This barbaric attempt to crush the glorious reality of young LGBTQ people needs to end. These camps see one’s identity as something that can be ground down and chiseled away, creating a new and improved version of something that was never broken to being with. But Tingle himself said something in the note to the reader that makes me think that maybe it isn’t too much, maybe it’s just enough : “Currently, there are conversion therapy camps working hard to strip the personalities and inner truths from thousands of queer youths. Maybe that’s too much to put onto a book, frankly it’s what’s kept me from being able to concisely put my words onto the page, maybe I’m asking too much of a book like this. I’ve struggled with how to review this book knowing that it isn’t bad, but also feeling strongly that it doesn’t move the cultural narrative forward or do any work to provide any kind of cultural healing. There were few errors and the narrative flowed well enough, at least for a middle grade read, which I don’t necessarily find this to be, but it was written that way, so it appears it may be. Structurally, I couldn’t find much fault with it, even for a review copy. Review : I’ve been a little hesitant to review Camp Damascus because, well, I didn’t like it very much. But the secret behind that success is anything but holy.”
Nestled high up in the mountains is Camp Damascus, the self-proclaimed “most effective” gay conversion camp in the country.
Synopsis : “Welcome to Everton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold.
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