YALE GALA
Yale University's
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Alumni Network
ARCHIVE OF MAJOR EVENTS (Click on any Event for More Info)
community & member announcements
LGBT Alumni Party at People, NYC. Wed March 10, 8-10 pm
GALA Goes to see Wonder (All-female production of 17th century play). Sat March 6, NYC
Chicago: Freedom to Marry Reception, Thurs, Feb 18, 6-9 pm, National Mexican Museum of Art
Yale GALA Annual Yale Student-Alumni-Staff Dinner at Yale. Saturday, Feb 13, 6:30 - 9:30 pm, New Haven, CT. African-American Center
Yale GALA Strategic Planning Session and Board Retreat, Saturday, Feb 13. 10:00 am - 5:00 pm, AYA, Yale University. Help plan our next year of events. Followed by dinner.
LGBT Alumni Party, People’s Lounge, Wed, February 10, 8-10pm
DC-Reception with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., to celebrate his new PBS television series, "Faces of
Boston Meetup Tues Wednesday, February 3rd, 7 PM.
LGBT Night at the Yale Repertory Theater (New Haven, CT) --The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac - LGBTQ Night Out: January 29th 8 pm
Chicago-LGBT Mixer at Wild Pug, Fri, Jan 29, 6:30 -9 pm
Rubin Museum Mixer & Exhibits, NYC, Friday, January 22nd, 6-8:30pm
2009
Pink Snowflakes: All-Ivy LGBT Alumni Holiday Cocktails + Fundraiser, Friday, Dec 4th, 6:30 - 9:30 pm, University Club, San Francisco, CA.
GALA goes to Stonewall Honors 2009 (women's cocktails, dance party & community awards) on Thurs, Dec 3rd. 7:30 - Midnight
Watch the GAME (Yale beats Harvard) at Nellie's Sports Bar, Sat, Nov 21. Noon-2:30 pm. No cover. Optional RSVP. Graciously organized by Harvard's HGLC.
Yale & Princeton Go to REVEL (Stonewall Community Foundation's Young Donor Cocktail Party), Thurs, Nov 19, 7 pm - Midnight.
All-Ivy & Friends Drinks at the Top of the Hill in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Thurs, November 19th. 5:30 - 8 PM. New event: tell your friends in North Carolina!
LGBT All-Ivy Mixed Cocktail Series at the W Hotel (39th St), Thurs Nov. 12th, 6:30 - 8:30 pm., NYC. Organized by Princeton BTGALA (w/ 11 co-hosts)
Yale GALA goes to The LGBT Center's Women's Dinner 12. Sat, Nov 7th. 7 pm to Midnight. 100's of women in black dresses & tux. Come join the GALA Tables for a great party.
Meet Molly Ringwald. Honors Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum & Robyn Goodman (Avenue Q).
An Intercollegiate LGBT Alumni Mixer, Wed Nov 4th, 6-8 pm at Vino 100, 2909 Mckinney Ave, Dallas, TX
Boston Meetup Wed Nov 4th. at The Enormous Room, 7 PM, Cambridge
Yale Professor and Acclaimed Poet J.D. McClatchy (Ph.D. '74) on "The Poet as Librettist" (about putting opera together), Tues Nov 3rd, 7-8:30 pm, at Black Box Theatre, 113-A 2nd Avenue, NYC. $15 cost. RVSP required
(Jim) Brudner '83 Prize Lecture. Justice Edwin Cameron (South Africa) lectures on "Africa, AIDS and Homophobia: The Other Epidemic." Thurs, Oct 29. Yale Club of NYC
The Annual Jim Brudner '83 Prize Lecture at Yale. Wed, Oct 28. 5 pm. New Haven, CT
All-Ivy & Friends Drinks at the Top of the Hill in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Thurs, Oct 29th. 5:30 - 8 PM. New event: tell your friends in North Carolina!
All-GALA DC Mixer on Thurs, Oct 8, 6:30 - 8:30 pm at Nellie's Sports Bar. Yale, Princeton, Stanford
Boston Meetup Tues Oct 6th at Bond Bar
LBT Women's Dinner, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Penn, Oxford, Cambridge & friends, etc. Friday, Oct 2nd. 6:30 - 8:30 pm. NYC.
All-Ivy & Friends Drinks at the Top of the Hill in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Thurs Sept 24, 5:30 - 8 PM. New event: tell your friends in North Carolina!
Libations and Litigation with Lambda Legal. A Fun Women's Mixer. Thurs, Sept 24th. 6:00-8:30
Young Yale Alumni: Welcome to NYC event with YAAMNY. Free Food & Drink @ Yale Club. Wednesday, Sept 16, 6-9 pm. Please RSVP
Lunch with AYA and Yale GALA in San Francisco, Sun, Sept 13, 1-3 pm
Waterside Potluck in Quincy, Mass. Sat, Sept 12. 1 pm until Dusk. An GLBT Ivies Greater Boston Meetup (Mixer) at the gracious home of Zen
Welcome back! Fall All-LGBT Alumni Party at Shaffer City Restaurant, NYC. Thurs, Sept 10, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Special Boston Meetup: GLBT Ivies Greater Boston Meetup (Mixer) Wed August 26, 7-9 PM at Noir (Charles Hotel), Cambridge, MA
Heat of Summer LGBT Alumni Party at Vesta, NYC. Thurs, Aug 20. 8-10 pm
Women's All-GALA Japanese Dinner on Friday, August 14. 6:30 - 8:30 pm, NYC. Come to a casual dinner--with a mixer 1st--with old & new friends.
"2nd Tuesday" LGBT Happy Hour at the Austin Grill, Tuesday, August 11. 6:30 - 8:30 pm. All-Ivy & Friends gather with SAGALA
GLBT All-Ivy Meetup Event, Boston, MA. Tuesday, August 4, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Front Page Summary Yale GALA July 2009. Happy Summer!
Grant Park Symphony Concert at Millenium Park, Sat, July 18. 6-9 pm.
Summer Cocktails at the Rubin Art Museum, NYC. Friday, July 17. 6:30 - 8:30 pm. Free Event. Enjoy nyc and the museum with GALA & friends
Yale-Harvard-Princeton: Summer Cocktail Parties at the Home of Eric Wolff. Tuesday, July 14
GLBT All-Ivy Meetup Event, Boston, MA. Tuesday, July 7, 6-9 pm (monthly)
Front Page Summary Yale GALA June 2009. Happy Pride!
PRIDE Events June 2009 (New York, San Francisco & Chicago) -- SUMMARY!
Annual Yale-Penn Pride Party. Sat June 27, 7-10 pm. Be proud w/ 200 men
4th Annual, Yale Club Post-Pride Mixer, Monday, June 29, 6-9 PM, NYC
March with Yale GALA in NYC's Pride Parade. Sunday June 28
Celebrate Pride with Bay Area Yalies & Film Producer Bruce Cohen (San Francisco) on Saturday, June 27
Alumni Pride Party with Princeton BTGALA at HK Lounge, Thurs June 25, nyc
Out Alumni in Chicago: Pre-Pride Mixer @ Minibar, Thurs June 25, 6-8 pm
All-Ivy Spring Mixer at Shaffer City Bar & Grill, Thurs, May 21, 6:30-8:30 pm. NYC
LBT Women's Happy Hour at Olson's, San Francisco. Friday, May 8. 6-8 PM
Greater Boston Ivies & Friends MeetUp Group (Social, Educational & Professional Networking). May 5, 2009. 6:30 - 9:00 pm. 1st Tuesday of month
The First-Ever LGBT Reunion Weekend at Yale University. April 23-26, 2009
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT in SOLO (benefit) CONCERT: Thursday, April 23. 8 PM in Woolsey Hall, New Haven, CT. Part of the LGBT Reunion at Yale.
First Women's Mixer (All-Ivy & Friends) at the Yale Club of NYC (Tap Room). Friday, April 3. 6-9 PM. RSVP Required.
First Women's Mixer (All-Ivy & Friends) at the Yale Club of NYC (Tap Room) with Hillary Clinton attending [April Fools Joke] Friday, April 3. 6-9 PM.
Austin, TX: LGBT Mixer at the Brown Bar. Tuesday, March 31. 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Seattle, WA. Mixer and Reunion Reception at Elysian Brewery. Friday, March 20. 7-9 PM.
West Hollywood, CA. Free Whiffenpoofs Concert and Yale Reunion Party with Bruce Cohen (Producer of Milk). Saturday, March 7. 6-9 PM
San Francisco, CA. West Coast Announcement of the 1st LGBT Yale Reunion. Tuesday, March 3. 6-8 PM
Washington, DC Pre-Reunion Reception. Monday, Feb 23, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
All-Ivy Mixer at the W Hotel, NYC. February 18, 2009
All-Ivy & Friends Happy Hour at the House of Shields, Wed, Feb 18, 2009. San Francisco
Cocktails at the Rubin Art Museum with FFR/Princeton BTGALA, January 30, 2009 (NYC)
LGBT Mixer at Taste Select Wine Bar, Tuesday January 27, 2009. (Austin, TX)
All-Ivy LGBT Happy Hour at Austin Grill (Langston), January 13, 2009. (DC)
2008
Come Back to Yale, April 23-26, 2009: LGBT Reunion at Yale University (New Haven, CT)
Front Page Yale GALA Dec 2008
All-Ivy End-of-Year Mixer at HK Lounge with FFR/Princeton BTGALA, Dec 28, 2008 (NYC)
Yale GALA Goes to Park Avenue Armory with Moving Theatre on Mickey's Birthday (Dec 12)
All-Ivy & Friends Cocktail Party at Hector's on Henderson, Dec 11, 2008 (Dallas, TX)
Watch the Yale-Harvard Game at Nellie's Sports Bar, Nov 22, 2008. (DC)
All-Ivy Alumni Festival at Shaffer's Oyster Bar Nov 13 2008 (NYC)
Front Page Yale GALA October 2008
Yale-Harvard Fall Mixer Friday October 17 2008 (nyc)
Annual Student Alumni Dinner October 11 2008 at Yale University (New Haven, CT)
All-Ivy & Friends Womens' Mixer Sept 27 2008 at Cattyshack (nyc)
Events September and October 2008
Front Page Yale GALA August Summer 2008
Bob Barnett Theatre Event August 2008
Other Events August 2008
Front Page Yale Gala June 2008 Happy Pride!
Other Events June & July 2008
All-Ivy & Friends Post-Pride Mixer at the Yale Club NYC, July 1 2008
NY Pride June 2008
LGBTQ Rights Symposium in New York City (thanks to LeGal & NYC Bar) June 2 2008
Front Page Yale GALA May 2008 Yale Reunions and Pride-Preparation
Yale Reunions 2008 (May & June)
Other Events May 2008
Brudner Prize Lecture (April, 2008) by French philosopher and gay activist Didier Eribon
Other April 2008 Events
2007
Cocktails Mixer at the Rubin Art Museum: Oct, 2007 (with Princeton BTGALA)
Book Launch Party, Oct 2007: Knock Yourself Up. No Man, No Problem!
Art Gallery Tour: October, 2007
LGBTQ Youth at Risk Panel: September, 2007 (with Merrill Lynch)
Women's Mixer at Cattyshack (with Princeton BTGALA)
Cocktails at the W Hotel (with Princeton BTGALA)
Women's Mixer in NYC: July 19, 2007 (with Princeton BTGALA)
2nd Annual Yale Club Pride Mixer: All-Ivy & Friends: June, 2007
NYC Pride March: Sunday June 24, 2007
Annual Yale-Penn Pride Party: June 2007
Brunch / Mixer in the Pines, Fire Island (with DGALA-Dartmouth): June, 2007
Exhibit Opening the Larry Kramer '57 Papers (Donated to Yale): June, 2007
NY City Comptroller Honors Yale GALA Members Doug Wright and Rosemary Palladino for their Lifetime Contributions: May 30, 2007. (With Gay Men's Health Crisis)
Yale GALA Goes to Yale Reunions. May & June, 2007
Women's Mixer in NYC: May 17, 2007 (with Princeton BTGALA)
Errol Grimes Dance (EGDG) Experience Presents excerpts: Monday, May 14, 2007 (with DGALA [Dartmouth GALA] and FFR/Princeton BTGALA)
Connect with Yale in NYC: George Chauncey, Joanne Meyerowitz and Maria Trumpler at the Yale Club of New York: May 10, 2007
Connect with Yale in New Haven: May 5, 2007
2006
Yale GALA Annual Student-Alumni Dinner in New Haven, CT. November 11, 2006
Yale GALA Goes to Women's Event 9--a fun, Black-Tie Formal--benefiting the LGBTQ Center of New York City: October 28, 2006 (with the LGBT Center of New York City)
Be Real: Stories from Queer America. Director's Showing and Q&A at the Jersey City Museum. October 14, 2006 (with Chillfest, the LGBT Film Festival in New Jersey)
National Coming Out Day All-Ivy & Friends Mixer, to Benefit In the Life Studios: Oct. 11, 2006
Why Gay & Lesbian Marriage Matters: The Fight to Win the Freedom to Marry in New York and Nationwide. A Talk by Evan Wolfson (SM '78) at the Yale Club of NYC: September 20, 2006
Women's Mixer At Cattyshack (with FFR/Princeton BTGALA): September 9, 2006
1st Annual Yale Club Pride Mixer: All-Ivy & Friends: June, 2006
Cocktails & Discussion with WNYC's Award-Winning Investigative Reporter Andrea Bernstein (Yale, BK '84): March 9, 2006. (with the LGBT Center of New York City)
Jonathan Katz Talk on the Art of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg at the Yale Club of NYC: January, 2006
Washington DC Cocktail Party: January, 2006
2005
New York City Lesbian Politicians "Meet & Mingle" Event - Meet Christine Quinn, Deborah Glick and Margarita Lopez: September 15, 2005 (With the LBGT Center of New York City)