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“Conversion camp,” Sam’s mother says. “They help young men realize their potential.”

Sam wasn’t aware that those sorts of camps exist. He’s heard about gay-to-straight conversion camps. Homophobic Christian parents seem to love them. But a straight-to-gay camp?

“You want to send me there?” Sam asks. He feels like he’s failed his parents somehow.

“This would help my career,” his father says. Sam’s dad has wanted to run for political office since forever. This is Sam’s dad’s dream. How could Sam destroy that dream?

“You’re an adult now,” Sam’s mother says. “You can make this decision.”

Together, Sam’s parents stand and kiss their son on the head. They leave him in the living room to give him time to process the situation. But Sam isn’t too good at thinking. He’s a man of action. When given the option to do something, or not to do something, Sam has always been the do-er.

As he fails to think, Sam notices a pamphlet on the living room table. The title reads Dr. Hawk’s Mountain Method of Remaking Men. Beneath it, there are photos of men hugging and swimming together. Sam thinks they look happy. He likes hugging and swimming, too.

This must be the program that Sam’s parents want him to attend. He opens the pamphlet:

“Our Mission – The Mountain Method assists hundreds of young men to reduce their opposite-sex attractions and explore their homosexual potential.”

“Our Position – Dr. Hawk believes that heterosexuality serves a biological purpose, but that human reproduction has run rampant. The world cannot bear so many reproducers. Furthermore, he argues that homosexuality provides a unique social power in our modern age.”

“Our Success – Graduates of the Mountain Method have a 100% retention rate of homosexuality. Hundreds of men have studied under Dr. Hawk, and there has never been a ‘remade man’ that went back to heterosexuality.”