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Posted inCommunity Voices

Community Voices: The Outdoor-Rec Industry Can Help Shift Outdoors Culture From Homophobia Toward Inclusion

“Nature doesn’t care if you’re gay,” I’ll often hear in reaction to articles by myself or my outdoorsy LGBTQ peers. And it’s true: Nature doesn’t care if I’m gay. But people do. A few ago, I finished a world-record journey to all 419 National Park Service sites. For three years nonstop, I lived in a […]

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