Love Destroys The Hate

There are pockets of love and hate tries to destroy them but we can fight it, it is not easy, it is not a one time deal, and it takes a commitment to keep hate at bay.

The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch made a transgender haven. Then the violent threats began
Reuters
By Leah Millis
July 16, 2021


WESTCLIFFE, Colorado, July 16 (Reuters) - The ranch hand walks along rocky ground, the beam of her flashlight cutting through the moonlit night. She holds a shotgun loosely at her side during her patrol of an alpaca ranch founded as a haven for transgender and non-binary people.
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Logue says she saw that many in the LGBTQ community had nowhere to feel safe and struggled to find employment, housing, and peace of mind.

The hate began with a canceled 4^th of July parade and then the protesters started to come to town over the canceled parade, that the article says was more like “a Nazi propaganda parade.”

Messages and calls expressing transphobic hatred and disdain for the ranchers' anti-fascism began then, according to Logue. Reuters has reviewed several hostile and anonymous online messages, two containing death threats. One was an image manipulated to show a gun pointed at the ranch house.

The Custer County Sheriff Shannon Byerly spoke at an Oath Keepers rally so when threats were made going to the sheriff was out of the question.

Now she sleeps with a rife.

May Quinty Dynamic, a transgender woman from Denver, was among the volunteers. Dynamic said she was thrilled to be surrounded by so many other transgender people. She met Logue, who, like her, also began to transition at the age of 35.

So far her love for the trans community has survived the community of hate.

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Meanwhile here in New England, summer camp is not an armed camp. Camp Aranu'tiq is a camp for trans youth and this 2014 is about the summer camp.

US: Camp Aranu’tiq provides trans youth a safe, accepting summer camp experience
Pink News
By Katies Dupere
August 13, 2014


A non-traditional summer camp is making a difference for transgender and gender-variant children who are often barred from the experience of summer camp.

Camp Aranu’tiq was founded by Nick Teich, a transgender man, in 2009.

The camp gives transgender and gender-variant youth a chance to experience a summer camp that affirms their gender and recognises their experience as trans kids.

According to The Huffington Post, Teich had grown up with a love for summer camp, eventually becoming a camp counselor.

When he transitioned in his twenties, however, he was told that it would be too “Jerry Springer” for him to be a summer camp volunteer.

To help trans children and adults still have access to the summer camp experience, he founded Camp Aranu’tiq.

In Chugach, the language of an Alaskan indigenous group, aranu’tiq means a person who embodies male and female spirit.

The camp is still going strong and the radio talk show Radio Boston mentioned the camp at the end of the show.

Local Summer Camps Provide More Than Just Fun In The Sun
WBUR
By Amanda Beland and Tiziana Dearing
June 21, 2021


We take listener calls with Michele Rowcliffe, the president of American Camp Association, New England, which accredits hundreds of day and sleepaway camps in the region; and Nick Teich, CEO and Founder of Harbor Camps, which operates a handful of programs including Camp Aranu'tiq, for transgender and non-binary youth.