Our traditional post-DCNY LGBTQIA+ family dinner get together, meet & greet event! All are welcome including friends, supporters, family members, partners, significant others, etc. We’ll be upstairs!
WHEN: Tuesday, September 25 at 9pm
WHERE: Maggie’s Place – 21 E 47th St, New York, NY
(Suggestion: bring cash to settle and split the bill!)
NYC’s LGBTQ alumni groups are returning to the Rubin Museum of Art for an evening of Himalayan art, mixed cocktails and mixed company!
WHEN: Friday, August 10 at 6 PM – 8:30 PM
WHERE: Rubin Museum of Art – 150 W 17th St, New York, NY
Mingle with us in the lounge, and visit the galleries of the museum! The galleries are open and free to all from 6PM. Our events at the Rubin Museum of Art bring out a great mix of men and women. We expect 1,000 LGBT alumni, so come out and join us at one of our biggest and most special events of the year!
Two for one wine & beer from 6PM to 7PM. We have full access to the museum for self guided viewing at no charge. The museum is providing two guided tours of the museum, one leaving at 7 and the other leaving at 8.
Your RSVP helps us in our efforts to properly staff the event, so please fill out our RSVP Form at http://btgala.tigernet.princeton.edu/EventRSVP
FFR/Princeton BTGALA is hosting and we invite all of our Ivy League, Seven Sisters, NYU, Stanford, Duke, UVA, Georgetown, Amherst, U Chicago, Emory, Wesleyan & Brandeis friends. Alumni, faculty, staff, and students are welcome and we particularly welcome our Asian alumni at this popular event!
In partnership with Women of Dartmouth Boston, we are proud to announce our next upcoming DGALA event in Boston: Gay Secrets of the Museum of Fine Arts!
WHEN: Wednesday, July 18th; Time: 7 – 9pm
WHERE: Museum of Fine Arts (465 Huntington Ave)
Ticket : $25 each
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gay-secrets-of-the-mfa-tickets-47578444408
** Note: use the password DartmouthBoston to access ticket link!
Come join DGALA board members Shounak Simlai ’05 and Lee Merkle-Raymond ’86 for drinks!
WHEN: Thursday, July 19 at 5:30pm
WHERE: Louie’s Bar – 55 Stevenson St, San Francisco, CA
http://www.pourguys.com/louies-bar/
Be out and proud with new DGALA t-shirts in time for Pride Weekend. Meet for brunch in the Castro with other DGALA alums on Saturday, and get a new grey or pink DGALA t-shirt before Sunday’s parade. The shirts ($20 each) were highlighted in the recent Green Light newsletter.
WHEN: Saturday, June 23 at 11am PDT
WHERE: Starbelly – 3583 16th Street, San Francisco, CA
http://starbellysf.com
DGALA Mini-Reunion 2018 in Hanover, NH is on! Below is the schedule for the weekend, hope to see many of you there!
DGALA is co-sponsoring with Tufts University and Boston University to bring LGBTQA Alums together for Boston Pride Alumni Happy Hour. Wear your favorite school clothes and meet fellow LGBTQA alums from the different colleges and universities. Appetizers will be provided and cash bar will be available. If the weather is nice, we will be out on the patio celebrating Boston Pride Together!
WHEN: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 6-8pm EDT
WHERE: Cathedral Station – 1222 Washington St, Boston, MA
https://www.cathedralstation.com
Please join us for drinks and appetizers at the famous 360-degree bar! DGALA board members Lee Merkle-Raymond ’86 and Shounak Simlai ’05 Th’07 are co-hosting.
WHEN: Wednesday, May 16 at 5:30pm PDT
WHERE: Pedro’s Cantina – 128 King St, San Francisco, CA
http://www.pedroscantina.com
DGALA President Brendan Connell ’87 and Rich Yeung ’93 will be in town and hosting dinner at this old school Mexican joint. We are hoping for a great turnout of DGALA members from the Los Angeles area!
WHEN: Thursday, April 26 at 7pm PDT
WHERE: El Coyote Mexican Restaurant – 7312 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
http://elcoyotecafe.com
We are inviting you to participate in the SpeakOut project (Dartmouth College Site for SpeakOut), which I hope that you have learned about in my recent emails and Facebook posts. Please read the invitation from the wonderful Caitlin Birch below, our partner at Rauner Special Collections Library.
To begin the volunteer process, please visit: goo.gl/forms/mVmhvuiBQ24lymVW2
For more information on the project background, see this post.
Brendan Connell, Jr. ’87
President of DGALA
DGALA will be a proud co-host for the LBT Women’s Ivy Plus GALA at the Yale Club on April 20th! This event always draws a great crowd and hopefully we’ll have many Dartmouth faces there as well.
You can RSVP online and read the full details here:
www.facebook.com/events/1785058231534028/
WHEN: Friday, April 20 at 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
WHERE: Yale Club of New York City – 50 Vanderbilt Ave, New York, NY
Join us in Harlem for another co-hosted special LGBT alumni party at the beautiful Sexy Taco! With a nod to San Francisco street food, we have a nice venue with room to move around and socialize. We particularly welcome our black and Latinx alumni at this event!
WHEN: Thursday, April 19 at 7 PM – 9 PM
WHERE: Sexy Taco/Dirty Cash – 161 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY
https://www.sexytacodirtycash.com
Thanks to our host Princeton BTGALA’s Shawn Cowls for organizing and Elkin Cabas ’06 for representing DGALA!
RSVP or get on the distribution list at http://btgala.tigernet.princeton.edu/EventRSVP
Schuyler Bailar is the first openly transgender NCAA Division I swimmer (currently attending Harvard University) and is the son of Gregor Bailar ’85. He gave a talk, “Breaking Boundaries”, at Dartmouth on March 2, 2018, hosted by Shira Evans, Coordinator of Sports Nutrition. Afterwards, OPAL (Office of Pluralism and Leadership) hosted a round table discussion at the Triangle House and DGALA co-sponsored the dinner. Students were given the opportunity to engage in important conversation and address how to cope with challenging parents when coming out plus navigating other social situations. Thanks Shira and OPAL for organizing!
Join DGALA for our Alumni Day of Service Project with Citymeals on Wheels!
Volunteers will be delivering meals to our elderly home-bound neighbors. Volunteers should wear weather appropriate clothes and comfortable shoes as deliveries are done on foot within walking distance of the meal center. Volunteers will be given a brief orientation, route sheet instructions and meals. Delivery will be conducted in pairs or small groups. Children are welcome. Meals are delivered rain or shine!
Project Information:
Citymeals on Wheels
St. Malachy’s Church (ground floor)
239 West 49th Street (between 8th Ave and Broadway)
Saturday, May 5 – 9:30am-12:30pm
Learn more about Citymeals on Wheels:
https://www.citymeals.org/
The Yale GALA has graciously invited us to an event next Thursday (2/8) with a lecture (“Doing Medieval Sex Work in the 21st Century: A 14th Century Document and Its Afterlives”) from NYU Professor Carolyn Dinshaw, winner of the 2017-2018 Brudner Prize (awarded annually to an accomplished scholar, artist or activist whose work has made significant contributions to LGBT studies and communities).
Due to a generous donor, the event and reception are free and open to the public!
WHEN: Thursday, February 8 at 6pm-8pm
WHERE: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center – 208 W 13 St, New York, NY
For more info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/183253285742469/
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