Connecting GLBT Jews at the DCJCC
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-UPCOMING GLOE EVENTS-
MAY
Sun, May 26 - Community Service: Demolition for the DC Center
Wed, May 29 - Big, Queer Jewish Pride Happy Hour
Fri, May 31 - Pride Shabbat & Schmooze with 6th & I
JUNE
Fri, June 7 - Erev Pride - Shabbat & Oneg with Bet Mish
Sat, June 8 - March with GLOE at the Capital Pride Parade!
Sun, June 9 - Capital Pride Festival
Sun, June 9 - Film Screening: Love Free or Die
Tue, June 18 - Film Screening: Yossi
OTHER EVENTS IN THE COMMUNITY
GLOE Community Service!
Demolition for the DC Center
Sunday, May 26
10:00a-2:00p
Location: Reeves Center
2000 14th St NW (Corner of 14th & U St, NW)
FREE
(REGISTER HERE)
The DC Center for the LGBT Community finally got a permanent home, but they need our help to renovate! They were awarded a great ground-floor space, twice the size of their current home, but it's nowhere close to "move in ready." (Relocation News)
The first step is demolition! GLOE will help the DCJCC's Behrend Builders to clear out the old and make space for a brand new center to help serve our LGBT community. (All muscles - great and small - will be useful!)
So grab your sledgehammer*, smash some walls, and help this great community organization.
*Sledgehammer not actually required. We'll handle the supplies; you just bring the effort. And appropriate footwear.
In partnership with the DCJCC's Behrend Builders and MCCCS
CAMP GLOE
Friday, May 31 - Sunday, June 2, 2013
Due to a number of date conflicts, Camp GLOE has been canceled. We hope to reschedule for a Fall camp sometime in the future, when we can all get away and enjoy a nice, crackling campfire together!
See you at Pride!
Celebrate Capital Pride 2013 with GLOE!
Big Queer Jewish Pride Happy Hour
Wednesday, May 29
Location: MOVA
(RSVP on Facebook)
Celebrate Pride Kick-Off Day! The LGBT Jewish DC groups (Nice Jewish Girls, Nice Jewish Boys, Gayyim, Bet Mishpachah and GLOE) are gathering once again for the queerest, Jewish-est happy hour of the year!
Pride Shabbat & Schmooze @ Sixth & I
Friday, May 31
Happy Hour - 6:45 pm | Service - 7:30 pm
Location: Sixth & I Historic Synagogue (6th & I, NW)
Admission - Happy Hour: $6 | Service: FREE
GLOE and Sixth & I are teaming up for a fab Pride Shabbat & Schmooze! Meet other LGBT Jews over light kosher refreshments and drinks at the Happy Hour. Then, enjoy a spiritual Shabbat service together, led by 6th & I's Rabbi Shira and special guests, that celebrates our shared community.
Erev Pride - Shabbat and Oneg @ Bet Mish
Friday, June 7 | 8:00 pm
Location: DCJCC - Community Hall (16th & Q, NW)
FREE
All are invited to celebrate loud and proud with the Bet Mishpachah and GLOE communities at Bet Mish’s annual Erev Pride Shabbat Service. The coming of Shabbat is always joyful, and during Pride Week, it’s a party! A festive oneg (refreshments and social) follows the service.
Capital Pride Parade
Saturday, June 8
Line-up - 3:30 pm | Parade begins - 4:30 pm
Registration - FREE | Registration with t-shirt - $7
(MORE INFO and SIGN UP)
We invite the entire Jewish community (and all our friends and allies) to join GLOE and march at the fabulous and festive annual Capital Pride Parade!
We show DC what a welcoming and embracing Jewish community looks like!
Capital Pride Festival
Sunday, June 9
12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Pennsylvania Ave, in front of the US Capital Building
FREE
Celebrate with GLOE and our LGBT Jewish friends as we reach out to the Jewish community! Find the GLOE booth for snarky swag, and all the latest.
Film Screening: Love Free or Die
Sunday, June 9 | 3:00 pm
DCJCC (16th & Q)
FREE
(MORE INFORMATION)
Love Free or Die is a documentary about a man - Bishop Gene Robinson - whose two defining passions much of the world cannot reconcile: his love for God and for his partner Mark. It is about church and state, love and marriage, faith and identity — and one man's struggle to dispel the notion that God's love has limits.
The incredible follow-up film to the modern classic, Yossi & Jagger
Film Screening: YOSSI
Tuesday, June 18 | 7:30 pm
DCJCC
Tickets: $11
(MORE INFO & PURCHASE TIX)
Dir. Eytan Fox (83min, Israel, 2012) Strand Releasing
In Hebrew with English Subtitles
Narrative
Eytan Fox returns to the check in on the lead of his tragic romance, Yossi & Jagger, with an all-star Israeli cast of Ohad Knoller, Lior Ashkenazi, Oz Zehavi, and Orly Silbersatz Banai in tow.
Ten years have passed and Yossi is living a lonely existence in Tel Aviv, seeking retreat in his work as a doctor. When an emotional meeting unfolds in his consulting room, stirring up long suppressed memories of his relationship with Jagger, Yossi decides to take off on a long overdue holiday.
Driving through the desolate streets of southern Israel, stark images of city life eventually give way to rolling road trip beauty and when he chances on a group of young, lively soldiers, he finally wakes up from his decade-long slumber.
(Watch the trailer)
In partnership with WJFF Year-Round
OTHER EVENTS IN THE COMMUNITY
NATIONAL SURVEY: Transgender Youth Needed for Research Study
GLSEN is seeking transgender high school students to be interviewed as part of a research study. We’re looking for student opinions about possible ways of asking questions about gender. The information will be used to help develop questions that may be used on national surveys of adolescents. Students who are interviewed will receive a $25 gift card to Amazon.com. If you . . . •identify as transgender or genderqueer •are between 14-18 years old •are attending school in the U.S. and are in grades 9-12 •have access to a phone and the Internet (and be able to be on both at the same time) •would like more information about participating, visit: http://glsen.us/YHSProject for more information and to participate.
NICE JEWISH BOYS: Monthly Happy Hour (usually 3rd Thursday each month)
Thursday, May 16 | 7:00 pm
Number Nine - 1435 P St NW
Come join Nice Jewish Boys at our monthly Happy Hour. Come to Number Nine for to meet lots of friendly NJBs. Bring friends and RSVP on Facebook!
NJB is a DC-based social network geared around gay Jewish guys in their 20s. We meet regularly for events such as happy hours, movie nights, holiday parties and more. Contact nice.jb@gmail.com or Facebook for more info: facebook.com/NJB.DC.
World Congress of GLBT Jews: Keshet Ga'Avah
21st World Conference of GLBT Jews
July 5-7, 2013 | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Keshet l’dor v’dor, Rainbow of Pride from Generation to Generation, will feature keynotes by Joy Ladin (Through the Door of Life), Jay Michaelson (God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality) and Lesléa Newman (A Letter to Harvey Milk; In Every Laugh A Tear, and Heather Has Two Mommies), plus local, national and international speakers and entertainers. With the development of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, this is the place to celebrate diversity! MORE INFO: keshetldorvdor.com
YIDDISH BOOK CENTER: Tent: Encounters with Jewish Culture (Workshops)
Tent: Encounters with Jewish Culture will present immersive, intense, free, weeklong workshops for Jewish twentysomething. Its goal is to connect curious and generally unaffiliated participants with serious Jewish learning through a series of small group, weeklong programs exploring diverse aspects of contemporary Jewish culture. 2 remaining sessions in 2013: Creative Writing, June 2-9 at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA; and Jewish Theater, August 4-11 in New York City (with a special appearance by Tony Kushner!) More Info: tentsite.org
ROCKVILLE OPEN HOUSE
Monthly Meeting (1st Thursday each month, 6:30-8:30 pm)
Rockville Open House (ROH) is a supervised, safe gathering space for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer, questioning,or intersex (LGBTQQI) teens, and their friends and allies, between the ages of 13-18 yrs old. ROH is open once a month, from6:30-8:30 pm at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington: Youth Lounge - 6125 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD. For more information, please visit us at rockvilleopenhouse.org or facebook.org/rockvilleopenhouse.
MAUTNER PROJECT: Bereavement Group for Lesbian, Bisexual and Same-gender Loving Women
Thursdays, 7:00 pm
Our Bereavement Group is a supportive gathering for lesbian, bisexual, and same-gender loving women who have recently lost a loved one due to any cause. The weekly meetings are a peer-facilitated safe space to connect and share experiences with other women. Discussion topics may include myths and realities of mourning, physical effects of grief, and coping skills. The group is free, but RSVP is required for your first session. Please contact us at 202.332.5536 or directservices@mautnerproject.org for more information.
WHITMAN-WALKER HEALTH: Peer Support Groups
Various days
The Peer Support Program of Whitman-Walker Health promotes the mental health of the gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender community, people living HIV/AIDS and their loved ones through a variety of peer-based services. Support groups and individual peer counseling are free, but donations are accepted. If you are interested in individual peer counseling, a support group for LGBT and HIV/AIDS-related concerns, or simply getting more information, contact Jessica Moss at 202-797-3580 or email peersupport@whitman-walker.org.
