🏳️‍🌈 QMUNITY Winter Warm Up! 🏳️‍⚧️

It may be cold outside, but inside the radiator is nice and warm. ❄️

Join QMUNITY for our annual open house event, Winter Warm Up! ⛄️ [ image ]

We will have snacks, warm drinks, games, karaoke, bingo, and prizes! 🥳

Thursday December 18, 2025 from 3:00 - 6:00 pm at two locations:

Location one: 1170 Bute Street, QMUNITY's offices

Location two: accessible Holigays event for our seniors program at Blenz on Davie

RSVP is not necessary to attend.Bring a friend and come mingle with us as we head into the winter season! 😀 ❄️ 🎁 🥊 ⛄️

QMUNITY Gathers: Online 🧑🏻‍💻

• 55+ 2SLGBTQIA+ Virtual Drop-In Program (Zoom)

• When: 2:30 pm - 3: 30 pm, Every Thursday

Join our online community from Northern B.C., to Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, Fraser Valley, and the B.C. Interior, Newcomers encouraged!

• Facilitator: Allie King, of QMUNITY

• Email seniors@qmunity.ca or call 604-684-5307 to get the Zoom link | image

🏳️‍🌈 Supporting older adults who identify with the 2SLGBTQIA+ community 🏳️‍⚧️

This café is an opportunity to come together and connect with fellow 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults.

Come socialize with others at our peer-driven, safe, inclusive and accessible monthly cafe, featuring an educational, informational or entertainment focus. Please email us at the address below if you’d like specific information about next month’s cafe!

• Refreshments provided! 🙂

• When: 3rd Tuesday of each month at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

• Where: BNH Brentwood House (2nd floor), 2055 Rosser Avenue, Burnaby

• Contact / more information: QUESTPlus@burnabynh.ca

  Poster [pdf]

🏳️‍🌈 Rainbow Wisdom Cafe 🏳️‍⚧️
Little Mountain Neighbourhood House, in partnership with 411 Seniors Centre

Come together with fellow 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults and allies for an afternoon of engaging conversations, fun activities, and educational topics. Enjoy light refreshments while building meaningful connections in a supportive and welcoming space.

This is a wonderful opportunity to share experiences, learn from each other, and celebrate our vibrant community.

• When: Every 1st and 3rd Thursday from 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

• Where: 411 Seniors Centre – 3502 Fraser Street, Vancouver, B.C.

• Contact: Craig Malin at craigm@lmnhs.bc.ca or (236) 777-6561

QMUNITY Quills: Online Writing Workshop ✍🏽
55+ 2SLGBTQIA+ Drop-In Program

Pick up your pen with Quills—a creative writing drop-in for 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults. Explore reflective writing, share your voice, and connect with fellow storytellers across the province—no experience needed, just your imagination

• September: 22nd, 2025

• October: 13th and 20th 2025

• November: 3rd and 17th 2025

• December: 1st and 15th 2025

Register by calling the front desk at 604-684-5307
or emailing seniors@qmunity.ca

Taught by: Katie Watters, QMUNITY Volunteer

QMUNITY Gathers: Online 🧑🏻‍💻

• 55+ 2SLGBTQIA+ Virtual Drop-In Program (Zoom)

• When: 2:30 pm - 3: 30 pm, Every Thursday

Join our online community from Northern B.C., to Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, Fraser Valley, and the B.C. Interior, Newcomers encouraged!

• Facilitator: Allie King, of QMUNITY

• Email seniors@qmunity.ca or call 604-684-5307 to get the Zoom link | image

Lukas W. is co-facilitating another Death Cafe at the HIM office, #300 - 1033 Davie Street (Vancouver), this Thursday Dec 4th from 6:30- 8:00 pm.

A place to gather and talk about everything mortality, death and dying. Community members gather to talk about everything from our own mortality and time on earth, to our experiences with death, ideas around death, what we want for ourselves or our community, and so much more! Prompts will be given but the only theme is death and dying.

This event is geared towards those who are open to talking and engaging around the topic. This is not a grief and support group, but we may touch on the subject of grief at times.

Offered by HIM Health Initiative for Men. Women are welcome at this event.

This is a free event for the 2S/LGBTQ+ community, but registration is required, as all our previous Death Cafes have had standing-room only attendance.

Here's the link for complete info and registration:

https://checkhimout.ca/him-events/death-cafe/

QuIRK-E post!

QMUNITY Gathers: Online 🧑🏻‍💻

• 55+ 2SLGBTQIA+ Virtual Drop-In Program (Zoom)

• When: 2:30 pm - 3: 30 pm, Every Thursday

Join our online community from Northern B.C., to Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, Fraser Valley, and the B.C. Interior, Newcomers encouraged!

• Facilitator: Allie King, of QMUNITY

• Email seniors@qmunity.ca or call 604-684-5307 to get the Zoom link | image

🏳️‍🌈 Rainbow Wisdom Cafe 🏳️‍⚧️
Little Mountain Neighbourhood House, in partnership with 411 Seniors Centre

Come together with fellow 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults and allies for an afternoon of engaging conversations, fun activities, and educational topics. Enjoy light refreshments while building meaningful connections in a supportive and welcoming space.

This is a wonderful opportunity to share experiences, learn from each other, and celebrate our vibrant community.

• When: Every 1st and 3rd Thursday from 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

• Where: 411 Seniors Centre – 3502 Fraser Street, Vancouver, B.C.

• Contact: Craig Malin at craigm@lmnhs.bc.ca or (236) 777-6561

QMUNITY Quills: Online Writing Workshop ✍🏽
55+ 2SLGBTQIA+ Drop-In Program

Pick up your pen with Quills—a creative writing drop-in for 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults. Explore reflective writing, share your voice, and connect with fellow storytellers across the province—no experience needed, just your imagination

• September: 22nd, 2025

• October: 13th and 20th 2025

• November: 3rd and 17th 2025

• December: 1st and 15th 2025

Register by calling the front desk at 604-684-5307
or emailing seniors@qmunity.ca

Taught by: Katie Watters, QMUNITY Volunteer

QMUNITY Gathers: Online 🧑🏻‍💻

• 55+ 2SLGBTQIA+ Virtual Drop-In Program (Zoom)

• When: 2:30 pm - 3: 30 pm, Every Thursday

Join our online community from Northern B.C., to Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, Fraser Valley, and the B.C. Interior, Newcomers encouraged!

• Facilitator: Allie King, of QMUNITY

• Email seniors@qmunity.ca or call 604-684-5307 to get the Zoom link | image

November 20th is Trans Day of Remembrance, a time for honoring our Trans siblings taken too soon and holding grief in community. Each year we (St. Andrews-Wesley United Church) host a vigil to provide a safe space for our 2SLGBTQIA+ community to gather together and through ritual and ceremony honour their loved ones.

We would like to invite you to join us for this contemplative service for Trans Day of Remembrance. This evening will feature music from the Quayside Voices and a reflection from Rev. Lauren Kirkey, co- founder of the Saige Foodbank for the Two-Spirit, Trans and Gender diverse community. The vigil commemorates all transgender people lost to violence and lifts up those who are continuing to work for trans rights.

• What: Trans Day of Remembrance Vigil

• When: Sunday, November 23rd , 7:00pm

• Where: St. Andrews-Wesley United Church (Google Maps)

Thank you for the life saving, life affirming work that you do here in our city for our 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

In Community,

Karis Dimas-Lehndorf (she, her, hers)
Social Justice and Community Lay Minister 
2SLGBTQIA+ Facilitator for Women and Non-Binary Folks
M.A. English | B.A. English
lgbtq@standrewswesley.com 

Respectfully acknowledging that I live and work on the unceded and ancestral territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Nov. 20 annually is our Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) - which memorializes those who have been murdered as a result of transphobia. The day was founded to draw attention to the continued violence directed toward transgender people.

This TDoR please join us at two back-to-back Nov 20 events in Vancouver.

Trans Day of Remembrance [all ages] Gathering

Join us for an all ages gathering and drop-in for 2SLGBTQIA+ community members to hold space and be together away from the public eye.

Live music, letter writing, drag performances, and healing as we mark this year’s Trans Day of Remembrance

• Date: November 20, 2025

• Time: 5 - 7 pm

• Location: The Birdhouse, 44 west 4th [ map ]

• RSVP: This event is drop-in - we only ask for RSVP here to see how many folks to expect, but anyone can come by at anytime

Vancouver Trans March and sagah are hosting a Vigil at MacLean Park at 7 pm [ map ]. We will be shortening our program to end around 6:45 to give folks time to head to the park or the vigil. We encourage our community to attend both events if possible to recognize Trans Day of Remembrance.

QMUNITY Gathers: Online 🧑🏻‍💻

• 55+ 2SLGBTQIA+ Virtual Drop-In Program (Zoom)

• When: 2:30 pm - 3: 30 pm, Every Thursday

Join our online community from Northern B.C., to Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, Fraser Valley, and the B.C. Interior, Newcomers encouraged!

• Facilitator: Allie King, of QMUNITY

• Email seniors@qmunity.ca or call 604-684-5307 to get the Zoom link | image

🏳️‍🌈 Supporting older adults who identify with the 2SLGBTQIA+ community 🏳️‍⚧️

This café is an opportunity to come together and connect with fellow 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults.

Come socialize with others at our peer-driven, safe, inclusive and accessible monthly cafe, featuring an educational, informational or entertainment focus. Please email us at the address below if you’d like specific information about next month’s cafe!

• Refreshments provided! 🙂

• When: 3rd Tuesday of each month at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

• Where: BNH Brentwood House (2nd floor), 2055 Rosser Avenue, Burnaby

• Contact / more information: QUESTPlus@burnabynh.ca

  Poster [pdf]

🏳️‍🌈 Rainbow Wisdom Cafe 🏳️‍⚧️
Little Mountain Neighbourhood House, in partnership with 411 Seniors Centre

Come together with fellow 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults and allies for an afternoon of engaging conversations, fun activities, and educational topics. Enjoy light refreshments while building meaningful connections in a supportive and welcoming space.

This is a wonderful opportunity to share experiences, learn from each other, and celebrate our vibrant community.

• When: Every 1st and 3rd Thursday from 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

• Where: 411 Seniors Centre – 3502 Fraser Street, Vancouver, B.C.

• Contact: Craig Malin at craigm@lmnhs.bc.ca or (236) 777-6561

QMUNITY Quills: Online Writing Workshop ✍🏽
55+ 2SLGBTQIA+ Drop-In Program

Pick up your pen with Quills—a creative writing drop-in for 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults. Explore reflective writing, share your voice, and connect with fellow storytellers across the province—no experience needed, just your imagination

• September: 22nd, 2025

• October: 13th and 20th 2025

• November: 3rd and 17th 2025

• December: 1st and 15th 2025

Register by calling the front desk at 604-684-5307
or emailing seniors@qmunity.ca

Taught by: Katie Watters, QMUNITY Volunteer

QMUNITY Gathers: Online 🧑🏻‍💻

• 55+ 2SLGBTQIA+ Virtual Drop-In Program (Zoom)

• When: 2:30 pm - 3: 30 pm, Every Thursday

Join our online community from Northern B.C., to Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, Fraser Valley, and the B.C. Interior, Newcomers encouraged!

• Facilitator: Allie King, of QMUNITY

• Email seniors@qmunity.ca or call 604-684-5307 to get the Zoom link | image

QMUNITY Gathers: Online 🧑🏻‍💻

• 55+ 2SLGBTQIA+ Virtual Drop-In Program (Zoom)

• When: 2:30 pm - 3: 30 pm, Every Thursday

Join our online community from Northern B.C., to Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, Fraser Valley, and the B.C. Interior, Newcomers encouraged!

• Facilitator: Allie King, of QMUNITY

• Email seniors@qmunity.ca or call 604-684-5307 to get the Zoom link | image

🏳️‍🌈 Rainbow Wisdom Cafe 🏳️‍⚧️
Little Mountain Neighbourhood House, in partnership with 411 Seniors Centre

Come together with fellow 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults and allies for an afternoon of engaging conversations, fun activities, and educational topics. Enjoy light refreshments while building meaningful connections in a supportive and welcoming space.

This is a wonderful opportunity to share experiences, learn from each other, and celebrate our vibrant community.

• When: Every 1st and 3rd Thursday from 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

• Where: 411 Seniors Centre – 3502 Fraser Street, Vancouver, B.C.

• Contact: Craig Malin at craigm@lmnhs.bc.ca or (236) 777-6561

QMUNITY Quills: Online Writing Workshop ✍🏽
55+ 2SLGBTQIA+ Drop-In Program

Pick up your pen with Quills—a creative writing drop-in for 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults. Explore reflective writing, share your voice, and connect with fellow storytellers across the province—no experience needed, just your imagination

• September: 22nd, 2025

• October: 13th and 20th 2025

• November: 3rd and 17th 2025

• December: 1st and 15th 2025

Register by calling the front desk at 604-684-5307
or emailing seniors@qmunity.ca

Taught by: Katie Watters, QMUNITY Volunteer

QMUNITY Gathers: Online 🧑🏻‍💻

• 55+ 2SLGBTQIA+ Virtual Drop-In Program (Zoom)

• When: 2:30 pm - 3: 30 pm, Every Thursday

Join our online community from Northern B.C., to Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, Fraser Valley, and the B.C. Interior, Newcomers encouraged!

• Facilitator: Allie King, of QMUNITY

• Email seniors@qmunity.ca or call 604-684-5307 to get the Zoom link | image

Pride in Progress: Honouring Our Elders

Join us for QMUNITY's Honouring Our Elders 2025 luncheon at the Sylvia Hotel.  This year’s event shines a spotlight on legal advocacy and political activism.

Enjoy a 3-course lunch, entertainment and readings in celebration of 2SLGBTQIA+ activists and advocates who have paved the way for our right to live out and proud. Connect with those who have fought – and continue to fight – for our rights.

• Date: Thursday, October 30th, 2025

• Time: 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

• Location: The Sylvia Hotel Restaurant, 1154 Gilford St., Vancouver

• Tickets / meal selection (free!): click here

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Registration: Claim your ticket online or call 604-684-5307 or email seniors@qmunity.ca

QMUNITY Gathers: Online 🧑🏻‍💻

• 55+ 2SLGBTQIA+ Virtual Drop-In Program (Zoom)

• When: 2:30 pm - 3: 30 pm, Every Thursday

Join our online community from Northern B.C., to Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, Fraser Valley, and the B.C. Interior, Newcomers encouraged!

• Facilitator: Allie King, of QMUNITY

• Email seniors@qmunity.ca or call 604-684-5307 to get the Zoom link | image

40th Anniversary of the Cherry Tree AIDS Memorial [ link | image ]

40 years ago this October, early activists planted three Sakura (Cherry Blossom) trees in a slightly out of the way spot near X̱wáýx̱way/Stanley Park. Honouring some of the first HIV/AIDS deaths in the country, the grove is the oldest known AIDS memorial. At the time it was planted, fears of vandalism meant the site stayed only known through word of mouth.

Ribbon Community and Cocksure Performance invite you to gather with us to mark this significant anniversary as a time to reflect on half a century of local HIV/AIDS activism and look ahead to the future it made possible.

Join us for food and community connection opportunities starting at 3:30 pm at the cherry trees at Devonian Harbour Park on Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories. Formal proceedings, including invited remarks and readings, will begin at 4pm and are planned to wrap up by 5 pm.

• Location: Devonian Harbour Park, 1929 W Georgia St, Vancouver, B.C. | map

• Date and time: Mon, Oct 20, 2025 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

• Organizer: Sarah Chown, (604) 696-4655, sarahc@ribboncommunity.org

• Tickets (free): link

QMUNITY Quills: Online Writing Workshop ✍🏽
55+ 2SLGBTQIA+ Drop-In Program

Pick up your pen with Quills—a creative writing drop-in for 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults. Explore reflective writing, share your voice, and connect with fellow storytellers across the province—no experience needed, just your imagination

• September: 22nd, 2025

• October: 13th and 20th 2025

• November: 3rd and 17th 2025

• December: 1st and 15th 2025

Register by calling the front desk at 604-684-5307
or emailing seniors@qmunity.ca

Taught by: Katie Watters, QMUNITY Volunteer

QMUNITY Gathers: Online 🧑🏻‍💻

• 55+ 2SLGBTQIA+ Virtual Drop-In Program (Zoom)

• When: 2:30 pm - 3: 30 pm, Every Thursday

Join our online community from Northern B.C., to Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast, Fraser Valley, and the B.C. Interior, Newcomers encouraged!

• Facilitator: Allie King, of QMUNITY

• Email seniors@qmunity.ca or call 604-684-5307 to get the Zoom link | image

🏳️‍🌈 Supporting older adults who identify with the 2SLGBTQIA+ community 🏳️‍⚧️

This café is an opportunity to come together and connect with fellow 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults.

Come socialize with others at our peer-driven, safe, inclusive and accessible monthly cafe, featuring an educational, informational or entertainment focus. Please email us at the address below if you’d like specific information about next month’s cafe!

• Refreshments provided! 🙂

• When: 3rd Tuesday of each month at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

• Where: BNH Brentwood House (2nd floor), 2055 Rosser Avenue, Burnaby

• Contact / more information: QUESTPlus@burnabynh.ca

  Poster [pdf]

🏳️‍🌈 Rainbow Wisdom Cafe 🏳️‍⚧️
Little Mountain Neighbourhood House, in partnership with 411 Seniors Centre

Come together with fellow 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults and allies for an afternoon of engaging conversations, fun activities, and educational topics. Enjoy light refreshments while building meaningful connections in a supportive and welcoming space.

This is a wonderful opportunity to share experiences, learn from each other, and celebrate our vibrant community.

• When: Every 1st and 3rd Thursday from 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

• Where: 411 Seniors Centre – 3502 Fraser Street, Vancouver, B.C.

• Contact: Craig Malin at craigm@lmnhs.bc.ca or (236) 777-6561

QMUNITY Quills: Online Writing Workshop ✍🏽
55+ 2SLGBTQIA+ Drop-In Program

Pick up your pen with Quills—a creative writing drop-in for 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults. Explore reflective writing, share your voice, and connect with fellow storytellers across the province—no experience needed, just your imagination

• September: 22nd, 2025

• October: 13th and 20th 2025

• November: 3rd and 17th 2025

• December: 1st and 15th 2025

Register by calling the front desk at 604-684-5307
or emailing seniors@qmunity.ca

Taught by: Katie Watters, QMUNITY Volunteer