It’s not just all fun and games with Lavender Friends. While one of our main functions is to provide social activities in a safe environment for LGBTQ residents of Lincoln Hills, our bylaws include other goals as well. Among them are raising awareness of LGBTQ issues and providing help and support to our greater LGBTQ community.

Following some successful fundraising last year, we are in a position to offer a bit of financial assistance to such groups. At our January biannual business meeting in Presentation Hall, we designated an amount and discussed having the Steering Committee develop a process for identifying who might benefit from a little boost.

It was a packed agenda at that business meeting, with several major issues up for decisions. Among them: we are planning to move our very successful annual holiday dance to a larger venue next year; we also will start requiring participants in Lavender Friends activities to sign liability waivers; and, we are gathering volunteers to help staff a voting center in Placer County for this year’s elections. After all the hard work, we headed across the hallway for a pizza party and conversation because, after all, some of it is fun and games.

Lavender Friends is a club for LGBTQ residents and their allies.