Upcoming events.
Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain - 20th Anniversary
A sweeping epic that explores the lives of two young men, a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection. The complications, joys and heartbreak they experience provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal deliver emotionally charged, remarkably moving performances. Directed by Ang Lee. Run time: 2 hr 14 min.
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!
BONUS
Click here to read the short story by Annie Proulx.
Click here for NY Times article about the film.
Queer Book Club
Queer Book Club
Call or email Denise Mauldin at (925-457-4496, or dmauld@aol.com) for meeting details.
Queer Book Club
Queer Book Club
Call or email Denise Mauldin at (925-457-4496, or dmauld@aol.com) for meeting details.
Queer Book Club
Queer Book Club
Call or email Denise Mauldin at (925-457-4496, or dmauld@aol.com) for meeting details.
Queer Book Club
Queer Book Club
Call or email Denise Mauldin at (925-457-4496, or dmauld@aol.com) for meeting details.
Queer Book Club
Queer Book Club
Call or email Denise Mauldin at (925-457-4496, or dmauld@aol.com) for meeting details.
Queer Book Club
Queer Book Club
Call or email Denise Mauldin at (925-457-4496, or dmauld@aol.com) for meeting details.
Queer Book Club
Diary of a Misfit
by Casey Parks
This engaging story interweaves a memoir of the author's own coming-out journey with a historical investigation into the life of Roy Hudgins, a rural Louisiana musician who lived as a man but was assigned female at birth.
Parks, also from the Deep South, explores how Roy's life and her own experiences intersect in a narrative that grapples with identity, acceptance, and the complexities of Southern culture.
Pride Walk
Pride Walk
The Pride Walk is a quintessential event at Rossmoor Pride. Each year more than 100 people from our LGBTQ+ community and allies show our Pride by walking around the Creekside Golf Course. Safer Streets has generously agreed to monitor the walk so all will be safe. Meet at the Plaza at 9:45 and plan to stay after the walk for music and a light continental breakfast of pastries, fruit and drinks.
Pride Kickoff
Pride Kickoff
Join us on the Plaza for music, light refreshments and receive a Pride Swag Bag.
Queer Book Club
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
by Curtis Chin
"Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" is a memoir that chronicles Curtis Chin’s upbringing in 1980s Detroit, specifically within his family's Chinese restaurant, Chung's Cantonese Cuisine. The book explores Chin's experiences as a gay, American-born Chinese kid navigating a changing city, a large and loving immigrant family, and his own self-discovery. It's a story of coming of age and coming out; it's woven with the flavors and lessons of a beloved family-run business. ?
Call or email Denise Mauldin at (925-457-4496, or dmauld@aol.com) for meeting details.
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.
PRIDE Planning Meeting
Come join the PRIDE Planning Committee as we make plans for our June Pride Celebration. This years theme is “Stronger Together”.
Queer Representation in Early Television
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.
On May 6, the Discovery Film Series program focuses on the evolution of LGBTQ+ characters and their portrayal on television over the last five decades of the 20th century. These portrayals showed slow and unsteady movement from bemusement to vilification to expanding visibility, then limited acceptance to positive characterizations (with notable regressions).
Using film clips and classic TV episodes, the May 6 program focuses specifically on Firsts: thefirst recurring gay character, first depiction of a gay marriage, first lesbian main character, etc. Shows such as Milton Berle’s Texaco Star Theater, Barney Miller, Maude, and Mash are featured.
As with all programs in the Discovery Series, Queer Representation in Early Television invites the audience to address the question of how past and current characterizations of LGBTQ+ people in the media continue to impact the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals and culture.
Contact Alex Baccaro (1-510-541-4719) with questions about the film event or membership in the Alliance.
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.
PRIDE Planning Meeting
Come join the PRIDE Planning Committee as we make plans for our June Pride Celebration. This years theme is “Stronger Together”.
Desert Hearts
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.
Community Support
– 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
Queer Book Club
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.
Anniversary Celebration and Community Support
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
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.
PRIDE Planning Meeting
Come join the PRIDE Planning Committee as we make plans for our June Pride Celebration. This years theme is “Stronger Together”.
Laura
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.