Affirming Connections strengthens and amplifies the voices and actions of fully inclusive faith communities and individuals. With expertise in the complex intersections of queerness and faith, we provide programs and resources that meet the unique needs of queer people, their loved ones, and faith leaders.

We support queer individuals at every stage of their journey to self-acceptance, because everyone deserves to be all parts of who they are.

We engage in the public square alongside 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, allies, and organizations to advocate for spaces of true belonging that affirm the dignity and protect the rights of all 2SLGBTQIA+ people. We also offer accessible education for faith communities, because inclusion is not optional—it is life-saving and essential for a thriving, diverse society.

Our vision is a future free from religious discrimination, where all 2SLGBTQIA+ people and families are safe, celebrated, and valued. Find out more about what we’re up to!

Affirming Connections is supported through Fish Creek Shared Ministries, Chinook Winds Region, and Pacific Mountain Region. Our efforts are both local and national. We are based in Southern Alberta, and acknowledge the lands that we inhabit known as Mohkínstsis, Wîchispa-Oyade, Guts’ists’I, Otôskwanihk (ᐅᑑᐢᑿᓂᕽ), or Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on Turtle Island. We honour and value the culture, spirituality, and traditions of the first peoples of Treaty 7; and acknowledge the ancestral stewards of the land, and our shared stewardship as treaty people: the Niitsitapi (the Blackfoot Confederacy, including the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations); the Îyârhe Nakoda of the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations; and the Dene of the Tsuut’ina First Nation. Southern Alberta is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Calgary Elbow District.

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