Out actors, real-life activists & Sigourney Weaver’s powerful role: 20 fascinating facts about ‘Prayers For Bobby’
Prayers For Bobby: A Mother’s Coming To Terms With The Suicide Of Her Gay Son.The book was adapted into the 2009 Lifetime movie Prayers For Bobby, directed by out filmmaker Russell Mulcahy, and stars the amazing Sigourney Weaver as Mary Griffith, with Ryan Kelley as Bobby. Click through below for 20 fascinating facts you might not have known about the powerful Prayers For Bobby.Aarons wrote in his book, “This extraordinary conversion touched me as deeply as the tale of Bobby’s tragic death.
What enabled her to transcend her background and perform what could only be described as acts of courage.”In 1996, Prayers for Bobby was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.The journalist founded the National Lesbian And Gay Journalists Association, NLGJA, now known as The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists.Aarons died on November 28, 2004.
Prayers for Bobby wasn’t released until 2009.Despite being a Lifetime movie (not that there’s anything wrong with that!) Prayers For Bobby was praised for its script and a strong performance by Weaver.
Prayers For Bobby was nominated for Outstanding Made for Television Movie and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Weaver.The cable film had six million viewers over two initial viewings.The film won Outstanding TV Movie or Miniseries.Weaver took the role because she felt it was an important story to tell.In a retrospective interview, Weaver said, “Everything she said to me, frankly, was so revealing and so honest, and so in support of our doing and my doing a truthful job… One of the things that broke my heart, at the end of the day, we were looking at pictures of Bobby and Mary said, ‘You can look at these pictures of Bobby now and I see that this is how God wanted him to be.
