Missouri Gay Campgrounds and Missouri Lbian Campgrounds

Contents:

Quiet, seclud, gay owned and operated private men's only mpground and rort.

It was also the Queer Exchange group I learned Dragula star Maxi Glamour would host a nudist gay retreat June.

The event was to be held at SIReny Farms, which is the newt of several Ozark gay mpgrounds. “I thk we are a ltle more retreat-rort than a lot of the stic offergs the gay mpg world wh our close proximy to St. Gay Campg Friends is a Facebook group wh over 115, 000 followers.

We gay folks love our fur babi! a private adults only (21 years or olr) mpg experience for gay, bi, and straight men near Ava, Missouri. ”Across the pool, a bald man wh a large stomach stg naked a chair turned to a iend and murmured out the si of his mouth, “You thk that’s jt a tad gay?

”The rollg woods of the Ozarks — where a billboard along a major highway proclaims that marriage is the unn of one man and one woman, where a “J Sav” sign and other Christian symbols rate ont lawns — seem an unlikely place for gay people to feel fortable beg out and tucked the backuntry here is a place where gay men are unabashedly celebratory and self-pretg about their liv: Cact Canyon Campground, a 700-acre, clothg optnal, all-male s 15th season, the mpground has bee so popular that the owners are the procs of triplg s RV pacy, addg more spac for tents and stallg a send surprisg, perhaps, is the way lol rints generally react to the mp nowadays: wh a shg, or maybe an awkward gr. “Live and let live, ” said Jim Luellen, 68, who owns a nvenience store nearby sister, Kathy Haynie, 72, said: “It’s not right for men or women beg homosexual or whatever you ll . Still, the story of Cact Canyon offers one example of the evolvg gay experience this vatng the regn, a gay uple, Chaz Franzke and Jim Thiman, beme so enamored of the scenery that they left their jobs Wisns, bought property and opened the mpground 1999.

They started a Yahoo Group, Out the Ozarks, that anized var gathergs for gay people, like breakfasts at a lol der. “I feel a lot more fortable around gay people than I do around straight people, ” said Craig Nelson, 62, stg bi his 32-foot mper on a plot rated wh elephant ears, weigelas and other plants. Thiman said their primary ncern was providg their mpers wh an enjoyable experience, they acknowledged that the mpground’s prence might play some role easg ncerns that lols had about gay men and lbians.

Franzke even got both sheriff’s ndidat to do a fom at the mpground, after one of them wanted to rebut a mor that he had once said he would n gay men and lbians out of the unty if he was elected. “The gays and lbians are out the muny and proud of . Gay Campg USA offers a "Friends wh Privileg" disunt membership program for affiliated mps.

Set on 120 acr (nearly 50 ha) of nature trails and cyprs tre along the Whlaochee River, is a year-round mpg paradise and one of the largt gay mpground the US.