The Queer Cultural Center (QCC) promotes social justice and the artistic and economic evolution of queer art and culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. QCC employs the arts to build a diverse community that actively promotes social justice and challenges homophobia, transphobia, racism, and misogyny. QCC has a long history of advocating for public policies that improve the artistic and financial conditions of LGBTQ2S+ and/including Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) arts organizations.

Originally founded in 1992 by LGBTQ2S+ Civil Rights activists and artists in response to the NEA’s censorship of out LGBTQ2S+ artists, QCC is currently one of the nation’s strongest LGBTQ2S+ arts services and presenting organizations. QCC’s arts programs and services have both networked and significantly diversified the Bay Area’s LGBTQ2S+ arts community. QCC’s year-round presenting, commissioning, and arts services programs have fostered the artistic and financial development of a strong and diverse Queer and Trans arts community in the SF Bay Area.