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10th Annual Lambda Legal “Freedom to Marry” Event in Chicago

WHEN: Tuesday, February 8, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
WHERE: The National Museum of Mexican Art, 1852 W. 19th St., Chicago, IL
COST: FREE

For the last ten years, Lambda Legal has hosted the “Freedom to Marry” Gala. After this year’s passage of the Illinois Civil Unions Bill, the tenth anniversary of Freedom to Marry is sure to be an energetic celebration.

There will be food, cake-cutting, entertainment, and liquor. Freedom to Marry 2011 is a free event and open to the public. This year guests will also be invited to participate in a secret Valentine game. Guests can pick up a number from our Cupid station. If another guest wants to say hello, or send a nice message over, there will be valentines available that Cupid will be delivering throughout the night.

To RSVP for the event: 1) Contact Simon Aronoff at Lambda Legal either by email or at (312) 663-4413 ext. 327, AND 2) email William Boulware ’90 so that he can give you the scoop on where to meet the DGALA group.

Brian Ellner ’92 Works for Marriage Equality

Brian Ellner ’92 is currently running the HRC’s Campaign for New York Marriage. The goal: to “win marriage equality quickly in New York and provide much needed momentum to the federal marriage lawusuits and other state efforts.”

He’s also launched New Yorkers for Marriage Equality, which is filiming 30 second spots with iconic New Yorkers stating “I’m a New Yorker and I Support Marriage Equality” followed by a personal sentence or two on why (the videos are being filmed by Break Thru Films, a production company belonging to Annie Sundberg ’92). Thus far, Barbara Bush, Mira Sorvino, Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, Fran Drescher, Ethan Hawke, Moby, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Meloni, Tom Colicchio, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Kenneth Cole, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Reverend Al Sharpton, John Slattery, Joan Rivers, Julianna Margulies, Sam Waterston, Edward Norton, Amanda Peet, David Chang, Andre Balazs, Daphne Ruben-Vega, Mayor David Dinkins, Mayor Ed Koch and Mark Ruffalo have signed on to participate.

For more information, or to watch the videos that have been released to date, visit www.hrc.org/ny4marriage.

Intercollegiate LGBT Alumni Winter Dinner in NYC

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

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

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 for cocktails. Dinner will be served downstairs, but folks can eat upstairs or downstairs as we’re taking over the whole restaurant for this great event!

Cost is $25 in advance  or $30 cash at the door and includes appetizers, dinner and coffee with a light dessert. To register, click here.

Brunch with DGALA at Gascogne in NYC

WHEN: Sunday, February 13 at 1 p.m.

WHERE: Gascogne, 158 Eighth Ave. (at 18th St.), NYC

Given the success of our brunch in November, we’ve decided to do it again — this time at Gascogne. Zagat calls Gascogne a “quintessential” French bistro.

$29 includes your choice of a mimosa, bloody mary or orange juice, three course brunch, coffee or tea, tax and tip (to see the brunch menu, click here and scroll down)

We are limited to 14 people, so register online today.

Non-Dartmouth guests are welcome.

Chaos and Classicism at the Guggenheim

WHEN: Sunday, January 2 at 3 p.m.

WHERE:  Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave. (at 89th St), NY, NY

Join DGALA on a guided tour of “Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936” before the show closes. NY Magazine called the exhibit one of the 10 best exhibitions of the year and the NY Times described it as “mystifying” and “totally engrossing”.

Cost is $18 and includes museum admission and guided tour.
Space is limited to 12, so buy your tickets today.

DGALA Announces New Board Members

DGALA is pleased to announce the election of the following individuals to the DGALA Board of Directors:

  • Uriel Barrera-Vasquez ’98
  • William Boulware ’90
  • Dana Carne DMS ’10 Tu ’10
  • Rigel Cable ’10
  • Brendan Connell ’87
  • Isai Pemier Tu ’05
  • Tim Stanne ’03
  • Bess Tortolani ’98

In addition, Sarah Burgamy ’00, Nick Chamousis ’73, David Hankins ’06 and S. Caroline Kerr ’05 were re-elected.  You can learn more about the new directors in the fall edition of the Green Light!

Pink Snowflakes II: A Holiday Benefit for The Trevor Project in SF

Co-Hosted by DGALA

WHEN: Friday, Dec. 10, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

WHERE: The University Club, 800 Powell Street, San Francisco

Celebrate the season with fellow LGBT alumni and allies at a cocktail benefit for The Trevor Project, a non-profit that runs the only nationwide suicide hotline for LGBT youth. Please join graduates of the Ivy League, Seven Sisters, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and other schools, as well as their partners and friends as they spread some holiday cheer at San Francisco’s historic University Club on the crest of Nob Hill.

This year’s event is generously sponsored by Passalacqua Winery and Davenport & Company wines. These wines are handcrafted in very limited quanitites by award-winning winemaker Margaret Davenport, who will be there to present and discuss the wines. Passalacqua Winery and Davenport & Company are proud to partner with us to support The Trevor Project, and they look forward to pouring a special selection of their wines for you on December 10th.

Ticket price includes admission, light appetizers, two glasses of Passalacqua wine, and one raffle ticket for a growing list of prizes including items from Passalacqua Winery, Spruce, The Woods Resort at Russian River, Gilt Group, Bi-Rite and Bi-Rite Creamery, Good Vibrations, Kabuki Springs and Spa, American Conservatory Theater, Wofford Acres Vineyard, Book Passage, Equinox Fitness, Sportsclub/LA and more. Photography provided by Faust Photographics.

Additional raffle tickets will be available on the night of the event for $5 each, or 10 for $40. Check back regularly as we update the list of raffle items and provide more details about the event!

Tickets are available for purchase online for $35 or at the door on the night of the event for $40.

Net proceeds from the evening will be donated to The Trevor Project, a California-based non-profit that supports the only nationwide suicide hotline for LGBT youth. For more information about The Trevor Project, please visit www.thetrevorproject.org.

For more information, email Riley Doyle ’08 or Rigel Cable ’10.

Alumnae Seek Pro-Bono Legal Support for Trans Bodies, Trans Selves Project

Amanda Rosenblum ’07 and Dr. Laura Erickson-Schroth, DMS ’09 are seeking help for their book project, entitled Trans Bodies, Trans Selves. Amanda and Laura were both actively involved in the queer community at Dartmouth: Amanda was on the committee that created the Gender Neutral Housing Program, and Laura was a leader in qMD, the queer group at Dartmouth Medical School.

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is a resource guide for transgender people, consisting of chapters written by trans folks, covering topics that range from coming out, legal advice, medical care, parenting a trans kid, art and activism. At this point, authors (including Jenny Boylan, Pat Califia, Helen Boyd and Betty Crow, Jamison Green, Pauline Park) are writing their chapters, while Amanda and Laura are focusing on publishing and the website (the book will be edited by Laura), which they hope will become a place that serves as the center of a foundation (created from proceeds of the book and tour) and a living community for transgender people (all along the gender spectrum) after publication.

Amanda and Laura have been actively seeking a lawyer who can help them with publishing contracts, intellectual property questions (and/or contracts with the authors), and in gaining non-profit status or contracting with a fiscal sponsor.  Currently, all of the project leadership and contributors have been working on a volunteer basis and they have very little funds to obtain this kind of legal support. They hope to find someone who strongly believes in the value of this project as much as they do, and believes in the benefit it can have for trans folks around the world.

To find out more about Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, check out the project’s website at transbodies.com, or send them an e-mail at transbodies@gmail.com.

Also, you can read Laura’s New York Times blog here.

DGALA Brunch at Rocking Horse Cafe in NYC

WHEN: Sunday, Nov. 7 at 11:30 a.m.

WHERE: Rocking Horse Cafe, 182 Eighth Ave. (at 19th St), NYC

Prepare yourself for a Sunday with brunch AND unlimited margaritas, mimosas, bloody marys at Rocking Horse Cafe- all for $14, including tax and tip! Unheard of, right? Thanks to the generous support of DGALA, we alums are going to enjoy a splendidly-inspired Mexican Sunday in Chelsea for an insanely low price.

Join DGALA this coming Sunday, November 7th, at 11:30 am (sharp!) for a  fantastic brunch that includes buttermilk panqueques, burritos de bistec y huevos, pomegranate enchiladas de pollo, and more.

Our brunch also includes an open bar, coffee, tea, and a glass of cold water for the road. We are limited to 15 people, so register today.

Non-Dartmouth guests are welcome, but will enjoy the fantastically-low price of $29, tax and gratuity included.

UPDATE: Due to popular demand, brunch is full. Thank you for your interest and we hope to see you at the next DGALA NYC event.