Hello, beautiful creatures! We are so excited to invite you to our first ever Queer Qonnection Community Campout on our 5-acre property in southern Utah! Located just 3.5 hours south of Salt Lake City and 2.5 hours north of Las Vegas, we are in a wonderful location to take a drive out of town to get away for a couple of days and enjoy being in the company of queer family.
Join us May 9th-11th for a fun weekend that will bring us together to share yummy food, heart-opening Cacao, camping under the stars, and a Heart-to-Heart Connection Circle facilitated by us! For this first Qonnection, we are only opening the space to 20 people to ensure that we have accommodations for everyone. Please register to attend through the link, or by contacting us directly.
Please be sure to read all of the information on this page, including the Guidelines and "What to Bring" sections.
While we will not turn anyone away due to lack of funds, we are asking for a small donation to Deva Haven for hosting everyone, preparing food and Cacao, facilitating a curated connection circle, etc. We are asking for a sliding scale donation of $25-$50 per person. This money will go directly back into the property so that we can continue hosting these purposeful events, and have more accommodations to do so. If you are experiencing financial difficulty but are deeply desiring to be able to join us for this experience, please just contact us.
- Guests may begin arriving at 6pm on Friday evening. We ask that everyone has arrived before 11am on Saturday.
- We will serve Cacao at 11am Saturday morning
- The daytime on Saturday is for connection and exploration
- Heart-to-Heart Connection Circle begins at 6pm on Saturday
- Community dinner around 8pm on Saturday
- Connection and music share time until everyone goes to bed
- Guests can leave at any time that they’d like on Sunday
Serioiusly devoted to inspecting and rewriting the common, negative connotations that are placed upon what it means to be queer, LGBTQ+, or in “pride,” we want to lay out some guidelines, ground rules, and a very clear understanding of what we are and are not inviting onto our land:
This gathering is specifically and only for queer-identifying folk. While we love and appreciate our allies, we are sealing this container for very specific purposes. If you are not queer-identifying, we invite you to check out our numerous other all-inclusive events.
This gathering is NOT to be used for the purposes of being on the prowl or hooking up. We are not inviting community members here to treat this event like a Grindr hot spot. We are here to cultivate healthy, safe community, not to play into queer stereotypes. Please do not come if you are not willing to respect this.
Enter authentically, but leave your drama at the gate. If you realize someone is at this event that you have beef with, then either treat this gathering as an opportunity to resolve it, or to pretend it doesn’t exist so that you can see through the bullshit. This is a space of healing, not of allowing wounds to fester.
This is a private, non-judgmental, contained gathering. The things that people share and express here are their own, and not for anyone else to take out of this container and tell to someone who was not present (unless permission is asked to do so). If it isn't yours to tell, then don't.
We are Michael and Etheric, a gay couple living in southern Utah and wanting to respond to a serious need that we see here for hosting safe, intentional, connected community gatherings. Born and raised in San Diego and living in southern Utah for 10 years, Etheric knows what is possible when we have welcoming places to express ourselves authentically and without the fear of judgment or persecution. And while brought up with a gay father in queer community, Michael only stepped into queer identity a short couple of years ago and has a unique perspective of what can support or take away from healthy relationships and community as a gay man.
Etheric has been facilitating intentional spaces for the purposes of community connection, plant medicine facilitation, and vulnerable self-expression for nearly a decade, and has specifically worked within the Utah, Las Vegas, and southern California communities during that time. His welcoming and aesthetically pleasing containers paired with his encouragement for emotional intimacy, fearless authenticity, and group dialog create unique spaces for guests to let down their walls, build up their self-empowerment, and experience what “community” can really mean
- Some yummy food to share (please label your food to be clear about dietary sensitivities and potential allergens).
- Whatever you need to be comfy and sleep well. If you're sleeping in the Deva Dome, bring whatever you might need to setup a nize, cozy bed for yourself. If you're camping, bring everything needed for that.
- If it's on the colder side at night, firewood would be awesome to keep a fire going in the Deva Dome.
- If you're a musician, bring an instrument! We love to jam and share music