The Sonoma County Pride (SCP) will produce its annual Pride Parade and Festival in Santa Rosa, returning to the heart of Sonoma County where previous Pride events enjoyed crowds numbering in the thousands. The move to Santa Rosa from Guerneville will allow the event to thrive and grow. The location will provide improved accessibility to:(…)
Redwood Rainbows Square Dance Club has a new class starting Monday, January 8th in Sebastopol. Our club is unique in the square dance world in that it is open to both singles and couples, gay and straight, no partner required; dress is casual. In addition to the physical and mental exercise that square dancing provides,(…)
Join us at The Laugh Cellar on January 6th for a fundraiser to benefit The Anova Center for Education – Sonoma County’s only nonprofit school for children living with autism. Anova’s Santa Rosa campus was destroyed in the North Bay Fires, leaving 120 students ranging from 5 to 22 years old without a school. Proceeds(…)
NEW SENIOR CENTER LGBTQI PROGRAMS: With the help of an LGBTQI Giving Circle grant, Sonoma County Adult and Aging Services was able to provide the staff of three Sonoma County senior centers — Finley Community Center’s Senior Wing in Santa Rosa, Vintage House in Sonoma, and the Sebastopol Area Senior Center — with cultural competency training in LGBTQI(…)
Free film screening! El Canto del Colibri, Thursday, January 11th from 6:30-9 pm at the Arlene Francis Center- El Canto del Colibri is a documentary exploring the relationships between Latino immigrant fathers and their LGBTQ family members. This film is in Spanish with English subtitles, and we will have time before and after to share food and(…)
Half of us will become unable to speak for ourselves in a future medical situation, yet only 23 percent of adults have written advance health care directives defining our health care wishes. To help residents think ahead about documenting their health care wishes, My Care My Plan: Speak Up, Sonoma County will host a free(…)
AIDS Walk July was AIDS Walk time for all of us at The Spahr Center. Thanks to the efforts of our board and staff, we raised over $20,000 to support HIV prevention and education in schools and the community. Many thanks to everyone who donated to make this fundraising event a huge success! Academy of(…)
Sonoma County supervisors last week approved $450,000 for projects targeting homelessness on the lower Russian River where a growing number of people have been living on the streets and in roadside encampments in recent years. The projects are part of a community effort to alleviate homelessness and its impacts, with the stated goal of placing(…)
On Sunday, January 28, 2018, North Bay LGBTQI Families will hold our 2nd Annual Family Formation Symposium at Social Advocates for Youth from 9am to 5pm at 2447 Summerfield Rd, Santa Rosa, CA. Supported by a grant from the LGBTQI Giving Circle Sonoma County and generous community donors, this is a free day for LGBTQI(…)
In response to a strong surge in demand, Covered California is giving consumers more time to sign up for health coverage that will begin on Jan. 1, 2018. Over the past three days, Covered California has seen more than 38,000 new consumers sign up for coverage, which means that as of Dec. 13 more than(…)