The LGBTQ Community Center of the Desert
At the Center, our goal is to provide a safe and welcoming environment for all members of our vibrant LGBTQ community. Come join us at The Center, a space where you can belong and be unconditionally you.
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The Center Coachella Queer and Trans* Closet
The Center Eastern Coachella Valley 1515 Sixth Street, CoachellaConversational Spanish
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsHealthy Boundaries
Scott Hines Behavioral Health Clinic 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr, 2nd Floor, Palm SpringsCMA: Stop The Insanity
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsWelcoming Yoga | TUE/THU 9:00 AM
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsKnit Together
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsBeginning Spanish
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsWomen Like Us
Scott Hines Behavioral Health Clinic 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr, 2nd Floor, Palm SpringsCMA: Stick to the Topic
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsQueer Colon Care Collective (In-Person)
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsSacred Wounds
Scott Hines Behavioral Health Clinic 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr, 2nd Floor, Palm SpringsStand-Up Comedy for ANYONE!
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsKnit Together
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsBereavement Support Group
Scott Hines Behavioral Health Clinic 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr, 2nd Floor, Palm SpringsThe Joy of Making Art
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsLGBTQ+ Youth Hangout | Hangeo de Juventud LGBTQ+
The Center Eastern Coachella Valley 1515 Sixth Street, CoachellaLGBTQ+ and Friends – Narcotics Anonymous
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsCMA: Sex, Love, and Relationships
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsAA: Big Book Study
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsWelcoming Yoga | TUE/THU 9:00 AM
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsLGBTQ+ and Friends Al-Anon
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsCommunity Food Bank Distribution
The Community Food Bank at The Center 610 South Belardo Rd., Palm SpringCMA: Step Study Group
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsMen’s Chat Group (In-Person)
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm SpringsCommunity Movie Night Y Platica in Mecca
The Center Eastern Coachella Valley 1515 Sixth Street, CoachellaWelcoming Yoga | Saturdays
The Center McDonald/Wright Building 1301 North Palm Canyon Dr., Palm Springs- No events scheduled for March 24, 2024.
Week of Events
The Center Coachella Queer and Trans* Closet
The Center Coachella Queer and Trans* Closet
Our Queer and Trans* closet is a resource for our local Queer and Trans* community. This space is judgement free!
Open-Play Bridge
Pinochle
Conversational Spanish
Conversational Spanish
We are a dynamic and diverse group of people who get together to chat en español and strengthen our language skills.
Healthy Boundaries
Healthy Boundaries
This Healthy Boundaries group is designed to help the general public understand how to take care of self while implementing and keeping boundaries that might be needed in their lives.
CMA: Stop The Insanity
CMA: Stop The Insanity
This is a CMA group that gathers every Monday night at 7:00pm with the topic being Stop The Insanity. It is an open meeting and discussion for anyone to attend.
Welcoming Yoga | TUE/THU 9:00 AM
Welcoming Yoga | TUE/THU 9:00 AM
This class is non-judgmental, safe and fun for beginners in the yoga experience. This group meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:00 AM.
Knit Together
Knit Together
Social and sharing platform for a community of fiber enthusiasts. Come and join us!
Beginning Spanish
Beginning Spanish
Beginning Spanish is a foundational course which lays the groundwork for the development of eventual fluency.
Women Like Us
Women Like Us
Women Like Us is an in-person, drop-in therapeutic support group for self-identified women who love women.
Queer Colon Care Collective (Virtual)
Queer Colon Care Collective (Virtual)
This ongoing virtual session is open to all colorectal cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers.
CMA: Stick to the Topic
CMA: Stick to the Topic
This is a CMA Discussion Meeting that occurs every Tuesday night from 5:30-6:30pm with the focus being "Stick to the Topic." It is an open meeting for anyone to attend.
Queer Colon Care Collective (In-Person)
Queer Colon Care Collective (In-Person)
This ongoing in-person session is open to all colorectal cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers.
Trans Tuesdays
Trans Tuesdays
Trans Tuesdays will be conducted as a whole group. Significant others and family members are welcome.
Open-Play Bridge
Sacred Wounds
Sacred Wounds
About the Event Sacred Wounds is an virtual drop-in therapeutic support group for those who experienced religious hurt, discrimination, and/or ostracization. Host Facilitated by Esther Loewen, Clinical Trainee & Debbie […]
Stand-Up Comedy for ANYONE!
Stand-Up Comedy for ANYONE!
Join us for Stand-Up Comedy For EVERYONE! This introductory class will teach you the fundamentals of joke writing and performance, culminating in a graduation show at a local venue starring YOU!
Knit Together
Knit Together
Social and sharing platform for a community of fiber enthusiasts. Come and join us!
Bereavement Support Group
Bereavement Support Group
In-person, closed therapeutic support group for those who have lost a loved one and want assistance in dealing with their loss and to talk with others who understand what they are going through.
The Joy of Making Art
The Joy of Making Art
This course will allow you that freedom within exercises that culminate in pieces that represent YOU.
LGBTQ+ Youth Hangout | Hangeo de Juventud LGBTQ+
LGBTQ+ Youth Hangout | Hangeo de Juventud LGBTQ+
Our weekly youth hangouts allow a safe and comfortable space for youth to gather and connect with other youth.
The Center Women’s Social
LGBTQ+ and Friends – Narcotics Anonymous
LGBTQ+ and Friends – Narcotics Anonymous
The LGBTQ+ Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who are learning to live without drugs. Narcotics Anonymous meetings provide an atmosphere of recovery where individuals can share their common problems and solutions.
CMA: Sex, Love, and Relationships
CMA: Sex, Love, and Relationships
This is a CMA group that gathers every Wednesday night at 7:00pm focusing on Sex, Love, and Relationships. It is an open meeting for anyone to attend.
AA: Big Book Study
AA: Big Book Study
The Big Book Study is an open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous and is available to anyone interested in the Alcoholics Anonymous program of recovery from alcoholism.
Recovering Dharma
Recovering Dharma
Recovery meeting using Buddhist practices and principles (Meditation and Mindfulness) each week on Wednesday evenings from 8:00 to 9:00pm.
Welcoming Yoga | TUE/THU 9:00 AM
Welcoming Yoga | TUE/THU 9:00 AM
This class is non-judgmental, safe and fun for beginners in the yoga experience. This group meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:00 AM.
Women’s Chat Group (Virtual)
Women’s Chat Group (Virtual)
Inspiring Friendships. This chat group is for all women (no matter how you identify) to discuss topics of interest and find connection.
LGBTQ+ and Friends Al-Anon
LGBTQ+ and Friends Al-Anon
The LGBTQ+ and Friends Al-Anon program is designed to help those people who have been impacted by the alcoholism of a loved one. Al-Anon reinforces that no situation is really hopeless and that it is possible to find contentment, and even happiness, whether the alcoholic is still drinking or not.
Amigos CV
Amigos CV
Amigos Coachella Valley is a peer-support group that provides a safe space for Latino men. It is also an open discussion group. Join us.
Community Food Bank Distribution
Community Food Bank Distribution
The Center is dedicated to serving local families/residents experiencing food insecurity regardless of their race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, religion, political persuasion, national origin, disability, and/or covered veteran status.
CMA: Step Study Group
CMA: Step Study Group
CMA group that gathers every Thursday night at 6:30pm for a step study meeting. It is an open meeting for anyone to attend.
Mis Amores
Mis Amores
Un grupo de apoyo para personas que tienen familiares LGBTQ+. Spanish-speaking support group for parents and family members of LGBTQ+ folks.
Braves Spaces
Braves Spaces
Brave Spaces is a support group for adult family members, caregivers, and allies of transgender, non-binary and gender-expansive youth between the ages of 5 and 18.
Open-Play Bridge
Men’s Chat Group (In-Person)
Men’s Chat Group (In-Person)
Come join us and discuss a variety of topics from love, sex, current events and politics.
Men’s Chat Group (Virtual)
Men’s Chat Group (Virtual)
Come join us and discuss a variety of topics from love, sex, current events and politics.
Who Cares? Caregiver Support Group
Who Cares? Caregiver Support Group
Who Cares? Caregiver Support Group is a peer-led support group for those who are caring for their loved ones.
Community Movie Night Y Platica in Mecca
Community Movie Night Y Platica in Mecca
Join us in Mecca for a free film screening and snacks! We will be screening the movie "Chavela". We do not own the rights to this film. All rights to it's rightful owner.
Welcoming Yoga | Saturdays
Welcoming Yoga | Saturdays
This class is non-judgmental, safe and fun for beginners in the yoga experience. This group meets on Saturdays at 9:00 AM.