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.

This year marks “Desert Hearts”’ 40th anniversary.  This groundbreaking 1985 movie, adapted from Jane Rule’s 1964 novel, Desert of the Heart, is set in 1959 Reno.  It tells the story of Vivian, a reserved professor in Reno to obtain a divorce, and Cay, the artist she encounters during her required six-week stay in Nevada.  The film shows the evolution of the women’s relationship over these six weeks.

Noted for its vivid big-sky cinematography and jukebox country western soundtrack, “Desert Hearts” was one of the first films to present a lesbian relationship in an authentic, joyful, and optimistic manner.  Join the Alliance audience and experience the adventure and romance of historic “Desert Hearts.”

Chat and chew! Join us for a "bring your own" pre-movie dinner, held at the Redwood Room at Gateway from 5:30-6:30. Come early at 6:45 for a pre-movie discussion about how movies from this period portray LGBTQ+ characters.   Members, family, and friends are all welcome! Run time: 1 hr 31 min.

– Leese Cournington will share how to stay safe online.

– Learn more about PFLAG

– Find out ways to be involved in our community

ALL WELCOME –
The Alliance Community, Allies and all Rossmoor Residents

FREE

This month’s title is Entwined: Essays on polyamory and creating home by Alex Alberto.

In a series of genre-blending essays, Entwined tells the story of Alex Alberto’s decade-long polyamorous journey towards a new kind of family.

In these essays, Alex attempts to build two committed relationships at once when no one involved has done it before; develops a powerful bond with the woman their partner loves; sits through a tense Thanksgiving Dinner with religious in-laws; questions the need for rules and hierarchy in their relationships; experiences the intensity of a triad; wrestles with the fragility baked into the nuclear family after their father’s stroke; and explores their queerness and gender identity in English, in New York, while struggling to reconcile their newfound self in their native French-Canadian language and culture.

Interested? Call or email Denise Mauldin at (925-457-4496, or dmauld@aol.com) for meeting details.

Are you feeling anxiety and stress because of the current political climate? 

We are here to support you.
 

We will begin by having our traditional Anniversary Celebration where we will mingle and talk with one another while enjoying light fare of coffee, tea, sweet treats and light nibbles.
Our program will also include providing useful community resources from PFLAG Danville, the Rossmoor Counseling service, the Rossmoor Universalist Unitarian Group and the Rossmoor Braver Angels.
  The mission of the Alliance is to advocate for equality, creating opportunities for community connection and support for all LGBTQ+ residents and allies.  Our gathering will be a safe and inclusive space to listen and share our experiences. 

ALL WELCOME –
The Alliance Community, Allies and all Rossmoor Residents

Free to current paid members – $10 suggested donation for all others

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.

Come join the PRIDE Planning Committee as we make plans for our June Pride Celebration. This years theme is “Stronger Together”.

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.

The Alliance proudly presents the classic film noir, "Laura".  Directed by Otto Preminger, the film stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, and a very queer Clifton Webb, in a role personifying the longings of unattainable love. Viewers will enjoy the moody lighting and period details in "Laura," which exemplify the closeted nature of its villain as this story of the beautiful advertising executive (Gene Tierney) found murdered in her apartment and investigated by WWII era heartthrob Dana Andrews, unfolds. While Andrews' hardboiled detective delves into Laura's demise, he becomes obsessed with her--especially after listening to accounts of her accomplishments from Waldo Lydecker, the Clifton Webb character, presented as both eccentric and possessive.

Chat and chew! Join us for a "bring your own" pre-movie dinner, held at the Redwood Room at Gateway from 5:30-6:30. Come early at 6:45 for a pre-movie discussion about how movies from this period portray LGBTQ+ characters.   Members, family, and friends are all welcome! Run time: 1 hr 28 min.

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.

Come join the PRIDE Planning Committee as we make plans for our June Pride Celebration. This years theme is “Stronger Together”.

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.

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.

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.

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