We are two gay men who love to camp. We’ve had tents, a pop-up camper and currently have a 5th Wheel trailer. For many years we have taken an active roll in our community. We are now bringing these two passions together. We are raising the awareness about Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender camping. Our efforts aim to make camping, an even more enjoyable, rewarding and safe experience for the GLBT community.
We have both been out for many years. Although the coming out process was difficult, the experience of informing and educating our families and friends has been very rewarding. We took from that experience and focused that energy into our community. We have participated in Marches on Washington, AIDSWALKS, AIDSRides, and have volunteered with organizations such as Whitman Walker Clinic and Food and Friends. We have supported many local and national organizations such as HRC, NGLTF and SLDN. In the past we have both been employed by different businesses that benefit the GLBT community. Now, we have our own business to benefit the GLBT community, and we are having fun doing it. We hope you will join us!
We both camped with our families growing up and several years ago began camping with our children. Since returning to camping, it quickly became one of our passions in life. As the children grew older and more independent, we discovered a whole, new world of “GLBT Campgrounds”. We have been to some very nice “straight” campgrounds and had a good time, but we have never felt more comfortable or had such a great time camping until we stayed at our first GLBT campground.
We discovered many GLBT campgrounds had taken camping to a completely new level. For some of our more “delicate” friends, who profess to “only camping at The Hilton,” we have seen a variety of accommodations available to suit their needs. Options include bunkhouses, lodges, and cabins to luxury trailers and motor coaches. Activities and entertainment are executed at the level that our community is accustomed to. Choices include local attractions, hiking, biking, fishing, sports, swimming, campfires, movies, or going to the campground disco. We believe more of our friends would enjoy camping if they were aware of their options.
We formed ChevRock, LLC because we love our community, and we love to camp! We have set out to bring information to the GLBT community about everything anyone could possibly want to know about GLBT Camping in North America. Our goal is to build a stronger community of GLBT campers and campgrounds and develop a stronger awareness of “GLBT Campgrounds” within the larger GLBT community in a safe environment; that is always accessible, even when we are not camping. We want everyone to be aware that GLBT campgrounds offer an active, enjoyable, healthy, rewarding, and safe environment where we can all be ourselves!
To unite all of the North American GLBT camping community we have developed Gay2ZCamping.com. This website is the first of its kind for our community. We have created an environment that not only allows, but encourages community participation, unlike others that only invite you to be a spectator. It has been a huge project that after many delays went live Friday, March 14, 2008. This project has turned out to be a much greater undertaking than anticipated. However, we feel that it has been well worth the wait, and we are very excited about launching this on line community. Now that the website is live, it is up you to make the site your own while we travel North America to visit every GLBT and progressive campground we know of, and search for more.
This GLBT Community website offers complete campground listings, including campground reviews and evaluations. We also want your reviews and evaluations. As a member, in addition to the campground information, the website also provides you with local information, weather, maps, and loads of other information to make your camping journey safer, more fun and exciting. You also get a place to be yourself; you can create your own space with your profile and pictures, stay connected with your current friends and maybe meet some new ones through discussion forums and live chat. Most importantly, we want you to have fun!
We hope that you will make Gay2ZCamping.com your online GLBT camping community!
Please let us know how we can best serve your needs; send us your constructive thoughts, criticisms and of course your questions to:
Steve Cheverton & Phil Rockstroh
ChevRock, LLC
Email: info@chevrock.com