered across southern Utah: a virtual gulag where thousands of American teenagers have been sent by fundamentalist parents.Forbidden from attending school, Alex was beaten and verbally abused, and forced to stand facing a wall for up to eighteen hours a day wearing a heavy backpack full of rocks that literally broke her back. "God's plan does not apply to gay people," her captors told her, using faith as a cudgel to punish and terrorize her. With the help of a dedicated legal team in Salt Lake City, 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. Fixing Alex 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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Reading this book by the young Alex Cooper will open anyone's eyes to the need to have laws that protects everyone regardless of race, creed, religion, or sexual orientation. This great nation that we live in has become single minded when it comes to the LGBT community. We all need to remember that we are all children of God and we have all sinned against Him. Our forefathers fought for all of us to live in a free nation for everyone no matter what. Alex is a very brave young lady to tell her story about her fight to live her life free as she is. It is time that we fight for her rights and others like her as hard as we seem to fighting for our religious rights. But to get those rights we MUST remember that the LGBT community has the same rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. I only wish that I could be as brave as Alex.
