Results for: a-camp
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This One Time At Queer Writing Camp: All About the 2013 Lambda Literary Retreat
What I learned from a week on a hilltop with 50 queer writers.
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Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions About Packing for A-Camp with DeAnne Smith
“I’m still not sure how any of it happens.”
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A-Camp May Campership: We’ve Got A Plane Ticket AND Tuition For One Lucky Overseas Camper!
Do you live far away from Los Angeles? Like in another country? Well, this is your big chance to win (up to $1,500 towards) a plane ticket AND A-Camp tuition for May!
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Hold Onto Your Butts, “Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous” Finally Got Gay
Friends to enemies to needing each other to stay alive to friends to girlfriends. Classic!
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Trans Fiction, Trans Imagination: Notes on (AcroYoga) Camp
Sitting there, eyes closed, I could feel the subtle movements of the two people I was touching. To my right—someone I’d never met. I’d glimpsed basketball shorts, ragged tee, short hair. Muscular, athletic body. My hand on an unfamiliar, living knee.
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I Saw “Too Much Sun,” The Worst Gay Movie Ever Made, and I Wish I’d Gone to Poodle Camp Instead
This 1990 film has everything: Robert Downey Jr making a salad, Eric Idle in a leopard-print robe, a vaguely European lesbian character named Susan, murder, three nuns, and so much smooth jazz!!!!
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A Guide to Camping at Home During Quarantine
As a lesbian, there’s nothing I love more than camping. It’s the only time you’re allowed to eat a plain hot dog on a stick!
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Lez Liberty Lit: High Femme Camp Antics
It’s best books season, the addiction-memoir genre has been dominated by men, somehow it will be March again in just three months, and yes — that piece about High Femme Camp Antics that everyone is subtweeting about.
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A-Camp Is Taking a Break in 2020
We’re pressing pause to rebuild.
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Postcards Are Important
Postcards are fucking important.
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Your Childhood Lives On In Perler Beads: 40 Nerdy 8-Bit Patterns
Making 8- and 16-bit video characters out of plastic beads: the best afternoon EVER.
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Mini Crossword Has Never Actually Been Sailing
My wilderness camp counselor criticized me for having no sense of direction.
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Liquor On The Mountain: We’re Having a Whiskey Tasting And You Should Too
Ah, the power of buying alcohol in a large group of queermos – if you haven’t done it before, you should probably do it now. Why? Because you can get really amazing bottles to try that might be out of your budget otherwise and you’ll be trying those bottles in really excellent company.
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29 Weirdest Pictures From Our Queer Prom
We had a queer prom on top of a mountain. There were photographs. Some of these prom-goers were pretty f*cking special.
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DIY Beauty Bar: Sweet and Tough Olive Oil Scrub
You’re just 5 minutes and a bit of kitchen chemistry away from smooth skin.
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Just Take It Bird By Bird: On Personal Writing
Writing about your own experiences, whether it’s through memoir or essay or slam poetry or leaving post-its about the sandwiches your mom used to make for your lunch on lampposts, can be empowering and life-changing, even without anyone else reading it.
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DIY Beauty Bar: Bottle Cap Clamshell
Eat your heart out, Etsy.
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Ode to My Pack Sack: Marshmallows
The only Camping Wisdom I have acquired is that rocky riverbeds make terrible beds and chopping wood’s hard. Oh, and marshmallows need to be toasted and consumed in large quantities.
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Make A Thing: Making Mountains On The Mountain
Tiny little mountains to snuggle on or off the mountain.
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Make A Thing: Merit Badges
Making merit badges is significantly easier than earning them.