LGBTQIA+ Connect Group

Please join us on Sunday, January 19, 2025 at  6 PM EST, 5 PM CST, 4 PM MST, 3 PM PST for a thoughtful discussion entitled “our love/hate relationships with medication” as facilitated with guest expert extraordinaire, Cat  (APRN LMHC PMHNP-BC). Cat is a an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner .  From steroids, to the disease modifying anti-rhematic drugs (DMARDs) to the non-steroidal anti-inflammatories and the wide array of biologics to homeopathics we have all been through the rollercoaster that is medication management.  Dashed hopes or solid maintenance,  progress or infection or side effects set backs, we can all relate to starting or stopping anew. We welcome guest facilitator, Cat, who will help the group share peer to peer.  It’s not the same without your voice.  Join us.

“You can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own open space for support and participation” (Chomsky).

Join our Arthritis Foundation queer society - special outeach to our new LGBTQIA friends.  Cameras off if you are under the weather is always great.  Calling in from a phone is perfect..  Bring your dinner or your tea.  We are famously informal and delightfully inclusive.

Please join us on Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 6 PM EST, 5 PM CST, 4 PM MST, 3 PM PST for Zzzzzzzzzzz Spotlight On Sleep - a discussion with Dr. Beth Biggee, Board Certified Integrative Medicine Physician, Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician, Board Certified Rheumatology Physician and Board Certified Lifestyle Management Physician. Why does the quality and quantity of our sleep matter?  How does your sleep contribute to your overall function?  Is there a mind body connection to sleep hygiene?   Please save the date for this very special discussion with a committed warrior in the field of integrative and holistic health,  Dr. Beth Biggee,  around a topic that contributes so greatly to our wellness.

Please join the LGBTQIA Connect Group on Sunday, July 20, 2025  at 6 PM EST, 5 PM CST, 4 PM MST, 3 PM PST  for  our annual “Late Pride is the Best Pride and Pride History Trivia”

We are late again.  Nevertheless, we persist.

Did you know that in 2024, there were over 523  anti LGBTQ+  bills introduced across our state capitals?   Now more than ever, we need to affirm and celebate our differences and our identities.

We are going to do a second annual lightening round of pride history trivia and the winner will be crowned our second  LGBTQIA+ Live Yes Connect Queer History Bee Winner. Group member Mercedes won last year!  This year a Bonus point for naming a LGBTQ nonprofit doing good work in your home area.   As with last year we will mail a prideful prize to the annointed winner. Special outreach to never attended members.  We are welcoming, fun and inclusive.

Bring a mocktail or cocktail.  Be the community you want to have.

This is for the ones who never gave up.
The ones who carried dreams of love
bigger than anyone thought possible
and who made it possible.
The ones who showed up
so we could show out,
today and every day.

 -Mercedes Lucero

Please join the LGBTQIA Connect Group on Sunday, September 21, 2025  at 6 PM EST, 5 PM CST, 4 PM MST, 3 PM PST  for  Queer Family Cookbook:  What we cook and why we love it. 

Help us create our own queer joy of cooking.

We’ll get a volunteer group editor and have it compiled before we meet next September and spend the meeting sharing our contributions. 

We’ll make the finished foodie product available for free digitally to our group members.   We are posting this meeting 10 months in advance so that you have plenty of time to fine tune those culinary favorites in your life and think about a fun anecdtode that makes this dish part of your history, repertoire, or healing.  Stay tune for deadline submissions.  Cook on.