The Queer Anti-Social Social App
The Queer Anti-Social Social App
Find your people. Discover queer events. Join communities.
CENTERING TRANS, ALAANA, MOGII, AND QUEER COMMUNITIES.
QPOC-OWNED · QUEER-BUILT · FREE DURING OPEN HOUSE
Find your people.
Discover queer events.
Join communities.
CENTERING TRANS, ALAANA, MOGII, AND QUEER COMMUNITIES.
QPOC-OWNED · QUEER-BUILT ·
FREE DURING OPEN HOUSE
Trusted by the Center for Black Equity to power DC Black Pride 2026.
Trusted by the Center for Black Equity to power DC Black Pride 2026.
INTRODUCING QUEERIE
INTRODUCING QUEERIE
Mainstream apps weren’t built for the fullness of queer life.
So we built Queerie.
Queer life gets scattered across dating apps, event pages, group chats, and feeds. Queerie brings it together: people to meet, events to attend, Communities to join, and room to flirt, organize, create, and take it IRL.
Queerie centers trans,
ALAANA (African, Latinx, Arab, Asian, and Native American),
MOGII (Marginalized Orientations; Gender Identities; Intersex), with space for allies who show up with care and respect.
However you identify. Whoever you love. Welcome, Quutie.
READ THE OG MANIFESTO
Mainstream apps weren’t built for the fullness of queer life.
So we built Queerie.
Queer life gets scattered across dating apps, event pages, group chats, and feeds. Queerie brings it together: people to meet, events to attend, Communities to join, and room to flirt, organize, create, and take it IRL.
Queerie centers Trans,
ALAANA (African, Latinx, Arab, Asian, and Native American),
MOGII (Marginalized Orientations; Gender Identities; Intersex), with space for allies who show up with care and respect.
However you identify. Whoever you love. Welcome, Quutie.
READ THE OG MANIFESTO
THE QUEERIE DIFFERENCE
Less Performing. More Connecting.
Queerie gives you more ways to find each other, more context when you do, and more reasons to take it IRL.
No More Creepy Vibes!
Connection should begin with context, not entitlement. Getting your attention is not the same as earning your time.
All of You Fits
Trans, kinky, poly, neurodivergent, questioning, undefined. You do not have to flatten yourself to belong.
Find Your Way In
Meet people, discover events, and join Communities around the interests and experiences that give you life.
Start with Intention
Better than "Hey." Shared interests, events, and Communities give you something real to start with. The rest is up to you.
THE QUEERIE DIFFERENCE
Less Performing. More Connecting.
Queerie gives you more ways to find each other, more context when you do, and more reasons to take it IRL.
No More Creepy Vibes!
Connection should begin with context, not entitlement. Getting your attention is not the same as earning your time.
All of You Fits
Trans, kinky, poly, neurodivergent, questioning, undefined. You do not have to flatten yourself to belong.
Find Your Way In
Meet people, discover events, and join Communities around the interests and experiences that give you life.
Start with Intention
Better than "Hey." Shared interests, events, and Communities give you something real to start with. The rest is up to you.
EXPERIENCE THE QUEERIE MAGIC
One app. Four ways to find what gives you life.
Explore people using your preferences and filters. Spark someone who catches your eye and see where it goes.
QUUTIES
Find your people
Post, comment, and keep up with people you actually want to know. Queer connection deserves more than a one-line bio.
VIBE
Share what gives you life
Discover parties, performances, protests, workshops, and community gatherings. Your next plan is already out there.
KIKI
Find the function
Join spaces built around shared identities, interests, and intentions. Talk, plan, organize, and keep showing up.
COMMUNITIES
Gather with purpose
WHY QUEERIE
WHY QUEERIE
If the tech meant to connect us keeps erasing us, we build our own.
Too many apps profit from queer attention while flattening our identities, policing our expression, and treating our lives like inventory.
Queerie is our alternative: an app built by us, for us, with queer life at the center.
Queer Power in Action
Find people, events, and Communities that help you connect, organize, and show up.
Find people, events, and Communities that help you connect, organize, and show up.
Privacy Without the Theater
We don’t sell your data. Safety belongs in the product, not just the promises.
We don’t sell your data. Safety belongs in the product, not just the promises.
Explore Your Way
Explore people, events, and Communities using your preferences and filters.
Explore people, events, and Communities using your preferences and filters.
Designed for Queer Life
Clear navigation and fewer steps between discovering something and showing up.
Clear navigation and fewer steps between discovering something and showing up.
HOW QUEERIE STAYS OURS
If it's free, you're the product.
That’s the deal most social apps made for you.
Queerie is making a different one.
Queerie is QPOC-owned, queer-built, and bootstrapped. During Open House, we’re paying the bill so you can join for free.
When dues begin, Marcher membership will start at $1.79 a month, a nod to the 1979 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. Quuties with greater capacity can choose Riotstarter and help carry more of the cost.
If $1.79 a month is a barrier, write to us. We’ll comp your access. No proof. No shame.
That’s what radically accessible looks like.
Venture funding can change who an app answers to.
We want Queerie to answer to Quuties.
General advertising may help fund the app, too. Advertisers can buy placement, not access to Quuties or their personal data.
WE DON’T SELL YOUR DATA.
WE’RE NOT BUILDING AN EXIT.
WE’RE BUILDING SOMEWHERE TO BELONG.
KEEP QUEER TECH IN QUEER HANDS. AND…
HOW QUEERIE STAYS OURS
If it's free, you're the product.
That’s the deal most social apps made for you.
Queerie is making a different one.
Queerie is QPOC-owned, queer-built, and bootstrapped. During Open House, we’re paying the bill so you can join for free.
When dues begin, Marcher membership will start at $1.79 a month, a nod to the 1979 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. Quuties with greater capacity can choose Riotstarter and help carry more of the cost.
If $1.79 a month is a barrier, write to us. We’ll comp your access. No proof. No shame.
That’s what radically accessible looks like.
Venture funding can change who an app answers to.
We want Queerie to answer to Quuties.
General advertising may help fund the app, too. Advertisers can buy placement, not access to Quuties or their personal data.
WE DON’T SELL YOUR DATA.
WE’RE NOT BUILDING AN EXIT.
WE’RE BUILDING SOMEWHERE TO BELONG.
KEEP QUEER TECH IN QUEER HANDS. AND…
HOW QUEERIE WORKS
HOW QUEERIE WORKS
From download to out the door.
Get in, Quutie
Get in, Quutie
Download Queerie
Queerie is free during Open House. Create your account and come on in.
Make it yours
Make it yours
Build Your Profile
Add photos, a bio, and the details that help people understand who they’re meeting.
Explore your way
Explore your way
People, Events, & Communities
Use your preferences and filters to discover the people, places, and possibilities that fit your life.
Spark something
Spark something
Connect With Intention
Use Sparks to show interest, then keep the conversation moving in Queerie messages.
Join the vibe
Join the vibe
Post, Respond, Participate
Share what gives you life, join Communities, and take part in conversations that matter to you.
Take it IRL
Take it IRL
Make Actual Plans
Find something worth showing up for and turn online discovery into real-world queer life.
Who We Are
Who We Are
We are an organism for change
Chapter 1 of 8
Meet Melvin and Alfredo
Hola, hola. We’re Melvin and Alfredo, though most people know him as Alfie. We’ve been partners in life for 18 years.
Melvin was born in El Salvador and grew up in Washington, DC. He is a designer. Alfie is from Puerto Rico and comes from the world of tech. Together, we share a love of travel, house and techno, and the kind of dance floor where strangers become family before sunrise.
Those experiences taught us something we would eventually build Queerie around: when people gather with openness, shared purpose, and mutual respect, real connection can happen anywhere.
Chapter 2 of 8
The San Francisco Frustration
In November 2009, we traveled to San Francisco ready to experience the city’s queer nightlife. The queer people were there. The parties were happening. Finding them was another story.
Information was scattered across different websites, message boards, and word of mouth. Even in one of the queerest cities in the world, there was no reliable place to discover what was happening or find the people who might want to go with us.
We kept asking the same question: How can queer life be everywhere and still be this difficult to find?
That frustration planted the first seed of Queerie.
Chapter 3 of 8
The Berlin Epiphany
More than a decade later, the idea followed us to Berlin.
At the beginning of 2020, surrounded by people connecting through music at Berghain’s New Year’s party, the seed from San Francisco came roaring back.
This was bigger than finding a party. Queer life was happening everywhere, but the people, events, stories, and communities that made it meaningful were scattered across apps that were never designed to hold all of us.
We didn’t need another list.
We needed a place built for queer connection.
Chapter 4 of 8
Making Queerie Real
Back home in DC, we began turning the idea into something real.
Melvin brought design, storytelling, and a deeply personal understanding of what it means to search for belonging. Alfie brought his experience in tech and the steady belief that this could become more than an idea scribbled between trips.
We started talking with friends, mapping the experience, and imagining one app where queer people could discover each other and the world around them.
Then the world shut down.
Chapter 5 of 8
The Pause That Clarified Everything
The pandemic paused the gatherings that first inspired Queerie, but it made the need for connection impossible to ignore.
Queer people were isolated. Community was fragmented. Mainstream social apps gave us more content to consume but not necessarily more ways to care for one another.
The original Queerie Manifesto, written in May 2020, gave our purpose words: Queerie should belong to the community it serves, make space for our full humanity, and help us lift one another up.
The pause didn’t end the idea.
It revealed what the idea needed to become.
Chapter 6 of 8
From Finding Events to Finding Each Other
Queerie began as a way to find queer music and events. It grew into an app for queer life in full.
Quuties helps you discover people. Kiki gets you into the function. Vibe gives you somewhere to share what gives you life. Communities brings people together around identity, interests, and purpose. Sparks help one connection become something more.
Music is still in Queerie’s DNA.
Now the dance floor is just one of the places where the story can begin.
Chapter 7 of 8
Keeping Queerie Ours
We chose to bootstrap Queerie because ownership shapes accountability.
Venture funding can change who an app answers to. We want Queerie to answer to Quuties.
Today, Queerie is QPOC-owned, queer-built, and independent. We are building carefully, stretching every dollar, and creating a radically accessible model designed to keep queer tech in queer hands.
We’re not building an exit.
We’re building somewhere to belong.
Chapter 8 of 8
Where We Are Now
Eighteen years into our life together, we’re still guided by the question that followed us home from San Francisco:
How can we make queer life easier to find and real connection easier to build?
Queerie is our answer.
During Open House, the app is free to join and explore. Meet your people. Find queer events. Join Communities. Share what gives you life. Spark in-app, meet IRL.
Queerie began with the two of us, but it was never meant to end there.
Queerie is you. We are all Queerie.
Chapter 1 of 8
Meet Melvin and Alfredo
Hola, hola. We’re Melvin and Alfredo, though most people know him as Alfie. We’ve been partners in life for 18 years.
Melvin was born in El Salvador and grew up in Washington, DC. He is a designer. Alfie is from Puerto Rico and comes from the world of tech. Together, we share a love of travel, house and techno, and the kind of dance floor where strangers become family before sunrise.
Those experiences taught us something we would eventually build Queerie around: when people gather with openness, shared purpose, and mutual respect, real connection can happen anywhere.
Chapter 2 of 8
The San Francisco Frustration
In November 2009, we traveled to San Francisco ready to experience the city’s queer nightlife. The queer people were there. The parties were happening. Finding them was another story.
Information was scattered across different websites, message boards, and word of mouth. Even in one of the queerest cities in the world, there was no reliable place to discover what was happening or find the people who might want to go with us.
We kept asking the same question: How can queer life be everywhere and still be this difficult to find?
That frustration planted the first seed of Queerie.
Chapter 3 of 8
The Berlin Epiphany
More than a decade later, the idea followed us to Berlin.
At the beginning of 2020, surrounded by people connecting through music at Berghain’s New Year’s party, the seed from San Francisco came roaring back.
This was bigger than finding a party. Queer life was happening everywhere, but the people, events, stories, and communities that made it meaningful were scattered across apps that were never designed to hold all of us.
We didn’t need another list.
We needed a place built for queer connection.
Chapter 4 of 8
Making Queerie Real
Back home in DC, we began turning the idea into something real.
Melvin brought design, storytelling, and a deeply personal understanding of what it means to search for belonging. Alfie brought his experience in tech and the steady belief that this could become more than an idea scribbled between trips.
We started talking with friends, mapping the experience, and imagining one app where queer people could discover each other and the world around them.
Then the world shut down.
Chapter 5 of 8
The Pause That Clarified Everything
The pandemic paused the gatherings that first inspired Queerie, but it made the need for connection impossible to ignore.
Queer people were isolated. Community was fragmented. Mainstream social apps gave us more content to consume but not necessarily more ways to care for one another.
The original Queerie Manifesto, written in May 2020, gave our purpose words: Queerie should belong to the community it serves, make space for our full humanity, and help us lift one another up.
The pause didn’t end the idea.
It revealed what the idea needed to become.
Chapter 6 of 8
From Finding Events to Finding Each Other
Queerie began as a way to find queer music and events. It grew into an app for queer life in full.
Quuties helps you discover people. Kiki gets you into the function. Vibe gives you somewhere to share what gives you life. Communities brings people together around identity, interests, and purpose. Sparks help one connection become something more.
Music is still in Queerie’s DNA.
Now the dance floor is just one of the places where the story can begin.
Chapter 7 of 8
Keeping Queerie Ours
We chose to bootstrap Queerie because ownership shapes accountability.
Venture funding can change who an app answers to. We want Queerie to answer to Quuties.
Today, Queerie is QPOC-owned, queer-built, and independent. We are building carefully, stretching every dollar, and creating a radically accessible model designed to keep queer tech in queer hands.
We’re not building an exit.
We’re building somewhere to belong.
Chapter 8 of 8
Where We Are Now
Eighteen years into our life together, we’re still guided by the question that followed us home from San Francisco:
How can we make queer life easier to find and real connection easier to build?
Queerie is our answer.
During Open House, the app is free to join and explore. Meet your people. Find queer events. Join Communities. Share what gives you life. Spark in-app, meet IRL.
Queerie began with the two of us, but it was never meant to end there.
Queerie is you. We are all Queerie.
Chapter 1 of 8
Meet Melvin and Alfredo
Hola, hola. We’re Melvin and Alfredo, though most people know him as Alfie. We’ve been partners in life for 18 years.
Melvin was born in El Salvador and grew up in Washington, DC. He is a designer. Alfie is from Puerto Rico and comes from the world of tech. Together, we share a love of travel, house and techno, and the kind of dance floor where strangers become family before sunrise.
Those experiences taught us something we would eventually build Queerie around: when people gather with openness, shared purpose, and mutual respect, real connection can happen anywhere.
Chapter 2 of 8
The San Francisco Frustration
In November 2009, we traveled to San Francisco ready to experience the city’s queer nightlife. The queer people were there. The parties were happening. Finding them was another story.
Information was scattered across different websites, message boards, and word of mouth. Even in one of the queerest cities in the world, there was no reliable place to discover what was happening or find the people who might want to go with us.
We kept asking the same question: How can queer life be everywhere and still be this difficult to find?
That frustration planted the first seed of Queerie.
Chapter 3 of 8
The Berlin Epiphany
More than a decade later, the idea followed us to Berlin.
At the beginning of 2020, surrounded by people connecting through music at Berghain’s New Year’s party, the seed from San Francisco came roaring back.
This was bigger than finding a party. Queer life was happening everywhere, but the people, events, stories, and communities that made it meaningful were scattered across apps that were never designed to hold all of us.
We didn’t need another list.
We needed a place built for queer connection.
Chapter 4 of 8
Making Queerie Real
Back home in DC, we began turning the idea into something real.
Melvin brought design, storytelling, and a deeply personal understanding of what it means to search for belonging. Alfie brought his experience in tech and the steady belief that this could become more than an idea scribbled between trips.
We started talking with friends, mapping the experience, and imagining one app where queer people could discover each other and the world around them.
Then the world shut down.
Chapter 5 of 8
The Pause That Clarified Everything
The pandemic paused the gatherings that first inspired Queerie, but it made the need for connection impossible to ignore.
Queer people were isolated. Community was fragmented. Mainstream social apps gave us more content to consume but not necessarily more ways to care for one another.
The original Queerie Manifesto, written in May 2020, gave our purpose words: Queerie should belong to the community it serves, make space for our full humanity, and help us lift one another up.
The pause didn’t end the idea.
It revealed what the idea needed to become.
Chapter 6 of 8
From Finding Events to Finding Each Other
Queerie began as a way to find queer music and events. It grew into an app for queer life in full.
Quuties helps you discover people. Kiki gets you into the function. Vibe gives you somewhere to share what gives you life. Communities brings people together around identity, interests, and purpose. Sparks help one connection become something more.
Music is still in Queerie’s DNA.
Now the dance floor is just one of the places where the story can begin.
Chapter 7 of 8
Keeping Queerie Ours
We chose to bootstrap Queerie because ownership shapes accountability.
Venture funding can change who an app answers to. We want Queerie to answer to Quuties.
Today, Queerie is QPOC-owned, queer-built, and independent. We are building carefully, stretching every dollar, and creating a radically accessible model designed to keep queer tech in queer hands.
We’re not building an exit.
We’re building somewhere to belong.
Chapter 8 of 8
Where We Are Now
Eighteen years into our life together, we’re still guided by the question that followed us home from San Francisco:
How can we make queer life easier to find and real connection easier to build?
Queerie is our answer.
During Open House, the app is free to join and explore. Meet your people. Find queer events. Join Communities. Share what gives you life. Spark in-app, meet IRL.
Queerie began with the two of us, but it was never meant to end there.
Queerie is you. We are all Queerie.
Chapter 1 of 8
Meet Melvin and Alfredo
Hola, hola. We’re Melvin and Alfredo, though most people know him as Alfie. We’ve been partners in life for 18 years.
Melvin was born in El Salvador and grew up in Washington, DC. He is a designer. Alfie is from Puerto Rico and comes from the world of tech. Together, we share a love of travel, house and techno, and the kind of dance floor where strangers become family before sunrise.
Those experiences taught us something we would eventually build Queerie around: when people gather with openness, shared purpose, and mutual respect, real connection can happen anywhere.
Chapter 2 of 8
The San Francisco Frustration
In November 2009, we traveled to San Francisco ready to experience the city’s queer nightlife. The queer people were there. The parties were happening. Finding them was another story.
Information was scattered across different websites, message boards, and word of mouth. Even in one of the queerest cities in the world, there was no reliable place to discover what was happening or find the people who might want to go with us.
We kept asking the same question: How can queer life be everywhere and still be this difficult to find?
That frustration planted the first seed of Queerie.
Chapter 3 of 8
The Berlin Epiphany
More than a decade later, the idea followed us to Berlin.
At the beginning of 2020, surrounded by people connecting through music at Berghain’s New Year’s party, the seed from San Francisco came roaring back.
This was bigger than finding a party. Queer life was happening everywhere, but the people, events, stories, and communities that made it meaningful were scattered across apps that were never designed to hold all of us.
We didn’t need another list.
We needed a place built for queer connection.
Chapter 4 of 8
Making Queerie Real
Back home in DC, we began turning the idea into something real.
Melvin brought design, storytelling, and a deeply personal understanding of what it means to search for belonging. Alfie brought his experience in tech and the steady belief that this could become more than an idea scribbled between trips.
We started talking with friends, mapping the experience, and imagining one app where queer people could discover each other and the world around them.
Then the world shut down.
Chapter 5 of 8
The Pause That Clarified Everything
The pandemic paused the gatherings that first inspired Queerie, but it made the need for connection impossible to ignore.
Queer people were isolated. Community was fragmented. Mainstream social apps gave us more content to consume but not necessarily more ways to care for one another.
The original Queerie Manifesto, written in May 2020, gave our purpose words: Queerie should belong to the community it serves, make space for our full humanity, and help us lift one another up.
The pause didn’t end the idea.
It revealed what the idea needed to become.
Chapter 6 of 8
From Finding Events to Finding Each Other
Queerie began as a way to find queer music and events. It grew into an app for queer life in full.
Quuties helps you discover people. Kiki gets you into the function. Vibe gives you somewhere to share what gives you life. Communities brings people together around identity, interests, and purpose. Sparks help one connection become something more.
Music is still in Queerie’s DNA.
Now the dance floor is just one of the places where the story can begin.
Chapter 7 of 8
Keeping Queerie Ours
We chose to bootstrap Queerie because ownership shapes accountability.
Venture funding can change who an app answers to. We want Queerie to answer to Quuties.
Today, Queerie is QPOC-owned, queer-built, and independent. We are building carefully, stretching every dollar, and creating a radically accessible model designed to keep queer tech in queer hands.
We’re not building an exit.
We’re building somewhere to belong.
Chapter 8 of 8
Where We Are Now
Eighteen years into our life together, we’re still guided by the question that followed us home from San Francisco:
How can we make queer life easier to find and real connection easier to build?
Queerie is our answer.
During Open House, the app is free to join and explore. Meet your people. Find queer events. Join Communities. Share what gives you life. Spark in-app, meet IRL.
Queerie began with the two of us, but it was never meant to end there.
Queerie is you. We are all Queerie.
Meet Melvin and Alfredo
Hola, hola. We’re Melvin and Alfredo, though most people know him as Alfie. We’ve been partners in life for 18 years.
Melvin was born in El Salvador and grew up in Washington, DC. He is a designer. Alfie is from Puerto Rico and comes from the world of tech. Together, we share a love of travel, house and techno, and the kind of dance floor where strangers become family before sunrise.
Those experiences taught us something we would eventually build Queerie around: when people gather with openness, shared purpose, and mutual respect, real connection can happen anywhere.
The San Francisco Frustration
In November 2009, we traveled to San Francisco ready to experience the city’s queer nightlife. The queer people were there. The parties were happening. Finding them was another story.
Information was scattered across different websites, message boards, and word of mouth. Even in one of the queerest cities in the world, there was no reliable place to discover what was happening or find the people who might want to go with us.
We kept asking the same question: How can queer life be everywhere and still be this difficult to find?
That frustration planted the first seed of Queerie.
The Berlin Epiphany
More than a decade later, the idea followed us to Berlin.
At the beginning of 2020, surrounded by people connecting through music at Berghain’s New Year’s party, the seed from San Francisco came roaring back.
This was bigger than finding a party. Queer life was happening everywhere, but the people, events, stories, and communities that made it meaningful were scattered across apps that were never designed to hold all of us.
We didn’t need another list.
We needed a place built for queer connection.
Making Queerie Real
Back home in DC, we began turning the idea into something real.
Melvin brought design, storytelling, and a deeply personal understanding of what it means to search for belonging. Alfie brought his experience in tech and the steady belief that this could become more than an idea scribbled between trips.
We started talking with friends, mapping the experience, and imagining one app where queer people could discover each other and the world around them.
Then the world shut down.
The Pause That Clarified Everything
The pandemic paused the gatherings that first inspired Queerie, but it made the need for connection impossible to ignore.
Queer people were isolated. Community was fragmented. Mainstream social apps gave us more content to consume but not necessarily more ways to care for one another.
The original Queerie Manifesto, written in May 2020, gave our purpose words: Queerie should belong to the community it serves, make space for our full humanity, and help us lift one another up.
The pause didn’t end the idea.
It revealed what the idea needed to become.
From Finding Events to Finding Each Other
Queerie began as a way to find queer music and events. It grew into an app for queer life in full.
Quuties helps you discover people. Kiki gets you into the function. Vibe gives you somewhere to share what gives you life. Communities brings people together around identity, interests, and purpose. Sparks help one connection become something more.
Music is still in Queerie’s DNA.
Now the dance floor is just one of the places where the story can begin.
Keeping Queerie Ours
We chose to bootstrap Queerie because ownership shapes accountability.
Venture funding can change who an app answers to. We want Queerie to answer to Quuties.
Today, Queerie is QPOC-owned, queer-built, and independent. We are building carefully, stretching every dollar, and creating a radically accessible model designed to keep queer tech in queer hands.
We’re not building an exit.
We’re building somewhere to belong.
Where We Are Now
Eighteen years into our life together, we’re still guided by the question that followed us home from San Francisco:
How can we make queer life easier to find and real connection easier to build?
Queerie is our answer.
During Open House, the app is free to join and explore. Meet your people. Find queer events. Join Communities. Share what gives you life. Spark in-app, meet IRL.
Queerie began with the two of us, but it was never meant to end there.
Queerie is you. We are all Queerie.
Meet Melvin and Alfredo
Hola, hola. We’re Melvin and Alfredo, though most people know him as Alfie. We’ve been partners in life for 18 years.
Melvin was born in El Salvador and grew up in Washington, DC. He is a designer. Alfie is from Puerto Rico and comes from the world of tech. Together, we share a love of travel, house and techno, and the kind of dance floor where strangers become family before sunrise.
Those experiences taught us something we would eventually build Queerie around: when people gather with openness, shared purpose, and mutual respect, real connection can happen anywhere.
The San Francisco Frustration
In November 2009, we traveled to San Francisco ready to experience the city’s queer nightlife. The queer people were there. The parties were happening. Finding them was another story.
Information was scattered across different websites, message boards, and word of mouth. Even in one of the queerest cities in the world, there was no reliable place to discover what was happening or find the people who might want to go with us.
We kept asking the same question: How can queer life be everywhere and still be this difficult to find?
That frustration planted the first seed of Queerie.
The Berlin Epiphany
More than a decade later, the idea followed us to Berlin.
At the beginning of 2020, surrounded by people connecting through music at Berghain’s New Year’s party, the seed from San Francisco came roaring back.
This was bigger than finding a party. Queer life was happening everywhere, but the people, events, stories, and communities that made it meaningful were scattered across apps that were never designed to hold all of us.
We didn’t need another list.
We needed a place built for queer connection.
Making Queerie Real
Back home in DC, we began turning the idea into something real.
Melvin brought design, storytelling, and a deeply personal understanding of what it means to search for belonging. Alfie brought his experience in tech and the steady belief that this could become more than an idea scribbled between trips.
We started talking with friends, mapping the experience, and imagining one app where queer people could discover each other and the world around them.
Then the world shut down.
The Pause That Clarified Everything
The pandemic paused the gatherings that first inspired Queerie, but it made the need for connection impossible to ignore.
Queer people were isolated. Community was fragmented. Mainstream social apps gave us more content to consume but not necessarily more ways to care for one another.
The original Queerie Manifesto, written in May 2020, gave our purpose words: Queerie should belong to the community it serves, make space for our full humanity, and help us lift one another up.
The pause didn’t end the idea.
It revealed what the idea needed to become.
From Finding Events to Finding Each Other
Queerie began as a way to find queer music and events. It grew into an app for queer life in full.
Quuties helps you discover people. Kiki gets you into the function. Vibe gives you somewhere to share what gives you life. Communities brings people together around identity, interests, and purpose. Sparks help one connection become something more.
Music is still in Queerie’s DNA.
Now the dance floor is just one of the places where the story can begin.
Keeping Queerie Ours
We chose to bootstrap Queerie because ownership shapes accountability.
Venture funding can change who an app answers to. We want Queerie to answer to Quuties.
Today, Queerie is QPOC-owned, queer-built, and independent. We are building carefully, stretching every dollar, and creating a radically accessible model designed to keep queer tech in queer hands.
We’re not building an exit.
We’re building somewhere to belong.
Where We Are Now
Eighteen years into our life together, we’re still guided by the question that followed us home from San Francisco:
How can we make queer life easier to find and real connection easier to build?
Queerie is our answer.
During Open House, the app is free to join and explore. Meet your people. Find queer events. Join Communities. Share what gives you life. Spark in-app, meet IRL.
Queerie began with the two of us, but it was never meant to end there.
Queerie is you. We are all Queerie.
Meet Melvin and Alfredo
Hola, hola. We’re Melvin and Alfredo, though most people know him as Alfie. We’ve been partners in life for 18 years.
Melvin was born in El Salvador and grew up in Washington, DC. He is a designer. Alfie is from Puerto Rico and comes from the world of tech. Together, we share a love of travel, house and techno, and the kind of dance floor where strangers become family before sunrise.
Those experiences taught us something we would eventually build Queerie around: when people gather with openness, shared purpose, and mutual respect, real connection can happen anywhere.
The San Francisco Frustration
In November 2009, we traveled to San Francisco ready to experience the city’s queer nightlife. The queer people were there. The parties were happening. Finding them was another story.
Information was scattered across different websites, message boards, and word of mouth. Even in one of the queerest cities in the world, there was no reliable place to discover what was happening or find the people who might want to go with us.
We kept asking the same question: How can queer life be everywhere and still be this difficult to find?
That frustration planted the first seed of Queerie.
The Berlin Epiphany
More than a decade later, the idea followed us to Berlin.
At the beginning of 2020, surrounded by people connecting through music at Berghain’s New Year’s party, the seed from San Francisco came roaring back.
This was bigger than finding a party. Queer life was happening everywhere, but the people, events, stories, and communities that made it meaningful were scattered across apps that were never designed to hold all of us.
We didn’t need another list.
We needed a place built for queer connection.
Making Queerie Real
Back home in DC, we began turning the idea into something real.
Melvin brought design, storytelling, and a deeply personal understanding of what it means to search for belonging. Alfie brought his experience in tech and the steady belief that this could become more than an idea scribbled between trips.
We started talking with friends, mapping the experience, and imagining one app where queer people could discover each other and the world around them.
Then the world shut down.
The Pause That Clarified Everything
The pandemic paused the gatherings that first inspired Queerie, but it made the need for connection impossible to ignore.
Queer people were isolated. Community was fragmented. Mainstream social apps gave us more content to consume but not necessarily more ways to care for one another.
The original Queerie Manifesto, written in May 2020, gave our purpose words: Queerie should belong to the community it serves, make space for our full humanity, and help us lift one another up.
The pause didn’t end the idea.
It revealed what the idea needed to become.
From Finding Events to Finding Each Other
Queerie began as a way to find queer music and events. It grew into an app for queer life in full.
Quuties helps you discover people. Kiki gets you into the function. Vibe gives you somewhere to share what gives you life. Communities brings people together around identity, interests, and purpose. Sparks help one connection become something more.
Music is still in Queerie’s DNA.
Now the dance floor is just one of the places where the story can begin.
Keeping Queerie Ours
We chose to bootstrap Queerie because ownership shapes accountability.
Venture funding can change who an app answers to. We want Queerie to answer to Quuties.
Today, Queerie is QPOC-owned, queer-built, and independent. We are building carefully, stretching every dollar, and creating a radically accessible model designed to keep queer tech in queer hands.
We’re not building an exit.
We’re building somewhere to belong.
Where We Are Now
Eighteen years into our life together, we’re still guided by the question that followed us home from San Francisco:
How can we make queer life easier to find and real connection easier to build?
Queerie is our answer.
During Open House, the app is free to join and explore. Meet your people. Find queer events. Join Communities. Share what gives you life. Spark in-app, meet IRL.
Queerie began with the two of us, but it was never meant to end there.
Queerie is you. We are all Queerie.
Meet Melvin and Alfredo
Hola, hola. We’re Melvin and Alfredo, though most people know him as Alfie. We’ve been partners in life for 18 years.
Melvin was born in El Salvador and grew up in Washington, DC. He is a designer. Alfie is from Puerto Rico and comes from the world of tech. Together, we share a love of travel, house and techno, and the kind of dance floor where strangers become family before sunrise.
Those experiences taught us something we would eventually build Queerie around: when people gather with openness, shared purpose, and mutual respect, real connection can happen anywhere.
The San Francisco Frustration
In November 2009, we traveled to San Francisco ready to experience the city’s queer nightlife. The queer people were there. The parties were happening. Finding them was another story.
Information was scattered across different websites, message boards, and word of mouth. Even in one of the queerest cities in the world, there was no reliable place to discover what was happening or find the people who might want to go with us.
We kept asking the same question: How can queer life be everywhere and still be this difficult to find?
That frustration planted the first seed of Queerie.
The Berlin Epiphany
More than a decade later, the idea followed us to Berlin.
At the beginning of 2020, surrounded by people connecting through music at Berghain’s New Year’s party, the seed from San Francisco came roaring back.
This was bigger than finding a party. Queer life was happening everywhere, but the people, events, stories, and communities that made it meaningful were scattered across apps that were never designed to hold all of us.
We didn’t need another list.
We needed a place built for queer connection.
Making Queerie Real
Back home in DC, we began turning the idea into something real.
Melvin brought design, storytelling, and a deeply personal understanding of what it means to search for belonging. Alfie brought his experience in tech and the steady belief that this could become more than an idea scribbled between trips.
We started talking with friends, mapping the experience, and imagining one app where queer people could discover each other and the world around them.
Then the world shut down.
The Pause That Clarified Everything
The pandemic paused the gatherings that first inspired Queerie, but it made the need for connection impossible to ignore.
Queer people were isolated. Community was fragmented. Mainstream social apps gave us more content to consume but not necessarily more ways to care for one another.
The original Queerie Manifesto, written in May 2020, gave our purpose words: Queerie should belong to the community it serves, make space for our full humanity, and help us lift one another up.
The pause didn’t end the idea.
It revealed what the idea needed to become.
From Finding Events to Finding Each Other
Queerie began as a way to find queer music and events. It grew into an app for queer life in full.
Quuties helps you discover people. Kiki gets you into the function. Vibe gives you somewhere to share what gives you life. Communities brings people together around identity, interests, and purpose. Sparks help one connection become something more.
Music is still in Queerie’s DNA.
Now the dance floor is just one of the places where the story can begin.
Keeping Queerie Ours
We chose to bootstrap Queerie because ownership shapes accountability.
Venture funding can change who an app answers to. We want Queerie to answer to Quuties.
Today, Queerie is QPOC-owned, queer-built, and independent. We are building carefully, stretching every dollar, and creating a radically accessible model designed to keep queer tech in queer hands.
We’re not building an exit.
We’re building somewhere to belong.
Where We Are Now
Eighteen years into our life together, we’re still guided by the question that followed us home from San Francisco:
How can we make queer life easier to find and real connection easier to build?
Queerie is our answer.
During Open House, the app is free to join and explore. Meet your people. Find queer events. Join Communities. Share what gives you life. Spark in-app, meet IRL.
Queerie began with the two of us, but it was never meant to end there.
Queerie is you. We are all Queerie.
General FAQs
General FAQs
You have questions. We have answers.
What even is Queerie?
Queerie is the queer anti-social social app. Meet people, find events, join Communities, share what gives you life, and build connections that leave the group chat. Built by us, for all of us.
Why “The Anti-Social Social" App?
Is Queerie just a dating app?
What can I actually do on Queerie?
What is a Spark?
What is Open House?
Who is Queerie for?
Is Queerie Only for Certain Cities?
What Happens When Membership Dues Begin?
Do I need an invite to join?
© 2026 Quute, Inc.
Made with lots and lots of queer 💖
© 2026 Quute, Inc.
Made with lots and lots of queer 💖