Even as we've grown into a wraparound LGBTQIA+ community center, Queer Keys is still synonymous with our youth program. We are excited to reignite that program with our new Youth Program Coordinator, thanks to a grant from the Driftwood Fund at the Community Foundation of the Florida Keys! 

Along with our partner AH Monroe, we are excited to be developing an LGBTQIA+ Elders program to address the needs of even more members of our community. Rather than clone our youth program for older adults, we're are asking our LGBTQIA+ Elders what needs they have, what they would like to see in a community program, and how we might go about creating a group that addresses the real needs that exist in the community.

If you are an LGBTQIA+ person age 50 or over, we invite you to participate in our survey! If you know someone whose input would be important, please share with them.

ACCESS THE SURVEY

We also have printed copies at the Queer Keys Community Center if computers are not your thing. 

Love is love. Community is everything. 

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.

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.