Queer Rural Solutions
This part of the site is being built

GSA programs, free curriculum, and someone in your corner.

For queer people, trans people and families across the Roaring Fork Valley. The full pages are still being written. None of that changes what happens if you reach out today.

If you need something now

Write, and a person answers. Not a form, not a queue. You do not have to explain yourself, and you do not have to be in crisis to be worth a reply.

We do not ask for your last name, your school, or your parents' names. Tell us only what you want us to know.

Why it is set up this way

Schools, districts, courts, agencies, benefits offices. Every one of them assumes a person our communities are not, and every one of them has to be dealt with regardless. Community work at QRS means helping people get through that, alongside them rather than on their behalf.

What that looks like right now

GSA programmingThe main work
School is the institution most queer young people deal with every day, and the one where the distance between written policy and actual experience is widest. Programming runs in schools from Aspen to Parachute, plus a district-wide group in Garfield RE-2.
Advocacy
Showing up where decisions get made. Curriculum fights, district policy, library boards, town councils. The institutions do not change on their own and they do not change quietly.
Navigating a system, with someone who has
A trans teacher facing a district. A family dealing with a school. Someone translating their life into a language built without them, in a room where nobody speaks it natively. Having done it before is worth something, and it should not cost anything.
Curriculum, free
Queer history packets, Beyond the Basics, session plans an advisor can run without asking anyone's permission. Material for the people already inside those institutions doing the work.
Worth saying plainly

That list is what the work is today. It is not a permanent programme menu, and it was not arrived at by consensus.

QRS is being restructured so a community governance body holds binding authority over programming: what runs, where, for whom, and what gets added or dropped. Seats are held entirely by members of the communities QRS serves. What community work becomes is theirs to decide, not ours.

In the meantime, the consulting side is live. It is the half that pays for all of this.

See QRS Consulting →