Conversion Therapy Dropout

"Adopted, Mexican-American, and queer, living in the family-values Midwest, Rodriguez struggled from birth to find his place in the world. Early on, he found solace in Evangelical Christianity, aspiring to devote his life and career to the church. At age of 19, however, he was outed as gay and made the life-changing decision to undergo conversion therapy to "pray the gay away." After eight turbulent years of desperately but unsuccessfully trying to stop being himself, he suffered a nervous break