60+ college student leaders and advisors come together from across the United States;

National nonprofit for LGBT college youth plans to award at camp national leadership award to Daniel Hernandez Jr. and names annual "Campy" distinguished service awards and LGBT campus commitment honors.

Today Campus Pride kicks off its fifth annual Campus Pride Summer Leadership Camp aptly called “Camp Pride.” The five day long leadership camp, the only national program of its kind, is geared toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and ally student leaders from colleges and universities across the United States. This year’s camp is hosted on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

The Camp Pride curriculum is based on the Social Change Model of Leadership Development and includes campus organizing techniques, conflict management, social justice advocacy, diversity education and more. In addition to the 60+ LGBT and ally young people, the camp also has a new Advisor’s Bootcamp to train individuals on how to support LGBT youth organizing and activism on campus.

This year Campus Pride will bestow its National Voice & Action Leadership Award to Daniel Hernandez, Jr., the student intern credited with saving the life of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) after the Jan. 8 shooting attack in Tucson, AZ. The award is the only honor of its kind, focused on the work of undergraduate college students who are creating positive change for LGBT and ally issues within their communities.

We're less than one day away! Campus Pride's Summer Leadership Camp 2010 kicks off tomorrow at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.

Last week, Camp got some quick shout outs. One of our Camp staff, John Corvino, gave us a quick nod at 365gay.com, as did Campus Progress -- whose Events Associate, Vincent Paolo Villano, is joining us as Camp faculty.

Check back here through the week as Pride Leaders Laura Graving and Ash Wickell keep us updated on all the cool happenings and goings-on at Camp. They'll share their thoughts through blogs posts, photos and vlogs! In fact, Ash got a jump on the vlogging this weekend. Check out hirs "(Re)Introduction" for more.

Whether you're one of gang heading to Nashville tomorrow, someone who had planned to come but couldn't or someone who might be interested in joining us next year (we so hope you do!), we thought it'd be a great idea to give our own "shout outs" and introduce this year's staff and faculty.

Read more after the jump...