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North Bay LGBTQI Families, Our Family Coalition, Amor Para Todos, and Positive Images LGBTQIA+ Center Hosts Workshop for Parents, Caregivers, Tuesday, Nov 1

Join North Bay LGBTQI Families, Our Family Coalition, Amor Para Todos, and Positive Images LGBTQIA+ Center on Tuesday, November 1 from 7-8:30pm for the final session in our series of three online workshops for parents and caregivers on how to advocate for LGBTQIA+ inclusion in schools! During this session, we will focus on how to talk to schools about the importance of LGBTQIA+ inclusive health & sex education, and provide background information on relevant state law requirements and curriculum resources. $50 stipends are available to a limited number of parents and caregivers for workshop attendance. Please sign up using the form below! bit.ly/lgbtqia-school-workshops [Image Description: […]

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LGBT+ and Friends Halloween Dance Happens in Sebastopol Saturday, October 29

LGBT+ and Friends! Halloween Dance! Saturday, October 29th, 6:30-10 p.m. This dance is for all ages 21 and up. We are transforming the Senior Center into creepy circus with creepy clowns! Come be dazzled and energized with outstanding live DJ dance music, and a video dance room as well where you can dance to your favorite Stars. We will also have fortune tellers, and beer and wine for sale, $6. Advance tickets: $15; at-the-door: $20 Purchase at the Sebastopol Senior Center or call 707-829-2440.

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Sonoma County LGBTQI Timeline Reception at Central Santa Rosa Library Saturday 1-3 PM

Sonoma County LGBTQI Timeline at Central Santa Rosa Library EXHIBIT RECEPTION THIS SATURDAY, 10/22, 1-3PM Curated by two local LGBTQI historians, Tina Dungan & Shad Reinstein, the Sonoma County LGBTQI Timeline will be displayed at the Central Santa Rosa Library all of October for LGBTQ+ History Month!  Meet the members of LGBTQI+ LEGACY Sonoma County and learn about their work to preserve, collect, and archive historical materials from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex communities of Sonoma County, California, through the year 2000. Share your pride and record an oral history for the Here + Queer, Sonoma County […]

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Happening This Month at Marin’s Spahr Center

SECOND TUESDAY!In-person at Mgt Todd Senior Center1560 Hill Road, NovatoHill Community Room, behind the main building / see site map belownew people warmly welcomed! October 1112:30 to 1 pm brown bag1 to 2:30 pm discussionTopic: RESILIENCYpresented by Dana Pepp and the Marin Center for Independent Living Fourth Tuesday!West Marin LGBT Senior Town HallComing to San Geronimo Valley CCWe had a great first time out at our Fourth Tuesdayevent. There were twelve participants which included a West Marin community member we haven’t seen in quite awhile and a person new to Spahr who only learned about us through our event publicity there. We shared meaningful […]

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Wine Event in Santa Rosa Benefiting Sonoma County Pride Happens Saturday

Pinot on the River! Festival at Old Courthouse Square in downtown Santa Rosa featuring a day of tastings from some of the west coast’s best Pinot producers! Small-production artisanal wineries join with guest artisan food vendors from 11-3p. on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022, to celebrate all things Pinot Noir. Meet the winemakers and other Pinot-loving consumers. Use promo code WeAreFamily and save 10% on your tickets

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The Spahr Center’s Executive Director to Depart for Biden Administration Role

The Spahr Center announces the forthcoming departure of its executive director, Adrian Shanker, who has been appointed by the Biden-Harris Administration to serve in the role of Senior Advisor on LGBTQI+ Health Equity in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Shanker joined The Spahr Center in April 2022 and in this short time has led an organizational rebranding with a new logo and website, an expansion of programs for LGBTQI+ families, and the launch of the organization’s Training Institute. He has also been a critical advocate for MPOX vaccine […]

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Free Online LGBTQI History Class Will Cover SSU’s Women’s Studies Program and Feminism in 1970s

LGBTQI History: A Sonoma County Timeline 1947-2000. Wednesdays 1:30-3pm. Online via Zoom. Join us next Wed. 9/28  when we will be talking about feminism with student-teachers  from SSU Women’s Studies in the mid-1970s: Rosanna Hill, Nancy Kelley, Pam McDaniel and Randy Tenan. Bring your own stories to share! Contact me to enroll and receive a Zoom link: cdungan@santarosa.edu

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