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Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story is a 2019 American biographical drama television film directed by Jeffrey G. Hunt. Produced by Lifetime as part of its "Ripped from the Headlines" feature film series, it aired on September 28, 2019.
- Cooper Escaped After The Simms Threatened to Withdraw Her from School
- A Utah Judge Ruled That Alex Was Allowed to Date Whomever She Wanted
- She Works to End Conversion Therapy and Is An Advocate For The Queer Community
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The Simms let Cooper know straight away that the community wouldn’t help her escape. About a month into her stay, the torture started. The family explained that gay people got to the telestial kingdom, the Mormon version of hell. They explained that she wasn’t gay – she simply thought she was gay, and the Simms would help dispel such evil ideas fro...
Alex waited for everyone to fall asleep before slipping away. Thanks to a generous bus driver, she made it to Snow Canyon High School, where she pleaded for help. “‘I’m not going back,’” I blurted out. “‘Not one more day.’” Child Protective Services showed up and enrolled her in a Youth Crisis Center. The administrators assured her that they wouldn...
The Simms were forced to stop conversion therapy, but the practice is still common in America. Alex Cooper works for the Human Rights Campaign to try and end the practice. Cooper has pioneered efforts to make conversion therapy illegal. She told NewNowNext: “All these laws being passed against conversion therapy are amazing. When I first started ta...
Alex Cooper is a lesbian teenager who was sent to a Mormon family by her parents for conversion therapy in Utah. She endured eight months of torture, isolation and abuse before she managed to escape and seek help.
Sep 28, 2019 · Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story: Directed by Jeffrey G. Hunt. With Addison Holley, Nicolette Pearse, Ian Lake, Sarah Booth. When a teenager reveals that she is gay to her devout Mormon parents, they decide to send her to a conversion therapy home in Utah.
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- Biography, Drama
- Jeffrey G. Hunt
- 2019-09-28
Sep 30, 2019 · When Lifetime revealed their latest project, Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story, about a young teenager who comes out to her parents and is then sent to an abusive conversion therapy program, viewers were wondering whether the movie was based on a true story.
Based on a harrowing true story, when 15-year-old Alex (Addison Holley) revealed she was gay to her devout Mormon parents, they feared so deeply for her soul that they took her from their Southern California home and placed her against her will in a conversion therapy home in Utah.
Sep 23, 2019 · Watch this trailer for Lifetime's upcoming movie Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story. Premieres September 28 at 8pm ET/PT on Lifetime. Watch Lifetime Movies anytime with the Lifetime Movie...
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Feb 1, 2022 · A Mormon teenager's devout parents send her to a strict and ultimately abusive conversion camp after she comes out as gay. Trapped for eight months with strangers, Alex faced horrible punishments and beatings that were intended to cure her homosexuality.
