DGALA Cocktails in San Francisco

WHEN: Thursday, Mar. 22, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.

WHERE: Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, 2323 Mission St, San Francisco, CA

COST: Pay for your own food and drinks
RSVP: Let us know you’re coming here.

Some easterners are heading west next week, and we would love if you would join us for cocktails and some tasty sounding bar food on your home turf! We are hoping that the bar lives up to its name. Go Muppets!

Matt Yee’s Outrageous Adult Sing Along Show in NYC

WHEN: Friday, April 27, 10:00 p.m.

WHERE: The Laurie Beechman Theatre, West Bank Cafe, 407 W. 42nd St, NYC

COST: $35 general seating, $50 VIP seating. There is also a $15 food/drink minimum per person plus tax/service. Adults only. Buy your tickets at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/236097

Back by popular demand, DGALA has enlisted Matt Yee ’82 for an encore performance on the heels of his recently sold-out, first-ever NYC show. Described by The San Francisco Chronicle as “Elton John meets Margaret Cho”, Matt’s performance incorporates fabulous costumes, humor, and, of course, piano playing and singing to make for a fun-filled evening. Don’t miss the show the Chicago Tribune described as a “flash of Liberace with the warmth of a Hawaiian Luau.” You can find out more about Matt on his website, www.mattyee.com.

All proceeds will benefit the Dartmouth College Fund DGALA Scholars Program, which provides scholarships to LGBT-identified students at Dartmouth.

LBT Women’s Mixer at the Yale Club of NYC

 Co-sponsored by DGALA.

WHEN: Friday, March 30, 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
WHERE: Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Ave, NYC, NYC

COST: $40 general admission, $20 students over 21. Open bar with wine, beer & soda.
RSVP: Mandatory here not later than Thurs., March 29.

Meet 100’s of smart women in the Yale Club’s beautiful Tap Room. Last year 230 women attended this elegant & friendly evening. Enjoy an open bar of beer, wine soda and juice — and a bounteous buffet of hors d’oeuvres (including the 3 foot tall chocolate fountain) — while you mingle. REMINDER: The Yale Club Dress Code is business casual or better. No jeans, sneakers or t-shirts, please.

Intercollegiate LGBTQ Alumni Winter Dinner

Co-Hosted by DGALA.

WHEN: Wednesday, Mar. 14, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
WHERE: People Lounge, 163 Allen Street, NYC, NY

COST: $30 in advance, $35 cash at door. Includes appetizers, dinner, coffee and light dessert. Cash bar.
RSVP: Pre-purchase here. RSVP here if you intend to pay at door.

We’re heading back to People for a special winter dinner. Our dinners have had a great turn out of folks of all ages. People serves wonderful pan-asian food. We’ll start with an hour of passed appetizers and mingling over cocktails (cash bar), and then we’ll have a buffet dinner with delicious food for all. We’ll be downstairs as we’re taking over the whole restaurant for this great event!

V-Men: Sex, Drugs, Responsibility & Masculinity

Co-sponsored by AD, WGST and the Men’s Project as part of V-Week.
DGALA is a proud sponsor of V-Week.

WHEN: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Alpha Delta Fraternity, Hanover, NH

COST: Free.

Werner Tillinger ’86 (a/k/a Mr. San Francisco Leather 1999) learned a great deal about having sex and being a man at Dartmouth. But he was shocked to discover that there was a lot more to life — and masculinity and sex — in the world outside of the Dartmouth bubble. Werner will be speaking about the surprises he discovered in his life and careers after Dartmouth and how he learned to deal with sex, drugs, and being a man in the real world.

A Conversation with Montgomery Fellow Larry Kramer

WHEN: Tuesday, January 24, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

WHERE: Filene Auditorium, Hanover, NH

COST: FREE

We just learned that Larry Kramer, author of the play The Normal Heart and the screenplay Women in Love, the co-founder of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GHMC), and the founder of ACT UP, is in currently in residence as a Montgomery Fellow. On Tuesday, Jan. 24 he will participate in a public dialogue with Professor Michael Bronski. If you are in the Hanover area, we hope you’ll be able to stop by for what will most certainly be an interesting conversation.

All Out Bundle Up: Intercollegiate LGBTQ Happy Hour

Co-Hosted by DGALA.

WHEN: Wednesday, Feb. 15, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.

WHERE: Lir, Second Floor, 903 Boylston Street, Boston, MA

COST: No cover, pay for your own food and drinks.

RSVP: Requsted here.

All Out is a series of events that bring together Boston area Ivy League LGBTQA alumni groups. We invite all of our LGBTQA friends (and all their nice friends) from Ivy League and Seven Sisters schools, Little Ivies, Public Ivies, MIT, NYU, Tufts and Stanford! Alumni, faculty, staff, and students who are over 21 are welcome. One does not have to drink to join us. Thanks to our hosts, Jesse Beach of DGALA, Bill Burdick of Penn GALA, Bill Barnert of Brown TBGALA and Zen Chuang of Yale GALA.

Dartmouth Aires at Lincoln Center

WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 7 at 6:00 p.m.

WHERE: Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, 66th and Broadway, NY, NY

COST: $30 (optional after-party extra). Buy tickets here.

RSVP: Requested (so that we know to look for you). Email Susi Kandel ’00.

The Dartmouth Aires took the country by storm on NBC’s a capella competition The Sing Off. This is your chance to see them live. The Aires will be performing a joint concert with the University Glee Club of New York City and DGALA will be there. After the show, we’ll head to a local bar for some post-performance entertainment (location TBD).

Figgy Pudding 2: Xmas in Space

WHEN: Sunday, Dec. 18 at 7:00 p.m.

WHERE: The Triad, 158 West 72nd St., NY, NY

COST: $20 and 2-drink minimum. Buy tickets at www.figgysaves.com

RSVP: Requested (so that we know to look for you). Email Brendan Connell ’87.

Mark your iCal or whatever. On December 18th, NYC drag sensation FIGGY and her musical pal JIMMY MACK return to the Triad for ONE NIGHT ONLY to launch you and your friends into the holiday spirit! FIGGY PUDDING 2 promises a Cosmo-fueled journey to the one place where the …holidays can’t weigh you down: SPACE! With the North Star as her guide, Figgy’s about to get all up in the Milky Way to throw some seasonal shade on our tacky little snowglobe of a planet. So get your head out of Uranus… and prepare ye for liftoff!

 

Fall Alumni Dinner in NYC

Co-Hosted by DGALA, FFR/Princeton BTGALA, Harvard GLC, Yale GALA and the NYU LGBTQ Alumni Network

WHEN: Wednesday, Nov. 16, 6:30-9:00 p.m.

WHERE: People Lounge, 163 Allen St. , NY, NY

COST:  $30 in advance here, $35 cash at the door and includes appetizers, dinner and coffee with a light dessert.

We’re heading back to People for a special fall dinner! Our dinners have had a great turn out of folks of all ages. People serves wonderful pan-asian food. We’ll start with an hour of passed appetizers and mingling over cocktails (cash bar), and then we’ll have a buffet dinner with delicious food for all. We’ll be downstairs as we’re taking over the whole restaurant for this great event!

Same Sex Love In and Out of India

Co-Hosted by DGALA and the Dartmouth Asian Pacific American Alumni Assoication (DAPAAA)

WHEN: Saturday, Nov. 19, 3:00 p.m.

WHERE: Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th St., NY, NY

COST: $15 – Buy tickets directly from the Rubin Museum

RSVP: Requested (so that we know to look for you). Email Susi Kandel ’00.

Join Professor Ruth Vanita, author of Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in India, openly gay Indian-American comedian Vidur Kapur (highlight act from DGALA’s last all-class reunion), and filmmaker Ishita Srivastava, director of Desigirls!, for a discussion of gender, sexuality, national identity and their intersections. This is the last of three programs in the Rubin Museum’s Out in the Himalayas series, a look at the issues faced by gay, lesbian and transgender people in the South Asian region and diaspora. After the discussion, we’ll head to a local bar for drinks and further discussion.

 

Join the DGALA Board

DGALA is currently seeking nominations and applications for new members to join our Board of Directors! This is an exciting opportunity to stay connected to life at Dartmouth and to be deeply involved in all of DGALA’s activities, including:

–> Planning and vision-setting for the organization
–> Providing leadership for and participation in Board committees
–> Working with the administration at Dartmouth on policies that affect LGBTQ alumnae/i and students
–> Social and professional events around the country and in Hanover
–> Collaborating with other Dartmouth Affiliated Groups and other Ivy peer LGBTQA alumni/ae organizations
–> Mentorship for young alums and current students
–> Sponsorship of important on-campus events such as annual PRIDE programming, all-class and mini-reunions

If you are interested in joining, or have any questions about the Board of Directors position, please email David Hankins ’05. Nominations of possible candidates are also welcome!

To apply, please submit a resume and brief cover letter outlining your interest in serving on the DGALA Board to David Hankins ’05.

An Evening of Discussion with Professor Michael Bronski and Trustee Dr. John Rich ’80

WHEN: Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

WHERE: The Dartmouth Club at the Yale Club, Tap Room, 3rd Floor, 50 Vanderbilt Ave. (between 44th and 45th Streets), New York, New York

REGISTER: https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/DRT/events/DRT2316452.html

Reception with free wine, beer and hors d’oeuvres
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Presentation by Michael Bronski, followed by discussion
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

We hope you will join us in learning more about Michael Bronski’s acclaimed new book, A Queer History of the United States — including its Dartmouth ties — and enjoy this opportunity to meet LGBTQA alumni/ae of all classes, including Trustee Dr. John Rich ’80.

Michael Bronski is a Senior Lecturer in the Women’s and Gender Studies and Jewish Studies programs at Dartmouth. He has written extensively on film, books, theater and LGBT issues for four decades, in both mainstream and queer publications, including The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Village Voice. The recipient of numerous awards, including a Lambda Literary Award, Stonewall Award (Anderson Prize Foundation), Leadership Award (DGALA), and a Distinguished Lecturer Award (Dartmouth), Professor Bronski’s courses at Dartmouth are consistently oversubscribed by a wide cross-section of the student body.

Dr. John A. Rich ’80 was elected to the Dartmouth Board of Trustees in 2008 and has long been an innovative leader in the field of public health. His work has focused on serving one of the nation’s most ignored and underserved populations: African-American men in urban settings. His work has shaped policy discussion and health practices throughout the United States. Among numerous awards for his work in public health, he was granted, in 2006, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Dr. Rich is a member of the Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association (BADA) and was recently interviewed by DGALA for the spring 2011 issue of Green Light as Dartmouth’s first openly gay trustee. Dr. Rich resides in Philadelphia with his partner, Dr. Ted Corbin.

Order A Queer History of the United States directly from Beacon Press and enter “DGALA” at checkout to receive a 10% discount and free shipping. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to DGALA.

Registration Rates:

Early-Bird Registration (on or before September 1)
Young Alumni (classes of ’06 – ’15) – $15
Other Alumni and Non-Alumni Guests – $25

Regular Registration (after September 1)
Young Alumni (classes of ’06 – ’15) – $25
Other Alumni and Non-Alumni Guests – $35

Tax-Deductible* Sponsorship Opportunities:

Host Level – $300
Includes event registration for two people, an autographed copy of A Queer History of the United States and recognition in the event program.

Supporter Level – $100
Includes event registration for one person and recognition in the event program.