Mid-South Pride Meeting

7:00p-8:00p:

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.

HIV Testing

6:00p-9:00p:

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.

PRIDE Yoga with The Phoenix Project

6:00p-7:30p:

This trauma-informed therapeutic yoga class series is being offered free of charge to the LGBTQ+ community of the Mid-South by The Phoenix Project. This initiative aims to help heal trauma beyond talk-therapy.

From their website: “The Phoenix Project is an initiative to provide free trauma-informed yoga services to the Memphis community. We were founded in 2019 by Caroline Schratz, a local mental health therapist and yoga teacher. Her dream to help at risk populations in her hometown became a reality when she started fundraising to start a women’s therapeutic yoga group. The overwhelming support she received from the community led Caroline to realize there was a need to expand her services to reach even more people. Thus, The Phoenix Project was born. Through trauma-informed yoga, we can help bring healing to our city and hope to our neighbors.”

These two classes will be free, open to the public, and will require no equipment on the part of the participant. Instructor Caroline Schratz will be conducting these two initial sessions with the intent of it becoming a recurring event, provided there is enough community interest. We invite you to join us in this class series. All are welcome to participate.

Sexual Health Committee

6:00p-7:00p:

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.

Seeking Serenity

5:30p-6:30p:

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.

Pride Kick-Off (Youth Event, Off-Site)

3:30p-5:00p

Come join us for Memphis Public Libraries first ever Pride Kick Off! Friday night will kick off at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library with a special OUTFlix youth shorts program.  We will be screening a number of LGBTQ+ teen-focused short films, followed by a discussion panel. 

This event is FREE to attend. We hope to see you there!

Delta Trans Masculine

5:30p-6:30p:

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.

GenQ

7:00p-9:00p:

GenQ is our group for LGBTQ and Allied folks ages 18-25. This group meets once per week, and is a safe, closed environment for connection, discussion, and most importantly fun!

Each week, this group meets at OUTMemphis (892 S Cooper), during which time they engage in snacks and drinks, fun planned activities, and discussion, all with peers who understand their experience. This group is peer-led (like most groups at OUTMemphis), meaning that the facilitators of GenQ are also LGBTQ or Allied and 18-25.

This group, being a more mature age group than our other youth services, has a lot more freedom of activity, and will occasionally plan to do non-traditional things such as off-site meetings and activities. These will be discussed beforehand and approved by the group. This group also participates in our Life Hack program, a series of classes aimed at building skills and learning things necessary to being a productive member of society. This includes things like cooking classes, financial planning, anger management, interviewing skills, and many others.

To see Frequently Asked Questions about GenQ, click here.

For more information, visit our website, Facebook event page, or email us.

Pride Kick-Off (Youth Event, Off-Site)

11:00a-5:00p

NOTE: PRYSM will not be meeting this day. Instead, they are invited to attend this event. 

Come join us for Memphis Public Libraries first ever Pride Kick Off! Gear up for the Memphis Pride Parade by visiting the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library on Saturday, September 7th.

At this event, you can hear from local nonprofits, learn from educational sessions, play games, make arts and crafts, get your face painted, sit in on Rainbow Family Story Time, and add to a community mural. Keynote Speakers Mayor Jim Strickland, Congressman Steve Cohen, and Senator Raumesh Akbari will be speaking at the event.

This event is FREE to attend! We hope to see you there!

Parent Discussion Series

4:15p-5:15p:

Are you the Parent or Caregiver of a youth who identifies as LGBTQ? Are you struggling to understand this new world? Are you looking for a group of people with similar experiences? Then you should join us for this discussion series.

This series of discussions will focus on a specific topic each month, with the goal being to facilitate open and honest dialogue about these experiences in order to help figure things out. These discussions will be on three topics: August 3rd – “Overwhelmed” September 7th – “Coping” October 26th – “Strategies”

Due to the nature of this discussion series, RSVP is required to attend. If you would like to attend any or all of these three dates, please contact our Youth Services staff at [email protected].

Seniors OUT For Coffee

12:30p-2:30p:

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)

4:00p-6:00p:

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.

Colorcopia: Art Class for Seniors

11:00a-12:00p:

Colorcopia is an art class put on by artists from the Dixon Gallery and Gardens. Participants will learn how to recreate a piece of art in the Dixon’s collection, gaining new artistic skills in the process.

For more information, contact us via email.

HIV Testing

6:00p-9:00p:

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

6:00p-8:00p:

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.