Aug 14–17, 2025
Four Quarters – Artemas, PA
The Queer Fam Fund team is composed of incredibly hard working members of the queer community; each bringing our own unique skills, personalities, and experiences to the table. Building out QFF every year begins seven months before Campout, so to say we’re deeply invested in the success of this program is an understatement. Get to know a bit more about us:
A Pittsburgh native, Clark Price is a founding member of Honcho. He has promoted and DJed nightlife events locally and across the globe - holding space and serving the LGBTQ+ community and sharing his love of dance music. In addition to contributing to global queer nightlife, Clark has been a web designer and front end developer with a focus in marketing products and growing businesses for 14+ years.
“As a member of the QFF, my goal has always been to expand access for black people, people of color, and trans and non-binary people. The Honcho Summer Campout is an incredibly liberating and fulfilling event to build. The ability to help others share that experience has been a personal highlight as a promoter. I see this program as an important commitment to broad inclusivity and creating a safe, welcoming environment for the most vulnerable in our community. I seek to not only enrich the Campout experience, but to also facilitate an important dialogue among the dance music community outside the bounds of Honcho Campout."
Josh Bondi is a queer performance artist and event producer living in Pittsburgh, PA, and insists that they contain multitudes. On stage they operate under the alias Pissy. They are a service industry vet and guardian and cheerleader of all queers. As someone who found their identity and community in exuberant queer nightlife, after hours, and dancefloors, creating opportunities for folks to engage authentically with those spaces is a personal mission for them. They wish for folks to not only feel they have access to these spaces but feel that they can be their most free and sexiest selves.
"I have been working for Honcho Campout since 2017 when it first moved to its home at Four Quarters Farm. I was helping to manage the Front Gate when QFF was at its origin. There were only 10 or so recipients and when they arrived, I received them, got them safely set up, and tried to offer everything I could to make them feel at home. That is hospitality. From the first moment of involvement with what would become the much larger and even more intention-driven program that it is today, I knew QFF was how I wanted to contribute my skills to Honcho Campout. It was and remains so important to me that folks feel comfortable and taken care of in an environment that can oftentimes feel intimidating and alien (even to me). Those intimidating factors could be that we’re in the middle of the mother-fucking woods or that occasionally overwhelming nature of the non-stop rave. I feel very at home contributing to ensuring that QFF recipients are set up for success. Honcho Campout is a beautiful escape from the world. It’s a crazy, flashy, exquisite queer paradise in the woods and I cannot wait for you to experience it."
Sonali Fernando is a first generation Sri-Lankan American raised in the American South - 18 years in Garland, Texas and 22 years in New Orleans, the real LA. She has worked in a variety of capacities including as a brand director, restaurant owner, music booker, cultural arts educator, marketing manager and performer. Currently, she works as the Operations Director for a small but mighty Community Economic Development non-profit.
She is deeply driven by community, music, and creating a more just world and believes that only begins when we first center Black people.
“I first attended Honcho Campout in 2019. Queer Fam Fund and Campout provided healing for wounds of which I was unaware, specifically as it relates to gender and race. Both the physical and emotional space provided at Campout allowed me to address long-held trauma. Being able to reshape my relationship to nature, experience it with fellow queer people of color and truly center joy for myself and others was honestly a revolutionary act. QFF is a revolutionary act. I want to see other QTBIPOC experience this for themselves. And also - top tier music, visuals, and programming. The vibes are immaculate.”
José Guadarrama Torres is an educator, cultural organizer, and advocate for equity. His work focuses on addressing systemic inequities in education and empowering communities of color. As a contributor to New Orleans’ nightlife, José creates joyful, inclusive spaces for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities, embodying QFF’s mission of joy, communal care, and inclusion.
“I work with QFF because radical joy and community care are acts of resistance. We deserve spaces where all historically marginalized people—Black, Brown, Indigenous, and trans people of color—are not just tolerated but celebrated. QFF’s mission isn’t about fixing systems; it’s about imagining and building something new together—where liberation and celebration go hand in hand. I’m here for the unapologetic, bold love QFF stands for, and I’m ready to help bring that future to life."
Kyana is a writer, archivist, and strategist. Her work radically shifts how organizations, leaders, and founders build just and equitable worlds. In her becoming, she has lived many lives – as a global ethnographer, sailor, DJ, door girl, journalist, island farmer, tea blender, and host of a folklore series recording the lives of our country’s most marginalized and under-documented people.
“I’m here to radically imagine more ways for Black femmes, queer and trans folks to have access to the beauty of communing with one another on land. Oftentimes, we are the underground movers of the scene but are given the least funds. I’m here for the fact that QFF financially prioritizes the care of queer and trans folks of color by providing the resources needed to thrive at Campout. We all deserve a chance to experience the healing power of a twirl in nature.”
The QFF Buddies Team serves as the primary point of contact for each recipient, ensuring clear communication before, during, and after the festival. They address any questions and help set expectations to prepare everyone for the week.
Upon arrival, Buddies shift focus to on-site support, managing logistics for both arrival and departure, and conducting regular check-ins to enhance each recipient's experience throughout the festival.
Buddies are hired from past QFF recipients, leveraging their personal experiences at Campout to guide and reassure newcomers. This approach not only enriches the support provided but also provides a pathway for recipients to advance into management roles within the festival, promoting a sense of long-term engagement.
