#2. it could just be regular gay friendly summer camp but it's not as fun if it's not ~illicit~ the riskier/more forbidden the better | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ghostblogging · 3 months ago

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the thing abt gay ppl is for inexplicable reasons we love summer camps (it's basically the only time you see gay ppl really display that same high school era nostalgia so prominent amgst straight ppl)

but bc we're gay really all the summer camps we have experience with are religious troubled child/conversion therapy camps which means you get a billion kajillion first love in a conversion camp coming-of-age stories which I think provide a very skewed perception of what conversion therapy is like

#ftr I do think this is largely silly & harmless I think we are all acutely aware of the horrors of those places #& no kid out there is like gee whiz maybe I Will sign up for the christian camp maybe I'll find love...#but I do think the setting becoming such a common trope is vv silly. endearing even #my theories as to why gay ppl love hostile camp stories: 1. first time a lot of ppl experience being somewhere with many other gays #2. it could just be regular gay friendly summer camp but it's not as fun if it's not ~illicit~ the riskier/more forbidden the better #3. the isolation and necessarily reduced oversight allows more room for sneaking away for classic bildungsroman experiences and #also to just Be Yourself and Form Community when no one is looking

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