Queer & Trans Events
Workshops, support groups, and community hangs for trans folks in Portland and online.
Co-WERQ: Find Housing Together
Free monthly online session for anyone looking for housing in Portland. Learn one tool, get unstuck with the room, and get support to find housing that fits your needs.
Become a Navigator
Monthly volunteer open house and onboarding for WERQ TOGETHER. Roles from 30 minutes a month to running a session. Come curious or come ready.
Trans Support Group: Landing Crew
Landing Crew is a monthly support group for trans and gender-expansive people in their first year in Portland. Not a class, not intake, not therapy. A room of people figuring out the same city at the same time.
Co-WERQ: Find Housing Together
Free monthly online session for anyone looking for housing in Portland. Learn one tool, get unstuck with the room, and get support to find housing that fits your needs.
Know Your Power
Free monthly tenant rights workshop. One topic in plain language, then open problem-solving on your actual situation. Portland and Oregon renters welcome.
Co-WERQ: Find a Job Together
Free monthly online session for job seekers in Portland. Learn one tool, get unstuck with the room, then work on your applications together. Open to everyone.
Become a Navigator
Monthly volunteer open house and onboarding for WERQ TOGETHER. Roles from 30 minutes a month to running a session. Come curious or come ready.
Trans Support Group: Landing Crew
Landing Crew is a monthly support group for trans and gender-expansive people in their first year in Portland. Not a class, not intake, not therapy. A room of people figuring out the same city at the same time.
Co-WERQ: Find Housing Together
Free monthly online session for anyone looking for housing in Portland. Learn one tool, get unstuck with the room, and get support to find housing that fits your needs.
Know Your Power
Free monthly tenant rights workshop. One topic in plain language, then open problem-solving on your actual situation. Portland and Oregon renters welcome.
Co-WERQ: Find a Job Together
Free monthly online session for job seekers in Portland. Learn one tool, get unstuck with the room, then work on your applications together. Open to everyone.
Welcome to the Watershed: Graham Oaks
Graham Oaks is in Wilsonville, about 30 minutes south, or 12 minutes from Bridgeport Transit Center. It's the easiest one to reach without a car. The SMART bus runs Saturdays, stops at the entrance, and is free. Used to be a farm, almost became a landfill, now it's 250 acres with 150,000 native plants put back in. Covered shelter with an outlet, gender-neutral restrooms right by the lot, free parking. January means bare oaks, winter birds, and hot chocolate.
Welcome to the Watershed: Chehalem Ridge
Chehalem Ridge is out past Gaston, roughly 50 minutes from Portland or 40 from Sunset Transit Center. It's the farthest one and worth it. Former Douglas-fir tree farm being restored to oak habitat, with views across the whole Tualatin Valley. Covered shelter with a concrete floor, free parking, and a gravel access road on the way in. April means madrone bark peeling red, new oak leaves, and birds being extremely loud about it.
Co-WERQ: Find a Job Together
Free monthly online session for job seekers in Portland. Learn one tool, get unstuck with the room, then work on your applications together. Open to everyone.
Welcome to the Watershed: Blue Lake
Blue Lake is about 20 minutes east of Portland in Fairview, or 12 minutes from Gateway Transit Center. It's a natural lake fed from underground, sitting in the floodplain the Columbia spent millennia shaping. Covered wooden shelter, flush restrooms, accessible parking, and flat paved paths the whole way. October means geese arguing on the water and cottonwoods going yellow.
Safe Haven Info Session
Free 90-minute session for Portland homeowners with a spare room. What hosting involves, how the City’s home sharing grant works, and the paperwork, plainly. RSVP on Partiful.
Trans Support Group: Landing Crew
Landing Crew is a monthly support group for trans and gender-expansive people in their first year in Portland. Not a class, not intake, not therapy. A room of people figuring out the same city at the same time.
Know Your Power
Free monthly tenant rights workshop. One topic in plain language, then open problem-solving on your actual situation. Portland and Oregon renters welcome.