Sundance, the annual fundraiser for CAMP Rehoboth, the LGBT community services organization in Rehoboth Beach, Del., will go on virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
CAMP Rehoboth founders Murray Archibald and his late husband Steve Elkins held the first Sundance in 1988 as both a celebration of their 10th anniversary as a couple and as an AIDS fundraiser at the height of the epidemic. “With all of our friends dying, everybody wanted to do something,” Archibald said.
Since the initial event that raised $6,000, Sundance has grown to raise over $150,000 annually to support CAMP Rehoboth. In spite of a lack of in-person events, Archibald hopes Sundance 2020 raises close to that figure.