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Episode 193: WorldPride – Revisiting a Conversation w/ Elyse Rylander
Episode 193: WorldPride
Revisiting a Conversation with Elyse Rylander
Founder of OUT There Adventures & Creator of the LGBTQ Outdoor summit
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In honor of WorldPride, we’re resharing our 2018 conversation with Elyse Rylander. Elyse is the founder and executive director of OUT There Adventures, a nonprofit consecrated to empowering queer immature people through their connection with the natural society. Elyse believes nature is a disruptive force for queer youth and hopes to positively foster their identities and love of the outdoors.
She’s doing so through her nonprofit, OUT There Adventures. By partnering with existing organizations fancy Outward Bound and Northwest Youth Corps, she’s reaching more queer kids and multiplying the potential impact of OUT There’s mission. It takes time, drive, and capital to construct a nonprofit. Elyse shares the challenges and rewards of the last five years of work and her vision for years to come.
Elyse is also a Co-Creator of the LGBTQ Outdoor Summit and is using this opportunity to announ
Queer Nature – See Co-founder Pınar Sinopoulos-Lloyd
Queer Nature
Interview with Co-Founder Pınar Sinopoulos-Lloyd
By Gale Straub
Banner image byMegan Newton
Pınar reached out to us after we collaborated with Liz Song on two podcast episodes centering around diversity, equity, and inclusion in the outdoors – and we are so pleased they did. Pınar is the co-founder of “Queer Nature“, a growing Colorado-based proposal “dedicated to cultivating earth-based queer people through traditional skill-building.” They develop programming for LGBTQ+ and allies that deepens our relationship with the land and each other through a queer and decolonial lens.
Meet Pınar
Tell us about your entry-point to the outdoors. Where did you grow up? When did you first feel a connection with nature?
My matrilineage is Huanca, native to the Andes, as good as Chinese from Spanish slavery in now called Perú in the 17th century. My patrilineage is from the southeastern mountains of Turkey. My upbringing was split between two countries: first half in Turkey, and the second half in the Bay Area of California. My preliminary experience as a mixed indigenous person is b
LGBTQ Outdoor Summit returns for second annual meeting
WASHINGTON, September 20, 2018 ---- After a sold-out summit held in Seattle last year, Pride Outside and Out There Adventures will host the second annual LGBTQ Outdoor Summit on October 19-21 at the NatureBridge campus in San Francisco.
The summit draws a broad range of intimate sector, public sector and nonprofit professionals in the outdoor recreation, public country management and conservation communities. The event will highlight panel discussions with outdoor recreation industry representatives (REI, The North Face, Merrell, Hipcamp), representatives from five federal land management agencies (National Park Service, Forest Service, Bureau of Land Administration, Fish and Wildlife Services, and NOAA), and youth representatives.
Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, the first openly gay woman to climb the seven summits (tallest mountains on each continent), and Merrell President Sue Rechner will converse. The event will also offer breakout sessions, caucuses, networking events, a resource fair and outdoor opportunities.
“This is an opportunity for the conservation community and outdoor industry
How the LGBTQ Outdoor Summit Breaks Down Barriers
Catalyze discovery. Produce community. Spur development. These are the intentions driving this year’s third annual LGBTQ Outdoor Summit, to be held in Estes Park, Colorado, in September. The Summit is an opportunity to bring both the conservation community and the outdoor industry together, with the mission of boosting inclusion and inclusion of LGBTQ people in the outdoors.
Hannah Malvin is the founder of Celebration Outside and co-organizer of the LGBTQ Outdoor Summit, along with Elyse Rylander of OUT There Adventures.
“Barriers to creating a positive outdoor space for the LGBTQ community may include transportation, require, know-how, lack of free time, shelter concerns, feelings of exclusion, and lack of outdoor role models,” she said. “It’s so key to be boosting relevancy, representation, and inclusion so people from all backgrounds have the opportunity to play and work in the outdoors.”
The LGBTQ Outdoor Summit has evolved over the past three years. The first event was held in Seattle in 2017 for LGBTQ professionals to meet and unite with one another, share ideas, and form a collective identity. In 2018, the outdoor summit took
Making the Outdoors More Inclusive, Accessible
For many Americans who grew up hiking, fishing, and exploring the outdoors, their first experiences proceed to powerfully inform their current love of recreation on our public lands and concern for protecting the diverse and precious wildlife habitats found in those spaces.
As an organization seeking to assist wildlife in a rapidly changing world, the National Wildlife Federation has prided itself on providing peerless wildlife-oriented learning material for young people and inspiring action for wildlife by a diverse coalition of conservation-minded Americans, from gardeners to sportsmen.
But not everyone has had these incredible experiences growing up. And, more concerningly, social and cultural barriers hinder Americans of all stripes from fully participating in our conservation traditions and outdoors legacy. As a step towards identifying these obstacles, Federation staff sponsored, attended, and led a coalition-building workshop at the second annual LGBTQ Outdoors Summit in Sausalito, Calfornia.
Location, Location, Location
Held at the NatureBridge facility at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the s