It’s crunch time as we prepare for our sixth-ever A-Camp — while you guys are finalizing travel plans and dreaming of Klub Deer, we’re strapping on our headlamps and working hard to make the programming for this camp better than anything we’ve had before! Speaking from personal experience, there really is no other feeling quite like being on Mt. Feelings with hundreds of other queers, exchanging thoughts and ideas with so many other people who get where you’re coming from. While we certainly can’t promise that romance awaits everyone on the mountain, we can say that an awful lot of couples have met at camp — is it something about the altitude, the salad bar, the potential presence of bears? No one knows.
With all of this in mind, we’ve turned to our friends at OkCupid for a pretty badass campership offer. Autostraddle busted out an entire series called “Oh Gay Cupid” a couple of years ago, focusing on the impact online dating can have on our lives and relationships.
OkCupid, as you may know, is generally the raddest of all online dating sites out there right now, and they’ve been pretty awesome at supporting the LGBTQ community — one of the (shockingly) few sites that allows bisexual subscribers to search for both men and women at the same time, and offering an increasing number of options for users to describe their gender and/or sexuality. They also offer users the opportunity to keep themselves from seeing or being seen by straight people, something I wish we all had in real life.
On top of all that, they’re now offering the opportunity for one lucky queer to attend A-Camp for free.
How to Win the OkCupid Campership
To enter to win, we’re looking for all the single potential A-Campers to create a profile on OkCupid and email your username to acamp[at]okcupid[dot]com.
A winner will be selected based on how much effort you put into making your profile uniquely yours! Here’s the criteria:
WRITE YOUR ESSAYS (35%)
The best thing you can do here is be your beautiful, weirdo, unadulterated self. Embrace your quirks, and you’re better off finding the person who will embrace you because of (not in spite of) them.
UPLOAD PHOTOS (35%)
Use your photos to not just show what you look like, but who you are and what makes you special. And captions go a long way towards completing that narrative.
ANSWER MATCH QUESTIONS (30%)
This is what allows us to calculate your match percentage with others. The more you tell us who you’re looking for (and who you are), the better we can match you up.
If you already have an existing OkCupid profile, you can enter as well! It’s about creating a profile and taking the time to make it yours.
What You Get
This contest is for all the single Autostraddlers who are not already signed up for A-Camp. Camp Tuition and shuttle transportation between LAX and the campground are covered; the winner is responsible only for covering their own travel to LAX and/or to the campground directly.
Additionally, the winner has the option of being a special contestant in our revamped queer version of Singled Out, a new activity we’re really excited to bring up the mountain.
Deadline is EOD Monday April 6th
You have until the end of the day THIS MONDAY — April 6th, 2015 — to make your profile and email it to acamp[at]okcupid[dot]com. A winner will be selected and notified on Wednesday April 8th!
Thanks to OkCupid for supporting A-Camp and good luck!
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this is just so fucking great
all the feels, you guys!
plus props to stef for “we’re strapping on our headlamps”.
ASHERRRRRRRR <3
It’s wonderful that there are so many campership opportunities this time around! Thanks, OKC.
One question for clarification – is this only open to single Straddlers or are non-monogamous partnered people able to apply?
non-monogamous people are totally cool!
by that i mean like, able to apply, but also (sunglasses emoji)
wow! awesome so many campership opportunities this year! thanks OKC thanks AS.
Soooo…if I already have a profile, can I just email it to you?
i mean, you should email it to the okcupid address because they’re the ones doing the contest, i’ll just lurk your profile like a total weirdo if you send it to me. but yes, pre-existing accounts are fine!
I should have said them huh? Didn’t that read that one closely enough. But I entered!
Does it matter if you’re not U.S based?
as long as you could feasibly get yourself to LAX if you won, you’re good to go – the campership covers transportation from LAX and all of camp itself.
Nope, can’t even do it. Last time I tried to get back on OKCupid for some reason OKCupid wouldn’t take my information and create a profile. Emailed support but never heard from them, soooooooooooo…………. so much for the online dating thing
I’m so excited, because I think I’m able to apply for this one. Regardless, I’m so happy that someone will be surprised with a free campership. I’ll just be spiffing up my profile!
I’m sooo excited about this :) Is there anyway to make sure our e-mails don’t go straight into y’alls spam box?
Stacy
we got you, girl. :thumbsup:
Thanks!!
I saw this post late last night (been busy Passover-ing with family on the other coast) and e-mailed the OkC address my username before Midnight PST. I hope that was alright! I didn’t receive a confirmation of entry reply. Any info, please and thank you! This is such a great opportunity, thanks OkC!
I submitted mine yesterday too! Woohoo!
OMG this contest needs to be judged and over with so I can delete my profile this website is so stressssssssful.