Volunteer with Us
Would you like to volunteer with the LGBTQ community?
Walk alongside fellow travelers and create new voices together
We warmly invite you to join our volunteer team! Join us and let’s create new voices together.
💡 What We’re Looking For
We hope you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and are passionate, proactive and eager to contribute to a community space.
We hope you are part of the LGBTQ+ community, or someone ready to support LGBTQ+ people through action.
Because of the particular nature of our current working environment, we will give priority to volunteers who can communicate in Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese), and will gradually open up to more languages in the future.
Format: mainly online collaboration, with in-person participation for some projects.
Time commitment: 3–5 hours a week, for an expected 8–12 weeks (flexible by project).
What You’ll Gain
A volunteer service certificate and public credit
Hands-on project experience and professional training workshops
The rewarding experience of working alongside people who care about the community
An exclusive thank-you gift for volunteers
How to join: read the role descriptions below, then send a short introduction, your strengths or the support you can offer, and any relevant or similar work or experience to apply@outmuseum.org (subject line: “Application + role name”).
We deeply respect everyone’s experience and expertise, but you don’t need to share your full academic history with us.
🎨 Visual Design | Maker of Beautiful Meaning
We invite you to become our “Maker of Beautiful Meaning,” using visuals to make ideas visible and diversity understood.
What you’ll do
Build and extend our visual identity system (logo, color palette, typography and more)
Design posters, promotional graphics and social media visuals for our events
Help keep our visuals consistent and our aesthetic coherent
Take part in brand and creative discussions, expressing our nonprofit values through design
Who you are
No degree required — if you’re fluent in the relevant software and can tell a good story through visuals, you’re who we’re looking for.
💬 Operations Assistant | Community Storyteller
We invite you to become our “Community Storyteller,” telling our stories through words and images and turning social media into a place where people meet.
What you’ll do
Manage our social media accounts, planning and publishing content
Collect community stories and document voices and everyday life
Plan online interactions and create safe, welcoming spaces for conversation
Follow diverse issues and bring perspectives of equality and understanding to our content
Who you are
You don’t need to be a “communications expert” — if you love expressing yourself, love stories and love connecting people, you’re who we’re looking for.
✏️ Executive Assistant | Creative Navigator
We invite you to become our “Creative Navigator,” helping every idea land and shine and turning plans into reality through action.
What you’ll do
Help plan and run events (exhibitions, talks, community actions and more)
Coordinate volunteers, resources and venues
Document events and review what we learned
Help create gender-friendly, open and inclusive event spaces
Who you are
You don’t need “extensive experience” — if you enjoy working with others, communicate well and are ready to champion ideas, you’re the light that makes projects real.
📃 Archivist | Seeker of Memory’s Light
We invite you to become our “Seeker of Memory’s Light,” preserving the community’s footprints and recording diverse life stories so that history and culture keep their warmth.
What you’ll do
Build and maintain our archival system (texts, images, oral histories, artworks and more)
Collect and organize materials from events and projects
Edit queer, feminist and gender-culture archives and community history records
Help produce our “Community Memory” features
Who you are
You don’t need a degree in archives or library science, but we hope your field is somewhat related. We welcome people from critical archival studies, gender studies, East Asian queer studies, anthropology, social practice art, curating and related fields to help build the archive. We look forward to safeguarding memory and reimagining history with you.
⚡️ Backup Crew | Flowing Light Support Team
Carry on the light and warmth of our core volunteer roles as a flowing source of energy and support — ready to shine at any moment and bring warmth and momentum to every action.
How to take part (you can pick just one)
Offer any support you can, including but not limited to: legal advice, financial advice, online collaboration, gathering materials, organizing data, proofreading and translation; running in-person events, setting up venues and helping on site
Step into different roles as projects and events require, staying flexible and responsive
Cheer on everyone on the volunteer team
Who you are
You enjoy taking part flexibly and offering support whenever it’s needed (online or at in-person events)
You love helping out and contributing behind the scenes, supporting the team’s mission through action