Michael Peck

There is something that happens when gay and queer men gather in a space that is intentionally created for them — where they do not have to code-switch, perform, or navigate heteronormative assumptions about how a body should be or what a man should feel. Something relaxes. Something that has been held tightly, often for decades, begins to release. This is the essential gift of the GBTQ+ men's retreat: not the activities or the facilitators or the beautiful location, but the