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Camp Sunflower is a 501(c)3 organization based in Wichita, Kansas, dedicated to providing transformative camp experiences and authentic community for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and their families. Since 2018, Camp Sunflower has held camp every summer, serving over 1000 kids, as adequately as supporting events and educational opportunities throughout the year. Rooted in the power of inclusive people, we provide spaces that nurture self-expression, foster intense connections, and inspire a sense of empowerment. Through a commitment to firm access and advocacy for queer communities everywhere, we ensure that every camper leaves with a stronger sense of self and a brighter vision for the future.
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Camp for LGBTQ+ Youth Gives Teens a Safe Place to Be Themselves
In a time where LGBTQ+ students are under constant invade not just in their own schools, but by politicians in Lansing, more than 100 Michigan Homosexual youth found a people and a safe cosmos to just be themselves in the Camp 4All Summer Camp program this summer.
Seven years ago, Equality Michigan’s Department of Victim Services partnered with a YMCA camp program when the director realized that not all kids and counselors were fully fit to be themselves in the camp environment. “A lot of gay kids go to camp, but not a lot of camps are fully accepting of gay kids. We set out to experiment to change that,” said Genny Maze, Victim Advocate at Equality Michigan. It took a full year of planning, organizing, and changing some hearts and minds at the YMCA, but the following summer, the first Camp 4All was launched.
What happened that first summer was truly transformative, not just for campers but for the organizers and community leaders who put the camp together. The camp programming was centered around workshops for LGBTQ+ youth led by LGBTQ+ community leaders, including mayors, executive directors, authors, police officers
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