About us
The Billy DeFrank Center is part of the fabric on The Alameda and throughout the County with people coming to play Rainbow Bingo on Wednesdays, participating in the ‘Vintage means Valuable’ vibrant older adult 50+ group, and hosting Gaymes in the Queer Library attracting large numbers of younger queer, trans/nonbinary, gender fluid folks. The Center embraces a large number of discussion and leadership groups, and diverse social activities and special events.
To this day, the Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center is recalibrating how to serve the community and allies The Center continues to be a beacon of hope, a 3rd Place where you get to be who you really are.
For more information, please visit defrank.org.
The Billy DeFrank Center is still asking for proof of vaccination for all in person events at the Center. Masks are optional.
Upcoming events
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Weekly Karaoke Night at Mexico Lindo
Mexico Lindo Restaurant & Bar, 11 Race St, San Jose, CA, USCome and join us for our weekly Karaoke night at Mexico Lindo.
Working together for a fabulous life.
Every Sunday at 7pm
11 Race Street, San Jose.You must be 21+ for Karaoke bar. No cover charge.
Questions? Contact Fabulous@defrank.org
1 attendee
Free Weekly HIV/HEP C testing at Billy DeFrank
Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center, 938 The Alameda, San Jose, CA, USThe AACI Hope Program at the Billy DeFrank Center offers a rapid test that uses an oral swab (no needles, no blood!) and results are available in approximately 20 minutes. You can choose between Anonymous (no ID required, results delivered verbally) and Confidential (valid state ID required, written results provided).
Testing is available Mondays 4PM - 8PM, except on Public Holidays.
Please bring photo identification if you want confidential testing (written results provided). Upon entering the Billy DeFrank building, inform the front desk volunteer that you are interested in receiving an HIV or Hep C test and they will direct you to the AACI testing room. Though the test itself takes just a few minutes, each test counseling session lasts approximately 30-40 minutes (some people have more questions than others). There is no counseling time limit per person.
Our services are provided to the community for free.
For more info please call AACI (408) 547- 2628
Questions? E-mail : hope@aaci.org
1 attendee
Meet Judy Grahn
938 The Alameda, 938 The Alameda, San Jose, CA 95126, USA, San Jose, CA, USPoet, activist, and scholar Judy Grahn was born in Chicago and grew up in New Mexico. She joined the Air Force but was discharged at 21 for being openly gay. A central member of the West Coast feminist poetry movement of the 1970s, Grahn received a PhD from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Judy Grahn is coming to the Billy DeFrank Center
Free Event: Sunday, November 8th, 2pm - 4pm
Judy will talk about what it was like to be a lesbian in the 1970's and 80's - this will be a taste of herstory for young queer womxn and
nostalgia for the older folks.
Julie Enszer of Sinister Wisdom recently published an updated version of her 1985 book The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition. She may read from that and a bit of earlier work too.
She also has new work, ecopoetic poems, and poetic renderings of some rather radical and heretical teachings from The Gospel of Mary Magdalen = no sin, for instance. No father God.
If you want to help organize this event with one of our amazing authors/activists please email: Fabulous@defrank.org2 attendeesWeekly Karaoke Night at Mexico Lindo
Mexico Lindo Restaurant & Bar, 11 Race St, San Jose, CA, USCome and join us for our weekly Karaoke night at Mexico Lindo.
Working together for a fabulous life.
Every Sunday at 7pm
11 Race Street, San Jose.You must be 21+ for Karaoke bar. No cover charge.
Questions? Contact Fabulous@defrank.org
1 attendee
Past events
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