Campus Pride's 2010 Summer Leadership Camp (which was fabulously phenomenal, by the way) got some great shout outs from Nashville's Out and About Newspaper and 365Gay.com columnist John Corvino. We thought we'd share...

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Campus Pride fires up Vanderbilt attendees
National group hold summer leadership camp in Nashville
by Joe Morris, Out and About Newspaper, Aug. 1, 2010

In an effort to get into areas of the country where GLBT students face more issues, the Campus Pride organization held its summer leadership camp at

Vanderbilt University in late July.

Campus Pride works with student leaders and campus groups to create a safer college environment for GLBT students. Its nationwide volunteer network helps to develop resources, programs and services on campuses across the country, and its summer leadership camp plays a major role in that effort, says Shane Windmeyer, one the group’s cofounders and its executive director. Read the rest at O&AN...

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Corvino: What I learned at gay leadership camp
By John Corvino, 365gay.com, July 30, 2010

"Remind me, dear,” I said to my partner Mark on the way to the airport, “what I am absolutely, positively not doing again next year?”

“You are not doing Camp next year,” he dutifully replied.

We had repeated this dialogue many times in the weeks leading up to Campus Pride’s annual Leadership Camp, a week of intense workshops and other activities for LGBTQ and allied college students, which was held this year at Vanderbilt University July 20-25. Read the rest at 365gay.com...