Cameron is confused how what she feels and who she is can be so wrong. They are found out and Cameron is sent away to gay conversion school.

And during a summer while her boyfriend’s away, Coley falls in lust. Coley even has the perfect boyfriend.Ĭutting it short, Cameron falls in love. Then she meets Coley Taylor, the perfectly gorgeous, sweet poster-child for Miles City, Montana. Rumors swirl, but there’s no proof, so Cameron’s lesbianism is barely gossip. She doesn’t have boyfriends but has close female friends. She makes friends with the bad kids, secretly smokes weed, drinks beer, and swims competitively.

They change churches to one Ruth feels is more suitable, and Cameron hides her shame in having “caused” her parents’ deaths by kissing a girl. Grandma moves in to care for Cameron, along with her born-again Christian aunt, Ruth. While at a sleepover at Irene’s house, Cameron’s grandmother calls Cameron’s parents have died in a car accident. They know it’s wrong, but it’s right for them. Cameron’s first crush and kiss is with her best friend, Irene. The novel starts when Cameron is 12 years old and doing normal 12-year-old things: swimming in the lake, sleepovers, stealing gum from the corner store, first crush.

It was guys and girls who kissed – in our grade, on TV, in the movies, in the world and that’s how it worked: guys and girls. “Yeah,” I said right away, because even thought no one had ever told me, specifically, not to kiss a girl before, nobody had to. “Do you think we’d get in trouble if anyone found out?” She feels it’s wrong, but when you grow up in country Montana where it’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, and which church do you attend, versus do you attend church, she knows she’s wrong. It doesn’t get ranty because this is Cameron Post’s story and she doesn’t know it’s torture. The Miseducation of Cameron Post doesn’t get ranty about conversion therapy, so I did. We no longer tie left-hands behind backs, so why tell gay people they’re an abomination to “cure” them? Let’s just acknowledge that gay conversion therapy is torture. The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M Danforth is about my line.

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