Bay Area Stuff....

[Toughy]

There has been a flurry of new people adding to the list and a reminder to old timers to the list.

GET YOUR TICKETS TO THE BUTCH/FEMME SOCIALS WINTER BALL!

LAST DAY TO BUY TICKETS IS FEB. 22ND!

Hello all,

Butch/Femme Socials Winter Ball tickets are on sale! You may purchase tickets through paypal, butchfemmesocials@ yahoo.com FOR $10.00. You must have a ticket to get into this event, NO TICKETS FOR SALE AT THE DOOR. You must buy a ticket through paypal, provide a name and an address for your tickets to be mailed to you.

There is NO WILL CALL for tickets, there is NO transfer of tickets to others for you at the door. If you cannot attend, sell or give your tickets to others but do not send them to the door to pick them up.

NO REFUNDS!

If you have not received your tickets in the mail by Feb. 25TH, email me at: butchfemmesocials@ yahoo.com

This event does sell out so get your tickets early!

Title: 6th Annual B/F Formal Winter Ball

Date: Saturday, February 27th
Time: 6 p.m. until Midnight [singles mingle 6-7 p.m.]
Location: Humanist Hall
Street: 411-28th Street (wheelchair accessible)near Broadway
City State Zip: Oakland CA

OVER 18 yrs. old

19th Street BART Station is nine blocks away, easier to get cabs from 12th Street BART Station. Street parking, parking lot next door but it fills up fast.

Join Couples & Singles for Dancing, Socializing, Snacking & Struttin' Your Stuff. Butch-Femme, Femme-Femme, Butch-Butch, Lesbo, Dyke, Queer, Tranny,
Tomboy Femme,Genderqueer, Basically... YOU!

Put Your Sexy On!
Suits, Tuxes, Slacks, Leather, Cocktail dresses, Skirts
Don't let clothes be the reason that you don't come.

Wear what's comfortable!

Hearty hors d'oeuvres, desserts and some drinks included with admission, BYOB (there will be some liquor available).

DJ Luna provides our dance music!

Smoking outside by the fireplace only.

To donate decorations, firewood, water or soda, OR QUESTIONS please email

butchfemmesocials@ yahoo.com,


ALSO, we donate to a charity every year at this event, please bring food gift cards from Whole Foods, Safeway, Trader Joe's any denomination for Meals for Reals benefiting needy folks in the Butch/Femme community OR mail your food gift card to:
S. Gilbert, 237 Wayne Ave. #360, Oakland, 94606.

VOLUNTEERS GET IN FREE! Work one hour and get in free. Please email me at: butchfemmesocials@ yahoo.com, and put Volunteer in the subject of your email. I need volunteers for clean up only which starts around 10 p.m. or you can start at 11 p.m. No heavy lifting involved just picking up trash and put up the chairs.

PLACES TO STAY FOR THOSE COMING FROM OUT OF TOWN:

1) Best Western, 233 Broadway & 3rd St. Oakland, CA
800/633-5973 (online booking specials)
2) Washington Inn, 495-10th & Broadway, Oakland, CA near
12th St. BART. 510-452-1776
3) Bates House B&B, 399 Bellevue, Oakland, CA Gay-owned
510/893-3881

A huge thanks to Amba for coordinating the Femme Posse to provide desserts! www.femmeposse. com

See you there,
Rope and T

*****SEE ABOVE FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO GET TICKETS THROUGH PAYPAL, if you have paypal problems, email Rope at butchfemmesocials@ yahoo.com,put in the
subject line of your email, paypal question. You can also read instructions at www.ButchFemmeSocials.com

[Toughy]

It's TRUE-Winter Ball Tickets going going gone

Thanks to all who bought tickets for the Butch/Femme Socials Winter Ball this Saturday. There are no tickets for sale at the door and all ticket sales are over.



Thanks!

Rope and Toughy

[Toughy]

The Winter Ball was fabulous. 220 butch/femme folks in all our finery and diversity. There were out-of-towners, some first time ButchFemmeSocials attendees as well as familiar faces. Thanks to all you for helping create community.

We also raised $435 in cash and food gift cards (Safeway, Trader Joes's, etc) for the Meals for Reals folks. This is double what we raised last year!!! Meals for Reals provides food gift cards to lesbians in Alameda County who don't qualify for food stamps or their food stamps have timed out. Many many thanks to those who donated in this crappy economy. You are helping lots of b/f folks and other lesbians with your generosity.

And DJ Luna rocked the house with an amazing variety of music with sets of salsa to country western to waltz to hip hop.

And last but certainly not least.... many thanks to all the volunteers......we really truly could not do this without you.

Rope and T

[weatherboi]

i had a really really great time with my Ms!!! my first time at this particular event and i met some of the greatest people ever!! helping Sir Rope and Danny set up was a great time!! this boy was proud to help out and be a part of a really great event!! we topped off the evening at merrit bakery per Toughy's suggestion with great conversation and chicken and waffles!! i am a lucky boy to have been able to experince such a warm crowd of people!!

Originally Posted by Toughy

The Winter Ball was fabulous. 220 butch/femme folks in all our finery and diversity. There were out-of-towners, some first time ButchFemmeSocials attendees as well as familiar faces. Thanks to all you for helping create community.

We also raised $435 in cash and food gift cards (Safeway, Trader Joes's, etc) for the Meals for Reals folks. This is double what we raised last year!!! Meals for Reals provides food gift cards to lesbians in Alameda County who don't qualify for food stamps or their food stamps have timed out. Many many thanks to those who donated in this crappy economy. You are helping lots of b/f folks and other lesbians with your generosity.

And DJ Luna rocked the house with an amazing variety of music with sets of salsa to country western to waltz to hip hop.

And last but certainly not least.... many thanks to all the volunteers......we really truly could not do this without you.

Rope and T

[SuperFemme]

Cal and I had the most amazing time. Slow dancing in a wheel chair is oodles of romantic. The disability access was amazing.

So were the private dances. Ha.

[Daywalker]

We had a hella good time, music was loud and everyone was Fabulous.


We even had Groovy time on the Patio,
hung out on the ramp n smoked...and
got us a new Gang Sign.







And we got to squish Snowy, Adele, Cal, Grant...and many others.


What more could we have asked for?

Well, Toughy...no event is complete without you losing yer shirt.

And we thank you for making that happen:



More photos on the Facebook of course.


Thanks to everyone for putting it all together.

[julieisafemme]

Greyson and I had the best time. It was very special for us as this dance was where we first met. I loved dancing with Greyson and reminiscing about that evening.

I really enjoyed meeting some of the folks I have interacted with here in real time. Our friends we invited from Sacramento enjoyed it as well.

Thank you Rope and Toughy for hosting the party. It is a wonderful contibution to our community.

And the chicken and waffles hit the spot!

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by Toughy

The Winter Ball was fabulous. 220 butch/femme folks in all our finery and diversity. There were out-of-towners, some first time ButchFemmeSocials attendees as well as familiar faces. Thanks to all you for helping create community.

We also raised $435 in cash and food gift cards (Safeway, Trader Joes's, etc) for the Meals for Reals folks. This is double what we raised last year!!! Meals for Reals provides food gift cards to lesbians in Alameda County who don't qualify for food stamps or their food stamps have timed out. Many many thanks to those who donated in this crappy economy. You are helping lots of b/f folks and other lesbians with your generosity.

And DJ Luna rocked the house with an amazing variety of music with sets of salsa to country western to waltz to hip hop.

And last but certainly not least.... many thanks to all the volunteers......we really truly could not do this without you.

Rope and T

Great job!!! I enjoyed the dance and it was so good to see folks, especially the Daywalkersand so many from our Queer Partner Dance community!

Fantastc that Susan K had such a great turn-out with the Meals program! Of course the Bay Area B-F community always is very generous and helps out with many benefits!

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FYI: Nights Partner Dancing
First Fridays/Month - this Friday, March 5th
2-Step, Waltz, Swing (WC & EC), Latin & Line Dancing
$10 (includes lesson & light refreshments.
Instruction (no partner or exprience necessary) - starts at 7:30-8:45
Open dancing 8:45 - 11 pm.
Wear leather soled shoes/boots for dancing
Smoke, scent & alcohol free.

Lake Merritt Dance Center (across from Lake Merritt)
200 Grand Ave. Oakland (disability accessible)[COLOR="Blue"]

[email]CountryNightsDance@abcglobal.net[/email][/COLOR]

[Rope]

A **FANTASTIC** line up next Sunday at Dyke March benefit in Club 21 in Oakland...rad below!

Seize the chance at seeing the Momma's Boyz and more at a Club 21 benefit for the Dyke March in Oakland. Olivia Cruises has very generously donated two cruise tickets to the Dyke March. We'll be raffling them off along with other valuable prizes. Our theme for 2010 is "Dyke Planet/Green Planet."



For the San Francisco QUEER Area the Party Season is upon us, Sunday evenings included! So come on out to Club 21 – Sun, May 16th, 6:00 – 10:00 p.m. 2111 Franklin @ Broadway, Oakland $10-20 no one turned away, wheelchair accessible
•Master and Mistress of Ceremonies Pippa Flemming and Bubblin Sugar
•Momma’s Boyz
•The Kaylah Marin Band.
•Surprise D.J.
Sign up for Dyke March event list through e-mails and text alerts at wrapsodi.com/thedykemarch


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