Camp Damascus

I picked up this book as a break between all the Hugo nominees I'm reading. I loved his Bury Your Gays, and this one is just as amazing. This book is another horror piece, this time with events surrounding a fundamentalist gay conversion camp. It's a powerful piece. It's not perfect, but it is so emotionally powerful and poignant that I couldn't help but be intensely enthralled and moved by it. It spoke to my experience being gay and Catholic, although the experience I had when I was active in the Church was unusually welcoming and supportive. That is, until some of my friends turned evangelical. Fortunately, some of them have learned a lot more about theology and context and we have mended those relationships. So yes, this was a personally profound book. Also, it was nominated for a 2023 Bram Stoker award.

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