Miracle on 5th Alanon
"Miracle on 5th" Beginners Alanon Meeting meets on Thursday every week from 12:15 - 1:45pm. This event is a Hybrid meeting, that both meets in person and on Zoom (*This is something being worked out as we move back to being in person post COVID lockdown). Alanon is a 12-Step Recovery program for those with […]
(OPEN) The Bureau of General Services Queer Division
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent, all-volunteer queer cultural center, bookstore, and event space in room 210 of The Center. We are open Wednesday through Sunday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Center Youth: Open Lab
Weekday drop-in hours in the Center Youth computer lab. Check your email, Facebook, work on that job search or college application! For youth age 13-22. Intake is required for all Youth programs. Contact youth@gaycenter.org if you'd like to join!
Center Youth: Lights Out
Discuss everything sex related, get accurate sexual health info and create safe sex kits to share in the community. For youth between ages 13-22. This group is open, but Intake is required for all Youth Programs. For more information please contact youth@gaycenter.org.
Center Youth: Clubhouse Music Group
The Clubhouse Music Group meets every Thursday from 4-5:30pm. Calling all musicians, singers, performers, music producers, spoken word poets and performance artists/creatives. Professional musicians from Road Recovery will work with participants to discover their talents and develop their skills while working towards a community performance. No prior musical experience needed. For youth ages 13-22. To […]
Youth Recovery: Recovery Writing Circle
The goal of this group is to infuse a writing practice to explore recovery processes. Each participant will have 20 minutes to journal quietly as we collectively share space and listen to music followed by a group discussion. Journal prompts will aid discussion around healing, intimacy, relationships with others, and ourselves while in recovery.
Center Youth: Gender X
Let's learn all about how the cisgender binary is a construct created and enforced by white patriarchy! Also? Let's talk about fabulous TGNC artists, authors, actors and musicians, do fabulous crafts and activities and host fabulous TGNC guest speakers. Finally, let's just talk about ourselves and how fabulous (or not) we're feeling that day. Inviting […]
Live and Let Live in Al-Anon
Live and Let Live in Al-Anon meets on Thursday every week from 6-7pm.
(Virtual) Center Support: Expresión Latinx LGBTQIA+
Este grupo de discusión híbrido en Español está dirigido para todes las personas LGBTQ+ latinxs 18+ en el cual se podrá compartir diferentes puntos de vista sobre los diversos temas que se viven en nuestra comunidad. Para más información, envie un correo electrónico a socialgroups@gaycenter.org o visite gaycenter.org/center-support-social-group
Pride Toastmasters
We are the only LGBT Toastmasters club on the East Coast. Learn new skills to enhance self-confidence and personal growth in a fun and supportive atmosphere. Membership is $120 for six months. Free to attend as a guest up to three times. For additional information please reach out via email contact@pridetoastmasters.com or DM on Instagram @pridetoastmasters
CMA SOBER TALK
SOBER TALK meets on Thursday every week from 6:30-7:30pm. Sober Talk is a solution focused meeting created to have an open space to talk about our other parallel addictions that resurface when trying to control Crystal Meth (alcohol, sex, compulsive shopping, social media, overeating, etc.). Weekly speakers and popcorn format. For more information go to nycma.org
Center Support: APIDA Queer
This social support group is a space for LGBTQIA+ community members on the APIDA umbrella, including East Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islanders to come together and share their diverse LGBTQIA+ experiences and lives while building visibility among the community. For information on how to join, please visit gaycenter.org/social-groups or email socialgroups@gaycenter.org.
CMA en Español
CMA en Español meets on Thursday every week from 6:45-7:45pm.
Recovery Dharma
Recovery Dharma meets on Thursday every week from 7-8:15pm.
SMART Recovery Meetings
SMART Recovery meets on Thursday every week from 7-8:30pm.
Center Support: Thriving Together
This peer-support group seeks to improve the quality of life of LGBTQIA+ people living with HIV offering an opportunity to meet and connect with others who are going through similar experiences. This group will provide a safe and supportive environment promoting awareness and guidance on how to live a healthy life, reducing HIV stigma, and […]
Episode 7 of Revisioning Democracy: Resisting Project 2025 and Trump 2.0 (in person & live-streaming)
A conversation with The New Republic journalist and author Nina Burleigh and podcast cohosts Anne-christine d’Adesky and Jay W. Walker of Stop The Coup 2025. Burleigh also has a new book out, They’ll discuss how Project 2025 may be implemented on “Day One” of the new Trump administration, what attacks are most likely, what Trump’s first Cabinet picks reflect, and how US progressives […]
AA Thursday Westwingers
Westwingers is an AA group that meets on Thursday every week from 7:15-8:15pm.
(Virtual) Center Support: Harmonies
This support group allows community members, who are seeking community and social support, to openly discuss their experiences as trans, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, gender-expansive individuals. This social space provides an opportunity to share their ideas on various topics related to the self and the environments queer people find themselves in.Harmonies meets Thursdays from 7:30-9 p.m. […]
CMA Big Book Study Meeting
CMA Big Book Study Meeting meets on Thursday every week from 7:45-8:45pm.
G.O.D (Gift of Desperation) Group of NA
G.O.D (Gift of Desperation) Group of NA meets every Thursday from 8-9pm EST. This is a space for Agnostics, Atheists, and Free-Thinkers. For more information, you may contact Gif0desperation@gmail.com (0 is a zero, not letter O).
(OPEN) The Bureau of General Services Queer Division
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent, all-volunteer queer cultural center, bookstore, and event space in room 210 of The Center. We are open Wednesday through Sunday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
2024 Day of Service
Day of Service is a holiday resource event offers LGBTQ homeless youth and young adults 13-29 various supplies, resources, and services. It also provides a space for this community to give feedback on their needs. The goal of the Day of Service is to provide necessary resources in a safe environment, while giving participants the […]
SCA Sober Topics
SCA Sober Topics meets on Friday every week from 6:15-7:15pm. Sexual Compulsives Anonymous (SCANY) is a 12-Step Recovery program for sexual compulsion, sex addiction, pornography addiction, and romantic obsession. It is a fellowship of people who share their experience, strength and hope with each other, that they may solve their common problem and help others […]
Recovery in OA
Recovery in OA meets on Friday every week from 6:30-7:30pm. Whatever problem you may have with food, you are welcome at this meeting. We focus on the breakthroughs members have discovered in their journey through relapse. This is a closed meeting, not open for research, case study, educational etc. purposes.
Queer and Kind Group of AA
Queer and Kind Group of AA on Friday every week from 6:30-7:30pm. Queer and Kind Group of AA is a Queer/Trans special interest meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Al-Anon Gay/Queer Men’s Beginners
Al-Anon Gay/Queer Men's Beginners meets on Friday every week from 6:30-7:45pm.
AA: East Village Sober Agnostics
A secular, open discussion meeting of AA, with no prayers.
AA Learned and Humbled
AA Learned and Humbled meets on Friday every week from 7-8:15pm. Learned and Humbled is an open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.). A.A. is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other in order that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from […]
Left Turns In Brown Study: A Performative Conversation (in person only)
In celebration of Sandra Ruiz’s new book Left Turns In Brown Study, we will be joined by an illustrious panel featuring a menagerie of individuals who have appeared in Ruiz’s academic and creative orbit over the past two decades. The conversation will be moderated by downtown diva Dusty Childers. Sandra will also perform selections from the book.Featuring contributions […]
T.R.A.N.S. Group of AA
T.R.A.N.S. Group of AA meets on Friday every week from 7:30-8:30pm. Transgender/GNC Recovering Alcoholics Navigating Sobriety (T.R.A.N.S.) is a closed AA meeting for those who are agender, genderqueer, intersex, nonbinary, gender questioning, transsexual, transgender, two spirit, or any other identity that falls under the TGNC 'umbrella.' We have literature and chips to celebrate sobriety milestones.
Marijuana Anonymous
MA Fearless Fridays meets every Friday from 7:30-8:30pm. Marijuana Anonymous 12 step meeting with rotating format, focused on literature, writing, mediation, and queer inclusive topics.
CMA Crystal Clear Beginners
CMA Crystal Clear Beginners meets on Friday every week from 7:30-8:45pm.
CMA New Tooles
Weekly on Fridays from 8-9pm. CMA meeting which encourages the discussion of all mind-altering substances, including Crystal Meth. Everyone who has the desire to stop using mind-altering substances is welcome at this meeting.
SRA Big Book Topic Meeting
SRA Big Book Topic Meeting meets on Saturday every week from 10-11am.
The LGBT+ Male Figurative Drawing Group
The LGBT+ Male Figurative Drawing Group meets on Saturday every week from 10:30am-1:30pm. The LGBTQ+ Male Figurative Drawing Group is a collection of artists of all skill levels and backgrounds that gather every Saturday, from 10:30am-1:30pm, to draw the male form. We are no longer doing tickets through Eventbrite. Seats will be provided for $20 […]
A Certain Simple Attitude AA Meeting
OMD Group AA Meeting meets on Saturday every week from 11am-12pm.
lesbian book club
We’ll be reading fiction and non-fiction — classic, contemporary, revealing and visionary. As a group we will decide what to read each month, focusing on lesbian authors and/or related topics. Co-founded by lesbian book lovers Judi Komaki and Piper Olsen.For our December 14th meeting, we’ll read The Price of Salt/Carol by Patricia Highsmith (W.W. Norton & Company, 2024, paperback, […]
ACOA Struggle for Intimacy
ACOA Struggle for Intimacy meets on Saturday every week from 11am-12:30pm.
CMA Saturday Solutions
Saturday Solutions meets every Saturday from 11:15am-12:15pm EST. Saturday Solutions is a one hour long closed meeting CMA topics meeting. Participants choose a topic card from which to share on, or a subject of the participants choice. For more information, visit www.nycma.org.
DA Writers and Creatives Prosperity Meeting
DA Writers and Creatives Prosperity Meeting meets on Saturday every week from 11:15am-12:15pm.
Priceless Gift of Serenity – Women’s Al Anon Meeting
Priceless Gift of Serenity - Women’s Al Anon Meeting meets on Saturday every week from 12-1:15pm. Al Anon is a fellowship of individuals recovering from the effects of someone else’s drinking. This meeting welcomes all who people who identity as women.
(OPEN) The Bureau of General Services Queer Division
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent, all-volunteer queer cultural center, bookstore, and event space in room 210 of The Center. We are open Wednesday through Sunday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
You Left a Mark on Me Pop-Up Flash Tattoo Event (in person only)
As part of programming for the You Left A Mark On Me exhibition, we are excited to present a Pop-up Flash Tattoo event. Tattoo artists, Dewey Rice (@good.boy.tattoo), Zyra West (@zyra_west), and Aisha the Goddess (@aisha_thegoddess) will be tattooing at the Bureau! Appointments and walk-ins are welcome (first-come, first-served). Scheduling and prices should be directly arranged […]
Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous
Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous meets in-person every Saturday from 2-3pm. We are a Twelve-Step fellowship of individuals who support each other in recovering from internet and technology addiction. This includes addiction to social media, smartphones, streaming video or audio content, games, news, pornography, dating apps, online research, online shopping, or any other digital activity that […]
New York Prime Timers Second Saturdays
New York Prime Timers is an intergenerational social organization for gay and bisexual men over 40 years of age and for younger men who appreciate them. Prime Timers General Meeting meets every second Saturday from 2-4pm. These gatherings offer an opportunity to meet other members and present informative and enjoyable speakers and programs. Past events […]
Queer ACA Saturday
The Queer ACA meeting is every Saturday from 4-5pm EST. Queer ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholic and Dysfunctional Families). All Welcome. For more information, you may contact queeracanyc@gmail.com
SALGA NYC Monthly Peer Support Group
SALGA meets every 2nd Saturday of the month from 4-6pm. This event is in-person. SALGA NYC's peer support group is a confidential, safe space for self-empowerment of individuals and community building for those who identify as South Asian and LGBTQ. Note: This is a peer-facilitated group, led by individuals who have been trained to lead […]
Queer Tango Lessons
Learn how to dance tango in a queer inclusive space! Beginner class 4:30-5:30pm, Practice hour 5:30-6:30pm, Intermediate class 6:30-7:30pm. $20 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds. Email qpdnyc@gmail.com to register.
NA Serenity on Saturday
NA Serenity on Saturday meets on Saturday every week from 6-7:30pm.
Identity House Walk In Center
Identity House Walk In Center meets on Saturday every week from 6-8pm. Meet with two Identity House peer counselors trained to listen to your experience in order to help you identify your needs. After speaking with them will receive mental health referrals. For more information, please reach out to info@identityhouse.org.
Youth Enjoying Sobriety
Youth Enjoying Sobriety meets on Saturday every week from 7-8:15pm.
Recovery Dharma
Recovery Dharma meets on Saturday every week from 7-8:15pm.
AA LAex
AA LAex meets on Saturday every week from 7:45-8:45pm. The LAeX meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other in order that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. After the meeting many of us fellowship […]
SIR – CMA Topic Meeting
SIR - CMA Topic Meeting meets every Saturday from 8-9pm EST. Sex positive identity, right relationships. Crystal Meth anonymous topic meeting. This meeting's focus is on the shaping of sane and sound ideals for our future sex lives, as outlined in step 4, page 69 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. This is a […]