An utopia is the vision of an ideal place that can serve as an example for society. We are Queertopia: we help people from the LGBTQIA+ communities to flourish according to their own ideals. Because hetero and cis/binary gender is the norm within Dutch society, queer people often fall by the wayside. This entails all kinds of complexities. LGBTQIA+ people face violence, discrimination and exclusion, or isolate themselves from the outside world to avoid risking those experiences. For example, trans people are more often lonely and many gay men experience oppressive norms regarding masculinity.

The Queertopia Foundation therefore focuses on promoting the mental and physical health of LGBTQIA+ people. We want to offer queer people the space to connect with each other and to develop and discover themselves, to experience queer joy and gender euphoria, free of heteronormative standards and binary gender norms. We do this, among other things, with We Are Queer, a safe haven for queer people to play sports and come together for workshops and events about queer culture. In addition, Queertopia focuses on realizing an online international care platform for trans people, and on social science research to deepen and broaden the knowledge about the needs of queer people.