Queer Aging BC supports queer, trans, Two-Spirit, and 2SLGBTQIA+ seniors across British Columbia. We build community, help people find support and navigate services, and work with partners to make aging safer, more connected, and more dignified for the people this system has too often overlooked.

Our Mission

Queer Aging BC is dedicated to advocate for systemic change that creates culturally appropriate services for 2SLGBTQIA+ seniors that support and engage them in ways that are meaningful to them.

Our Vision

All 2SLGBTQIA+ seniors in B.C. enjoy fulfilling later years and a dignified end to life.

Where We Call Home

Queer Aging BC works across British Columbia, with roots in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. Our work takes place on many Indigenous lands. In Vancouver, where much of this work began, we are on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

  • Unceded means these lands were never surrendered, sold, or given up by the Nations who have cared for them since time immemorial.

    That matters here. Queer aging does not happen in the abstract. It happens in homes, care facilities, hospitals, neighbourhoods, rural communities, urban centres, and on lands shaped by many histories of belonging, displacement, migration, settlement, and survival.

  • We support Two-Spirit, queer, and trans people aging across BC. That includes people with deep ancestral ties to these lands, people who arrived here through many waves of migration, and people who are still trying to find safety, care, and community where they live.

    For us, naming place is not about checking a box. It is about remembering that care is always local. Systems are local. Relationships are local. And the work of dignity, safety, and belonging has to be grounded in the places where people are actually aging.

  • We are still learning what it means to do this work in the right relationship.

    That means being specific about where we are. It means listening to Indigenous leadership. It means recognizing Two-Spirit people as part of this community and not as an afterthought.