Sigourney Weaver in Lifetime's Prayers for Bobby

Bobby Griffith's four-year struggle with being gay and trying to live a Christian life ended on Aug. 27, 1983. On that day, the twenty-year-old California man backflipped off a freeway overpass in Portland, OR., timing his leap so his body would be struck and killed by an oncoming tractor-trailer. For four years before his death, his religious mother encouraged him to "cure" his homosexuality through prayer. Bobby also kept an extensive diary during those years, which chronicles his highs and lows. Prayers for Bobby When: 8 p.m. Saturday (re-airs at 7 p.m. Sunday and 8 p.m. Tuesday) Network: Lifetime