When Aaron Alon tells people that his latest musical, The Chosen Ones , which Thunderclap Productions is days away from world premiering at the MATCH, is set in a conversion therapy summer camp, he often gets the same reaction.

“I get a lot of, ‘Wait. That's still a thing?’” says Alon. “There's this lack of awareness about it.”

Conversion therapy refers to a range of discredited practices that attempt to change a person's gender identity or sexual orientation. Today, there are more than 1,300 conversion therapy practitioners across the United States , with Texas claiming the second-highest number of practitioners in the country.

But the seed for the show was planted while Alon volunteered with Hatch, an LGBTQIA+ youth and young adults group run out of The Montrose Center. It’s an

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