If you're queer in the bay area and you love salsa music/dance, then you've found your tribe! Welcome to our online clubhouse!!! This is your place to voice your ideas, find out about events, meet like-minded peeps, and plot universal domination ;) just kidding! If there's a salsa event you know about that you'd like to attend with some fun and friendly folks, post it here! Very likely someone else wants to go too! Musicians want to jam with other queers? Post it! Want to invade a straight club …

The Rainbow Community Center (RCC) of Contra Costa County has served the LGBTQ community since 1992. This Meetup group is for women interested in the activities at the RCC. All women's activities will be posted on the calendar and members will be able to see all the activities and talk with each other about them.

Welcome to our close knit family of LGBTQ Gym goers. A lot of people in this group are members of The Perfect Sidekick, the First & Only LGBT Gym in the Nation, but we do a lot more than workout. We also like hanging out outside of the gym and getting to know more awesome people!

I hope to have meet ups that are geared towards people who want to explore new nightlife and laid back activities alike. If you are questioning, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or LGBTQ friendly in your 20's or 30's this is the group for you!!! We do require a yearly membership fee. This goes towards the monthly fee that Meetup.com charges me to have this group. The fee can be paid after your first meet up, if you feel like you want to continue with the group. No shows are not nice :( You ar …

L.A.D.I.E.S Lesbians (and friends of) Actively Doing Interesting Entertaining Socials for LGBT professionals who are 38+. We would like to start a social gathering of like-minded Professional People. Lots of fun and drama free! We would like to meet once a month in the Pittsburg, Ca. area to play cards (i.e. bid whist, poker, and spades), board games, karaoke and watch movies. This is an ADULT SOCIAL CLUB. Family events are up for discussion. Any inactive member or any no-show during a period of …

Let's break away from the bars (and, okay, sometimes also go to bars) and have some real fun.  ALL 20-something queer-identified folk (and their friends) are enthusiastically welcomed.  My hope is to develop a sense of community through recurring events.  Some ideas for events include potlucks, game nights, movies, hikes, club nights, and happy hours.  If you have any ideas, please suggest them!  Activities take place mainly in Oakland, and sometimes in Berkeley and San Francisco.

This is a group for Bay Area professional lesbians and their friends. It's one part fun get togethers, one part networking (which can be fun too) and one part whatever we make of it together.

This is a fun and inclusive group of Queer Women who love to two-step, line dance, country waltz, West and East Coast Swing. No previous dance experience required. No dance partner required. All the dance events that are posted for the meetups include beginner lessons, so that anyone may join at anytime. This meetup group is designed to foster more fun opportunities for queer women to socialize in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, to strengthen connections within the current women's western dan …

The Queer Paulettes* is a Meetup group for queer women who love cinema. We see films that leave a strong impression and make us want to talk about them afterwards. Come meet other cool women still keen on the big screen! The Queer Paulettes programming focuses on independent features, documentaries, and foreign and festival films. We give special attention to women directors and feminist and LGBTQ selections. We don't shun Hollywood, though. Hollywood dishes up irresistible and important films t …

RainbowRec is a volunteer-based, non-profit organization that provides a healthy, activities-oriented environment that promotes camaraderie, adventure, and physical fitness among gay men, women, and their friends in the San Francisco / South Bay area. With over three hundred members and a lavish offering of activities each month, were sure to have something for you. So please take a moment to explore our website (www.rainbowrec.org) and our facebook page learn more of what we're about. Come see …

Hunting for other LGBTQIPA geeks in the East Bay and Bay Area. Maybe you're into video games, board games, cult movies, geeky TV or video. Maybe all of the above! I'm new in town and looking to find more people who would enjoy this kind of stuff. :)

The Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County has created this group to explore issues of spirituality and religion for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, two spirit and ally communities. Our intention is to create a safe place for healing from the ways religion has hurt our communities, and to build a sacred and powerful space to affirm our faith (no matter what tradition or practices we may or may not identify with) in ways that support us to be wholly …

The Bay Area Gay Spirit/Flesh and Spirit Queer Men's Drum Circle usually meets monthly at members' homes around SF Bay. Open to all interested queer/LGBTQ men regardless of drumming experience. No charge or donation requested. Please bring an open heart, something for the potluck and any drums, rattles, etc. you have. We have some extra percussion instruments on hand for those who have none. Originally founded by two gay shamans over 20 years ago, the group nowadays involves a bit of ritual, dru …

The purpose of San Francisco Walking Dykes group is:  to build community for lesbians in San Francisco and the Greater Bay Area while promoting health and wellness. Walking together provides a relaxed way to meet one another and also have fun while doing something healthy! Lesbians of all ages and walking ability are invited, though most members of the group are over 40.  The group meets "rain or shine" so the size of the group varies from week to week depending upon the weather, though generall …

Living in Concord, Ca. but think there are no gay folks out there ? But there are ! We are starting a new group for couples and singles to get together and have fun. Not a hookup site. If that's what you want look elsewhere. Boys just want to have fun. Send us an email in application. Describe yourselves and what you like to do with friends (I.E., play poker, barbeque, chat, listen to music, etc.). We are planning a monthly get together. Cheers !

Flirt Camp is a Burning Man theme camp that hosts creative and sexy events at Black Rock City and in the Bay Area all year round. Flirt Camp creates openness and attention around flirting, turn-on, masculine-feminine dynamics, body awareness and pick-up! We have a commitment to supporting the development of healthy relationships through fun, one of a kind events. Join today and you'll get access to some of our flirty, fun parties.  xoxoxox

SF Bay QWOC is a meetup group for women of color that identify as a member of the LGBTQ community.  The goal is to build a community that may start on meetup.com, but that goes beyond the cyber connection.  Once you feel comfortable enough, communicate with others via our discussion board.  Hey, sharing your number isn't out of the question too.  Do what you feel comfortable doing! Looking for something to do with like minded women? Trying to build a QWOC community? Have a variety of interests? …

Book club for LGBTQ and straight folk as we are straight-friendly.  We read a wide variety of books including fiction, non-fiction, and queer literature.  We usually meet over dinner and wine to discuss our latest book.

Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County would like to welcome all LGBTQ professionals in our area. Our goal is to offer opportunities for business networking, as well as social networking and fun.

This group is for LGBT and allies who are vegetarians or vegans. Wouldn't it be nice to enjoy an activity with other LGBT folks and not have to be concerned about where you will eat? If yes, then this is the group for you. The plan is to do a variety of fun activities not just eat but when it comes to finding food we'll all be in agreement-no flesh. There are only a few rules - Be respectful. Be responsible. And while this is not intended as a dating or hook up group you may meet someone however …

Queer Women of Pacifica come out a few times a month and meet your local queers! There are so many fun things to do right here in town. Going on hikes, good chats over coffee and cocktails, bowling, or catching crabs off the pier. Let's make a nice queer community right here at home! I'm thinking it would be nice to meet a few times per mo. and am open to suggestions for venues.

This group is for the LBGTQ and the open minded audiences interested in networking, socializing, dancing and showcasing their talent's for the shows that will be hosted by First Impression Entertainment.

We are open network group located in Pacifica for Gay Men to meet other Local Gay Men who are Pagans, Wiccans, Witches, Druids, Shaman, and other practitioners of Pagan spirituality and religion! Come to a PACIFICA GAY MENS PAGAN CONSCIOUSNESS NETWORK Meetup to make friends, share lore, experiences, and exchange tips and ideas about spiritual practice, herbs, crystals, Witchcraft, and magick. While we are primarily a group for Gay Men, we are open, excepting, and welcoming all from the LGBTQ com …

Empowering young, queer men to affirm their identities in sex positive spaces. We are an active group of bi, gay, and queer men, aged 18-29, in Silicon Valley, California. We host important sex positive and gay affirming workshops, conduct vital outreaches within the community, engages in a diverse array of fun and casual events, creates awareness around LGBTQ issues, and fosters safe spaces for the unique individuals that we are. A key component of our project is a monthly hiking trip to better …

Are you single? Wanting to find someone for a relationship? Tried the other groups but found it a challenge to meet someone to date? This group is designed specifically for those who are interested in meeting someone to date and hopefully have your dating blossom into a wonderful relationship. There will be a variety of activities that will serve as the starting point of meeting someone in a safe environment.

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The Endeavor Foundation for the Arts seeks to support the arts in the GLBT community through individual grants and scholarships. Our aim is to not only support artists and students of the GLBT community, but also to educate the larger population about talented GLBT persons by bringing their artistic expressions to life and to help provide them with a pathway to successful careers