Queer Crush: May

May the sends be with you

The temperatures are continuing to warm up in time to climb at the crag with your friends and in the gym! Let’s crush this May with our community at this month’s meetups!

but first here are some recaps from 🌷April🌷…

4/26 @ SenderOne Westwood (photo credits to Theo Del Rosario

04/19 @ Mission Cliffs (photo credits to Feifei Xue)

04/17 @ Diablo Rock (photo credits: Courtney Baldwin)

04/ 02 @Rockcreation (photo credits: Reina Strauss)

☁️May Norcal☁️

Mon 05/01 6:30 – 9pm @ 📍Dogpatch Boulders (RSVP)

Fri 05/03 6-9pm @ 📍Sacramento Pipeworks

Mon 05/13 6-8:30pm @ 📍Movement Sunnyvale (RSVP)

Tues 05/14 6–8:30pm @ 📍Great Western Power Co, Oakland (RSVP)

Tues 05/14 7-9pm @ 📍The Studio, San Jose (RSVP)

Wed 05/15 6-9pm @ 📍Diablo Rock, Concord (RSVP)

Wed 05/15 7-9pm @ 📍Movement Belmont

Thurs 05/15 6-9pm @ 📍Pacific Pipe (RSVP)

Fri 05/17 6-9pm @ 📍Movement Santa Clara (RSVP)

Fri 05/17 6-8:15pm @ 📍Metalmark, Fresno

Fri 05/17 7-9:30pm @ 📍Mission Cliffs (RSVP)

Mon 05/20 6-9pm @ 📍Berkeley Ironworks (RSVP)

Tues 05/21 6-8:30 pm @ 📍Benchmark, San Francisco

Tues 05/21 6-8pm @ 📍Benchmark, Berkeley

Tues 05/21 6:30-8:30pm @ 📍Gravity Vault Marin (RSVP)

Fri 05/24 6-8pm @ 📍Rocknasium, Davis

Fri 05/24 7-9pm @ 📍Movement San Francisco (RSVP)

☁️May SoCal☁️

Wed 05/01 7-9pm @ 📍Long Beach Rising       

Thurs 05/02 7-9pm @ 📍Sender One, Playa Vista (RSVP)

Thurs 05/02 7-9pm @ 📍Verdigo Boulder, Burbank (RSVP)

Mon 05/06 7-9pm @ 📍Cliffs of Id, Culver City (RSVP)

Tues 05/07 7-9pm @ 📍Rockreation, West LA (RSVP)

Wed 05/08 7-9pm @ 📍Stronghold, Echo Park

Tues 05/14 7-9pm @ 📍Hollywood Boulders (RSVP)

Wed 05/15 7-9pm @ 📍Sender One Santa Ana (RSVP)

Thurs 05/16 7-9pm @ 📍LA Boulders (RSVP)

Thurs 05/16 7-9pm @ 📍Sender One LAX (RSVP)

Mon 05/20 7-9pm @ 📍The Post, Pasadena (RSVP)

Tues 05/21 7-9pm @ 📍Movement Fountain Valley (RSVP)

Fri 05/24 6-8pm @ 📍Sender One Westwood (RSVP)

Tues 05/28 7-9pm @ 📍Stronghold Lincoln Heights

☁️Vermont☁️

Wed 05/01 6:30-8:30pm @ 📍MetroRock, Essex

☁️Read “Things to Know for Your First Time Climbing Outside” our latest blog post ☁️

With lovely spring weather upon us, it seems that the stoke is high to get outdoors and touch real rock. But if you’ve never been before and want to plan your first trip, what can you expect? We’ve put together a short list of tips and tricks to help you have a successful first time climbing outside!

Read the rest by Courtney Baldwin at https://www.queercrush.org/post/things-to-know-for-your-first-time-climbing-outside

☁️Merch☁️

Get your tanks, tees, and long sleeves in person (at participating indoor meetups) or online here!

photo credits to Oscar Crane

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Additional links & more info about Queer Crush events:

MeetUp Queer Crush SoCal

MeetUp NorCal

Facebook Groups by region: East Bay Los Angeles Sacramento San Francisco San Jose/South Bay Fresno & Marin

Follow @QueerCrushClimbing on Instagram

Join our Discord

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What we’re about

Queer Crush Climbing is about creating safe and inclusive spaces for those who are diverse in their gender, romantic, and sexual orientations. We empower Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color of all abilities to seek healing, health, community and connection with the land through the art and sport of climbing.

EVENTS
We host regular meetups serving 3,000+ members across California at gyms in Northern, Central, and Southern California in indoor climbing gyms and outdoor events.

ADVOCACY
Cultivating Safer Spaces
We partner with community spaces such as climbing gyms and nonprofits that are committed to queer allyship across intersections such as race, ethnicity, class, and immigrant status.