Summer Gay Spirit Camp
With Joseph Dalton, Don Shewey, Nirmal Chandraratna, Vito Abate, Damani Moyd, Lee Stern, Jeff Mehigan, Jonathan Commisar and David Dunn Bauer
July 29 - August 4, 2019
A Week of Celebrating Gay Brotherhood
Gay Spirit Camp offers men a chance to establish lasting friendships in a fun and uplifting environment, set against the backdrop of the beautiful Easton Mountain retreat, in upstate New York. When you come to Gay Spirit Camp, you will be celebrating with like-minded men, and together we will rekindle our gay spirit during a six-day gathering.
The week will be packed with events and workshops all designed to bring us together, to relax us, and to uplift our spirit while learning how to communicate with each other, away from the madness of city life and technology.
Events, Activities, and Workshops include Gay Spirituality, Yoga, Meditation, Massage, Arts and Music, Erotic Healing, Nature Walks, Sauna & Hot Tub, Talent Show, Bonfire Rituals, Small Group Sharing, Dance Parties, & More!
You will experience the freedom to participate in as many or as few activities as you would like with the safety to explore your personal growth areas, or you can enjoy the beauty and tranquility of the Easton Mountain estate! Join one of our most popular week-long retreats, and enjoy the sense of community we enjoy together!
About the Facilitators
Joseph Dalton
** Gay Spirit Camp ** Joseph Dalton has been a general arts reporter and classical music critic for the Times Union in Albany, New York since 2002. His latest book, Washington's Golden Age: Hope Ridings Miller, the Society Beat, and the Rise of Women Journalists, is a biography of a woman journalist who covered the social scene in the capital […]
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Don Shewey
** Gay Spirit Camp ** Don Shewey is a writer, therapist, and pleasure activist in New York City. As a journalist and critic, he has published three books about theater and written hundreds of articles for the New York Times, the Village Voice, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and other publications. He has chronicled his psycho-sexual-spiritual adventures in essays that have […]
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Nirmal Chandraratna
Nirmal Chandraratna is a New York City-based Kirtan artist and composer with a passion for nurturing connection– to spirit, to community, and to one's deeper self– through music. Using the voice, the harmonium and the cello, he creates music for Kirtan and meditation and works for communal performance. He received a BA in Music from Brown […]
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Vito Abate
Vito has loved the theatre ever since seeing Florence Henderson on Broadway in South Pacific! Born and raised in New York City, he spent many years studying acting and performing in various venues while working in magazine publishing for The New York Times Company as well as The New Yorker. He co-founded The City Singers, an a cappella group and created and produced […]
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Damani Moyd
Damani Moyd is a Photographer, DJ and Writer based in Manhattan. He studied journalism at Fullerton College and photography at the Art Center College of Design, both in Southern California. He also studied digital imaging at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His hobbies include camping, vintage car restoration and collecting 45 […]
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Lee Stern
When Lee Stern was 13 he won the Scout Spirit award at the Boy Scout National Jamboree...he has been a lifetime devotee of camp, in the old-fashioned (and sometimes new) sense of the word. He has created music, drama, poetry and outdoor fun with children of all ages; from twenty-five years of summer volunteering with […]
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Jeff Mehigan
Jeff Mehigan has been attending programs and volunteer opportunities at Easton for the past ten years. He first came to the mountain during a Body Electric workshop, and he fell in love with the community. These experiences ignited his passion for bodywork, and so after a career in education and human service work, he shifted to health […]
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Jonathan Commisar
Jonathan Comisar's eclectic music background includes Eastman School of Music (pre-college), Oberlin Conservatory (piano) and composition with Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Del Tredici. He is currently completing his Masters in classical composition at the Manhattan School of Music and premiered his first work for full orchestra this past week. Comisar is an invested Cantor with […]
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David Dunn Bauer
Rabbi David Dunn Bauer is a unique pastoral counselor, ritual leader, community leader, scholar, artist, sacred intimate, and writer. His numerous writings on God, Queerness, and sexuality are published in anthologies and on-line. For two years he served as the Bay Area Director of Programming for Nehirim, the leading national provider of community programming for gay, lesbian, […]
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