Join us for the 4th annual Round Rock Pride Festival on Saturday, June 7th, from 2 PM to 7 PM at Centennial Plaza!

This exciting celebration of diversity and inclusivity will feature live entertainment, delicious food vendors, and community booths, all coming together. Bring your friends, family, and allies as we celebrate love, acceptance, and the vibrant LGBTQ+ community in Round Rock!

✨ No tickets needed!
🚗 Free parking: Downtown Round Rock offers four free parking garages, all within a 7-minute walk of the plaza, plus additional free street parking.

Visit their website to learn more: https://www.roundrockpride.com/events/pride2025

Hosted by World Famous *BOB*

See old friends and make new ones!
We do have in person events again in the ATX area and once a month we gather on our Zoom link to have tea and chat.
We'd love to meet you! Please join our group if you plan on attending.
Your level of participation with audio and video is up to you but we do require interaction in the chat if you choose to be off camera.

*All FUN FORCE! events are a safer space for people to connect and share their thoughts ~ anyone found to be upsetting that balance will be disconnected. Treat people kindly, how you'd like to be treated.
By participating you are agreeing to this code of conduct as well as stating that you are 18 plus years of age.

World Famous *BOB* (she/him/they) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Zoom Social Hour
Time: 7-8pm Central
Join Zoom Meeting:

Zoom Tea Social Link

Meeting ID: 884 7871 3091
Passcode: PRID3
One tap mobile
+13462487799,,88478713091#,,,,*668262# US (Houston)
+16699009128,,88478713091#,,,,*668262# US (San Jose)
Dial by your location
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)
Meeting ID: 884 7871 3091
Passcode: 668262
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kb1q0C6g7n

Details

Click Here For Info.

Rainbow Connections ATX presents ....Seeking Safety Support Group

Seeking Safety is a safe space for individuals aged 18 to 110 to share, support each other, and learn coping skills.
On Zoom, every other Wednesday, 6:30-7:30pm, new cycle starting 01/08/2025.
You must be registered through the facilitator once and then you can stop by whenever you'd like!
Click the link above for info.
*ALWAYS FREE*
Rainbow Connections ATX is a program of Family Eldercare.

Details

🎨✨ Calling All LGBTQ+ Elders! ✨🎨

Are you age 50+? Rainbow Connections ATX invites you to join them and the Golden Generations for a heartwarming Arts & Crafts Workshop made especially for our vibrant LGBTQ+ elder community!

Whether you're a lifelong artist or just curious to try something new, this is a joyful space to connect, create, and celebrate community. All skill levels welcome — materials provided!

RSVP or Questions About Transportation? Please reach out to Annie at: [email protected] 

Come for the crafts, stay for the company. Let’s make something beautiful together. 💜

Details

Pretty a memoir ~ a book by KB Brookins

Winner of the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award • By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.
Please have finished the book and arrive with a note or two for discussion.

ZOOM link of Spring Queer Book Club Tea Social will be given to those registered.
*(it will be over Zoom - BYOT ~ Bring Your Own Tea!)
Please email me at [email protected] to register.

Book Details
Winner of the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award • By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.

Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective—the tropes, the presumptions—Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change.

“I should be able to define myself, but I am not. Not by any governmental or cultural body,” Brookins writes. “Every day, I negotiate the space between who I am, how I’m perceived, and what I need to unlearn. People have assumed things about me, and I can’t change that. Every day, I am assumed to be a Black American man, though my ID says ‘female,’ and my heart says neither of the sort. What does it mean—to be a girl-turned-man when you’re something else entirely?”

Informed by KB Brookins’s personal experiences growing up in Texas, those of other Black transgender masculine people, Black queer studies, and cultural criticism, Pretty is concerned with the marginalization suffered by a unique American constituency—whose condition is a world apart from that of cisgender, non-Black, and non-masculine people. Here is a memoir (a bildungsroman of sorts) about coming to terms with instantly and always being perceived as “other”

Our Spring Queer Book Club Tea Social Selection was chosen to celebrate Austin based leaders in our Qmmunity.
Copies both in e-book and audiobooks can be borrowed from the Austin Public Library. If you are unable to use e-books or audio and can not buy your own print book email [email protected] and one will be provided for you.

Details

Click Here For Info.

Rainbow Connections ATX presents ....Seeking Safety Support Group

Seeking Safety is a safe space for individuals aged 18 to 110 to share, support each other, and learn coping skills.
On Zoom, every other Wednesday, 6:30-7:30pm, new cycle starting 01/08/2025.
You must be registered through the facilitator once and then you can stop by whenever you'd like!
Click the link above for info.
*ALWAYS FREE*
Rainbow Connections ATX is a program of Family Eldercare.

Come join us for this free monthly Qmmunity gathering.

Each featured guest has 10 -15 minutes to share a story through storytelling, reading their own or a favorite author’s writing, show & tell, a song or two…however they like.

The only rule is to not use the time to hurt yourself or anybody else.

ALL WELCOME & English to ASL Interpretation Provided

Special thanks to The Vortex and Rainbow Connections ATX a Program of Family Eldercare

This is an outdoors event.

*Adult subject topics

Interested in sharing at a Campfire? Email the host World Famous *BOB* at:

[email protected]

Details

JOIN Us for our 2nd ALL NEW show AMAGING!
This show SOLD OUT on Superbowl Sunday last year because it is that GAYMAGING!
Tickets are sliding scale and can be bought here:
https://the-vortex.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/events/a0SUf0000024KS1MAM

ENG-ASL Interpreters will be provided each night.
A portion of the ticket sales supports the ongoing work of Rainbow Connections ATX, a program of Family Eldercare that serves and uplifts Austin Area LGBTQIA2+ Elders.

I often say that hanging out with older people is like getting a postcard from your future, and who wouldn't want to read that? It's not always the easiest thing to find somebody 30 years older or younger than you, life inevitably brings us to different spaces. We’ve done the work for you, and you’re invited!
AMAGING! is a collection of five people in the Queer Qmmunity in Austin, ages 65 -91 who are willing to share their stories on stage. The audience is invited to shatter their pre-existing ideas of what aging means and re imagine a future inspired by the proof in front of them.
Proof that age is more than just a number ~ it's a story and story is the thing that connects us all.

Produced by The Vortex, World Famous *BOB*, Rainbow Connections ATX a program of Family Eldercare.
Directed by World Famous *BOB* (53)
World Famous *BOB* is the Program Coordinator as well as
“co-queerator” of Rainbow Connections ATX, a program of Family Eldercare.

Cast:
Rev. Babs Miller
Glenna “Sparkle” Williams
Masha-Leah
Richard Rollin Gartner
Anna Nguyen

Special Thanks to The Vortex, RCATX, Dusty Shoulders (ad design and styling), and Erica Nix (photo).

The 2nd Saturday of each month from 1-2pm on Zoom
This is an online support group for LGBTQIA2S+ Caregivers and Allies caregiving for those in the community. It is a space of peer support led by Paige Schilt, LMSW and Robert Arambel, MSW Intern, offered by Rainbow Connections ATX.

All participants will be pre-screened to create a safer & supportive space.
Once you have been pre-screened you will be given the Zoom info and are free to drop in as you need.

Please do not share the group Zoom link - do feel free to share the interest form link (click & fill out to request a spot).

This support group is open to LGBTQIA2S+ people 18-110 who are currently caregiving, have been a caregiver in the past, and those who anticipate being in the caregiving role in the future.

There is value to past, present, and future experiences/preparations.

Details

JOIN Us for our 2nd ALL NEW show AMAGING!
This show SOLD OUT on Superbowl Sunday last year because it is that GAYMAGING!
Tickets are sliding scale and can be bought here:
https://the-vortex.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/events/a0SUf0000024KS1MAM

ENG-ASL Interpreters will be provided each night.
A portion of the ticket sales supports the ongoing work of Rainbow Connections ATX, a program of Family Eldercare that serves and uplifts Austin Area LGBTQIA2+ Elders.

I often say that hanging out with older people is like getting a postcard from your future, and who wouldn't want to read that? It's not always the easiest thing to find somebody 30 years older or younger than you, life inevitably brings us to different spaces. We’ve done the work for you, and you’re invited!
AMAGING! is a collection of five people in the Queer Qmmunity in Austin, ages 65 -91 who are willing to share their stories on stage. The audience is invited to shatter their pre-existing ideas of what aging means and re imagine a future inspired by the proof in front of them.
Proof that age is more than just a number ~ it's a story and story is the thing that connects us all.

Produced by The Vortex, World Famous *BOB*, Rainbow Connections ATX a program of Family Eldercare.
Directed by World Famous *BOB* (53)
World Famous *BOB* is the Program Coordinator as well as
“co-queerator” of Rainbow Connections ATX, a program of Family Eldercare.

Cast:
Rev. Babs Miller
Glenna “Sparkle” Williams
Masha-Leah
Richard Rollin Gartner
Anna Nguyen

Special Thanks to The Vortex, RCATX, Dusty Shoulders (ad design and styling), and Erica Nix (photo).

Details

JOIN Us for our 2nd ALL NEW show AMAGING!
This show SOLD OUT on Superbowl Sunday last year because it is that GAYMAGING!
Tickets are sliding scale and can be bought here:
https://the-vortex.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket#/events/a0SUf0000024KS1MAM

ENG-ASL Interpreters will be provided each night.
A portion of the ticket sales supports the ongoing work of Rainbow Connections ATX, a program of Family Eldercare that serves and uplifts Austin Area LGBTQIA2+ Elders.

I often say that hanging out with older people is like getting a postcard from your future, and who wouldn't want to read that? It's not always the easiest thing to find somebody 30 years older or younger than you, life inevitably brings us to different spaces. We’ve done the work for you, and you’re invited!
AMAGING! is a collection of five people in the Queer Qmmunity in Austin, ages 65 -91 who are willing to share their stories on stage. The audience is invited to shatter their pre-existing ideas of what aging means and re imagine a future inspired by the proof in front of them.
Proof that age is more than just a number ~ it's a story and story is the thing that connects us all.

Produced by The Vortex, World Famous *BOB*, Rainbow Connections ATX a program of Family Eldercare.
Directed by World Famous *BOB* (53)
World Famous *BOB* is the Program Coordinator as well as
“co-queerator” of Rainbow Connections ATX, a program of Family Eldercare.

Cast:
Rev. Babs Miller
Glenna “Sparkle” Williams
Masha-Leah
Richard Rollin Gartner
Anna Nguyen

Special Thanks to The Vortex, RCATX, Dusty Shoulders (ad design and styling), and Erica Nix (photo).

Details

JOIN Us for our 2nd ALL NEW show AMAGING!
Doors 7:30 & Show 8:00pm
This show SOLD OUT on Superbowl Sunday last year because it is that GAYMAGING!
To reserve a free ticket for this show please email the box office your full name.
**Send request to: [email protected]**

A portion of the ticket sales supports the ongoing work of Rainbow Connections ATX, a program of Family Eldercare that serves and uplifts Austin Area LGBTQIA2+ Elders.
I often say that hanging out with older people is like getting a postcard from your future, and who wouldn't want to read that? It's not always the easiest thing to find somebody 30 years older or younger than you, life inevitably brings us to different spaces. We’ve done the work for you, and you’re invited!
AMAGING! is a collection of five people in the Queer Qmmunity in Austin, ages 65 -91 who are willing to share their stories on stage. The audience is invited to shatter their pre-existing ideas of what aging means and re imagine a future inspired by the proof in front of them.
Proof that age is more than just a number ~ it's a story and story is the thing that connects us all.
Produced by The Vortex, World Famous *BOB*, Rainbow Connections ATX a program of Family Eldercare.
Directed by World Famous *BOB* (53)
World Famous *BOB* is the Program Coordinator as well as
“co-queerator” of Rainbow Connections ATX, a program of Family Eldercare.
Cast:
Rev. Babs Miller
Glenna “Sparkle” Williams
Masha-Leah
Richard Rollin Gartner
Anna Nguyen
Special Thanks to The Vortex, RCATX, Dusty Shoulders (ad design and styling), and Erica Nix (photo).

Details

Are you LGBTQIA2+ and 50 years or older?
Register to join Rainbow Cnections ATX at an afternoon at The Blanton Museum!
*Registration required*
To register email [email protected] and you will be confirmed in a response email.
What's there?
We'll start our afternoon at 3pm and first visit the film (20 min) of
Cao Fei: "Whose Utopia"
Cao Fei’s 2006 video Whose Utopia highlights the workforce at the OSRAM lighting factory located in China’s Pearl River Delta region. At the time the film was made, OSRAM was one of the largest manufacturers of light bulbs in the world. Fei created the work during her six-month artist residency at the factory. She filmed daily activities, documented the production process and collaborated with workers to develop a variety of performances that were staged and filmed within the factory.
More info. here:
https://blantonmuseum.org/exhibition/cao-fei-whose-utopia/

Next we'll visit the current major exhibition:
In Creative Harmony: Three Artistic Partnerships

Arshile Gorky and Isamu Noguchi
José Guadalupe Posada and Artemio Rodríguez
Nora Naranjo Morse and Eliza Naranjo Morse

No artist creates in isolation. Shared visual languages, techniques, and concerns shape artistic innovation.
In Creative Harmony explores the ways in which artists inspire each other by highlighting the relationships between three pairs of artists: inter-generational Mexican printmakers José Guadalupe Posada and Artemio Rodríguez; friends and innovators in abstract painting and sculpture Arshile Gorky and Isamu Noguchi; and Nora Naranjo Morse and her daughter Eliza Naranjo Morse, who will be creating new work together for the first time.
More info. here:
https://blantonmuseum.org/exhibition/in-creative-harmony-three-artistic-partnerships/

We'll finish up at Austin by renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly is a cornerstone of the Blanton’s collection. (pictured above).

Accessibility:
https://blantonmuseum.org/visit/accessibility/

Please email *BOB* at [email protected] to register!

Details

🌈🐰✨Calling All LGBTQIA2+ Elders!✨🐔🌈

Are you age 50+? Rainbow Connections ATX invites you to join them and the Golden Generations for a joy-filled time with fuzzy friends at our LGBTQIA2+ Elders Petting Zoo Day! 💕

Come connect, laugh and cuddle with some adorable animals while enjoying community, snacks and sunshine. Bring your friends, your smile and your inner child- this one’s for you!

To sign up or if you have any questions about transportation, please reach out to Annie at: @[email protected]

Let’s make some memories- furry and fabulous! 🐾🌻

Hosted by World Famous *BOB*

See old friends and make new ones!
We do have in person events again in the ATX area and once a month we gather on our Zoom link to have tea and chat.
We'd love to meet you! Please join our group if you plan on attending.
Your level of participation with audio and video is up to you but we do require interaction in the chat if you choose to be off camera.

*All FUN FORCE! events are a safer space for people to connect and share their thoughts ~ anyone found to be upsetting that balance will be disconnected. Treat people kindly, how you'd like to be treated.
By participating you are agreeing to this code of conduct as well as stating that you are 18 plus years of age.

World Famous *BOB* (she/him/they) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Zoom Social Hour
Time: 7-8pm Central
Join Zoom Meeting:

Zoom Tea Social Link

Meeting ID: 884 7871 3091
Passcode: PRID3
One tap mobile
+13462487799,,88478713091#,,,,*668262# US (Houston)
+16699009128,,88478713091#,,,,*668262# US (San Jose)
Dial by your location
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)
Meeting ID: 884 7871 3091
Passcode: 668262
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kb1q0C6g7n

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Come join the Fun Force! of Rainbow Connections ATX at our Mueller Lake Park Spring Hike
ALL LGBTQIA2+ and Allies Welcome!
Ages 18-110
*People 12 and up may attend with a guardian.
We'll meet in the parking lot near the restrooms off of Simond Ave. (cross street Aldrich) at 11:00 am and leave to start our stroll paced 3 mile walk at 11:15.
I'll have peach hair and a clipboard ;)

Check out this 3.0-mile loop trail near Austin, Texas. Generally considered an easy route, it takes an average of 56 min to complete. This is a very popular area for birding, running, and walking, so you'll likely encounter other people while exploring. Dogs are welcome but must be on a leash.

Accessibility: There are 2 designated wheelchair-accessible parking spaces with access aisles at the paved trailhead lot at the north end. This asphalt, brick, cement, and compact gravel trail is typically at least 5 feet wide. The slope is estimated to be mostly gentle (all 5% grade or less) uphill and down. Depending on weather and trail conditions, some trail goers using mobility equipment or a stroller may need assistance or need to avoid the packed gravel portions of the route southeast of the Mueller Lake.

More information about the trail and exact meeting location:
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/texas/mueller-lake-southeast-greenway

Details

Click Here For Info.

Rainbow Connections ATX presents ....Seeking Safety Support Group

Seeking Safety is a safe space for individuals aged 18 to 110 to share, support each other, and learn coping skills.
On Zoom, every other Wednesday, 6:30-7:30pm, new cycle starting 01/08/2025.
You must be registered through the facilitator once and then you can stop by whenever you'd like!
Click the link above for info.
*ALWAYS FREE*
Rainbow Connections ATX is a program of Family Eldercare.

Come join us for this free monthly Qmmunity gathering.

Each featured guest has 10 -15 minutes to share a story through storytelling, reading their own or a favorite author’s writing, show & tell, a song or two…however they like.

The only rule is to not use the time to hurt yourself or anybody else.

ALL WELCOME & English to ASL Interpretation Provided

Special thanks to The Vortex and Rainbow Connections ATX a Program of Family Eldercare

This is an outdoors event.

*Adult subject topics

Interested in sharing at a Campfire? Email the host World Famous *BOB* at:

[email protected]

The 2nd Saturday of each month from 1-2pm on Zoom
This is an online support group for LGBTQIA2S+ Caregivers and Allies caregiving for those in the community. It is a space of peer support led by Paige Schilt, LMSW and Robert Arambel, MSW Intern, offered by Rainbow Connections ATX.

All participants will be pre-screened to create a safer & supportive space.
Once you have been pre-screened you will be given the Zoom info and are free to drop in as you need.

Please do not share the group Zoom link - do feel free to share the interest form link (click & fill out to request a spot).

This support group is open to LGBTQIA2S+ people 18-110 who are currently caregiving, have been a caregiver in the past, and those who anticipate being in the caregiving role in the future.

There is value to past, present, and future experiences/preparations.

Details

*NOTE if you registered for the original date you're good to go
Join Rainbow Connections ATX and sign up!

Join TENT for our Advocacy Day on April 7th in Austin!
We will start the day off with short trainings for attendees covering topics like safety and security, how to tell your story, and how to navigate the Capitol.

TENT will be providing lunch!

We will then head to the Capitol for a short rally, where we’ll come together to show legislators that trans people belong in Texas, and hear local, state, and national partners speak. All are welcome at the rally!

To RSVP, please visit Click Here To Register
Details will be provided via email a week before the event!

Please join the Transgender Education Network of Texas at our 2025 Transgender Advocacy Day at the Texas Capitol in Austin.
This is an opportunity to not only visit the offices of legislators and make your voice heard on legislation affecting LGBTQ+ Texans, but also connect with people from all over the state.

Get to know new people and see familiar faces on April 7th, 2025!
What the day will look like:

• 9am - Registration begins

• 10am - Trainings begin

• 11am - Lunch will be provided

• 12pm - Rally at the Capitol

• 1pm - Office visits

• 3:30pm - Meet to Debrief

Details

Click Here For Info.

Rainbow Connections ATX presents ....Seeking Safety Support Group

Seeking Safety is a safe space for individuals aged 18 to 110 to share, support each other, and learn coping skills.
On Zoom, every other Wednesday, 6:30-7:30pm, new cycle starting 01/08/2025.
You must be registered through the facilitator once and then you can stop by whenever you'd like!
Click the link above for info.
*ALWAYS FREE*
Rainbow Connections ATX is a program of Family Eldercare.

Hosted by World Famous *BOB*

See old friends and make new ones!
We do have in person events again in the ATX area and once a month we gather on our Zoom link to have tea and chat.
We'd love to meet you! Please join our group if you plan on attending.
Your level of participation with audio and video is up to you but we do require interaction in the chat if you choose to be off camera.

*All FUN FORCE! events are a safer space for people to connect and share their thoughts ~ anyone found to be upsetting that balance will be disconnected. Treat people kindly, how you'd like to be treated.
By participating you are agreeing to this code of conduct as well as stating that you are 18 plus years of age.

World Famous *BOB* (she/him/they) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Zoom Social Hour
Time: 7-8pm Central
Join Zoom Meeting:

Zoom Tea Social Link

Meeting ID: 884 7871 3091
Passcode: PRID3
One tap mobile
+13462487799,,88478713091#,,,,*668262# US (Houston)
+16699009128,,88478713091#,,,,*668262# US (San Jose)
Dial by your location
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)
Meeting ID: 884 7871 3091
Passcode: 668262
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kb1q0C6g7n

Details

JOIN Rainbow Connections ATX at this incredible event by Equality Texas and make your voice heard!

Join Equality Texas at the Capitol for the All in for Equality Advocacy Day.
We'll be training folks on how to advocate for our issues under the dome, rallying to show our collective power, and building community with like-minded Texans who are ready to fight for our rights this session!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

All in For Equality Advocacy Day
ALL IN FOR EQUALITY ADVOCACY DAY!
Join Equality Texas, ACLU, HRC, Lambda Legal, and Texas Freedom Network at the All in for Equality Advocacy Day!
Monday, March 24, 2025 @ 9:00 AM
We will be meeting at the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas (713 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701) ·
You MUST RSVP to enter the event, we will be checking registration at the doors.
We will have 3 trainings to learn how to talk to legislators during the visits, the trainings are 9:15 AM, 10:00 AM, 10:45 AM
At 11:50 AM we will gather outside and march to the Capitol South Steps where we will have a rally at noon.
After the rally we will have visits with our representatives.
We will have busses coming from Dallas, San Antonio and Houston, if you need transportation, please fill out THIS FORM
ADA Accessible
Food and Drinks provided
*** T-shirts available for free!
Join us and show the Capitol what a true Texan looks like!

Details

Click Here For Info.

Rainbow Connections ATX presents ....Seeking Safety Support Group

Seeking Safety is a safe space for individuals aged 18 to 110 to share, support each other, and learn coping skills.
On Zoom, every other Wednesday, 6:30-7:30pm, new cycle starting 01/08/2025.
You must be registered through the facilitator once and then you can stop by whenever you'd like!
Click the link above for info.
*ALWAYS FREE*
Rainbow Connections ATX is a program of Family Eldercare.

Details

The Emerald Dynasty of the united Court of Austin Presents....
General Admission Tickets $15
Click Here For Tickets
Join us for an amazing night of entertainment featuring the incomparable magic of Tasha Kohl. All tickets sold, and performer tips go to benefit LGBTQ+ Seniors in the Austin area and other local LGBTQ+ charities. Show up, wear green, and celebrate the Rainbow Connection between us all.

Doors at 6pm with a meet and greet with Tasha Kohl between 6pm and 7pm night of show. Photos available to general public during meet and greet for a minimum $10 donation. Credit cards accepted at the door and for photos during Meet and Greet. All donations are tax deductible and you will receive an email tax receipt with purchase.

Please arrive in advance and give yourself plenty of time to park and check-in before 6pm meet and greet. Failure to arrive on time could result in a total forfeit of the meet and greet opportunity. Refunds will not be issued under any circumstances for late arrivals. Please be sure to bring your own camera or camera phone for photo.

Food available for purchase.

Show to follow Meet and Greet

Event at Austin Eagle
8201 Cross Park Dr Ste B2 Austin, TX 78754

Details

Disorderly Men a book by Edward Cahill
Three gay men in pre-Stonewall NYC find their fates thrown together in the police raid of a Village bar

Please have finished the book and arrive with a note or two for discussion.

ZOOM link of Winter Queer Book Club Tea Social will be given to those registered.
*(it will be over Zoom - BYOT ~ Bring Your Own Tea!)
Please email me at [email protected] to register.

Book Details
Roger Moorhouse is a Wall Street banker and Westchester family man with a preciously guarded secret. As the shouting begins and flashlights blaze in his face, the life he’s carefully curated over the years—a fancy new office overlooking lower Broadway, a house in Beechmont Woods, his wife and children—is about to come crashing down around him.

Columbia literature professor Julian Prince lives a comparatively uncloseted life when he finds his first committed relationship tested to its limits. How could he explain to Gus, a fearless young artist, that he couldn’t stay with him that weekend because the woman who was still technically Julian’s fiancée would be visiting? But when Gus is struck unconscious by a police baton, Julian comes out of hiding to protect him, even if exposure means losing everything.

For Danny Duffy, a carefree Irish kid from the Bronx with a sassy mouth and diverse group of friends, the raid is a galvanizing, Spartacus moment. Danny doesn’t have too much left to lose; his family has just disowned him. But once his name appears in the newspaper, he’ll be fired from his job at Sloan’s Supermarket, where he’s risen to assistant manager of produce, and begin a journey that veers between political enlightenment and violent revenge.

The three men find themselves in a police wagon together, their private lives threatened to be revealed to the world. Blackmail, a private investigator, Gus’s disappearance, and Danny’s quest for retribution propel Disorderly Men to its piercing conclusion, as each man meets the boundaries of his own fear, love, and shame. The stakes for each are different, but all of them confront a fundamental question: how much happiness is he allowed to have … and what share of it will he lay claim to?

Our Winter Queer Book Club Tea Social Selection was chosen by Joseph.
Copies both in e-book and audiobooks can be borrowed from the Austin Public Library. If you are unable to use e-books or audio and can not buy your own print book email [email protected] and one will be provided for you.

Details

NOTE BACK TO USUAL TIME 7-8pm
Come bask in the glow of our Qmmunity's greatest strength our stories.
Campfire Queer Storytime is a free monthly event where invited guests are given 10-15 minutes each to share a story, read a favorite writer, read their own writing, sing a song or two, lead a ritual, show and tell, share about someone they miss, the only rules are to not use the time to hurt oneself or others.
Adult topics on occasion.
This is an outdoors event.
If you'd like to be a featured guest at a future Campfire please email *BOB* at:
[email protected]

ALL LGBTQIA2S+Allies welcome!
Thank you to the Vortex and Rainbow Connections ATX a program of Family Eldercare

The 2nd Saturday of each month from 1-2pm on Zoom
This is an online support group for LGBTQIA2S+ Caregivers and Allies caregiving for those in the community. It is a space of peer support led by Paige Schilt, LMSW and Robert Arambel, MSW Intern, offered by Rainbow Connections ATX.

All participants will be pre-screened to create a safer & supportive space.
Once you have been pre-screened you will be given the Zoom info and are free to drop in as you need.

Please do not share the group Zoom link - do feel free to share the interest form link (click & fill out to request a spot).

This support group is open to LGBTQIA2S+ people 18-110 who are currently caregiving, have been a caregiver in the past, and those who anticipate being in the caregiving role in the future.

There is value to past, present, and future experiences/preparations.

Details

Click Here For Info.

Rainbow Connections ATX presents ....Seeking Safety Support Group

Seeking Safety is a safe space for individuals aged 18 to 110 to share, support each other, and learn coping skills.
On Zoom, every other Wednesday, 6:30-7:30pm, new cycle starting 01/08/2025.
You must be registered through the facilitator once and then you can stop by whenever you'd like!
Click the link above for info.
*ALWAYS FREE*
Rainbow Connections ATX is a program of Family Eldercare.