North Carolina's Camp Lickalotta

[KoihimeNakamura]

They'd have issue near Raleigh, at least, when I lived there. (I still have memories of the Alliance club's issues at the high school I attended.)

But here? Eh. Spokane is pretty tolerant.

 

[bigred]

Calling the vast majority of the west coast "tolerant" is probably a bit of an understatement.

 

[KoihimeNakamura]

Bigred: I dunno. My school had a recent upswing of the Alliance (LBGT) posters being defaced. I gather the high schools are still conservative here. (I've never attended, I moved after completing high school)

 

[madurobob]

Since it is FOR ADULTS, I think it is a great name! And, you know, there is some pleasure in pissing off stupid people intentionally...

True, its for adults. Thats what made it OK for me. But, when I told this story to my girlfriend her immediate reaction was "OMG, they just want to have a big lesbian sex camp!"

And I think thats the issue. The name intentionally leads people to the wrong (?) conclusion. Sure, its fun to have an intentionally controversial name, but if you're on borrowed land, trying to find a permanent home and trying to convince the county commissioners to approve your business license then you might find that controversial name to be a bit of a liability.

A smart business person knows when to fly under the radar and when to be provocative. These two young women poisoned their own well with their provocative camp and festival names. They should have known better.

 

[Lisa Simpson]

Here in Los Angeles, it wouldn't even raise an eyebrow.

But here in Orange County they'd run the risk of being chased out of town. Not that it would definitely happen, but more of a risk here than in L.A.

 

[Thanz]

Not a problem here in this part of NC. We have a huge gay population. The mayor of a small town nearby is gay. They should have held the camp near Asheville in Buncome county. Huge and moneyed GLBT population. Boone is pretty gay friendly too.

Anyone else get a flash of juvenile humour from that the county of "Buncome" has a huge gay population? No? Just me?

I met some people from Climax, North Carolina, who swore that the town sign had the slogan "Where people come together"

The town of Flesherton, Ontario, is known as the "Gateway to Beaver Valley"

 

[bigred]

Bigred: I dunno. My school had a recent upswing of the Alliance (LBGT) posters being defaced. I gather the high schools are still conservative here. (I've never attended, I moved after completing high school)

"the alliance?" Anyway it only takes 1 or 2 yahoos to do something idiotic like that; I don't think that makes the school "conservative" per se. Obviously can't say for sure and no doubt there are pockets of conservatism here and there, but generally speaking......

 

[KoihimeNakamura]

I'm only repeating what one of the Important People said in the college newspaper.

Whether or not they're true is left as an exercise to the interested reader.

(ETA: The alliance is a gay-lesbian-straight club at the school level. Since they're name fluctuates so broadly, I just say alliance.)

 

[Beerina]

I doubt if they would make it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse,_Pennsylvania

All these names reminds me of a Guindon 1-panel cartoon. A city council member is banging his gavel down:

"The name of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, is hereby not renamed to 'The MacNeil/Lehrer Report'. "

 

[Dancing David]

Calling the vast majority of the west coast "tolerant" is probably a bit of an understatement.

Until you cross the mountains and actualy go and vote, very conservative.

 

[GreyICE]

It wouldn't raise an eyebrow here. Of course 'here' is New York City, and the level of weird you'd need to achieve to raise an eyebrow is astronomical. People preaching in the streets, giant inflatable rats, and sex shops in the middle of a shopping district are just par for the course. That's practically mundane.

 

[Tricky]

Ahem.

 

[GreyICE]

Ahem.

I wonder if that was a good poem. I guess I'll never know, because its author chose to post in serifs.