Alex Cooper relates experiences from her life, focusing on how her family and the Mormon church sent her to a "residential treatment program" where she was physically and mentally abused after she told them she was gay and how she escaped and made legal history by winning the right to live under the law's protestion as an openly gay teenager.

Prologue : dead end -- Families are forever -- Cracks in the plan -- Just this one girl -- Opening up -- "Get out. Just go!" -- Welcome to Utah -- I'm going to be here a long time -- "You think you are gay, but that's not how God made you" -- Free to choose -- The burden of homosexuality -- Invisible -- Giving in -- Going back to school -- Can't take another day -- Safe -- Going home -- Standing strong -- Moving on -- Sharing my story.