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Jimpa
Jimpa
Filmmaker Hannah (Olivia Colman) takes her trans nonbinary teenager Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) to Amsterdam, to visit their gay grandfather--lovingly known as "Jimpa" (John Lithgow). But Frances' desire to stay with Jimpa for a year abroad means Hannah is forced to reconsider her beliefs about parenting, and the stories she has long told about her family. Funny, accessible, full of sadness and joy, and with a wonderful multi-generational cast, JIMPA celebrates LGBTQ+ culture across three generations: Grandfather Jim faces the challenges of aging as a gay man in a generation that never expected to grow old; teenager Frances grapples with the disappointment of their heroes falling short of their ideals; and mother Hannah navigates the differing perspectives of her father and of her child. Surrounding these three is a vibrant family--the family they were born into and the family they continue to create. Rotten Tomatoes
(run time 1hr 53min)
Trailer: Jimpa
Join us for Chat and Chew!
Bring your own pre-movie dinner
5:30 pm Peacock Plaza or
Author Event with Renee Swindler
Francine’s Spectacular Crash and Burn
Author Renee Swindle’s most recent novel, Francine’s Spectacular Crash and Burn (Tiny Reparations/Penguin) is a 2025 Spring/Summer Publisher’s Weekly Buzz Book pick, a top 10 notable fiction title by SF GATE, and a top 10 notable fiction title by Bay Area News.
She lives in Oakland, California.
Francine’s Spectacular Crash and Burn introduces a voice readers won’t soon forget. The weighty topics of grief, loneliness, and depression are offset by Francine’s offbeat, bewitching humor. This novel is a multilayered tour-de-force nested into a heart-stirring coming-of-age.
Queer Book Club
Palaver
by Bryan Washington
… a finalist for the National Book Award, the book is about an estranged Jamaican-American son in Tokyo who is unexpectedly visited by his mother from Houston, leading to a tense but poignant reunion as they navigate their complicated past and search for connection and a sense of "home".
Stronger Together: Using Poetry and Art to Help Us Connect
Stronger Together: Using Poetry and Art to Help Us Connect
Click here to register for this free event!
The Rossmoor LGBTQ+ Alliance, in conjunction with the Crescent Moon Center, will host Suzanne Bruce, Poet Laureate Emerita of Fairfield, who will lead an interactive poetry and art workshop for the Rossmoor Community.
We will explore poems written by LGBTQ+ poets, seeing how feelings of identity can be expressed through verse, and how it can transform readers by fostering empathy and understanding. We will also view art created by LGBTQ+ artists and see how art can be a catalyst for writing poetry.
Then, working in small groups, we will create collaborative poems! We will write lines together, learning about each other, and deepening our connections.
All genders and sexual orientations are welcome!
No poetry, writing, or art experience necessary. We will have fun together!
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The Crescent Moon Center offers proven experiential art learning workshops. The Crescent Moon Center's program offers an empowering path toward healing, resilience, and growth.
Suzanne Bruce taught school for over seventeen years, she then began writing poetry. She served as the Fairfield Poet Laureate from July 1, 2022- December 31, 2024. Her poems have won several prizes, and she has been published in numerous journals. Her books, Voices Beyond the Canvas (2007) and Her Visions Her Voices (2015), are ekphrastic duets with artist Janet Manalo.
Click here to register for this free event!
Queer Book Club
Palaver
by Bryan Washington
… a finalist for the National Book Award, the book is about an estranged Jamaican-American son in Tokyo who is unexpectedly visited by his mother from Houston, leading to a tense but poignant reunion as they navigate their complicated past and search for connection and a sense of "home".
Friendsgiving
FRIENDSGIVING
TICKETS GO ON SALE NOW!
Join us for a wonderful evening of food, drinks, and friends!
The Alliance will provide the main dishes, with a choice of roasted turkey or a vegan entrée—something for everyone!
This year, we’re changing things up and inviting you to bring a side dish, appetizer, or dessert to share. What could be better than a table filled with everyone’s favorites?
Bring Grandma’s, Aunt Geraldine’s, or Uncle Charlie’s tried-and-true recipe. Whether it’s a family tradition or a new favorite, we can’t wait to see—and taste—what you bring!
Good food, good friends, and great company. What more could you ask for?
Single All the Way
Single All the Way
Peter (Michael Urie) is a perpetual bachelor who finally has a boyfriend to bring home to his family for the holidays.
But when Peter’s beau turns out to be someone else’s husband, Peter convinces his best friend, Nick (Philemon Chambers), to visit over Christmas instead. Nick is well-loved by the family — so much so that they hatch a matchmaking scheme for the two singles. Peter’s holly-jolly mother, Carole (Kathy Najimy), cajoles, but his father, siblings and nieces push the pair to help with kooky Aunt Sandy (Jennifer Coolidge) and her Christmas play, in hopes that the two friends might realize they’re better off as lovers. New York Times
(run time 1hr 43min)
Trailer: Single All the Way
Join us for Chat and Chew!
Bring your own pre-movie dinner
5:30 pm Peacock Plaza or
Holiday Party
Holiday Party
Donation at the Door! (Amount TBA)
What better way to celebrate all we’ve accomplished this year than with a party!
Join us for the LGBTQ+ Alliance Holiday Party and an evening filled with delicious food, festive drinks, and wonderful friends. Let’s celebrate our successes, share some laughs, and toast to another year of community, connection, and PRIDE!
Let’s Play: Connecting Through Spontaneous Games
Let’s Play: Connecting Through Spontaneous Games
A Free Workshop led by Bobbi Ausubel and Rosalie Giffoniello
Come join us for an afternoon of playful, creative activities ~ to get to know each other better and have fun. Let’s Play is a series of games allowing participants to let go of inhibitions and rediscover their sense of play. The improvisational style uses simple movement, spoken word and imagination, fostering camaraderie and connections with new people.
The improv games will also include activities that explore themes of gender and sexual orientation. All genders and sexual orientations are welcome!
For more info: www.improvandwhatevers.com.
Those with walkers and wheelchairs are invited
The workshop will include a snack break provided by the Alliance.
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Bobbi Ausubel, a Rossmoor resident and member of the Alliance and RLSC, was artistic director of Caravan Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts and also on the Acting faculty at The Boston Conservatory for twenty years. Following that Bobbi turned to creative drama-- leading girls’ and women’s empowerment workshops in the US and abroad. Most recently, together with Rosalie Giffoniello, she taught improv classes in the Caribbean, Cape Town, South Africa and in Rossmoor. Bobbi also leads the Acting Our Lives classes and performances in Rossmoor.
Rosalie Giffoniello, a Rossmoor resident and member of the Alliance and RLSC, taught in the New Jersey school system for 27 years. She then volunteered at Mother Teresa‘s orphanage in Kolkata, India in the summer of 1999. She co-founded Empower the Children in 2001 with the purpose of bringing educational opportunities to children living in the slums. Rosalie has maintained her passion, bringing drama and improv programs to underserved communities around the world.
“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.” Ludwig Wittgenstein
Halloween Dance 2026
Halloween Party and Dance 2026
THE FIRST EVER JOINT HALLOWEEN PARTY HOSTED BY LBGTQ+ALLIANCE, RLSC AND RAD!
It’s time to dust off those old Halloween costumes or create a brand new one! Prizes will be given out for most original, scariest, and funniest. (Costumes are not mandatory).
There will be DANCING! The DJ will be our very own Terri Daskalakis, who will be playing music from all genres.
A Taco Bar will be provided with Grilled Chicken, Grilled Beef, a Vegan option and condiments. Sides include black beans and rice, chips and queso. A Beverage Bar will include water, La Croix, Diet Coke, Coke, Pepsi and Seltzer. There will be cake for dessert.
We hope you come prepared to have a fun time!
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Queer Book Club
Gordo: Stories
by Jaime Cortez
…a critically acclaimed 2021 collection of interrelated short stories focusing on a young, "chunky" boy growing up in a 1970s central California migrant camp. It captures themes of childhood, queer identity, and rural poverty with humor, warmth, and poignant family drama.
Queer Book Club
Gordo: Stories
by Jaime Cortez
…a critically acclaimed 2021 collection of interrelated short stories focusing on a young, "chunky" boy growing up in a 1970s central California migrant camp. It captures themes of childhood, queer identity, and rural poverty with humor, warmth, and poignant family drama.
Saving Face
Saving Face
Saving Face is a warm, witty, and deeply tender romantic comedy-drama about generational expectations, secret romances, and finding the courage to rewrite your life. Wilhelmina "Wil" is a sharp, closeted young surgeon living in New York City. She keeps her personal life hidden from her traditional Chinese-American community. Wil’s 48-year-old mother, Hwei-Lan, is suddenly banished from her strict immigrant father’s home after becoming mysteriously pregnant out of wedlock. She lands on Wil's doorstep, bringing a heavy dose of neighborhood gossip and endless attempts to set Wil up with eligible bachelors. Director Alice Wu balances a sweet, tentative queer romance with a profound, funny parallel storyline about a mother and daughter learning to see each other as whole, independent women. It delivers the rare gift of a feel-good, genuinely happy ending for a queer Asian-American story, serving as a triumphant reminder that it is never too late to choose happiness over social pressure. (run time 1hr 37min)
Trailer: Saving Face
Join us for Chat and Chew!
Bring your own pre-movie dinner
5:30 pm Peacock Plaza or
A DAY OF LISTENING, LEARNING AND UNITY - ROSSMOOR STANDS UNITED AGAINST HATE
The LGBTQ+ Alliance Board of Directors has been working behind the scenes to bring together a coalition of clubs committed to actively addressing the recent anti-LGBTQ+ incidents as well as other incidents targeting people in Rossmoor.
We are thrilled to share that, at present, 16 clubs will be co-sponsoring this important event. This strong show of solidarity demonstrates the power of our community when we come together to stand against discrimination and support one another.
With that spirit in mind, we hope everyone who attends will do so with an open heart and an open mind—and leave with a deeper appreciation for the richness that diversity brings to Rossmoor.
The following Rossmoor Clubs believe in these values and have come together as co-sponsors of this event. We invite people of All races, cultures, genders, sexualities, and political views. All perspectives are welcome - provided they are expressed respectfully.
* African Americans and Friends
* Braver Angels
* Chinese American Association of Rossmoor
* Democrats of Rossmoor
* Diversity Consciousness Council
* End Gun Violence Club of Rossmoor
* Irish American Culture Club
* Japanese American Association of Rossmoor
* Rossmoor Advocates for Diversity
* Rossmoor Gay Men’s Club
* Rossmoor Fund
* Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club
* Rossmoor LGBTQ+ Aliance
* Rossmoor Pickleball Club
* Rossmoor Tennis Club
* Rotary Club of Rossmoor
* Unitarian Universalists of Rossmoor
* Voices for Justice in Palestine
Queer Book Club
The Lilac People
by Milo Todd
Finalist for the New England Book Award.
“Reminiscent of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See… Heart-stopping in its suspense and dramatic reveals.” - The Boston Globe
A moving and deeply humane story about a trans man who must relinquish the freedoms of prewar Berlin to survive first the Nazis then the Allies, all while protecting the ones he loves.
Queer Book Club
The Lilac People
by Milo Todd
Finalist for the New England Book Award.
“Reminiscent of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See… Heart-stopping in its suspense and dramatic reveals.” - The Boston Globe
A moving and deeply humane story about a trans man who must relinquish the freedoms of prewar Berlin to survive first the Nazis then the Allies, all while protecting the ones he loves.
Booking reading by Dylan Miles
Quirky, Queer, Vulnerable, Funny, Honest Look at Disease and Mortality
The LGBTQ+ Alliance is hosting a book reading of Dylan Miles’ recently published “My Not Chosen Adventure: A Medical Mystery and Love Story”.
It’s a wild tale that includes a rare out of the blue cancer, as well as rainbow squirrels and protective dragons. This book arises from a passion for open conversation about hard stuff – and a passion for joy and love and life. It is also an ode to the power of community.
The reading will include LGBTQ+ focused sections and a discussion.
If you want to get the book ahead of time, it is available at Amazon at cost (zero profit for the author).
In Her Words
Narrated by LGBTQ+ historian Lillian Faderman and illuminated through interviews with trailblazers like Jewelle Gomez (The Gilda Stories), Dorothy Allison (Bastard Out of Carolina), and Sarah Waters (Tipping the Velvet), In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction charts a literary journey from post-war lesbian pulp to modern bestsellers. Highlighting the successful and controversial, directors Lisa Marie Evans and Marianne K. Martin skillfully delve into stories that defined eras of lesbian writers, and the changing socio-political landscapes that encouraged an evolution of the genre. In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction pays loving tribute to this evolution of lesbian and queer fiction, told through a lens of broader American history.
Starting in 1928, readers fell into The Well of Loneliness — a groundbreaking lesbian novel, albeit a tragic one. By the late 1990s, lesbian fiction had climbed out of the well and into a diverse world of stories and storytellers who were publishing increasingly multifaceted stories (some of them even happy ones). This film will inspire lit lovers of any age to return to old favorites, while igniting curiosity for a new literary tryst or two. Stay afterwards for a Q&A with Jewelle Gomez led by Elizabeth Seja Min.
- Description credit, Frameline 47
Queer Book Club
The Emperor of Gladness
by Ocean Vuong
…about a young Vietnamese-American man, Hai, who forms an unlikely bond with an elderly, dementia-suffering widow, Grazina, in the fictional town of East Gladness, Connecticut, exploring themes of loneliness, addiction, chosen family, and the search for meaning in modern America.
Queer Book Club
The Emperor of Gladness
by Ocean Vuong
…about a young Vietnamese-American man, Hai, who forms an unlikely bond with an elderly, dementia-suffering widow, Grazina, in the fictional town of East Gladness, Connecticut, exploring themes of loneliness, addiction, chosen family, and the search for meaning in modern America.
Queer Book Club
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness
by Michael Koresky
Michael Koresky's new book is a fascinating and welcome look at the way that queerness flourished in classic Hollywood, despite (and because of) the era's repressive regime.
Queer Book Club
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness
by Michael Koresky
Michael Koresky's new book is a fascinating and welcome look at the way that queerness flourished in classic Hollywood, despite (and because of) the era's repressive regime.
Queer Book Club
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
… a book that explores the fluidity, diversity, and non-binary aspects of nature, using examples from fungi, slugs, and other organisms to challenge human-centric views of "normalcy" and "sex". Weaving together memoir, queer theory, and scientific observation, Kaishian connects her own experiences as a queer, neurodivergent person with the "queerness" she finds in the natural world, arguing for a more expansive understanding of life.
Queer Book Club
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
… a book that explores the fluidity, diversity, and non-binary aspects of nature, using examples from fungi, slugs, and other organisms to challenge human-centric views of "normalcy" and "sex". Weaving together memoir, queer theory, and scientific observation, Kaishian connects her own experiences as a queer, neurodivergent person with the "queerness" she finds in the natural world, arguing for a more expansive understanding of life.
Pride Breakfast & Walk
Pride Breakfast & Walk
Join us for one of the highlights of Rossmoor Pride! Each year, over 100 LGBTQ+ residents, allies, families, and friends come together to celebrate visibility, community, and joy by walking around the Creekside Golf Course.
Start the morning at 9:00 AM with a light breakfast in the Fireside Room, then gather on Peacock Plaza at 9:30 AM to begin the walk.
Celebrate Pride, connect with your community, and enjoy this beloved annual tradition!
