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LGBTQ family camping on the coast
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While it may seem like a distant mirage right
environment in which to spend time with your
now, summer is, according to painstaking his
friends and family but a welcoming, inclusive
torical record, right around the corner. The ar
camping adventure.
rival o f this sorely missed season means jaunts to
Y W C A camp director Janette Kunkel re
the edges o f the metro area for secret swimming
ports that though C am p O U T began primarily
holes, river walks, bicycling and hiking. For oth
as a lesbians-with-kids seaside outing, over
ers, it means the arrival o f the best time o f year
time it opened up to more male couples with
for packing up the tents, sleeping bags and bug
children. That number, however, remains lower
spray for a dalliance with Oregon’s many out
than she’d hope.
“I think there are just more lesbian couples
door camping options.
For the last 75 years, the folks at the Y W C A
having children or adopting children as opposed
o f Greater Portland have anticipated these
to the gay male population,” says Kunkel. “I
looming, sun-dappled days o f adventure with
think that’s just in the last decade become more
an eye 90 miles southwest o f Portland, to the
common, where we have gay men adopting kids.
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“It is a safe environment
where families can be
together, being exactly
who they are without
any of the bigotry of the
outside world leaking in.”
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They might not even know
that C am p O U T is there for
them.”
Possibly in part because
o f this lack o f awareness,
the last few years have seen
low
attendance
C am p O U T — in what has
affected its footing in the
YW CA’s
larger camping
program. C am p W estwind’s
with children, along with their allies and
capacity for campers is around 130, and in
friends, gear up for kayaking and campfire
2010, C a m p O U T registration managed only
sing-alongs, Y W C A staffers are struggling to
half o f that. W hile the numbers have been low,
spread the word about C a m p O U T before it’s
Kunkel is optimistic that getting the word out
too late.
not just to same-sex couples with children, but
Nestled at the mouth o f the Salmon River
also their friends and allies, can help carry the
Estuary, where several ecosystems converge for
program to a new level o f exposure and
a largely unspoiled natural habitat, Cam p
participation.
Westwind imbues a sense o f consciousness to
I f the support and glowing testimonials
youth and adult campers alike. In the case o f
from longtime C am p O U T campers is any in
C am pO U T , the values, activities and recre
dication, the program seems poised to provide
ational opportunities remain the same under
summer memories for years to come.
this umbrella. Still, in an effort to manifest
Nine-year C a m p O U T attendee SueTheis-
C am p W estwind’s credo o f “encouraging com
sen’s oldest daughter, now 37, went to C am p
munity, embracing diversity,” C a m p O U T or
Westwind when she was a child. Theissen’s
ganizers seek to provide not only a beautiful
youngest daughter, now 19, went to Westwind
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