Rainbow over the Gorge: LGBTQ+ climbing convention wraps up 19th year

Rainbow over the Gorge: LGBTQ+ climbing convention wraps up 19th year

In May 2007, five gay men and rock-climbing enthusiasts from the Atlanta area traveled to West Virginia to explore climbing routes in the New River Gorge and its environs and to check out the town of Fayetteville as a base camp for their stay. Under the banner of their newly formed climbing group, HomoClimbtastic, they returned to Fayetteville, West Virginia annually for four-day weekends of climbing, community and fun, gradually becoming the wo…