Conversion therapy can easily be classified as one great, big, stupid, dangerous, horrible, cruel idea.

It’s a misguided attempt by Christian fundamentalists and mental health quacks to make young gay kids feel “normal,” dismissing the fact that there is nothing abnormal about waking up with an attraction to the same sex. Outcomes of this anti-mental health initiative have been proven to lead to even more serious problems, including addiction and suicide.

In Crowded Fire Theater’s world premiere of playwright Preston Choi’s Limp Wrist on the Lever , these ideas dominate the play’s early dialogue, which provides three queer teens some serious purpose. Their mission is to run as far away as possible from their gay conversion camp, a hellhole of homophobic intolerance. Their subsequent

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