Honcho Campout's Camp Cast

With ‘rave chaos’ looming on the horizon, how do you prepare the set and setting for hundreds of queer people in the heart of red-pilled rural USA? Workers and volunteers have one day left to outfit 250 acres of private land before hundreds of festival attendees descend the gates, all hoping to lighten their institutional baggage from 5-days of raving.

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The speaker amps are kissing reds to the pumping low-end vibrations now filling every corner of these woods. It’s time for you to tune in and drop out.

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What is ‘rave chaos’ and why is it one of the necessary ingredients to make a truly great gathering? And what possibly could America’s largest Christian faith music festivals have in common with a ‘gay techno camping festival in the woods’? In this episode, the producers of the Honcho Campout, a nearly decade-running queer psychedelic forest rave in the Appalachia, reconnect with their childhood memories in nature. We learn how the elements of unpredictability, tribe, and a childlike sense of adventure have fortified this urban party scene for a return to the great outdoors.

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Comedown is a b**tch. It is the last 24 hours of Campout where ravers negotiate how to pack it in and savor final moments on the dancefloor. The dancefloor has also kicked up some dust on what radical spaces for healing can look like for differen't types of queers both young and old.

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Now that the gates are open, ravers upon first arrival must reconcile the ways that civilization have wedged queer people as a whole in terms of class and race. What does camping in nature bring up for people especially in terms of priveledge and physical safety? We hear from a group of campers willing to meet some of these social and political questions head on by running and participating in a program called the Queer Fam Fund.

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