 <p>What you can use is the <a href="https://parse.com/docs/js_guide#queries-compound" rel="nofollow"><code>Parse.Query.or</code></a> function.</p> <pre><code>var currentUser = Parse.User.current(); var FriendRequest = Parse.Object.extend("FriendRequest"); var queryOne = new Parse.Query(FriendRequest); queryOne.equalTo("fromUser", currentUser); var queryTwo = new Parse.Query(FriendRequest); queryTwo.equalTo("toUser", currentUser); var mainQuery = Parse.Query.or(queryOne, queryTwo); mainQuery.equalTo("status", "Connected"); mainQuery.find({ /* ... */ }); </code></pre>