2015

“Show up. Stop making excuses, it’s killing people. Stand up to your friends and your colleagues and your family members. Support each other when you see someone standing up to racism. Power in numbers works both ways — use yours for good. Quit coddling ignorance because it’s easier, or because you’re afraid, or because it feels better.”
AJA AGUIRRE, JUNE 2015

Team Photo (Big Bear, CA)
Hayley Jude (“Queer Mama”) & Simone with Baby Juniper Jude (San Francisco, CA)
Senior Eds at A-Camp (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Chelsey & Grace at A-Camp (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Molly TK Adams at Pride (San Francisco, CA)
Autostraddle on a Lesbians Who Tech panel (San Francisco, CA)
Whitney & Laura Mandanas with campers (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Aja & Mackenzie at the Family Equality Council’s Award Dinner (Los Angeles, CA)
Jasika Nicole leading a workshop (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Brittani interviews Lauren Morelli at A-Camp (Angelus Oaks, CA)
R & R (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Rachel, Gabby, Carmen and Whitney at UW Madison (Madison, WI)
El is really funny you guys (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Mal Blum, Stef & Julia Nunes performing at A-Camp (Angelus Oaks, CA) (photo by Robin Roemer)
Bren gets ready to say goodbye to merch girl duties (Walnut Creek, CA)
Yvonne & Kaelyn outside their cabin (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Everyone got mad at us about A+ so we decided to play the lottery instead (we lost) (Big Bear, CA)
Waiting for staff to get introduced at A-Camp (Angelus Oaks, CA) (photo by Robin Roemer)
Brittani models new hoodies (Los Angeles, CA)
Who us (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Djuan Trent and a cow (Angelus Oaks, CA) (photo by Robin Roemer)
El and Cecelia (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Bruno Mars (Angelus Oaks, CA) (photo by Robin Roemer)
Day in The Life of Brittani Nichols (Los Angeles, CA) (photo by Molly TK Adams)
Arm Wrestling (Angelus Oaks, CA)
HOLDING OUR PRECIOUS GLAAD AWARD (Big Bear, CA)
Brittani, Carly & Jasika at the pool (Angelus Oaks, CA)
Kristin Russo is a hula hoop champion (Angelus Oaks, CA) (photo by Robin Roemer)
QTPOC Speakeasy at A-Camp (Angelus Oaks, CA) (photo by Robin Roemer)
Alex & Austen lead whiskey tasting (Angelus Oaks, CA) (photo by Robin Roemer)

“We had a whirlwind trip filled with hikes and goats and gay shit.”
Read Maddie Taterka’s memory >

In 2015 Fikri decided to go visit Audrey where they were living in Nicaragua, and I decided very spontaneously that I would go too. I had never met either of them IRL at that point, and so it was a real gamble that we would all get along outside of gchat and slack?? The answer, it turned out, was yes. We had a whirlwind trip filled with hikes and goats and gay shit. Since then, Fikri and I have been to the top of the Empire State Building in the middle of the night, and Audrey and I are going to be in each other’s weddings! It’s the friends we made along the way amirite?

—Maddie Taterka

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I was a new-ish writer. I was a brand new camper and a first-time camp staffer. I’d never met anyone from the team IRL. I was 32 and felt like maybe I’d be too…old? I felt like I was joining a queer frat or…a cult…and I was the new initiate. Once I got there, though, I felt right at home, not just with these folks who’ve become fam, but like, in my body. I’ve never felt so free to completely be myself. There’s something about 100% queer-normative space and not having to interact with straight people for whole days at a time that just releases you. (A-Camp is a kind of cult, though, just to be clear. I was right about that!)
KaeLyn Rich