Registration is open for A-Camp September 2012 — snag your spot and make dreams come true!

Most people didn’t understand the theme, but last night’s Met Gala was as glamorous and queer as ever! Maybe, even more than usual this year!! Here are some of my favorite looks, paired with literal notes on camp.

We just put on our largest and most successful iteration of A-Camp in Ojai, CA. We’d like to gush about it for a minute, please – won’t you join us?

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.

“I wanted this camp to turn me into a rock star.”

“I feel like this camp everyone really got to be their best, most honest and weirdest selves — for instance, and bear with me, when Sam and Riese and I created an intense trivia experience centered entirely around cults, true crime and murder and not only did people show up but many of the questions were TOO EASY FOR THEM.”

We’ve got an A-Camp VIP Package plus opportunities for campers who are under 21 and a person of color with hair-cutting chops.

On the first full day of A-Camp, we pressed flowers, talked about gender, played basketball, cabin-bombed and super-soaked.

Even though I didn’t get to experience A-Camp in the traditionally transformative way, I got an even deeper peek into the ways that this community is both very real and deeply caring.

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!

Join Autostraddle, Dannielle & Kristin of “Everyone is Gay,” Jasika Nicole, Julia Nunes, Jenny Owen Youngs and DeAnne Smith atop Mount Feelings for five days of FUN FUN FUN!

As we gear up for May A-Camp, let’s look back at the like-minded independently owned businesses who gave you killer swag, supplies and prizes in October!

“The summer after I turned thirteen, I decided that exactly two things needed to happen in order for my life to matter: I needed Rosie Collins to like me, and I needed my parents to send me to Bible Camp.”

Read these essays and feel inspired to apply for and/or donate to the campership fund for our May 2017 camp in Wisconsin!

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Actress Anna Camp has been enjoying date nights and Renaissance Pleasure Faires with her #1 babe, stylist Jade Whipkey.

Sara and Ava go back to summer camp together to try to save missing kids and give Ava some childhood memories of her very own.

Many of these companies are small, queer and independently-owned themselves, which makes their donations to A-Camp even more amazing!

We’ve got two full camperships with travel expenses and one campership without travel for three lucky trans women because the more trans women at camp, the better!

Symptoms of A-Camp withdrawal include: forgetting every girl you see isn’t queer, staring wistfully at inadequate trees, intense nostalgia, sleeping in your A-Camp t-shirt and DIY lingerie, counting down ’til next time.