Vermont Labor Day 2016

WelCome to Summer gAY cAMp
Aaaaaaaaaaah summer camp… hiking through the woods,
campfires at night, vicious and hateful social cliques that
psychologically destroy your slightly overweight friend, and
that one creepy older councilor that would have you smelltest
ether rags in the back of his Taurus... For many of us,
it was the best time of our lives.
Deep in the woods of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom is the
strange little town of Montgomery – the unlikeliest spot for
a gay throwdown party weekend. If you blinked, you’d drive
right through it. But if you dig a little deeper, you’d find
a really weird scene – there’s a dark youth hostel style
lodge but also perfectly quaint inns… there’s a little white
steeple church, but that’s where the town buys its drugs.
There’s a lot of farmers and rednecks, but even more hippies
and homos. And everyone seems to get along.
And then at Labor Day, this little town center of about 500
people welcomes 100 city gays. It’s weird, but it’s kind of
perfect.
This is the 9 th and final year I’ll do this, and every year
it seems to get bigger. We had over 100 guys from the US and
Canada there last year. It’s not an organized ‘gay weekend’
and there’s no paid events, or anything other than an open
invite to come and check out Montgomery, Vermont, kick back,
let loose, and experience a scene that is, in many ways, the
opposite of Provincetown, Key West, or big city gay fests.