MEET QWELL, GREATER AUSTIN’S LGBTQIA+ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
Greater Austin has the nation’s 3rd largest % population of openly LGBTQIA+ people.
- QWELL is dedicated to helping every LGBTQIA+ resident improve their health, wealth, and wellbeing.
- Our work is grounded in data: Nearly 8,000 people have participated in our annual anonymous LGBTQIA+ Wellbeing Survey.
- Dozens of organizations and hundreds of community members helped create QWELL’s plans.
With your help, we can build a better future for our local LGBTQIA+ community here in Greater Austin, Texas.
QWELL GETS TO THE ROOT.
Our annual research study reveals that many of the issues plaguing Greater Austin’s LGBTQIA+ people share a few root causes. Designing solutions is QWELL’s unique work:
- End social isolation by cultivating community connectedness, including Austin LGBTQIA+ Community Centers;
- Build an app to make it easy to find supportive businesses and resources;
- Maximize access to affirming physical and mental healthcare; and,
- Catalyze an LGBTQIA+ culture of health and wellbeing.
Greater Austin has the nation’s third-largest LGBTQIA+ population per capita, and with your support, QWELL can help every one live happily ever after here in Central Texas.
QTPOC PRIDE
QWELL produces Austin’s Colors of Pride Gathering celebrating all queer/trans people of color (QTPOC) in partnership with Austin Latinx Pride, Austin Queer Asians, and other LGBTQIA+ leaders of color. Google was the Lead Sponsor of this free, indoor, air-conditioned Pride event for two years, and we need new sponsors in 2024.
Please contact us to sponsor COLORS OF PRIDE!
FREE RAINBOW FLAGS FOR PRIDE
Since 2020, QWELL and our sponsors have given away more than 5,000 free rainbow flags to households all over Greater Austin (Travis, Williamson, Bastrop, Hays, and Caldwell Counties).
Businesses that support the LGBTQIA+ community sponsor rainbow flags in Q1 and then recipients visit those businesses to pick up their flags (and QWELL’s Pride Zine!) during Pride Month in June.
Our FreePrideFlag.com giveaway helps QWELL identify friendly businesses and learn where we should locate our LGBTQIA+ community centers!
THE FUTURE IS UP TO US
We’re building a grassroots movement to make Greater Austin the best place in the world for LGBTQIA+ people to live, love, learn, work, and play.
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