E-mail: gaycamp@gaycamp.se
Adress: the GayCamp Association, Box 350, S-101 26 Stockholm, SWEDEN
Organization and activities
of the GayCamp Association
The GayCamp Association is a non-profit
organization run by a board of 7 people.
Our main activity is to arrange a summer
camp each year. Each autumn we also
organize a reunion with people participating
in that years summer camp. We have
arranged camps since 1983 and during
2008 we celebrated 25 years of
anniversary.
Our target group is Men who have Sex with
Men (MSM) from all over the country and of
different ages, which gives us opportunities
to see each other over the generations and
with men from different backgrounds and
comparing different living conditions due to
living in a city or in the countryside,
different ages and different cultures.
Goals of the GayCamp Association
- to create, through our GayCamp programme, homo-
social networks for Men who have Sex with Men (MSM)
and deepen relationships between men of different ages,
backgrounds and cultures
- to integrate closeted MSM with men who are more
secure and "out" with their Homosexual, Bisexual or
Transsexual identity. (HBT-persons)
- to defend the rights of the bisexual and transsexual MSM
in the homo/hetero community
- to integrate immigrant MSM with native MSM
- to integrate HIV positive MSM with presumably HIV
negative MSM
- to promote sexual health among MSM, by giving out
correct and non-judgmental information about HIV and
other sexually transmitted diseases (STI)
- to create a forum for issues of religions, faiths and life
philosophies and promote discussions about religion and
faith. GayCamp is neutral in all questions about religion
and faith
- to create a homo-social meeting place which is not
dependent on a commercial environment with
alcohol/drug consumption as a chief means of
establishing social contact
- to create the opportunity for financially disadvantaged or
physically challenged MSM to participate in the
homosexual community
