Celebrate queer Fire Island—our sanctuary of pleasure, protest, and possibility.
Celebrate queer Fire Island—our sanctuary of pleasure, protest, and possibility.
Preserving Queer Culture Through Art, Space, and Story
The Queer Culture Arts Foundation (QCAF) is a home for queer art, memory, and imagination. Through residencies, exhibitions, publications, and public programs, we preserve, cultivate, and reimagine queer cultural life—past, present, and future.
The Mission
The Queer Culture Arts Foundation (QCAF) is dedicated to preserving, cultivating, and reimagining queer cultural life through art, storytelling, and space-making. We support queer artists/designers, historians/archivists, and culture bearers through exhibitions, residencies, publications, educational offerings, and public programming rooted in beauty, memory, and resistance. Whether exploring queer art, self as sacred, oral history, or design, we steward and archive the stories, spaces, and legacies that define and defend queer life—past, present, and future.
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RESIDENCIES + PROGRAMMING
From artist residencies to workshops, exhibitions, and gatherings, our programming is designed to nurture queer creativity and community. Whether it’s visual art, performance, food, or erotic expression, each initiative carries archiving as a through line—documenting and preserving the people, processes, and stories shaping queer life today.
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THE VISITORS CENTER
Our public home in the Pines—a cultural gateway with three concepts and home of Fire Island Tea. It hosts exhibitions, artist launches, archival displays, and programs that center queer creativity and commerce. As a welcoming space for residents and visitors alike, the Visitors Center reflects our belief that culture, care, and community should be visible, accessible, and celebrated.
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FIRE ISLAND TEA
Our storytelling platform and living archive—documenting the culture, characters, and contradictions of queer life in the Pines and beyond. Through print, photography, oral histories, and editorial features, we preserve the ephemera of now before it slips away. We celebrate queer memory, beauty-making, and the people who make this place magic.
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BOOKS AND BOYS
Established in 2018 and born from a longing for connection and a desire to understand queerness more deeply. Books and Boys is a literary club rooted in storytelling, reflection, and chosen family. What began as a shared reading practice grew into a cross-seasonal movement—hosting gatherings, salons, and community dinners.
Ready to Begin?
Whether you're an artist or creative with a thriving practice, a seed of an idea, or a supporter ready to co-create the future—QCAF invites you to join us.
