Upcoming events.
Martin Luther King Jr. Walk
The LGBTQ+ Alliance are proud co-sponsors of this years African Americans and Friends Club 2nd Annual Rossmoor Martin Luther King Jr. Walk. Other co-sponsors are Diversity Consciousness Committee (DCC) of the Interfaith Council, National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) and Rossmoor Advocates for Diversity (RAD). This year’s march is celebrates the 30-year anniversary of the national holiday in honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The walk will begin with a brief gathering at Gateway at 10 am and continue around the Creekside golf course. The theme of the walk is “Let Freedom Ring.” Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words, participants
will be walking to let freedom ring from every mountainside, every village and hamlet, every state and city, for the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Participants may bring signs with images of Dr. King and/or quotes from his writings, bells to ring and/or American flags to wave. In order to comply with the GRF permit, no other signs, flags or slogans will be allowed. Participants are required to stay on the sidewalks at all times.
Dr. King led a nonviolent movement for equality and justice for all people in the United States. He dared to imagine a day when all of us, regardless of what we believe, what we look like or who we love would be able to sit down as equals at a “table of brotherhood”, members of one Beloved Community.
Concerto for Abigail
Prior to the movie, guests are welcome to “bring your own” alfresco dinner to the Redwood Room at Gateway. Guests may gather from 5:30pm – 6:30pm for dinner.
Writer and director, Jan Miller Corran joins us and shares her insights into her creative process of this heartfelt love story. A world renowned pianist faces the devastating news that she has progressive hearing loss and ultimate deafness facing her just as the possibility of love walks into her life. Only the fear of the coming sounds of silence consume her days.
Board Meeting
Please join us for our monthly board meeting where we discuss current and future plans. We appreciate your input. This meeting will take place in MP3 in the Gateway complex.
Albert Nobbs
Prior to the movie, guests are welcome to “bring your own” alfresco dinner to the Redwood Room at Gateway. Guests may gather from 5:30pm – 6:30pm for dinner.
Albert Nobbs is a 2011 Irish period drama set in late 1800s Dublin. The film was a passion project of its star, Glenn Close (who plays Albert), who worked for over 30 years to transform the story to film. Albert Nobbs is a woman who, desperate for safety and economic security, masquerades as a man in order to obtain service work as a waiter in a high-class Dublin hotel. When Albert meets another cross-dressing woman, Hubert, who is living in a marriage with another woman, Albert begins to imagine a different future for herself. Albert’s decision to live as a man makes perfect sense, given the lack of palatable livelihoods available to women, and as a response to the character’s history of childhood poverty and sexual assault. But in a world offering few choices, only soul-killing compromises, seeing Hubert’s relationship finally provides Albert with hope for an alternative to her furtive, fear-filled, and lonely life.
Alliance Holiday Party
Let's celebrate our beautiful community.
Yummy hors d'oeuvres, both savory and sweet, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages will be served. Scintillating company, music, and news about next year’s Alliance activities.
$10 donation at door, no one will be turned away!
Pillow Talk
Prior to the movie, guests are welcome to “bring your own” alfresco dinner to the Redwood Room at Gateway. Guests may gather from 5:30pm – 6:30pm for dinner.
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's (Rock Hudson) succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow (Doris Day), who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan (Tony Randall) discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
Friendsgiving
Come join us for a potluck Friendsgiving. Breaking bread with friends is one of the best ways to build connections others. We will provide a delicious meal filled with traditional Thanksgiving dishes, some with an ethnic flare, that will surely bring back memories of past holidays. Vegetarian, gluten free and vegan choices will be available.
$15 RSVP to alex.harris.baccaro@gmail.com
Second Serve
Based on the life of Renee Richards, this 1986 film stars Vanessa Redgrave as Richard Raskind, the former male ophthalmologist who struggled as she transitioned to the female professional tennis player she became in 1975 after sex reassignment surgery.
Victor Victoria
A woman pretending to be a man impersonating a woman.
An out-of-work singer, Victoria Grant (Dame Julie Andrews), meets a just-fired, flamboyant gay man in a diner in 1920's Paris. He convinces her to pretend to be a man who is a female impersonator in order to get a job. The act is a hit in a local nightclub, but things get complicated when a gangster and nightclub owner from Chicago, Illinois, King Marchand (Michael Nouri) falls in-love with "her"