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Camp (Paperback)
By L. C. Rosen
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A Lambda Award Finalist, A Today Show Best Novel, A Forbes Finest Book, and an ALA Rainbow List Top Ten selection
Set in a summer camp, this lovely and sharp screwball comedy set in a summer camp for queer teens examines the character of toxic masculinity and self-acceptance.
Sixteen-year-old Randy Kapplehoff loves spending the summer at Camp Outland, a camp for gay teens. It's where he met his best friends. It's where he takes to the stage in the enormous musical. And it's where he fell for Hudson Aaronson-Lim—who's only into straight-acting guys and barely knows not-at-all-straight-acting Randy even exists.
This year, however, it's going to be distinct. Randy has reinvented himself as 'Del'—buff, masculine, and on the market. Even if it means giving up demonstrate tunes, nail polish, and his unicorn bedsheets, he's determined to get Hudson to fall for him.
But as he and Hudson flourish closer, Randy has to ask himself: How much is he willing to change for love? An
The gay summer camp romp of my dreams: a romantic summertime joyride and a thoughtful examination of gay culture. Gay teens or anyone who knows a gay teen should read this book.
Cale Dietrich, author of The Affectionate Interest
Camp has everything you're looking for: a winning romance, a celebration of queerness, a reflection on what it takes to embrace your most legitimate self, and answers to questions most queer boys often don't know how to ask in the first place.
Caleb Roerhig, creator of Death Prefers Blondes
Camp is a divine cure. A subversive explosion of masc/fem stereotypes wrapped inside a sparkly, funny, heartstring-plucking romance. At once delightfully cynical and buoyantly hopeful, Rosen uses Camp to take aim at everything the LGBTQ community is currently wrestling with and needs to hear.
Adam Sass, author of Surrender Your Sons
Packed with an astonishing cast of unforgettable characters, Camp is the ideal read for anyone wondering if they're too much or not enough of their true self. It's the must-read book of the summer.
Julian Winters,
Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Carrying out Subject : a Reader
This groundbreaking collection addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance have made it one of the most salient and challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage. Reassessing the role and significance of the finest essays on camp written by principal intellectuals in cultural studies, female homosexual and gay studies and homosexual theory, this critical anthology both "queers" camp as an issue and offers an excellent key to rethinking the history, theory, and practice of camp.
The anthology is divided into five thematic/historical sections: Tasting It; Flaunting the Closet; Gender, and Other Spectacles; Pop Camp, Surplus Counter-Value, or the Camp of Cultural Economy; and The Queer Issue. These groupings help the reader situate the critical debates around the subject. Fabio Cleto's introduction brings new theoretical insights to the subject of camp while tracing its history as an argue against of intellectual and cultural critique and analysis.
A comprehensive
CAMP: An interview with L.C Rosen
Today we talk to author Lev Rosen about writing YA fiction featuring queer teens and his books CAMP and JACK OF HEARTS&#;
Without giving too much away can you tell us about your book Camp?
Camp is about 16 year old Randy Kappelhoff, who for the past 4 years has been attending Camp Outland, a summer camp for LGBTQIA+ teens, and for the past four years has also been wildly in love with Hudson Aaronson-Lim. Randy loves Camp Outland: he loves creature in the musical, he loves showing off his nailpolish, he loves his unicorn sheets &#; but Hudson, is Masc4Masc, which means he considers himself &#;straight acting&#; and is only interested in other &#;straight acting&#; guys &#; something Randy is not. So this summer, he has a plan &#; he&#;s come back as Del; butch and looking for love. He&#;s going to make Hudson collapse for him, and then gradually reveal who he really is. This is, of course, a terrible idea. Something his friends point out &#; but is also works almost immediately &#; for the first summer ever, Hudson seems to notice him, and