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Out Boulder County logo

OUT Boulder County: Boulder and Longmont

Provides education, advocacy, services, and support for Boulder County’s LGBTQ communities, with transgender programs, a youth film project, trans adult and youth support groups, community cafes, art projects, yoga classes, and community activism.

303.499.5777

https://www.facebook.com/OutBoulderPride

www.outboulder.org

PFLAG Boulder

PFLAG

Promotes the health and well-being of LGBT persons, their families and friends through support, education, and advocacy. Provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity.

303-444-8164

Boulder:
www.facebook.com/PFLAGbouldercounty
http://pflagboulder.org

Denver:
https://www.pflagdenver.org

The Center on Colfax

The Center on Colfax

Engages, empowers, enriches, and advances the community through statewide advocacy and nationally recognized cultural and educational programming. Provides transgender programs, SAGE of the Rockies (offers activities and events that focus on health, housing, legal and financial planning, legacy, and social connection, specifically for LGBT persons age 50+), legal program, Rainbow Alley, PrideFest, LGBT Family Program, RANGE Consulting (for HR training and consulting), and Colorado LGBT History Project.

303-733-7743

https://www.facebook.com/COCenter
http://glbtcolorado.org

Prideful Wellness

Prideful Wellness Self Care Center

http://www.pridefulwellness.com

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Rainbow Elders Boulder County

Boulder County Area Agency on Aging maintains a confidential email and surface mail list of self-identified LGBT elders (age 60+) and professional allies. Sends monthly notices of activities of interest, including community events. Annually hosts “The Lavender Gala.”

303-441-4518

https://www.facebook.com/pg/Rainbow-Elders-of-Boulder-County
http://www.bouldercounty.org/family/lgbtiq/pages/lgbt.aspx

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OASOS Programs: Boulder and Longmont

Provides positive support and fun for LGBTQIA+ youth 13-18 (12 with parent/guardian permission), with peer youth groups, leadership opportunities, advocacy, support and referrals, and trainings on LGBTQIA+ health and inclusion for school staff, students, health care providers, and other youth-serving professionals.

303-579-2676

www.facebook.com/OASOSatBCPH
www.bouldercountyoasos.org

Queer Nature

Queer Nature

We are nature-connection mentors and wilderness guides offering courses, workshops and trips for the LGBTQIA* community and allies!

This program envisions and implements ecological literacy as a vital and often overlooked part of the healing and wholing of populations who have been systemically silenced and marginalized, such as the LGBTQ population, and especially trans and queer people of color. Ecological literacy is deep relationship building with living and non-living earth systems through naturalist knowledge, so-called ‘survival’ skills, natural crafts, and local cultural/natural history.

www.facebook.com/queernature/

www.queernature.org/

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Trans Youth Education & Support of Colorado

TYES empowers and supports families and caregivers of gender expansive youth by providing resources, education, outreach, and advocacy, in order to create supportive environments that allow youth to experience the joy of authenticity.

(720) 443-7708

www.tyes-colorado.org/

School of Lost Borders

The Queer Quest A rite of passage program for those in the LGBTQIA community that is safe, supportive and healing. When we come together to sit in sacred space, let us do so with openness and welcoming. Let us do so with compassion and love for all of who you are. The time has come for each of us to take our rightful place as whole people in this world. We are indeed whole; we have been whole children, whole adolescents, whole adults and are whole elders, with much to learn and much to teach the world. Also offered: Queer Youth Quest for ages 16-19.

760-938-3333

pedro@lostborders.org

www.facebook.com/lostborders/

www.schooloflostborders.org/content/co-queer-quest

www.schooloflostborders.org/content/2017-youth-queer-quest-recommended-ages-16-19

B-Connected Colorado

BConnectedColorado

This group is for any and all bisexuals (as well as pansexuals–we just decided to go with a more familiar label for the group) in the Boulder, Longmont, and Denver area who want to meet other polyamorous or non-polyamorous bisexuals to socialize and have community with. All genders are welcome. Hosts two events a month (give or take). A night out in Denver at Ace Eat Serve, and an in-home potluck brunch in Longmont, open to anyone in the LGBTQ community, called Queers & Quiche. Meet-ups at coffee shops, craft nights in Denver, and First Fridays at Tracks.

https://bconnectedcolorado.com

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BedPost Confessions

For people of all different backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses. We believe that people sharing their stories is immensely healing and deepens our understanding of the important role sexuality plays in all of our lives. Rarely are we given the chance to express our deepest secrets and desires in a safe and caring container. This is exactly what our event offers Boulder. Education and challenging harmful stigmas is a big part of the inclusive container we wish to create.

www.facebook.com/BedPostConfessionsBoulder/

www.bedpostconfessions.com

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Queer Dharma Group and Forum

The Boulder Queer Dharma Group meets on the third Sunday of the month from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Boulder Queer Dharma is a forum created to study and practice meditation and Dharma as well as to contemplate and discuss topics relating to LGBTQ interests/concerns and to socialize in a welcoming, supportive space. All are welcome, regardless of meditation experience, spiritual or religious tradition, age, gender, or sexual identity.

www.facebook.com/Boulder-Queer-Dharma-Group-544588655674966/

www.boulder.shambhala.org

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Queer Sex Ed

Queer Sex Ed is an imperative statement. When we call to “Queer” Sex Ed, it is a call-to-arms for sexual health educators, schools, parents, and people in all types of relationships to intentionally “queer” the institutions of sexual communication, sexual health, interpersonal relationships, and relationship structure.

We believe that we must turn sex ed on its head. Even when sex ed is at its best, it is often (intentionally or unintentionally) exclusionary of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender queer, gender fluid and, agender people, polyamorous people, asexual people, people with disabilities, and so many more social groups who engage in just as many relationships as straight, cisgender, and monogamous people, but who are forced to do so through uncharted waters, lack of media representation, and massive social stigma.

http://www.queersexed.org/

Articles and Interviews

Lean more about our mission and work in the articles and interviews below.

*NEW! Listen to to a conversation about Inclusion, moderated by Chuck Knapp. Participants Sorin Thomas, Anne Marie DiGiacomo, and Polly Banerjee Gallagher consider the fears and faulty premises that lead us to value some identities and marginalize others.

*NEW! Read Pride Month Spotlight: Queer* Therapeutic Services, on mentoring.org

*NEW! Use our Etiquette Guide and Glossary of Terms as a resource to explore your identities or to support LGBTQIAP+ people in your community. (PDF)

Find out how to share, ask, and use pronouns and why it’s important. – https://www.mypronouns.org/

Read the Trans Safer Sex Guide

Read interview with Sorin from the Odyssey Center

Read Embodied Conflict Resolution: The Use of Body Psychotherapy, Gestalt Equine Psychotherapy, and Aikido to Resolve Conflict amongst Adolescents by Sorin L. Thomas

Read Body of Lies: An exploration of Deceptive Strategies through Body Psychotherapy by Nora Ahmed-Kamal

Read the Transgender Resource Guide

Listen to Luca’s AAVMC podcast interview on Soundcloud

Listen to Luca and Sorin’s podcast interview with Harmony Foundation

Listen to Caring for the Queer or Transgender Person in Recovery by Luca Pax for The Harmony Foundation Blog

Listen to Trans Therapy and Community in Boulder interview with QA Directors for KGNU OutSources

Listen to I Can See Queerly Now interview with QA Directors for Beyond Risk and Back podcast

Visit You Are Welcome Here: https://welcomeyawh.org/

Interview with Sorin Thomas and Brett Adamek from Queer Asterisk on Soundcloud

Listen to an in-depth interview
with Sorin Thomas & Brett Adamek
from Queer Asterisk
by The Colorado Group Psychotherapy Society
on Soundcloud

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Rafi Daugherty

Counselor

he/him

Rafi Daugherty is a Licensed Marriage and Family Counselor Candidate and a graduate of the University of Colorado, Denver. Rafi also holds a masters degree in Crisis and Trauma Studies from the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. As a couples and family therapist, Rafi has been trained to view even individuals as a part of a system and understands that people need to be seen as the whole of who they are and where they come from. Rafi enjoys working with individuals of all ages who are at any stage in the process of acknowledging, accepting, and living in their identities. Rafi utilizes relevant treatments from multiple theories but leans strongly into attachment theory and internal family systems theory. Being transparent with clients is an important aspect of the therapeutic relationship to him and thus encourages clients to stand in their truth when it does not align with his words.

RP Whitmore-Bard​

Program Director

he/they

RP Whitmore-Bard (Program Director) is a queer/trans psychoanalytic psychotherapist and group facilitator. RP earned their Master’s degree in Contemplative Psychotherapy & Buddhist Psychology at Naropa University, and has been involved at Queer Asterisk since its founding in 2016. RP is passionate about creating supportive environments for people to connect authentically with themselves and others. They have worked as a direct care provider with many social services agencies, including Jewish Family Services, Safe Passage Domestic Violence Services, Eating Recovery Center, and Denver County Human Services. As a grandchild of Holocaust survivors, and a person in recovery, RP believes that being in touch with legacies of personal and ancestral suffering is a powerful tool for waking up to the transformative healing potential of every moment. RP grew up in New York City, Southern California and Chicago, and loves listening to music, dancing, and spending time in nature.

Chris Aguilar Garcia

Chris Aguilar Garcia​

Operations Director

they/them

Chris Aguilar Garcia is a Queer Chicanx writer and editor with an extensive career in community minded organizations and national LGBTQ nonprofit organizations. They hold a BA from Antioch University Los Angeles in Liberal Studies with a minor in Queer Studies. As Director of Operations, Chris oversees the day-to-day operations of QA, including human resources, facilities, grant management, and fund development. Outside of QA, Chris is a noted scholar of Prince, currently writing a book on the Queerness of Prince, and also serves on the board of The W. They are interested in intersectional identities and BIPOC representation, and obsessed with Frida Kahlo, Madonna, and Almodovar.

Brett Adamek (Freeda Be)​​

Creative Director

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Brett Adamek (Freeda Be), MA, LPC is a queer/non-binary transpersonal somatic counselor and embodiment mentor. Freeda received a Master’s in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University and is a co-founder of Queer Asterisk. Freeda supports clients in finding freedom, empowerment and authentic self-expression through increased present-moment awareness of the body and mind. He is passionate about supporting clients of diverse identities and life experiences in discovering liberation in the midst of difficult life circumstances, not in spite of them. As an Asian-American adoptee, Freeda uses his own personal journey of otherness and belonging to support clients in finding home wherever they are.

Sorin Thomas of Queer Asterisk

Sorin Thomas

Founding & Executive Director

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Sorin L. Thomas, MA, LPC, LAC, CGP, Founding and Executive Director of Queer Asterisk Therapeutic Services, is a queer and transgender Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Addictions Counselor, and Certified Group Psychotherapist with over a decade of professional experience in the field of psychology serving queer and transgender individuals and their families. Sorin has a Masters in Somatic Counseling Psychology from Naropa University and post-graduate experience in wilderness therapy, addiction recovery, adolescent and adult residential treatment, community based services, emergency psychiatric services, and hospital settings. In addition to offering queer-affirming counseling and clinical supervision, Sorin offers consultation and diversity, equity, and inclusivity trainings through a queer lens to mental health organizations, addiction recovery centers, social service agencies, hospitals, and schools.

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