HC at the Cirque
Danger Will Robinson! These ain’t local branches of HC!
Homo Climbtastic is totally independent of the local clubs listed below–none of them have control over us, and we don’t exercise any control over them. Homo Climbtastic is not the queer climbing UN. HC is much more like international waters, or the Isle of Man, or Monaco.
What do the local clubs do?
Virtually all of the local clubs hold weekly-ish climbing gym meetups. Most train beginners, making them a good inroad to the climbing world for the unaquainted, and most host outdoor climbing trips for both beginners and experts. With an HC convention only once a year, a local club is a great option for meeting queer climbers naow and training with them on the regular. They are also usually your best choice if you don’t yet know how to climb.
- Washington, DC: DCRC
District of Columbia: DC Rainbow Climbing
http://www.facebook.com/groups/RainbowClimbingDC/
DC Rainbow Climbing is a GLBTA group that’s geared towards providing a casual, social environment for anyone interested in Rock Climbing. Indoor or Outdoor meeting places will be dependent on availability and the season. Whether you’re just looking for a fun way to stay in shape, or would like to develop better climbing technique and skills, activi…ties with DCRC will provide a fun atmosphere with old and new friends to challenge your body and mind.
CRUX: New York's LGBT Climbing Club
New York: CRUX
CRUX is a social club for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered New Yorkers and friends who are interested in rock climbing. We climb indoors at gyms in NYC and Westchester and also facilitate outside trips to locations including the Gunks and Rumney. Most events are open to everyone no matter what your climbing experience.
Flame and Flash
San Francisco and the Bay Area: Flame and Flash
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=113395401812
Flame and Flash is THE Bay Area’s queer and ally rock climbing club. For now, use the facebook group to meet other LGBT Climbers in the area, find partners, and plan trips.
Orlando, Florida: Real Orlando Climbers
http://www.facebook.com/groups/135485833153735/
Routes and Fruits
Vancouver: Routes and Fruits
https://www.facebook.com/routesandfruits
Founded in August 2010, Routes & Fruits welcomes queer (and straight) climbers of all levels. We climb at the gym weekly during the wet months, monthly in summertime – because when it’s dry we spend as much time as we can in Squamish.
For more information, follow us on our Facebook page, at https://www.facebook.com/routesandfruits or email us at routesandfruits@gmail.com.
St. Louis Mo Climbers
St. Louis: St. Louis Mo Climbers
http://www.stlouismoclimbers.com
St. Louis Mo Climbers is a climbing group for queer and ally climbers in and around St. Louis. Founded in November 2008, the club is always looking for new faces. The Club meets every Monday from 7:00-10:00 p.m. for indoor climbing at Upper Limits Rock Gym. In addition, the first Monday of each month is designated as “Bouldering Night” — practice your technical climbs sans harness and heights.
The Club welcomes all ages and climbing skill levels. For information about outdoor excursions and updates, become a member via Facebook.
Georgia: OTF
OTF is the speakeasy of queer sports groups. Activities include climbing, mountain biking, circus arts, roller skating, trampolining, and anything else we can come up with that has the potential to cause or worsen a severe head injury. But there’s no public link to our club or current whereabouts.
Why the mystery? Is it some kind of weird Eyes Wide Shut thing, or just a transparent attempt to fill up an empty room by gluing a cheap “VIP” sign on the door? Probably the latter, but don’t let that stop you from going shopping for a suggestive Carnivale mask!
To join, send a message to HC via the HC contact form, and someone will be in touch…
Los Angeles: LA Heel Hookers
LA Heel Hookers is the Los Angeles area LGBT (Gay and Lesbian) rock climbing group. It organizes climbing meetups and trips in and around the Los Angeles, SoCal area.
Toronto Climbers with 'mo tendencies...
Toronto: T.O. ‘Mo Climbers
Who are we? Firstly, we’re climbers. We crank it at the rock climbing gyms here in T.O. multiple nights a week in order to get uber strong for the outdoors on weekends and big trips.
We and our friends are pretty much addicted to the sport. We live and breath it, plan our vacations around it, trek it with other dirtbaggers out there to various climbing hot spots, and live our lives looking at brick walls and buildings around the city thinking “I could climb that”. Climbing is what we know, love, preach, and protect. Point is we’re just a group of climbers with ‘mo tendencies. Plain and simple. Because at the end of the day at the crag, the only thing that matters is what you sent. For ‘mo information, just send a shout through our Facebook group or site.
GLAM
Austin, TX: GLAM
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=141697157267
A group of Texans (and not) mostly based in Austin (unless we aren’t) who happen to be LGBTQ (and friends) and climb a lot. We’ll be organizing climbing days at Reimer’s, the Greenbelt, Roger’s park, E-Rock, and trips to Portrero along with fabulous destinations around the world. And possibly Austin Rock Gym for those of us who aren’t currently banned.
LezClimb
San Francisco & the globe: LezClimb
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lezclimb/
We are a list of over a hundred queer women climbers. Our central headquarters is in San Francisco, but we have members internationally and that is our goal – to have members across the globe, so that when we travel to climb we can connect with others for beta and maybe some climbing. We support members organizing their local areas under our umbrella. Most of us are active in other climbing groups and do not limit our climbing fun to climbing with queer women.
Toronto's LGBT Climbing Club
Toronto: Crag Crux Climbers
Crag Crux Climbers is a club for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-gendered people and their friends. Our mission is to promote climbing in the LGBT community in an inclusive, fun, and social environment. We do so by organising climbing nights at local gyms, outdoor climbing trips, social events, beginners nights, and through outreach into the larger LGBT and climbing communities. Find out more about us at www.crag.ca and our Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8203727948.
