Rainbow Room Events

Rainbow Room Meetings

EVERY Wednesday 6-8pm

Activism, education, recreation, friendship and fun!

Open to all youth 14-21 years old.

301 S. Main Street, Doylestown, PA 18901

E-mail rainbowroom@ppbucks.org for more info.

PFLAG Bucks County Meeting

The 3rd Thursday of every month

7:30pm

BuxMont Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

2040 Street Road (just East of US 611), Warrington PA
PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) Bucks County meets the third Thursday of the month for support, education and advocacy for people with loved ones who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. For more information please call 215.598.8005 or email BucksCountyPFLAG@yahoo.com.
[Open to all]

Sing Out Loud And Proud

Featuring The Kinsey Sicks,

"America's Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet"

Saturday, May 17th

Doors open at 6PM for the Silent Auction
The Stephen Buck Theatre

New Hope-Solebury High School

A show and silent auction, in conjunction with New Hope Celebrates' Somewhere Over the Rainbow Pride Weekend, to benefit Planned Parenthood Association of Bucks County's youth education programs including the Rainbow Room, Bucks County’s only center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, queer and allied (LGBTQA) youth, as well as Boys 2 Men and Girlfriends, life skills programs for adolescents from Lower Bucks.

Click here for more information or to buy tickets!

[For mature audiences]

Bashing Homophobia:

Undoing Harrassment of LGBTQ Youth in Schools
May 21, 2008
Lenape Middle School Library
313 W. State Street, Doylestown, PA

Join us at this free workshop, which is open to the community in honor of Peace Week Bucks County 2008.

We are featuring Dr. David Hall, nationally-renowned teacher and humanitarian, Doctor of Human Sexuality Education, and trainer on creating safer schools.
He will help us to examine the impact of homophobia and heterosexism on bullying and harassment, identify different types of bullying and how they impact LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning) youth, analyze the motivations of a bully, and learn various approaches to support a target of bullying.

Click here to view the flyer for this event - please e-mail or print out and post this flyer widely!

[Open to all]

Mazzoni Center's Trans-Health Conference
May 29-31, 2008
PA Convention Center
1201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA

This conference focuses on the specific issues, needs, and experiences of trans and gender-variant people with regard to the health of our bodies, lives, and communities. Everyone concerned about these issues is welcome to attend, including but not limited to: members of the trans and gender-variant communities, partners, allies, family members, healthcare and social service providers. This year's theme is: "Honoring Our Past, Envisioning Our Future". Visit www.trans-health.org for more information!

[Open to all]

Philly Pride Parade and Festival
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Noon to 8PM
13th and Locust (Parade Kick-Off Location) and Penn's Landing (Festival Location)

The Philly LGBT Pride Parade and Festival is held every year in June during International Gay Pride Month. This year's parade and festival will take place Sunday, June 8, 2008. The Parade begins at 13th and Locust and ends at Penn's Landing, the festival location! The Rainbow Room will be walking in the Parade, and we'll have a table at the Festival, where we're giving out brochures, condoms & safer sex supplies! Visit www.phillypride.org for more info! [Open to all]

Campus Pride Summer Leadership Camp
Saturday, July 19 to Thursday, July 24, 2008
Glen Complex, Towson University

8000 York Road, Towson MD 21252

LEAD with PRIDE! Finally, the camp you have been waiting for! Campus Pride is organizing the second annual Summer Leadership Camp for LGBT and Ally college students. The five-day camp experience works to develop stronger undergraduate student leaders and safer, more LGBT-friendly colleges and universities. Participants have the opportunity to learn valuable campus organizing skills, coalition building and strategies for creating change at colleges and universities. For more information, visit http://www.campuspride.org/camp.asp.
[Open to youth ages 16-24]

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Past Rainbow Room Events

Equality Forum SundayOUT! Street Festival
Sunday, May 4, 2008
11AM to 6PM
Market Street between 2nd and 5th Streets

Join us as we celebrate our Pride at SundayOUT!, the region’s largest annual GLBT street festival with over 100 artisans, vendors, music, and live entertainment. The Rainbow Room will have a table, where we're giving out brochures, condoms & safer sex supplies!

Visit www.equalityforum.com for more info!

[Open to all]

New Hope Celebrates Film
Saturday, April 26 - Sunday, April 27, 2008

New Hope Celebrates is presenting its first Film Festival, featuring films with LGBT main characters. For the main event of the weekend, the 2007 Oscar winning Short Documentary, Cynthia Wade's "Freeheld", will be shown on Saturday, April 26 at the Bucks County Playhouse at 12 p.m. "Freeheld" is the story of a lesbian couple's plight to receive same-sex benefits in Orange County, New Jersey and documents the journey of Garden State Equality, whose activism resulted in gay civil marraige rights in that state. For more information, visit www.newhopecelebrates.com.

[Open to all]

The National Day of Silence
Friday, April 25, 2008

The National Day of Silence brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. This year’s event will be held in memory of Lawrence King, a California 8th-grader who was shot and killed February 12 by a classmate because of his sexual orientation and gender expression. Hundreds of thousands of students will come together on April 25 to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior.

Visit www.dayofsilence.org for more information!

[Open to all]

Solebury School's Spectrum Summit
Saturday, April 4, 2008
6:30PM to 9PM
Solebury School

6832 Phillips Mill Road, New Hope, PA

Solebury School's Spectrum is hosting its Fourth Annual Spectrum Summit, for Pennsylvania and New Jersey Gay-Straight Alliances. Members, leaders, advisors, and supporters of Gay-Straight Alliances are all welcome to attend. The event will begin at 6:30PM with a College Mixer, where college students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or allies will talk about their personal experiences at college being out, the climate for LGBTQA students at their colleges, and much more. Pandora Scooter, amazing slam poet and "Rhymescape Philosopher" will be performing, and then hosting an Open Mic afterward. Don't miss this exciting event!

[Open to all]

Katie Stewart from Equality Advocates PA's Youth Law Project visits the Rainbow Room.

Wednesday, January 16, 2007
Join us as Katie Stewart talks about Equality Advocates PA's Youth Law Project and what it means for youth who identify as LGBTQA. The Youth Law Project provides direct legal services, advocacy, education, and outreach to children and youth affected by anti-LGBT bias in Pennsylvania. The project takes an innovative approach by serving both LGBTQ youth and children raised in LGBT-headed families (http://www.equalitypa.org).

[Open to youth ages 14-21]

Join us at the Rainbow Room for Sexuality Education with our own peer educators - SPEAK Out! (Sexuality Peer Education and Advocacy Krew)Wednesday, December 12
They'll be performing the shows they created and leading activities covering LGBTQ issues, Safer Sex, Condom Negotiation and Sexually Transmitted Infections. Don't miss it!
[Open to Youth Ages 14-21.]

Hatboro Holiday Parade
Sunday, November 18 - 2pm
Join members of the Rainbow Room as they join the organization Committed Pride to walk together in the Hatboro Holiday Parade. For additional information or questions, please contact the Chamber office at 215-956-9540, or email office@hatborochamber.org.
[Open to All.]

Youth Advocacy Workshop at the Attic Youth Center

Saturday October 27

12:00 Noon - 3:00pm

255 South 16th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
Equality Advocates PA is presenting this workshop where youth will learn lobbying techniques and organizing skills for advocacy around LGBT issues, using the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (to include sexual orientation and gender identity under the state nondiscrimination law) as an example. [Open to Youth Ages 14-21.]

Malcolm Lazin visits the Rainbow Room
Wednesday, October 10
Join us for special guest Malcolm Lazin, Executive Director of Equality Forum and Executive Producer of films Gay Pioneers and Jim In Bold, as he visits the Rainbow Room to talk about LGBTQ people in history for GLBT History Month. Also, check out GLBT History Month videos here. There are videos highlighting a different person for each day in October. This event is open to youth ages 14-21

OUTfest in Philly!
Sunday, October 7
Noon to 7pm in the Gayborhood
Join the Rainbow Room as we head out to celebrate our pride at THE event of the fall in Philly, hosted by Philly Pride. For more info go to www.phillypride.org
or email us at rainbowroom@ppbucks.org

FACT AIDS Walk

Sunday, September 23

New Hope.

Visit www.factbuckscounty.org for more info.  

[Open to all - join the Rainbow Room team - email us at rainbowroom@ppbucks.org]

Rainbow Room Open Mic Nite & Art Show Wednesday, June 27th 7-9pm
Don’t miss our Open Mic Nite & Art Show at the Doylestown Rainbow Room, 301 South Main Street, The Atrium, Suite 2E in Doylestown! We’ll provide the amp and the mic, yummy snacks, and space for the art, and you provide the talent! Or come to see the amazing performances and artwork others create. It will be a blast, so be there! For more info email us at rainbowroom@ppbucks.org or check out this flyer.

[Open to youth 14-21 yrs old]

New Hope Pride Weekend "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
Friday, May 18 to Sunday, May 20, 2007
Help the Rainbow Room carry the 100ft Key West Rainbow Flag in New Hope's first Pride Parade, Saturday, May 19th at 10am! Contact the Rainbow Room for more info (rainbowroom@ppbucks.org).

New Hope Celebrates - For more information, visit http://www.newhopecelebrates.com/

Build Your Gay-Straight Alliance Night
Sunday, January 22, 2007, 6-8 pm Join us to learn how to build your own GSA in your school. Information and resources will be available. Open to faculty advisors, adult allies, student leaders, LGBTQ youth and allies.