Gay Spirit Camp - Summer 2026
MONDAY
6:30–7:30 PM:Dinner - Dining Room (Dinner circle at 6:20.)
We’ll have our first dinner with our lodge groups.
7:30–9:30 PM:Opening Circle - Great Room
We’ll gather to welcome one another, set intentions, build shared agreements, and begin creating connection for the week ahead.
10:00–11:30 PM:Puppy Pile with Wayne Leiss - Great Room
Join us for a clothing-on, non-erotic guided group snuggle and relaxation experience.
10:00 PM: Evening Activities - Various Locations
Enjoy our wood-fired sauna and games.
TUESDAY
7:30–8:30 AM:Morning Yoga with Tim Cooley - Great Room
Join our resident yogi for morning yoga. Tim is very skilled at making it accessible for all levels, from beginners to experts. Wear loose, comfortable clothing.
OR: Meditation and Breath with Wayne Lapinski - Temple
Wayne will lead approximately 45 minutes of accessible, nontraditional meditation and breath practices, which may include walking or moving meditation, humming, chanting, and other ways to explore breath and awareness.
8:30–9:30 AM:Breakfast - Dining Room
9:30–10:30 AM:Lodge Groups - Various Locations
Please attend your lodge group!
11:00 AM–12:30 PM:Mass Drag: Behind the Habit with Jim Lopata - Great Room
Get a sneak peek at Mass Drag, a new musical about five drag nuns uncovering a thousand years of queer Church history. Join writer/director James Lopata to learn songs and prepare for Wednesday evening’s presentation. No experience is necessary, just curiosity (and maybe a decent singing voice).
OR: The Death Cafe with Harry Faddis - Temple
At Death Cafes, people often drink tea, eat cake, and discuss death. Our aim is to increase awareness of death to help people make the most of their finite lives. The Death Cafe movement began in the UK in 2010 and has since spread throughout the world. All are welcome.
1:00–2:00 PM:Lunch - Dining Room
2:30–4:30 PM:Dancing Queer Joy with Mark Broomfield - Great Room
In this workshop, we will center queer joy to the iconic gay anthem I Will Survive and create a new dance. No experience needed. Just a desire to have fun, be big, give drama and be in shared community.
OR: Breath Exploration with Wayne Lapinski - Temple
Wayne will guide an introductory conscious-connected breath practice designed to be expansive, energizing, and healing. Sometimes called emotional-release or trauma-release breathwork, this practice can help release holding in the body and create space for healing old traumas, suppressions, and uncomfortable past experiences.
4:30–6:30 PM:Free Time, Pop-Ups - Various Locations
OR: 12-Step Meeting - Hunter Room
7:00–8:00 PM:Dinner - Dining Room (Dinner circle at 6:50.)
8:30–10:00 PM: Contra Dancing with Kathryn Wedderburn & the Eclectic Orchestra - Great Room
Join Kathryn Wedderburn and the Eclectic Orchestra as they teach the basics of group contra dancing. No experience is necessary.
10:00 PM: Evening Activities - Various Locations
Enjoy our wood-fired sauna, start a board game, walk the labyrinth, or spend time connecting with friends old and new.
WEDNESDAY
7:30–8:30 AM:Morning Yoga with Tim Cooley - Great Room
Join our resident yogi for morning yoga. Tim is very skilled at making it accessible for all levels, from beginners to experts. Wear loose, comfortable clothing.
OR: Meditation and Breath with Wayne Lapinski - Temple
Wayne will lead approximately 45 minutes of accessible, nontraditional meditation and breath practices, which may include walking or moving meditation, humming, chanting, and other ways to explore breath and awareness.
8:30–9:30 AM:Breakfast - Dining Room
9:30–10:30 AM:Lodge Groups - Various Locations
Please attend your lodge group!
11:00 AM–12:30 PM: Stories and a Show with Judah Leblang - Great Room
In this interactive 90-minute session, storyteller and writer Judah Leblang presents his one-man dramedy, The Expiration Date, a humorous look at getting older, wrestling with mortality, and dealing with times when one man planned and God laughed. After the show, we’ll have a small-group check-in and a chance for you to tell or write a short piece from your own life.
OR: Everything You Want to Know About Mediumship and How to Increase Your Skill in Communicating with Your Loved Ones in Spirit with Michael Gilroy - Temple
In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to explore your own skills and awareness of mediumship and deepen your awareness of spirit connection in your life. No prior experience is required.
1:00–2:00 PM:Lunch - Dining Room
2:30–4:30 PM:Lights! Camera! Easton! with Vito Abate - Great Room
Come and join the making of the 5th Annual Campy Camp video! The camera gives us permission to play, act silly, and ham it up, all with spontaneous collaboration. Whether you’ve ever performed or not doesn’t matter. This is a new experience for everyone involved, fast-paced and full of laughs. Vito will direct on the fly and eventually edit and make a video from it. While this workshop is certainly a time to have fun, it’s also an opportunity to let go, take chances, play, and create a unique bond with your fellow campers.
OR: The Trust Within: A Blindfolded Journey into Connection with Wayne Leiss - Temple
This experiential workshop explores what it means to lead and be led. Participants pair up for a guided, blindfolded trust walk that brings awareness to communication, surrender, and intuition. The exercise fosters a powerful sense of embodied trust, both inwardly and in relationship with others.
4:30–6:30 PM:Free Time & Pop-Ups - Various Locations
OR: 12-Step Meeting - Hunter Room
7:00–8:00 PM:Dinner - Dining Room (Dinner circle at 6:50.)
8:30–10:00 PM: Mass Drag (staged reading) with Jim Lopata - Great Room
A reading of Mass Drag, James Lopata's new musical: Five drag nuns uncovering centuries of queer history hidden in plain sight within the Catholic Church -- followed by discussion. Prepared with camp participants during workshops and rehearsals earlier in the week.
10:00 PM: Evening Activities - Various Locations
Enjoy our wood-fired sauna, check out the play space, start a board game, walk the labyrinth, or spend time connecting with friends old and new.
THURSDAY
7:30–8:30 AM:Morning Yoga with Tim Cooley - Great Room
Join our resident yogi for morning yoga. Tim is very skilled at making it accessible for all levels, from beginners to experts. Wear loose, comfortable clothing.
OR: Meditation and Breath with Wayne Lapinski - Temple
Wayne will lead approximately 45 minutes of accessible, nontraditional meditation and breath practices, which may include walking or moving meditation, humming, chanting, and other ways to explore breath and awareness.
8:30–9:30 AM:Breakfast - Dining Room
9:30–10:30 AM:Lodge Groups - Various Locations
Please attend your lodge group!
11:00 AM–12:30 PM:Cherish Yourself: Reflections Inspired by Poetry & Live Music with Nhojj - Great Room
Explore the healing power of our stories prompted by songs and poetry. A blend of musical performance, book reading, and discussion. Reflect on themes of self-acceptance, desire, community, and love.
OR: Understanding Your Breath with Wayne Lapinski - Temple
Learn and practice several breath patterns that can help support nervous-system balance, grounding, calming, anxiety, depression, insomnia, PTSD management, and more. This informative laboratory is especially useful for people who tend to hold their breath, breathe shallowly, or have found traditional meditation difficult. Participants will leave with one or two practical breath tools suited to their individual needs.
1:00–2:00 PM:Lunch - Dining Room
2:30–5:00 PM:Sensuous Massage with Tim Cooley - Great Room (2.5 hours)
An opportunity to exchange conscious touch. There will be a brief tutorial demonstrating possible techniques and safety issues. No prior experience necessary. This is intended to be a sensual rather than an erotically centered experience. (Signup required)
OR: The Four Directions of the Soul: A Compass for Living with Michael R. Smith - Temple(2 hours)
The Medicine Wheel is a living map for self-discovery, intuition, and navigating life’s many transitions. In this highly experiential workshop, we’ll explore the wisdom, archetypal qualities, and unique gifts of each of the four directions through movement, reflection, and guided intuitive practices that include Michael’s four-part model of mental consciousness. Together we’ll discover how the wisdom of the Medicine Wheel can deepen self-awareness, help us recognize meaningful patterns, strengthen our intuition, and offer fresh perspectives for making decisions from a place of clarity. You’ll leave with practical tools, renewed confidence in your inner knowing, and a deep appreciation for this timeless path of wisdom.
4:30–6:30 PM:Free Time & Pop-Ups - Various Locations
OR: 12-Step Meeting - Hunter Room
7:00–8:00 PM:Dinner - Dining Room (Dinner circle at 6:50.)
8:15–10:00 PM: Authors Night with Jim Lopata, David Jarvis & Mark Broomfield - Great Room
Join us for a literary evening with readings from Jim Lopata, sharing from his forthcoming novel Newman’s Will; David Jarvis, author of Connecting the Dots; and Mark Broomfield, author of Black Queer Dance: Gay Men and the Politics of Passing for Almost Straight, followed by a conversation and audience Q&A.
10:00 PM: Evening Activities - Various Locations
Enjoy our wood-fired sauna, check out the play space, start a board game, walk the labyrinth, or spend time connecting with friends old and new.
FRIDAY
7:30–8:30 AM:Morning Yoga with Tim Cooley - Great Room
Join our resident yogi for morning yoga. Tim is very skilled at making it accessible for all levels, from beginners to experts. Wear loose, comfortable clothing.
OR: Meditation and Breath with Wayne Lapinski - Temple
Wayne will lead approximately 45 minutes of accessible, nontraditional meditation and breath practices, which may include walking or moving meditation, humming, chanting, and other ways to explore breath and awareness.
8:30–9:30 AM:Breakfast - Dining Room
9:30–10:30 AM:Lodge Groups - Various Locations
Please attend your lodge group!
11:00 AM–12:30 PM:Music and Healing with David Jarvis - Great Room
Join us for a new and uplifting workshop exploring the powerful connection between music and healing. Together, we’ll create sounds and rhythms, make simple instruments, explore movement and musical play, and share experiences of how music touches the soul. And of course, make a joyful noise! No musical experience needed. Just bring your curiosity, your spirit, and your voice. Come discover how music can open the heart, connect us to one another, and restore the soul.
OR: Writing From Real Life with Judah Leblang - Temple
The late, great Southern writer Flannery O’Connor said anyone who survived childhood has enough stories to last a lifetime. In this workshop, we’ll write from a series of prompts and use our real-life experiences to create stories on the page. This session is designed for anyone who made it through childhood, whether you think of yourself as a writer or not. It can be both fun and liberating to get our thoughts and experiences down on paper or a laptop, whether you plan to share them or not. This session builds on Stories and a Show, but you’re welcome to attend even if you did not participate in the earlier workshop.
1:00–2:00 PM:Lunch - Dining Room
2:30–4:00 PM:Connect with Your Childhood Creativity with Nhojj - Great Room
As a child did you draw, sing, dance, or do something else creative? Remember that feeling? This is a space to invite it back into your life.
OR: Side Ways with Vito Abate - Temple
Ever feel like sexually you don’t fit into a specific category or label? Many men believe they don’t enjoy or see themselves as a top, bottom, or versatile. As a result, some experience self-doubt, pressure to fit in, and sometimes rejection and judgment from others. For some, side is a new term, while others have found self-acceptance and a sense of side pride through discovering it. We’ll explore what it means to identify as a side for oneself, in dating and other relationships, in online and in-person connections, and the challenges as well as the inner peace it can bring.
4:30–6:30 PM:Free Time & Pop-Ups - Various Locations
OR: 12-Step Meeting - Hunter Room
7:00–8:00 PM:Dinner - Dining Room (Dinner circle at 6:50.)
8:30–10:00 PM:Talent Salon - Great Room
Come share your talents or simply enjoy an evening of entertainment, laughter, and community. Whether you sing, dance, tell stories, perform comedy, read poetry, or have another gift to share, everyone is welcome to participate or cheer on their fellow campers.
10:00 PM: Evening Activities - Various Locations
Enjoy our wood-fired sauna, check out the play space, start a board game, walk the labyrinth, or spend time connecting with friends old and new.
SATURDAY
We’ll also be welcoming our Day Pass guests as they arrive for an afternoon and evening of Gay Spirit Camp festivities.
7:30–8:30 AM:Morning Yoga with Tim Cooley - Great Room
Join our resident yogi for morning yoga. Tim is very skilled at making it accessible for all levels, from beginners to experts. Wear loose, comfortable clothing.
OR: Meditation and Breath with Wayne Lapinski - Temple
Wayne will lead approximately 45 minutes of accessible, nontraditional meditation and breath practices, which may include walking or moving meditation, humming, chanting, and other ways to explore breath and awareness.
8:30–9:30 AM:Breakfast - Dining Room
9:30–10:30 AM:Lodge Groups - Various Locations
Please attend your lodge group!
11:00 AM–12:30 PM: How You Movin’ (Through the World)? with Mark Broomfield - Great Room
In this workshop, we will focus on what freedom of movement, freedom of expression and sexual freedom means individually and collectively, and connect it to our lived experiences of everyday life. We’ll explore all the different ways we move through the world, and what it means to show up and show out.
OR: The Law of Embodied Creation with Michael R. Smith - Temple
How Changing Who You Embody Changes the Life You Experience - What if the life you’ve been aiming to create isn’t something you attract, but something you embody? Many of us have done years of inner work, yet still find ourselves repeating the same patterns when it comes to relationships, work, finances, health, or friendships. If you’ve been wondering how your outer life can better reflect your inner intentions, this workshop is for you. In this highly experiential workshop, we’ll explore The Law of Embodied Creation through guided movement, reflection, partner exercises, and playful embodiment practices. You’ll discover how shifting your entire way of being in the world can transform the way you experience your life and leave feeling uplifted and inspired.
1:00–2:00 PM:Lunch - Dining Room
2:30–4:30 PM: Moss’s Famous Slip and Slide, Outdoor Games & Cornhole Finals - Backyard & Deck
Come find out why Moss’s famous slip and slides have become an Easton Mountain tradition! We’ll also have other outdoor games, with plenty of opportunities to cool off, laugh, and enjoy a summer afternoon together. Be sure to stop by the deck to witness the finals of our annual cornhole tournament and cheer on this year’s contenders!
OR: 12-Step Meeting - Hunter Room
5:30–6:30 PM:Deck Party & Piano Bar with David Jarvis, Cameron Fadjo - Deck
Back by popular demand, David Jarvis and Cameron Fadjo lead our Piano Bar sing-along. A cherished tradition in the gay community, the piano bar is all about gathering around to sing popular songs and show tunes and share laughs. Whether you love to belt out a solo or just join in on the choruses, all are welcome!
7:00–8:00 PM:Dinner - Dining Room (Dinner circle at 6:50.)
8:15–9:00 PM:Fire of Gay Spirit with Your Facilitator Team - Yard
Join us in the yard for a celebratory fire ritual designed and led by your facilitation team!
9:00–? PM:Gay Spirit Dance Party with DJ Sean - Great Room
Queer joy is an act of resistance, so come join us and make the dance floor come alive! Enjoy a killer light show and a nonstop mix of songs celebrating freedom, pride, and spirit. There’s no dress code, so rock whatever funky and fabulous outfit you want.
10:00 PM: Evening Activities - Various Locations
Enjoy our wood-fired sauna, check out the play space, start a board game, walk the labyrinth, or spend time connecting with friends old and new.
SUNDAY
7:30–8:30 AM:Morning Yoga with Tim Cooley - Great Room
Join our resident yogi for morning yoga. Tim is very skilled at making it accessible for all levels, from beginners to experts. Wear loose, comfortable clothing.
OR: Meditation and Breath with Wayne Lapinski - Temple
Wayne will lead approximately 45 minutes of accessible, nontraditional meditation and breath practices, which may include walking or moving meditation, humming, chanting, and other ways to explore breath and awareness.
8:30–9:30 AM:Continental Breakfast - Dining Room
9:30–10:15 AM:Lodge Groups - Various Locations
Join your lodge group one last time to reflect on the week and prepare to close our time together.
11:00 AM–12:00 PM:Closing Circle - Great Room
We’ll share reflections, express gratitude, and close Gay Spirit Camp together.
12:00–1:00 PM:Farewell Brunch - Dining Room