"O Happy Day!"

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Dystopia very similar to the concentration camps in Germany under National Socialism. Heterosexual men are in the camp and systematically killed. Gay men run the camp under the direction of women who give electronically. The author was born in Canada and self-identifies as Canadian even though he has lived most of his life in the U.S. and the U.K.