Come to the Bellingham Senior Activity Center on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays for a social hour with the queer elder community. 50+

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

Generations of Pride is a coalition of BQC, PFLAG Whatcom/Bellingham, and LGBTQ+ Western.  This is an intergenerational program that helps us socialize and build community for members of the LGBTQ+ community who are 18+.  Dinners are FREE and catered, thanks to a generous grant from WWU. You are welcome to bring a dessert or side dish if you like. Each dinner has a theme and fun activities to help us learn about and get to know each other. 

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

Join us for a different activity every Friday night at the BQC Center!  Just drop in and join the fun.

Pickford Film: Origin (based on the book, Caste)

Sunday, Feb. 1, 1:00 PM - buy tickets now here - it will sell out!

FILM SCREENING PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION W/ MOUNT BAKER THEATRE, who, in the week following the Pickford's screening of ORIGIN, will be hosting Isabel Wilkerson on Feb. 6, 2026 for a very special event, "The Urgency of Radical Empathy," which will address current events and explore how both individuals and communities can support disenfranchised and marginalized communities and find hope in our shared humanity.

This is a group for people with chronic pain and chronic illness to seek and find support and connect with other people experiencing similar symptoms and diagnoses. This includes but is CERTAINLY not limited to: fibromyalgia, POTS, EDS and other connective tissue diseases, ME/CFS, chronic back pain, sciatica, degenerative disc disease, lupus, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, Crohn's, IBS, and many more.

The Mindfulness Meditation Group welcomes both inexperienced and experienced meditators to a weekly offering that will be hybrid-- both online and in person. It is facilitated by Jill Stansbury, the BQC Wellness Coordinator, who is a trained Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction facilitator through Brown University. This group meets weekly.

PFLAG Bellingham/Whatcom County hosts a community support meeting on the first Tuesday of every month. We currently meet in-person at the BQC Community Center, or via Zoom, from 5:30pm to 7:00pm.

Join us in person at the BQC Community Center, 310 W Champion Street, Bellingham or via Zoom [click here].

Join us at the Bellingham Senior Activity Center on the first Wednesday of the month for the Rainbow Elder Lunch. Look for the rainbow tablecloths in the lunch room. This event is intended for folks aged 50+. If you are not a member of the BSAC, sign in as a guest and tell them you are having lunch with the Rainbow Elders.

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

Whether you’re completely new to the modern tabletop gaming world and want to check it out, or you’ve got a game or two that’s been sitting on your shelf waiting for the right group to try it out, or you’re just interested in meeting other queer people and sharing some screen-free fun and conversation, this is the place for you!

No matter what you're working on or where you are in the process, we offer space and community to support creativity.

Energy. Breath. Belonging. 

Join us for a gentle, affirming practice of Qigong (气功). Rooted in ancient Chinese energy movement and breath, this space welcomes you exactly as you are.

✨ No experience needed

✨ All bodies and abilities welcome

✨ Come to move, breathe, and reconnect

Queer Qigong is a gentle, grounding movement class designed to support nervous system regulation, embodied resilience, and connection to self and community—especially for queer, trans, and gender-expansive folks.

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

This group is designed for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC individuals and allies who are curious about or committed to enhancing their well-being through mind-body practices. Whether you're new to the wellness space, just learning to meditate, or you're an experienced energy worker or yoga enthusiast, this space is for you.

Mount Baker Theatre will be hosting Isabel Wilkerson on Feb. 6, 2026 for a very special event, "The Urgency of Radical Empathy," which will address current events and explore how both individuals and communities can support disenfranchised and marginalized communities and find hope in our shared humanity.

Join us for a different activity every Friday night at the BQC Center!  Just drop in and join the fun.

Trans Survival Political Education seeks to collectively understand our world by reading, watching, and discussing poignant and relevant media in a safe group setting. The group ultimately decides on what we are learning about, because that's how we know it will be relevant to our lives. If you're interested in engaging with ideas and others in a safe space, we hope to see you there!

Community Allies for Queer Equity (CAQE) is a community based affinity group focused on supporting trans and queer people through collective action, education, and shared responsibility. The group exists to help shift the burden of advocacy away from trans and queer individuals alone by inviting allies into meaningful, guided participation.

The Mindfulness Meditation Group welcomes both inexperienced and experienced meditators to a weekly offering that will be hybrid-- both online and in person. It is facilitated by Jill Stansbury, the BQC Wellness Coordinator, who is a trained Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction facilitator through Brown University. This group meets weekly.

Do you identify as coming out late in life? Coming out recently? Please join us for friendship and support.

Come to the Bellingham Senior Activity Center on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays for a social hour with the queer elder community. 50+

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

Queering the Future: Solarpunk as a Hope Engine is a three-part genre and writing workshop with lunafly. This series for amateur writers introduces you to the Solarpunk genre during the first session, followed by an immersive writing workshop. Structured exercises, group work, discussion, and lots of space to write - we'll create short pieces and see where our storyboards take us over the course of three months.

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

We are a group of queer people who like to share our crafts; knitting, crocheting, drawing, coloring, pixel art, or whatever you want to bring along. We're here to share stories and experiences, ask questions or just hang out.

Join us for a different activity every Friday night at the BQC Center!  Just drop in and join the fun.

Out and About is a monthly nature program for queer adults (18+). Join us for Swans at Sunset on Saturday, February 14, 2026 from 4:30-6:30PM.

Join us to explore a very special spot where we can view the Tundra and Trumpeter Swans who visit our region exclusively in the winter. This area has a tall watch tower where we can observe the swans fly back to the lake where they spend the night after foraging in agricultural fields during the day. We frequently see Barn Owls, American bitterns, Foxes, Raccoons and lots of other wildlife while we explore here during dusk.

We are not looking for successful, prolific writers. We are looking for people who want to know who they really are, and want to express that.

No judgement.

No expectation.

Sharing a space for each person to document their personal journey through life.

Observations. Experiences. Dreams.

We can share the discipline of writing on a regular basis with no rules. Happy to have company as we work. Our time together is a short hello and update. Then 90 minutes of concentrated focus on writing. Then a deep breath and a thought about what happened while writing, as we leave.

Let’s build a robust group of Queer Writers sharing energy to understand how we exist.

BQC Sacred Misfits: Spirituality on the Margins is a peer-led group for anyone interested in exploring spiritual practices outside of dominant religious frameworks. We center queer, trans, and other marginalized voices while creating space for self-inquiry, sacred play, and community connection. We gather to study divination, explore our weird spiritual selves, encourage stepping outside the mainstream, and find community beyond the binary, the dogma, and the gatekeeping. All genders, paths, and vibes welcome. No specific beliefs or experience required—just openness and respect.

The Mindfulness Meditation Group welcomes both inexperienced and experienced meditators to a weekly offering that will be hybrid-- both online and in person. It is facilitated by Jill Stansbury, the BQC Wellness Coordinator, who is a trained Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction facilitator through Brown University. This group meets weekly.

3rd Tuesdays are FLINTA* Nights!

Embodied Expression for Queer Liberation is a monthly workshop series to illuminate how art and movement healing practices can be woven with our body’s ecology so we may become our fullest selves in all our queerness. The workshop is a lightly facilitated and loosely structured creative space for folx to explore movement, artistic expression, somatics, and how they are inherently connected.

BQC Queer Women’s group is a BQC Affinity Group that meets on the third Saturday of each month. Hosted by Laura Rainey and Lyn Faith.

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

Join us for coffee and a different discussion every month.

Join the BQC Knit and Craft Night at NORTHWEST YARNS! Bring any craft you would like to work on during this time or come find your new favorite project at the shop!

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

We seek to build queer community together through collaborative storytelling. We meet once a month to play tabletop roleplaying games. All skill levels welcome!

Join us for a different activity every Friday night at the BQC Center!  Just drop in and join the fun.

Community Allies for Queer Equity (CAQE) is a community based affinity group focused on supporting trans and queer people through collective action, education, and shared responsibility. The group exists to help shift the burden of advocacy away from trans and queer individuals alone by inviting allies into meaningful, guided participation.

This is a group for Rainbow Refugees, 2SLGBTQIA+ people who have moved here from red areas. We will discuss things like being new to Bellingham, dealing with moving/starting over, survivor’s guilt, and getting used to being in a safer area.

The Mindfulness Meditation Group welcomes both inexperienced and experienced meditators to a weekly offering that will be hybrid-- both online and in person. It is facilitated by Jill Stansbury, the BQC Wellness Coordinator, who is a trained Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction facilitator through Brown University. This group meets weekly.

This group is a welcoming and affirming social group created specifically for transfeminine people to connect, share experiences, and build community in a supportive environment. Open to anyone who identifies with transfeminine experiences—including trans women, transfeminine nonbinary people, and those exploring gender—this group offers a space for casual conversation, mutual support, creative expression, and friendship. Whether you're looking to meet others with similar identities, talk about gender journeys, or just hang out in a space where you feel seen and celebrated, BQC Transfemme group is here for you.

Come to the Bellingham Senior Activity Center on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays for a social hour with the queer elder community. 50+

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

Generations of Pride at the Bellingham Senior Activity Center

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

This BQC Affinity group meets at the BQC Center on the 4th Thursday of each month from 6-8pm. Join us!

Join us for a different activity every Friday night at the BQC Center!  Just drop in and join the fun.

Connect with other members of the Latinx community to help with navigating some of the unique challenges of being queer in Latinx culture.

This is a group for people with chronic pain and chronic illness to seek and find support and connect with other people experiencing similar symptoms and diagnoses. This includes but is CERTAINLY not limited to: fibromyalgia, POTS, EDS and other connective tissue diseases, ME/CFS, chronic back pain, sciatica, degenerative disc disease, lupus, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, Crohn's, IBS, and many more.

The Mindfulness Meditation Group welcomes both inexperienced and experienced meditators to a weekly offering that will be hybrid-- both online and in person. It is facilitated by Jill Stansbury, the BQC Wellness Coordinator, who is a trained Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction facilitator through Brown University. This group meets weekly.

PFLAG Bellingham/Whatcom County hosts a community support meeting on the first Tuesday of every month. We currently meet in-person at the BQC Community Center, or via Zoom, from 5:30pm to 7:00pm.

Join us in person at the BQC Community Center, 310 W Champion Street, Bellingham or via Zoom [click here].

Join us at the Bellingham Senior Activity Center on the first Wednesday of the month for the Rainbow Elder Lunch. Look for the rainbow tablecloths in the lunch room. This event is intended for folks aged 50+. If you are not a member of the BSAC, sign in as a guest and tell them you are having lunch with the Rainbow Elders.

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

Whether you’re completely new to the modern tabletop gaming world and want to check it out, or you’ve got a game or two that’s been sitting on your shelf waiting for the right group to try it out, or you’re just interested in meeting other queer people and sharing some screen-free fun and conversation, this is the place for you!

No matter what you're working on or where you are in the process, we offer space and community to support creativity.

Energy. Breath. Belonging. 

Join us for a gentle, affirming practice of Qigong (气功). Rooted in ancient Chinese energy movement and breath, this space welcomes you exactly as you are.

✨ No experience needed

✨ All bodies and abilities welcome

✨ Come to move, breathe, and reconnect

Queer Qigong is a gentle, grounding movement class designed to support nervous system regulation, embodied resilience, and connection to self and community—especially for queer, trans, and gender-expansive folks.

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

This group is designed for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC individuals and allies who are curious about or committed to enhancing their well-being through mind-body practices. Whether you're new to the wellness space, just learning to meditate, or you're an experienced energy worker or yoga enthusiast, this space is for you.

Join us for a different activity every Friday night at the BQC Center!  Just drop in and join the fun.

Community Allies for Queer Equity (CAQE) is a community based affinity group focused on supporting trans and queer people through collective action, education, and shared responsibility. The group exists to help shift the burden of advocacy away from trans and queer individuals alone by inviting allies into meaningful, guided participation.

The Mindfulness Meditation Group welcomes both inexperienced and experienced meditators to a weekly offering that will be hybrid-- both online and in person. It is facilitated by Jill Stansbury, the BQC Wellness Coordinator, who is a trained Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction facilitator through Brown University. This group meets weekly.

Do you identify as coming out late in life? Coming out recently? Please join us for friendship and support.

Come to the Bellingham Senior Activity Center on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays for a social hour with the queer elder community. 50+

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

Queering the Future: Solarpunk as a Hope Engine is a three-part genre and writing workshop with lunafly. This series for amateur writers introduces you to the Solarpunk genre during the first session, followed by an immersive writing workshop. Structured exercises, group work, discussion, and lots of space to write - we'll create short pieces and see where our storyboards take us over the course of three months.

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

We are a group of queer people who like to share our crafts; knitting, crocheting, drawing, coloring, pixel art, or whatever you want to bring along. We're here to share stories and experiences, ask questions or just hang out.

Join us for a different activity every Friday night at the BQC Center!  Just drop in and join the fun.

We are not looking for successful, prolific writers. We are looking for people who want to know who they really are, and want to express that.

No judgement.

No expectation.

Sharing a space for each person to document their personal journey through life.

Observations. Experiences. Dreams.

We can share the discipline of writing on a regular basis with no rules. Happy to have company as we work. Our time together is a short hello and update. Then 90 minutes of concentrated focus on writing. Then a deep breath and a thought about what happened while writing, as we leave.

Let’s build a robust group of Queer Writers sharing energy to understand how we exist.

BQC Sacred Misfits: Spirituality on the Margins is a peer-led group for anyone interested in exploring spiritual practices outside of dominant religious frameworks. We center queer, trans, and other marginalized voices while creating space for self-inquiry, sacred play, and community connection. We gather to study divination, explore our weird spiritual selves, encourage stepping outside the mainstream, and find community beyond the binary, the dogma, and the gatekeeping. All genders, paths, and vibes welcome. No specific beliefs or experience required—just openness and respect.

The Mindfulness Meditation Group welcomes both inexperienced and experienced meditators to a weekly offering that will be hybrid-- both online and in person. It is facilitated by Jill Stansbury, the BQC Wellness Coordinator, who is a trained Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction facilitator through Brown University. This group meets weekly.

3rd Tuesdays are FLINTA* Nights!

Embodied Expression for Queer Liberation is a monthly workshop series to illuminate how art and movement healing practices can be woven with our body’s ecology so we may become our fullest selves in all our queerness. The workshop is a lightly facilitated and loosely structured creative space for folx to explore movement, artistic expression, somatics, and how they are inherently connected.

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

Join us for coffee and a different discussion every month.

Join the BQC Knit and Craft Night at NORTHWEST YARNS! Bring any craft you would like to work on during this time or come find your new favorite project at the shop!

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

We seek to build queer community together through collaborative storytelling. We meet once a month to play tabletop roleplaying games. All skill levels welcome!

Join us for a different activity every Friday night at the BQC Center!  Just drop in and join the fun.

BQC Queer Women’s group is a BQC Affinity Group that meets on the third Saturday of each month. Hosted by Laura Rainey and Lyn Faith.

Out and About is a monthly nature program for queer adults (18+). Join us for Intro to Nature Journaling on Saturday, March 21, 2026 from 4:00-6:00PM. 

Welcome spring and practice your nature journaling skills! After sharing some snacks and light refreshments, we will explore some of the oldest growth first in Bellingham to search for the very first buds and blooms of spring, listen for returning songbirds, and and record our observations after learning some new techniques for drawing/sketching in the field!

Community Allies for Queer Equity (CAQE) is a community based affinity group focused on supporting trans and queer people through collective action, education, and shared responsibility. The group exists to help shift the burden of advocacy away from trans and queer individuals alone by inviting allies into meaningful, guided participation.

This is a group for Rainbow Refugees, 2SLGBTQIA+ people who have moved here from red areas. We will discuss things like being new to Bellingham, dealing with moving/starting over, survivor’s guilt, and getting used to being in a safer area.

The Mindfulness Meditation Group welcomes both inexperienced and experienced meditators to a weekly offering that will be hybrid-- both online and in person. It is facilitated by Jill Stansbury, the BQC Wellness Coordinator, who is a trained Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction facilitator through Brown University. This group meets weekly.

This group is a welcoming and affirming social group created specifically for transfeminine people to connect, share experiences, and build community in a supportive environment. Open to anyone who identifies with transfeminine experiences—including trans women, transfeminine nonbinary people, and those exploring gender—this group offers a space for casual conversation, mutual support, creative expression, and friendship. Whether you're looking to meet others with similar identities, talk about gender journeys, or just hang out in a space where you feel seen and celebrated, BQC Transfemme group is here for you.

Come to the Bellingham Senior Activity Center on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays for a social hour with the queer elder community. 50+

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

Generations of Pride at the Bellingham Senior Activity Center

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

This BQC Affinity group meets at the BQC Center on the 4th Thursday of each month from 6-8pm. Join us!

Join us for a different activity every Friday night at the BQC Center!  Just drop in and join the fun.

Connect with other members of the Latinx community to help with navigating some of the unique challenges of being queer in Latinx culture.

The Mindfulness Meditation Group welcomes both inexperienced and experienced meditators to a weekly offering that will be hybrid-- both online and in person. It is facilitated by Jill Stansbury, the BQC Wellness Coordinator, who is a trained Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction facilitator through Brown University. This group meets weekly.

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

The Mindfulness Meditation Group welcomes both inexperienced and experienced meditators to a weekly offering that will be hybrid-- both online and in person. It is facilitated by Jill Stansbury, the BQC Wellness Coordinator, who is a trained Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction facilitator through Brown University. This group meets weekly.

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

The Mindfulness Meditation Group welcomes both inexperienced and experienced meditators to a weekly offering that will be hybrid-- both online and in person. It is facilitated by Jill Stansbury, the BQC Wellness Coordinator, who is a trained Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction facilitator through Brown University. This group meets weekly.

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

The Mindfulness Meditation Group welcomes both inexperienced and experienced meditators to a weekly offering that will be hybrid-- both online and in person. It is facilitated by Jill Stansbury, the BQC Wellness Coordinator, who is a trained Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction facilitator through Brown University. This group meets weekly.

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

The Mindfulness Meditation Group welcomes both inexperienced and experienced meditators to a weekly offering that will be hybrid-- both online and in person. It is facilitated by Jill Stansbury, the BQC Wellness Coordinator, who is a trained Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction facilitator through Brown University. This group meets weekly.

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

Generations of Pride at the Bellingham Senior Activity Center

Drop in to the BQC Center to visit with friends, make a new friend, hang out on your own, check out a book (soon), play a game, read, listen to music, help yourself to a hot or cold beverage and snack, and more!

Generations of Pride at the Bellingham Senior Activity Center