Prayers for Bobby: A Mother’s Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son – Leroy Aarons Free Audiobook

Written by Leroy Aarons
Read by Wentworth Miller
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Date of release: 1995 (book), 2022 (audio)

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.