Our popular Health & Wellness lecture series with our Partners at Eisenhower Health returns in October with a great selection of topics and outstanding presenters. Don't miss the opportunity to participate and learn more about these important health topics!

 

When: Wednesdays - 5:30 to 6:30 pm (Please check out schedules and topics on our website)

Where: The Center @ 1301 N Palm Canyon Dr., 3rd Floor. Palms Springs, CA

Cost: This is a FREE event but space is limited. Registration is required.

 

Please call The Center at 760.416.7790 to sign up.

We @ The Center are continuing our efforts to support raising $$$ and awareness for DAP’s 33rd Annual AIDS Walk 2019. Our Center-pedes team goal is $5,000 (we are shy $1,500 so far!).).

 

In past years we’ve been able to meet and surpass that goal, ranking as one of the top 5 teams. With your help, let’s see if we can do the same again. We receive 50% of net proceeds that we raise, and that's a substantial contribution to the amazing work we do here at The Center as well as supporting DAP’s programs and services. It’s a no-lose scenario!

 

You can join The Center-pedes team! There are easy tools and templates to assist you in sending out messages to friends and family members in support of DAP and The Center. Just Follow this link Desert AIDS Walk 2019/The Center-Pedes to sign up for the walk, join the Center-pedes team, or sponsor one of our team members. So pull on your Chuck’s (whatever color they are), and let’s wriggle The Center-pedes to our best year ever!

A group for LGBT people interested in playing board games as a way to meet new people. No experience necessary. This group will meet twice per month: 2nd Saturday & 4th Thursday every month.

 

Where: The Center @ 1301 N Palm Canyon Dr., 3rd Floor. Palm Springs, CA

 

Call 760-416-7790 for more info or to register

 

Cost: FREE - Donations suggested

This "Multigenerational Chat Room" meets in a open discussion group on provocative and timely topics designed to bridge the generational divide and break through stereotypes of what it means to be older or younger.

 

Participation would be open to gay men, lesbians, bi and transpeople of any age.

 

When: Saturday, Oct 26 - 2:00 to 3:30 pm

Where: The Center @ 1301 N Palm Canyon Dr., 3rd Floor. Palm Springs, CA

Pride is in a few weeks and this year we are celebrating a "Million Moments of Pride"... What message will you put in a bottle about the LGBTQ+ experience in 2019 when somebody finds and reads it a hundred years from now?

 

Let us see how you own this week’s theme by sharing your Fun Friday pic on our Fun Friday Facebook post, and use the hashtags #centerfunfriday and #thecenterps on your favorite social channels (links below) so we can follow the fun!

California Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is an eighty bed skilled nursing facility providing high-quality care tailored to each resident’s individual needs. This organization has created a place full of life, beauty and opportunities for personal enrichment under the premise that each resident has the right to quality care, quality of life and optimal health and well-being.

 

FOOD TRUCK MASH-UP is an outdoor food truck event featuring the best food trucks from all over THE USA!

 

Join us as the trucks compete for the title of BEST FOOD TRUCK 2019! Drinks, Tunes, Fun at Big League Dreams Sports Park! Pets on a leash are welcome.Bring your lawn chairs, blankets and #COMEHUNGRY!!

 

No coolers, outdoor food/beverage or pop-up tents allowed.

 

Enjoy this exclusive promo code: THECENTER.

$5 off Adult Early Access Tickets

$3 off Youth Early Access Tickets

$2 off General Admission Tickets

 

When: Sunday, Oct 13 - 12:30 to 8:00 pm

Where: Big League Dreams Sports Park - 33700 Date Palm Dr, Cathedral City, CA 92234

Early Access entry: 11 am - General Admission entry: 12:30 pm.

 

For more information and tickets, click HERE

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, most Americans will require long-term care regardless of age.

 

Join us for an important seminar clarifying the options for care, the costs of care, the details of hospice care, and finally, how care is paid for. Everything You Need To Know About Long-term Care and Costs That You Were Afraid To Ask

 

When: Saturday, Oct 19 - 9:30 to 11:30 am

Where: The Center @ 1301 N Palm Canyon Dr., 3rd Floor, Palm Springs, CA

Cost: FREE - For more info or to reserve your space, please call 323-533-3550 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

In her all-new show “Gender Fluids,“ Miss Richfield will attempt to find non-binary answers to our increasingly complex world! With all new music, new videos, new costumes, and a healthy heap of help from the audience, this new show promises to celebrate all the genders - both old & new. 

 

“In these divided times, Miss R is tonic—and gin—for the soul” - Twincities.com

 

What: "Miss Richfield 1981 - Gender Fluids"

When: Saturday, November 2nd @ 8:00 pm

Where: Palm Spring Cultural Center (Camelot Theaters)

Tickets Cost: $30 | $40 | $60

 

For more information about Outlandish 2019 or to buy tickets, please click HERE

Please join PALS and My Jump at The Center on this business partner special presentation to help you put a check mark on that dream.

 

MyJump! helps seniors achieve what's left on their bucket list. They are a nonprofit organization that normally covers the costs for these bucket list wishes.

 

Interested? Please call The Center @ 760-416-7790 for more information or to reserve your space for this presentation.

 

When: Saturday, Oct 26 - 10:00 to 11:00 am

Where: The Center @ 1301 N Palm Canyon DR., 3rd Floor. Palm Springs, CA

Cost: FREE - Refreshments will be served.

 

Want to learn more about MYJUMP!? Click HERE

The Palm Springs Pride Run and Walk 5K is part of a weekend of activities celebrating Greater Palm Springs Pride! The race goes through the beautiful and historic neighborhood of Old Las Palmas in Palm Springs

 

This event is proudly organized by Palm Springs Front Runners and Walkers, a local chapter of International Front Runners, an informal network of LGBT running groups around the world. Proceeds from the Palm Springs Pride Run and Walk will benefit The LGBT Community Center of The Desert ("The Center") and Safe Schools Desert Cities.

 

Race Date: Saturday, Nov 2, 2019 - 8:00 am 

 

Cost: $35 by Oct 30th | $40 on Nov 1st or race day  

Pre-registrants will receive a tech fabric T-Shirt. All race finishers get a commemorative medal awards in 5 years age brackets.

The Center and DFA welcome Gary Wasdin, executive director of the Leather Archives and Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Gary will offer his reflections on what for him, a leatherman, is the best job in the world: uncovering the artifacts and shedding light on the lives of the diverse people who together created what we refer to as Leather, and bringing that rich history to life for us today. 

 

LeatherSex Conversations is a program of Desert Fetish Authority (desertfetishauthority.com) and the LGBT Community Center of the Desert that brings thought-provoking speakers from across the country here to Palm Springs for intimate evenings of questions, answers, and more questions, on topics of interest to people who are a part of the Leather tradition or who are seeking to know more about this enduring aspect of the LGBT experience. Come get your mind blown.

 

When: Friday, Nov 1 - 7:00 to 9:00 pm

Where: The Center @ 1301 N Palm Canyon Dr., 3rd Floor. Palm Springs, CA

Cost: FREE - Registration required. Please call 760-416-7790

"Flagging in the Desert, an official event of Palm Springs Pride, is an outdoor celebration of flag dancing and the music that inspires it. Whether you come to flag, use poi, fans, hula hoops or just bring a picnic to enjoy color, laughter and uplifting music as it fills the park, everyone is welcome - kids and dogs too! There will be loaner flags available for those who want to learn.

 

When: Saturday, November 2 in Sunrise Park from Noon until 4:00PM

Where: Sunrise Park (near Palm Springs Library)

Cost: FREE - 100% of donations collected during the event are going to support Sanctuary Palm Springs, helping LGBTQ foster youth transition towards healthy and vibrant adulthood

 

For more information about this event, please click This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Follow this event on Facebook

A one-day wellness summit focusing on Black gay men in the Coachella Valley and beyond.

 

The event features innovative workshops, interactive discussions and entertaining presentations on a diverse range of topics, such as relationships and intimacy, spirituality, the impact of racism, sexual pleasure, creative expression, financial planning, building community, health care and more. It is designed to connect Black gay men and promote a better quality of life across the social-cultural-economic spectrum. The event is sponsored by Brothers of the Desert (BOD), a Black gay men’s empowerment group dedicated to philanthropy, volunteerism, mentorship, education, advocacy and social networking. 

 

While the summit is designed for Black gay men, allies of the Black gay community are welcome to attend.

 

When: Saturday, November 9th

Breakfast & Registration: 8:00 to 10:00 am

Workshops: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm (lunch provided)

Social Event: 5:00 to 7:00 pm

Where: The Center @ 1301 N palm Canyon Dr., 3rd Floor. Palm Springs, CA

 

Space is limited, and registration is required. A donation of $20 is suggested but no one will be turned away for a lack of funds.

Monthly Potlucks, Walk Abouts, Ladies Night Out and Jazz. These are just a few of the activities you could become involved with. How? Just follow the link and you can view and/or sign up for the weekly Women @ The Center Newsletter . If you know of anyone that might be interested in this newsletter, encourage them to sign up.