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Fake Gay-Conversion Camp

Story of the Week with Joel Stein

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Jason Anthony's LARPING Story and Wired

LARPING stands for live action roleplaying, which is something so nerdy that not even I have done it. They created these complicated multi-day LARPs about some really dark subjects like being in a bunker during a nuclear war. This other one takes place in a prison camp and the most popular one they ever did was in the 1980s during the AIDS epidemic. People pay to experience these things.

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