Gay & Sober

MISSION: Gay & Sober’s mission is simple – to provide a safe, fun, and enriching experience to the sober LGBTQ community. Our primary purpose is to encourage unity and enhance one’s sobriety. 

VISION:  In the spirit of unity we come together to support and love one another and to show others – especially beginners – that it is indeed possible to be happy, joyous, & free in sobriety. We offer year-round health and wellness programming, education, and events.  Once a year, we hold a special event in New York City devoted to celebrating recovery from alcoholism & drug addiction. For three special days, hundreds of fellows are brought together for a weekend of innovative health & wellness workshops, big speaker meetings, spiritual growth, and top entertainment. We also sponsor a Pride Day celebration for all LGBTQ people that provides a safe space to march in the parade and an evening dance on the Hudson River – complete with fireworks!

Our conference participants represent multiple 12-step programs and come from all corners of the world. For those of you familiar with the experience of the former Hot N Dry or of a YPAA event, you’re going to love the energy we offer! 

SPIRIT: We are doing this in the spirit of brotherhood, friendliness, fellowship, and adventure!

“To watch people recover, to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends – this is an experience you must not miss. We know you will not want to miss it.”

                                                                                                        – pg. 89, Basic Text 

ORIGINS: What started as a private group on Facebook called Gay & Sober Men in the summer of 2009, Gay & Sober has mushroomed into what is now the largest recovery group of its kind on social media. Gay & Sober has expanded to offer nightly online meetings, monthly free LGBTQ community programming, a conference, and an official component in national pride festivities. Gay & Sober, the umbrella nonprofit organization that operates and oversees the conference holds regular meetings of AA, and is a part of the fellowship – however, we welcome and embrace members and friends from all fellowships – including the fellowships of Narcotics Anonymous, Crystal Meth Anonymous and AL-Anon.**

Currently, we are blessed to have over 100 sober volunteers from 10 countries. We invite you to help us so we can in turn help others! To get involved, please visit the Planning page. 

To donate, please click here