Prayers for Bobby
Subtitle: a mother's coming to terms with the suicide of her gay son
By: Leroy Aarons.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Published: 1995
Place of publication: [San Francisco, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Griffith, Robert Warren, 1963-1983; Griffith, Mary, 1934-; Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays; Gay men -- United States -- Diaries; Gay men -- Suicidal behavior -- United States; Gay men -- United States -- Family relationships; Parents of gays -- United States; Homosexuality -- United States -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Religious fundamentalism -- United States; Homophobia -- United States -- Religious aspects
Description: Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy. He was a nice, hardworking kid from the suburbs who attended church and was loved by his family. When at age fifteen he realized that he was gay, he came upon a conflict for which he found no solution: His family and his religion taught him that his sexual orientation was a sin.

Through Bobby's poignant journal entries, his mother's reminiscences, and Leroy Aarons's keen journalistic insight we relive the emotional torment that eventually led Bobby to take his own life.