Climbing Magazine: ​​Pride Hasn’t Always Been Easy: How I Learned to Accept Myself As A LGBTQ+ Climber

During Pride Month 2021, ClimbingQT Ambassador Campbell Harrison (he/they) discussed the importance of queer community and visibility in the outdoors as well as shared their difficult but rewarding journey with queerness through climbing with Climbing Magazine. 

Queerness is not a deficit that I was unfortunate to be born with, it’s an asset that both sets me apart from the crowd and connects me to so many others. By embracing myself as both a gay man and an athlete I have the ability to assure young people, who may be feeling the apprehension that I did, that gay people are not only all around us, but we don’t have to hide who we are to get respect.

Read the full article here: https://www.climbing.com/people/how-i-learned-to-accept-myself-as-lgbtq-climber-pride-hasnt-been-easy/