A Professional Network Where You Don’t Have to Code-Switch
The private social network for LGBTQ+ professionals and business owners. Find community, your next client or your next job. Free on iOS, Android and web.
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Hundreds of 5-star reviews prove it: Hey Famm is where LGBTQ+ professional connection lives. We’ve been featured by the App Store editors for best new app, apps making a difference, best business apps, celebrating Pride, and App of the Day!
✦ What Hey Famm is
Everything a queer professional network should be. Built by and for us.
Just signed my third client from this community. Two came from the feed, one from a referral at the Oakland mixer. Thank you, famm.
Looking for a queer-owned print shop in Chicago for a 500-zine run. Bonus points for risograph.
Ran my first money workshop for queer freelancers last night. Here’s the 60-second recap on setting your rates.
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We’re hiring a Community Manager, remote and salaried. It’s on the job board now. Please share with folx who’d be great.
Our second location opens Saturday. The mugs, the pastries and the mural all came from queer-owned businesses we found here.
Cat Perez
she/her • they/them
CEO, Hey Famm
New York, New York
About Me
Building things for queers
My Experience
Tech · Mar 2026 - Present
Product
Building stuff
Bookkeeping · May 2023 - Present
Accounting
Goals
Top three goals
Vibes
Businesses
IT / Software Services
UX Design
Events
Sun, Oct 25 · 12:00 PM
Sun, Oct 18 · 11:00 AM
75 Events
75 Events
236 Impact Roles
Curated, sourced roles for the Hey Famm community. New roles added every week.
236 roles
2,600+ LGBTQ+
Owned Businesses
Featured Categories
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Queer Coffee Co.Food & Beverage
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Finance
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Wellness / Health
Beauty & Personal Care
Bookstore
Florist
Food & Beverage
Tattoo & Body Art
Legal Services
Medium size works. Sending the invoice today.
November works. Send me the date when you have it, and thank you for the intro.
Please do. I’ll bring the bread and stay to do the dishes. That’s my love language.
Loved your talk at the mixer. Coffee next week?
You have 486 connections
My connectionsConnection Requests
These are community members who want to connect with you. Requests with a reason and note rise to the top.
Your intro post is the reason I finished my profile. Would love to be connected.
We both work with queer founders in the Bay. Coffee sometime?
Where famm post wins, ask for help, share what they're looking for, and talk about work without fear of harassment, retaliation and more.
Pronouns, identifiers, your work history, goals, and "vibes" that tell a complete story and help build genuine connection.
Virtual and in person events hosted by community members including coworking, mixers, panels and meetups. Always free to list.
Salaried roles at nonprofits and mission-driven organizations, for people looking for work that makes a difference. New drops every Monday, inside the app. Public job board coming soon!
2,600+ businesses owned by members of the community. The whole point is queer commerce.
Real, private 1:1 conversations with your connections. Non-connection inmail is limited until accepted especially for new members.
Connection is expected to be intentional. Select a reason why you're connecting. You can filter and sort inbound requests by these reasons.
Screens are illustrations of the Hey Famm app. Members, businesses, events and roles shown are sample content.
✦ Trust and safety
Built for safety by design
Hey Famm is a private space, intentionally. No public profiles. No outside advertising. You can't even peek inside until you've set up your profile and agreed to our code of conduct and terms of service. We keep our space safe with proactive member audits, blocking and reporting tools at your fingertips, and content moderation baked in so nothing hateful ever reaches our community.
Learn more →✦ What members say
This is what it looks like when we invest in each other.
“I just got my third client from Hey Famm! Two of them found me directly, the third was a referral from another community member. I got these clients by showing up as myself, not hustling or pretending to be an influencer. The community absolutely values honesty, vulnerability and integrity in a way that just isn't rewarded on other platforms.”
“I've been able to build my founding team and identify future hires all through Famm.”
“It's refreshing to have an inclusive space where we can discuss both our professional and personal lives in a warm, supportive environment.”
“The quality of the connections I've been able to make is incredible. The community is thoughtfully curated, and it's clear the team takes the integrity of the platform seriously. These are professionals, founders, and creators who are actually here to build businesses, collaborate, and build meaningful relationships.”
“A friend told me about Hey Famm after I told her I was having trouble strategizing how to land clients. A couple of months later, two referrals for my business have come from members of Hey Famm. I have met so many incredible people that have changed how I think about business and even myself.”
“What I love most about Hey Famm is everything. I have met so many amazing business owners, vendors and service providers that I now work with or refer to others. I love being able to find a queer business for anything I might need personally or in my business.”
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✦ Queer-owned businesses
Support LGBTQ+ owned businesses
Easily find and reach out to queer-owned businesses, including coaches, photographers, financial advisors, psychics, designers, marketing consultants, event planners, therapists, plus more.
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✦ Why we built it
We built this because we needed it too.
We're Cat and Marianna. We've spent our careers in rooms that weren't built for us as queer, women and people of color. We've had to make ourselves smaller, edit ourselves in professional spaces, and even stay silent on causes we cared about. We couldn't find a professional network where we could show up as ourselves and still get hired, find clients and be understood. So we built it.
Hey Famm launched in beta in November 2024 with 57 members. It's now 18,800+ queer professionals and business owners across 18 countries, 74,000+ connections, and a certified LGBT Business through the NGLCC.
Our mission is queer economic impact. The easier it is for LGBTQ+ folks to connect, hire each other and support each other's work, the faster the queer economy grows.
✦ FAQ
Questions we hear often
Is there a LinkedIn for LGBTQ+ people?
Hey Famm is the closest thing: a private professional networking app for LGBTQ+ professionals and business owners with profiles, a feed, connections, messaging, events, a job board and a business directory. It's free and has 18,800+ members as of October 2026.
Is Hey Famm a dating app?
No. Hey Famm is for professional networking, business and community. Dating and hookup use are against the code of conduct and terms of service. Accounts that break it are removed immediately.
Is Hey Famm free?
Yes. Membership is free. Business owners can pay for Boosted Business visibility, and employers can pay to post jobs. Members can also pay for daily ads.
Is Hey Famm private?
Yes. There are no public profiles, nothing is visible until you've set up a profile, and member content isn't indexed by search engines. Only business listings can be made public, by the owner.
Can allies join Hey Famm?
Yes, allies who share our values are welcome. Hey Famm is built by and for queer folx, so we ask allies to show up as contributors, not extractors: hire from the community, support queer-owned businesses, share opportunities and make introductions. The allies who thrive here are self-aware and mindful of how much space they take up. If that sounds like you, come on in.
Is Hey Famm available outside the US?
Yes. Hey Famm is live in 18 countries: the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Malta. Anywhere else, you can sign up to get notified when we launch in your country. The app is in English for now.
Is Hey Famm VC-backed?
No. Hey Famm is self-funded and privately owned, with no outside investors. We make money from businesses and employers who want to reach our community (Boosted listings, job posts and ads), and we never share member data with advertisers.
✦ Free on iOS, Android and web
Your famm is waiting
Over 18,800 queer professionals building careers, businesses, and community together.
Updated October 2026