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/
SpeakOut, an oral history project on past LGBTQIA+ students at the College, will be added to Rauner Library’s Special Collections in early 2019. The project was announced last November and is a collaboration between the library, the history department and the Dartmouth Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Alumni/ae Association.
Read the full article at http://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2018/01/speakout-lgbtqia-history
Hi DGALA members and friends! If you were planning on making a contribution to DGALA this tax year and haven’t, now is a great time to do it! A reminder that DGALA is an independent 501(c)(3) corporation, and we are dependent on your generous support to fund student initiatives like the DGALA Triangle Grants and Dartmouth PRIDE as well as our robust regional programming. We promise that your money is well spent. Thanks so much and happy new year!!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dgala-annual-dues-2017-18-tickets-36318838624
Join DGALA for the “No One Exists Alone: Queer Belonging” tour at The Whitney – exploring gender, sexuality, and LGBTQ perspectives. Afterwards, we will head around the corner for drinks (location TBD!). Hosted by Melanie Pastuck ’11.
Tour (w/ Teaching Fellow Aliza Shvarts) is free with Museum admission (Pay what you wish on Friday evenings)!
WHEN: Friday, February 23, 2018 at 7pm
WHERE: Whitney Museum of American Art – 99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY
Kick off the new year with DGALA in SF at Uno Dos Tacos. We’ll have tables together and have plenty of food with margaritas, agua frescas or cervezas. DGALA Board members Lee Merkle-Raymond ‘86 and Shounak Simlai ‘05 will be hosting and we look forward to seeing you. If you are in town for the JPMorgan conference, come meet with the SF DGALA crowd.
WHEN: Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PST
WHERE: Uno Dos Tacos y Tequila – 595 Market St, San Francisco, CA
NOTE: The entrance is on 2nd Street, next to the bank.
Hi everyone! I am excited to update you on the status of SpeakOut, the oral history project on LGBTQIA+ life at Dartmouth, which is very close to my heart. Over the past few years, I have been collaborating with the Dartmouth College Library and the History Department to define this initiative and shape its mission and vision. Per the announcement in the link below, the College has selected SpeakOut to be an official part of Dartmouth’s 250th Anniversary celebration. With the College’s formal support, the project will benefit from generous budgetary and staffing resources.
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