QABQ intends to do this with community gatherings that will not only focus on networking but also intended to be spaces of development dedicated to the improvement of the self and the Queer Artistic community. QABQ aims to offer development artistically through creative workshops (dance classes, drag performance support, digital media workshops, etc), administrative workshops (courses in marketing, budgeting, grant writing, verbal confidence development in the workplace, etc), and emotional-health workshops (often Queer folks did not have safe-space growing up to talk about emotions and how to navigate—refer to @QueeringAlbuquerque (IG) for an example of this space). 

 
 

QABQ’s founder, Gabriel Carrion-Gonzales, is a Queer lifelong Burquenx and understands the importance of listening to the community to direct project development. For this reason, all of the above events are suggestions and will be presented to the community before any further development. This is reflective of the practices that QABQ will continue to follow as the organization grows—one rooted in the community to better provide for the community.    
  
Currently, many Queer spaces do not support intergenerational learning. Most queer safe spaces only become accessible in adulthood and are centered in drinking and hyper sexualization which does not allow our Queer youth to experience what it means to be Queer in a space that is free from those vices. QABQ is devoted to making as many spaces as possible intergenerational, where elders of all ages can share with and learn from their community.   
  
QABQ is dedicated to supporting Queer Artists of Albuquerque to actively dream a new future for themselves while enabling this community to make those dreams become a reality. One dream Gabriel has for QABQ is providing unrestricted funds to the Queer Artistic community, striving to remove limitations that financial stress causes.