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MONDAY 8/5
HIV Testing
6:00pm-9:00pm
Knowing your status is the first step in reclaiming your sexual health, which is why OUTMemphis offers free HIV testing every Monday and Wednesday evening from 6:00p-9:00p, no appointment needed!
The test is free, quick, and confidential. The test takes around 20 minutes and includes a confidential sexual health counseling session with one of our highly trained testing staff.
For more information visit our website, Facebook event page, or email us.
Perpetual Transition
6:00pm-8:00pm
Perpetual Transition is our core Transgender Services peer-led community group, meeting continuously since 2005. PT is a safe and welcoming space for transgender folks of any flavor, identity, expression, or gender to meet and socialize with other like-minded individuals.
PT is open to anyone who identifies as transgender or is questioning, and is a safe and confidential space to ask questions, meet other people, and form bonds with the Memphis transgender community.
For more information, email us or visit the Facebook event page.
Love Sessions
6:30pm-7:30pm
Love sessions are conversations – not lectures – about how to provide yourself with some TLC and make sure you are at your best to be a good partner for your next or current relationship. These sessions are built to open the door to conversations that go untouched. Love Sessions are put on in partnership with the Family Safety Center and others.
For more information, click here, send us an email, or check out the Facebook event page.
Trans ID Workshop
7:45pm-8:45pm
The Trans ID Workshop is designed to help transgender individuals navigate the legal documentation and processes of transitioning, including name change, gender markers, and other such paperwork. Where applicable, blank documents and applications will be provided as part of the workshop. See the web page for Frequently Asked Questions.
TUESDAY 8/6
Mid-South Pride Meeting
7:00pm-8:00pm
Mid-South Pride’s monthly open meeting. Mid-South Pride is the power behind Memphis Pride Fest, a fabulous weekend of LGBTQ Pride Festivals, Parades, and events in September each year. For more information check out their website.
WEDNESDAY 8/7
HIV Testing
6:00pm-9:00pm
Knowing your status is the first step in reclaiming your sexual health, which is why OUTMemphis offers free HIV testing every Monday and Wednesday evening from 6:00p-9:00p, no appointment needed!
The test is free, quick, and confidential. The test takes around 20 minutes and includes a confidential sexual health counseling session with one of our highly trained testing staff.
For more information visit our website, Facebook event page, or email us.
Sexual Health Committee
6:00pm-7:00pm
This peer-led committee meets twice-monthly to decide Sexual Health Services decisions, create and plan events, and to curate the Sexual Health programs at OUTMemphis to fit the needs of the community.
This committee meeting is closed to members only, but if you are interested in joining this committee, send an email to Martavius Hampton, Senior Director of Health and Evaluation.
THURSDAY 8/8
Seeking Serenity
5:30pm-6:30pm
Seeking Serenity is a peer-led community support group for LGBTQ friends and family of people in recovery for alcohol.
Seeking Serenity provides a weekly session for LGBTQ community members who support are associated with problem drinkers to convene for community, discussion, and social support from like-minded people in similar situations. While allies are welcome, Seeking Serenity is centered and gives precedent to the lives and experience of LGBTQ people.
Join us for this weekly, confidential group. For more information, check out our website, Facebook event page, or email us.
Royal-T
6:30pm-8:30pm
Royal-T is a newly Memphis-based social and support group for all transgender people of color. Royal-T is a group for Kings and Queens to come and be themselves. We have to support and motivate each other through the good and bad times.
For more information, please email us or visit the Facebook event page.
FRIDAY 8/9
Delta Trans Masculine
5:30pm-6:30pm
Delta Trans Masculine is a peer-led community social group for trans and gender non-conforming folks who identify more on the masculine side of the spectrum. This is a safe place for transmasculine folks to be authentically themselves around like-minded people who share similar identities. This group is open to friends, family, partners, spouses, and supportive allies as well.
For more information, visit our website, email us, or visit the Facebook event page.
SATURDAY 8/10
PRYSM
4:00pm-6:00pm
PRYSM is our group for LGBTQ and Allied youth ages 13-17. This group meets once per week, and is a safe, closed environment for connection, discussion, and most importantly fun!
Please Note: This week, PRYSM will be meeting at Peabody Park (712 Tanglewood St, Memphis, TN 38104), at a crossover water balloon event with GenQ. As a result, this week’s PRYSM meeting will include participants up to age 25.
For more information about PRYSM, email us or check out the Facebook event page.
SUNDAY 8/11
Seniors OUT For Coffee
12:30pm-2:30pm
Seniors OUT For Coffee is a community social group for LBTQ community members 55 years-of-age or older. The group meets over coffee and light snacks for conversation and fellowship with like-minded people.
For more information, email us or check out the Facebook event page.
FU;BU (For Us; By Us)
4:00pm-6:00pm
FU;BU is a peer-led community social group for same-gender loving (SGL) men of color. The primary goal of FU;BU is to foster a safe, creative, and positive space for SGL men of color.
FU;BU aims to build positive relationships with self and community through great conversation, while providing a forum for community building and socializing.
For more information, visit our web page, Facebook event page, or email us.
MONDAY 8/12
HIV Testing
6:00pm-9:00pm
Knowing your status is the first step in reclaiming your sexual health, which is why OUTMemphis offers free HIV testing every Monday and Wednesday evening from 6:00p-9:00p, no appointment needed!
The test is free, quick, and confidential. The test takes around 20 minutes and includes a confidential sexual health counseling session with one of our highly trained testing staff.
For more information visit our website, Facebook event page, or email us.
Perpetual Transition
6:00pm-8:00pm
Perpetual Transition is our core Transgender Services peer-led community group, meeting continuously since 2005. PT is a safe and welcoming space for transgender folks of any flavor, identity, expression, or gender to meet and socialize with other like-minded individuals.
PT is open to anyone who identifies as transgender or is questioning, and is a safe and confidential space to ask questions, meet other people, and form bonds with the Memphis transgender community.
For more information, email us or visit the Facebook event page.
