Honcho Campout's Camp Cast

Honcho Campout's Camp Cast

What does queer raving on 250 acres of private land in the heart of the red-pilled Appalachia woods sound like? From the rigging of speaker systems to taking naked group showers, "Camp Cast" is a five-part audio series narrating the beautiful chaos of one of America’s most beloved weeklong LGBTQ+ music festivals. Threaded within field recordings of the surrounding wildlife and dusty, bass-heavy dance floors, the series unpacks what it means to be queer in nature and explores all that surfaces in the rugged outdoors for systemically policed bodies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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August 11, 2024 35 mins
Comedown is a b**tch. It is the last 24 hours of Campout where ravers negotiate how to pack it in and savor final moments on the dancefloor. The dancefloor has also kicked up some dust on what radical spaces for healing can look like for differen't types of queers both young and old.

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The speaker amps are kissing reds to the pumping low-end vibrations now filling every corner of these woods. It’s time for you to tune in and drop out.

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August 7, 2024 28 mins
Now that the gates are open, ravers upon first arrival must reconcile the ways that civilization have wedged queer people as a whole in terms of class and race. What does camping in nature bring up for people especially in terms of priveledge and physical safety? We hear from a group of campers willing to meet some of these social and political questions head on by running and participating in a program called the Queer Fam Fund.

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August 6, 2024 30 mins
With ‘rave chaos’ looming on the horizon, how do you prepare the set and setting for hundreds of queer people in the heart of red-pilled rural USA? Workers and volunteers have one day left to outfit 250 acres of private land before hundreds of festival attendees descend the gates, all hoping to lighten their institutional baggage from 5-days of raving.

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August 5, 2024 30 mins
What is ‘rave chaos’ and why is it one of the necessary ingredients to make a truly great gathering? And what possibly could America’s largest Christian faith music festivals have in common with a ‘gay techno camping festival in the woods’? In this episode, the producers of the Honcho Campout, a nearly decade-running queer psychedelic forest rave in the Appalachia, reconnect with their childhood memories in nature. We learn how the...

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