Queer Stability Incubator & Accelerator
Building power, purpose, and prosperity—together.
The Queer Incubator & Accelerator is a community-centered program by Queer Stability designed to create real, lasting economic opportunity for LGBTQ+ people. We invest in queer ideas, queer talent, and queer futures. This helps individuals and small businesses move from surviving to thriving through education, mentorship, and direct access to opportunity.
Whether you’re starting your first business, looking to grow your career, or ready to mentor and invest in others, there’s a place for you here. Thank you to BECU for joining us in this work throughout the South Puget Sound Area and Washington State.
Whether you’re starting your first business, looking to grow your career, or ready to mentor and invest in others, there’s a place for you here. Thank you to BECU for joining us in this work throughout the South Puget Sound Area and Washington State.
What The Queer Stability Incubator Does
The Queer Stability Incubator & Accelerator provides the tools, connections, and financial support needed to turn vision into stability.
For Queer Entrepreneurs & Creators
- Access business planning, financial literacy, and operations training.
- Get paired with mentors who understand both business and queer experience.
- Apply for micro-grants, fiscal sponsorship, or co-working opportunities.
- Build your brand through shared marketing and visibility events.
- Join our Temp-to-Hire Network to get matched with affirming employers.
- Develop your resume, interview skills, and digital portfolio.
- Receive career coaching, workplace advocacy support, and ongoing mentorship.
- Share your expertise through workshops, coaching, or one-on-one mentorship.
- Support queer-led ventures by sponsoring a cohort or hosting an internship.
- Help us build pathways to equity through inclusive hiring and contracting.
- Partner with Queer Stability to source pre-vetted, trained talent for temp-to-hire or contract roles.
- Access DEI resources and consulting to strengthen your workplace culture.
- Sponsor an incubator cohort or provide project-based work that fuels real-world learning.
How to Get Involved
1. Join the Incubator
Are you a queer creator, entrepreneur, or professional ready to grow? Contact us for virtual or in-person support. We have offices and co-working space in Tacoma WA which are available to Queer people. We welcome individuals at every stage, whether you’re just beginning or ready to scale your impact.
2. Become a Mentor or Partner
If you’re an experienced business owner, leader, or professional ally, you can make a direct impact. Offer your time, host a learning session, or become a business mentor to support our community’s growth.
3. Hire or Sponsor
Businesses and organizations can support the Incubator through sponsorships, hiring partnerships, and contract placements. Create tangible impact while meeting your workforce needs with purpose and pride. Thank you to BECU and all our sponsors and partners for joining us in this work.
Are you a queer creator, entrepreneur, or professional ready to grow? Contact us for virtual or in-person support. We have offices and co-working space in Tacoma WA which are available to Queer people. We welcome individuals at every stage, whether you’re just beginning or ready to scale your impact.
2. Become a Mentor or Partner
If you’re an experienced business owner, leader, or professional ally, you can make a direct impact. Offer your time, host a learning session, or become a business mentor to support our community’s growth.
3. Hire or Sponsor
Businesses and organizations can support the Incubator through sponsorships, hiring partnerships, and contract placements. Create tangible impact while meeting your workforce needs with purpose and pride. Thank you to BECU and all our sponsors and partners for joining us in this work.
Why the Queer Stability Incubator Matters
Economic justice is queer justice.
For too long, LGBTQ+ people, especially trans and BIPOC individuals, have faced systemic barriers to employment, funding, and ownership. The Queer Stability Incubator & Accelerator changes that narrative. By building stable pathways to income, ownership, and leadership, we’re reclaiming the power to define our own future.
Join us in building lasting queer stability together.
Join us in building lasting queer stability together.
Thank you to one of our founding partners - BECU
As a proud sponsor of the Queer Stability Incubator, BECU supports our mission to strengthen LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs by expanding access to financial knowledge, tools, and capital. As a member-owned financial cooperative committed to improving the financial well-being of individuals and communities, BECU’s focus on education, savings, and long-term financial goals aligns directly with the Incubator’s work to help queer founders build profitable, sustainable businesses that create lasting community stability.
Virtual Incubator
We have a couple introductory Queer Entrepreneurship online course available.
These courses can help you prepare for the Queer Stability Incubator which occurs in Tacoma WA and in some cases hybrid. This course is also available to the public at large to learn more about queer entrepreneurship. We invite you to purchase access to this course online through Coursebox. All proceeds go to benefit the programs of Queer Stability. This purchase is not tax deductible as a donation to Queer Stability. We also offer scholarships for Queer Entrepreneurs to access these virtual incubator spaces. Please reach out to us via email if you'd like access but are not able to afford the cost of the courses.
