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Wherever you are, like-minded folks and outstanding organizations aren’t far away! Here is a growing list of LGBTQ+ camps around the United States and LGBTQ+ youth organizations in and around Texas to check out. Contact us if you’re having a hard time connecting - we want to see every camper find the right camp for them!
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Camp Highlight
Camp Highlight is an overnight camp for children ages 8 to 15 who have a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender parent. Our camp focuses on traditional recreational activities, nature education, and team building in an environment that celebrates LGBT families.
Camp Aranu'tiq
We build confidence, resilience, and community for transgender & gender-variant youth and their families through camp experiences. We have our flagship summer camps in NH & CA as well as leadership programs for older teens and weekend family camps, serving 500 campers over the course of one year.
camp it up!
Camp It Up! supports and promotes a constellation of programs, including social, camping, performing and visual art, with particular outreach to LGBT individuals and families, developed to create and sustain a community that supports each unique family and all family members.
allgo
allgo envisions a just and equitable society that celebrates and nurtures vibrant people of color queer cultures.
Camp Lightbulb
Camp Lightbulb is an overnight summer camp for LGBT youth aged 14 to 18 in Provincetown, MA.
Keshet
Keshet is a national organization that works for full LGBTQ equality and inclusion in Jewish Life.
Out Youth
Out Youth serves the Central Texas LGBTQ+ youth and their allies with programs and services to ensure these promising young people develop into happy, healthy, successful adults.
Trans Youth Equality Foundation
The Trans Youth Equality Foundation provides education, advocacy and support for transgender and gender non-conforming children and youth and their families.
Waterloo Counseling Center
Waterloo offers high quality, affordable mental health counseling to the entire community and has an expertise in serving the LGBTQ community; people living with HIV/AIDS and their loved ones; and people experiencing trauma, depression or anxiety.
Camp Ten Trees
Camp Ten Trees is a nonprofit summer camp in Washington State. A place for diverse youth who share common experiences to come together and form a community that is truly their own.
Dreams of Hope
Dreams of Hope hosts an overnight arts camp every summer at the Emma Kaufmann Camp near Morgantown, West Virginia, for LGBTQ youth ages 13-19. Each camp day include arts, games, educational workshops, and traditional camp activities
Queer NebraskaYouth Network
The QNYN is the only youth-focused, peer-led group aimed at providing social activities and connections to resources/opportunities to LGBTQ+ youth in NE.
The Naming Project
The mission of The Naming Project is to create places of safety for youth of all sexual orientations and gender identities where faith is shared and healthy life-giving community is modeled.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24.
Youth First Texas
To provide a safe space for LGBTQ youth and their allied friends to strengthen opportunities for life skills, leadership development, peer support and educational advancement.
Camp Brave Trails
The Brave Trails Mission is to provide lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning youth and their allies, ages 12-20, innovative, impactful summer camp programs that foster meaningful relationships and develop 21st century skills to become the leaders of tomorrow.