JOIN US FOR A NIGHT OF CREATIVITY AND COMMUNITY!
We will be taking over the beautiful gardens at the Gardens Hotel on Saturday, November 16 with some of the most creative talents on the island. Our goal is that each attendee has an entirely unique experience, so expect the unexpected!
ALL AGES AND PAY WHAT YOU CAN from 5-8pm!
We encourage attendees to wear their favorite costumes or funky fashions to contribute the the spectacle.
VIP Reception from 4-5 pm - limited availability!
early access to Kaleidoscopia
champagne toast
passed hos d'oeuvres
a special musical performance
We can't wait to see you in the gardens!
All proceeds will support our programs and services at the Queer Keys Community Center at 1100 Truman Avenue.
Picture from our grand opening celebration by Larry Blackburn
GRAND OPENING CEREMONY WAS AN INCREDIBLE SUCCESS!
Thank you to everyone that came out to our grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting on Thursday, October 10. We had over 100 people come through our doors that day to celebrate the creation of space to serve the entire LGBTQIA+ community in Key West and the Florida Keys.
Thank you to all of our volunteers, sponsors, and friends for coming and supporting this day and this project.
Announcing our 2024-2025 Sponsorship Program
We are so proud of the work we've accomplished so far this year, and we're even more proud of the impact we've been able to make in our local community. Some of the highlights include:
Opening our Community Center at 1100 Truman Avenue
Focusing on our core programs by continuing our wekly youth program and TransConnect (formerly Trans Trust Fund) and restarting our gender-expansive meetups and parents and caregivers meetings
Coproducing Key West's first Drag Story Time for Key West Pride
Participating in a national NOAA Pride Paddle event with 18 community members
Hosting two mobile health clinics from Miami providing free services
Gender-affirming care from CareResource
Cancer screenings from the UM Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Growing our professional trainings with an LGBTQIA+ 101 offered to the staff at AH Monroe
These offerings are a sampling of the work we've been doing, but they do represent who we are and where we're headed. If you would like to invest in this type of community work, we ask that you consider being a sponsor of the community center.
Donate to our library!
We have a beautiful library that was built specifically for our center by local makers Bob Sanders and Grace Simpson. We also have 85 books already, most of which were donated by members of our community!
We still have a lot of room to fill with books by queer authors and books with queer content, both fiction and nonfiction. If you have books you would like to donate, you can drop them off at 1100 Truman Avenue between 10am and 4pm Monday through Friday. If you would like to donate a new book from the wishlist curated by our friend Faith, you can click here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1DU8208J3EPS5?ref_=wl_share
Thanks to our volunteer Phil, our current library is now catalogued online. You can see our available titles, sign up for an account, and even checkout books! See what we have available here: https://queerkeyslibrary.librarika.com/
We can’t wait til we run out of shelf space.
Love is love. Community is everything. Don’t ban books.
The Queer Keys LGBTQIA+ Community Center is now open
We had our soft opening on Monday, June 3 with a treasure trove of the island community stopping by to check out our beautiful space and to share their ideas for how it can be utilized.
1100 Truman Avenue is officially Key West's LGBTQIA+ Community Center. It will take some time to get regular hours posted, a schedule of programs and groups in place, and our library filled out, but...
Stop in for a cup of coffee, tea, or water
Utilize our wifi to get some work done
Check out our resource center and bring information in to share with the community
Post your event on our community bulletin board
Snag a book from the shelf and dive into the world of queerness
Take a moment to honor a queer luminary from the past at our wall of ancestors
Snag a condom or a menstrual product
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON!
LOVE IS LOVE. COMMUNITY IS EVERYTHING.
Queer Keys voted Best Nonprofit Key West in OUTSFL Your Choice Awards 2023!
Thank you to everyone who voted in OUTSFL's Your Choice Awards 2023 for voting Queer Keys Best Nonprofit Key West!
This recognition means so much to us as we continue to grow and expand our work, and it helps us to reach new supporters throughout south Florida. We were up against several well-established organizations that are doing really important work, so we’re having a little Sally Field moment right now. “You like us, you really like us!”
Read the full article HERE
Love is love. Community is everything.
What is Queer Keys?
Queer Keys is an LGBTQ+ community organization based in Key West, Florida. Our mission is to support, educate, empower, and celebrate the queer community in the Florida Keys.
Our Programs
We currently offer four regular programs
Youth Program
Gender Expansive Meetup
Parents & Caregivers Program
TransConnect
Donate & Keep Us Going
Your tax-deductible donation goes directly to supporting our programming and to the continued growth of our organization. Thank you!
Questions?
Check out our FAQ page or send us an email!