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Our Primary Purpose

The primary purpose of the Philadelphia Freedom Roundup is to carry the message of Alcoholics Anonymous, with a special mission to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered recovering alcoholics. We seek to educate men and women on how to improve their spiritual, mental, social, and physical quality of life by using the Twelve Steps as a guide.

The primary activity though which this is done is an annual three-day educational conference consisting of workshops, meetings, and social events featuring spiritual, interpersonal, and social activities that encourage and demonstrate the benefits of using spiritual principles as a basis for daily living. The purpose of this annual conference is to offer A.A. members a forum in which to exchange information and educate each other about developing their spiritual, mental, social, and physical well-being by using the concepts of the Twelve Steps as a foundation for daily living.

Organized and Operated in the Spirit of the Twelve Traditions

Service Keeps You Sober

The Freedom Roundup always welcomes volunteers. If you are interested in getting involved, the Roundup needs volunteers for all levels of service. Whether you want help at a single fundraiser or you want to assist the committee on a long-term basis, there is a place for you to get involved !

Please email us at info@philadelphiaroundup.org for information on how you can experience the rewards of service.
Anonymity
Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion: We need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, TV, and film. Thus we respectfully ask that no AA, Al-Anon , or ACOA member be identified by full name in published or broadcasted reports of our meetings. In addition, we ask that participants respect our double anonymity as recovering people who are also gay, lesbian, bisexual, and/or transgendered. Please, no photographs at the Roundup
Organization Information

The Philadelphia Freedom Roundup is recognized as a Not-For-Profit Corporation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  The organization is recognized as exempt from federal income tax under section 501 (a) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code as an organization described in section 501 (c) (3).  Corporate documentation and financial information can be attained by contacting us via letter or email.

For more information about the Roundup, upcoming fundraisers, or the organization, please browse this web site or contact us via email.  

Postal address
Philadelphia Freedom Roundup
1315 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
 
Electronic mail
General Information: info@philadelphiaroundup.org

The following is a list of meetings in the Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks County, New Jersey and Delaware areas. We would like to keep this list updated for your convenience. If you notice a meeting is listed incorrectly, or not at all, please let us know by emailing info@philadelphiaroundup.org. Thanks for helping make this section a valuable resource for the Gay & Lesbian recovering community.
Monday

PISCATAWAY, NJ
8-9:15 pm - GAY AA MEETING
St. Michael's Chapel, Rutger's University
Davidson's Road, Piscataway
Format: open discussion

PHILADELPHIA
7:30 & 8:45 PM - BEGINNERS MEETING (D27) OD
Trinity Episcopal Ch., 2212 Spruce St.

8:30 PM - SOBER & GAY (D27) OS
Recovery Clubhouse, 2nd Floor, 1315 Spruce St.

11:30 PM - NIGHT OWL (Step, Last Mon Tradition) (D27) OD
Recovery Clubhouse Lobby, 1315 Spruce St.

ALLENTOWN, PA
7:30 PM - RAINBOW GROUP (Gay/Lesbian Meeting) OD
Church of the Mediator (upstairs) 1620 Turner Street.

LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.
8:00 PM - LAMBERTVILLE (D21)
Phillips-Barber Family Health Center

Tuesday

PHILADELPHIA
8:30 PM - SOBER & GAY (D27) OB
Recovery Clubhouse, 2nd Floor, 1315 Spruce St.

11:30 PM - NIGHT OWL (Came To Beleive) (D27) OD
Recovery Clubhouse Lobby, 1315 Spruce St.

Wednesday

PISCATAWAY, NJ
8 PM —  9:15 pm - GAY AA Meeting
St. Michael's Chapel, Rutger's University
Davidson's Road, Piscataway
Format: open discussion

PHILADELPHIA

8:30 PM - SOBER & GAY (D27) OB
Recovery Clubhouse, 2nd Floor, 1315 Spruce St.

11:30 PM - NIGHT OWL (Big Book) (D27) OD
Recovery Clubhouse Lobby, 1315 Spruce St.

READING, PA
8:00 PM - LIVE & LET LIVE(Gays in AA)  D-33. St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Front & Windsor St., Reading, PA

WARRINGTON, PA
8:00 PM - UP THE CREEK GAY & LESBIAN (Literature) (D23) OL
Bux-mont Unitarian Universalist Church, Route. 611 & Street Rd.

DELAWARE, NORTH WILMINGTON
7:00 PM Sober & Gay Alcoholic Group - CD
Concord Presbyterian Church
Foulk and Murphy Roads

Thursday

PHILADELPHIA
8:30 PM - COMMUNITY (D27) OD
Holy Communion Church 2111 Sansom St.

8:30 PM - SOBER & GAY (D27) O
Recovery Clubhouse,
2nd Floor, 1315 Spruce St.

11:30 PM - NIGHT OWL (Topic) (D27) OD
Recovery Clubhouse Lobby, 1315 Spruce St.

ALLENTOWN, PA
7:30 PM RAINBOW GROUP GAY & LESBIAN OD
Church of the Mediator (upstairs) 1620 Turner Street.

Friday

PHILADELPHIA
7:30 PM - ACCEPTANCE (D27) OB
Episcopal Ch., 22nd & Spruce Sts.

8:30 PM - SOBER & GAY (D27) OD
Recovery Clubhouse 1315 Spruce St., 2nd Floor

11:30 PM - NIGHT OWL (Speaker) (D27) OD
Recovery Clubhouse Lobby, 1315 Spruce St.

DOYLESTOWN, BUCKS Co.
7:30 PM - Doylestown Men's Discusion Group - Men Only, Closed Discussion
Pine & E. Oakland Sts. - St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
Meeting Notes: (Gay Men) Last Friday - Speaker

WESTMONT, NJ
7:00 PM - AA WORDS & WISDOM (Gay) OBB
215 Highland Av

LAMBERTVILLE, NJ
8:00 PM Gay AL-ANON (Step Meeting)
St. Andrews Hall - 50 York St.
Held in basement

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ
8:30 PM - LESBIAN AA
St. Peter's Church
100 Rochelle Avenue, Rochelle Park

DELAWARE, PIKE CREEK
8:00 PM - Solutions Group - OD
Limestone Presbyterian Church
Rt. 7 (Limestone Road) North of Milltown Road

Saturday

PHILADELPHIA
11:30 AM BLUE SKIES (D27) OS
Graduate Hospital, Conf. Room 2A,
18th & South Sts. Last Sat.-Spkr. R WC (gay-friendly)

12:00 NOONERS (D27) OD
Recovery Clubhouse, 2nd Floor, 1315 Spruce St. Living Sober

5:30 PM - SOBER & GAY (D27) OD
Recovery Clubhouse, 2nd Floor, 1315 Spruce St. Living Sober

7:30 PM - PLUS FIVE & STILL ALIVE (D27) CD
Trinity Episcopal, 2212 Spruce St.

8:30 PM - SOBER & GAY (D27) OD
Recovery Clubhouse, 2nd Floor, 1315 Spruce St. Living Sober

11:30 PM - NIGHT OWL (Beginners) (D27) OD
Recovery Clubhouse Lobby, 1315 Spruce St.

NEW HOPE, BUCKS Co.
6:00 PM - BUCK'S COUNTY LESBIAN MEETING CD
Thompson Memorial Church, 1680 Aquatong Road
New Hope, PA

POCONOS, PA
4:00 PM - RAINBOW MOUNTAIN RESORT
210 Mount Nebo Road, East Stroudsburg PA

DELAWARE COUNTY - BROOMALL
7:00 PM - CHOSEN FEW (D54) OD
Grace Lutheran Curch, West Chester Pike, (Rt. 3-off exit #9 of the Blue Route)

WARRINGTON, PA
8:00 - 9:15 PM - UP THE CREEK (D23) O
Bux-mont Unitarian Universalist Church, Route. 611 & Street Rd.

Sunday

PHILADELPHIA
11:30 AM BLUE SKY (D27) OGV
Graduate Hospital, Conf. Room 2A,
18th & South Sts. Last Sun.-Spkr. R WC (gay-friendly)

11:00 AM - NO OTHER WAY OUT (D27)
Recovery Clubhouse, 2nd Floor, 1315 Spruce St.

5:30 PM - EARLY NIGHT OUT (D27) GAY OBB
Recovery Clubhouse, 2nd Floor, 1315 Spruce St.

8:30 PM - SOBER & GAY (Came To Believe) (D27) OD
Recovery Clubhouse, 2nd Floor, 1315 Spruce St.

11:30 PM - NIGHT OWL (Living Sober) (D27) OD
Recovery Clubhouse Lobby, 1315 Spruce St.

WESTMONT, NJ
7:00 PM - Heart of AA - OSTW (Women)
215 Highland Avenue

LAUREL SPRINGS, NJ
7:00 PM - S.J. Gay Group (open)
Church of The Atonement, 215 Fairmount Ave.
SP - 1st Sun. / ST - 2nd Sun ./ Living Sober - 3rd Sun / OD - 4th Sun.

DELAWARE, North Wilmington
8:00 PM - Raphael group - CD
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Rectory Basement
Weldin & Shipley Roads, Wilmington

 

This list is not authorized, produced, approved or endorsed by AA, any AA Inter-Group or any of the listed meetings. Some of these groups may have chosen not to officially list themselves as gay special-interest groups .
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Just For Today
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Your first day sober
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MEETING SERVICE MATERIAL:

Anonymity lies at the heart of our Fellowship and assures our members that their recovery will be private. Often, the active alcoholic will avoid any source of help which might reveal his or her identity.

Alcoholics Anonymous is not affiliated with any other organization, although many have adapted A.A.’s Twelve Steps for their own use. A.A. is self-supporting, declining outside contributions; and we are non-professional, offering only the voluntary support of one alcoholic helping another. [ read more... ]
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Preamble

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their commom problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for A.A.membership; we are self-suppporting through our own contributions.

A.A. is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes.

Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety. [ read more... ]
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Anonymity

Anonymity lies at the heart of our Fellowship and assures our members that their recovery will be private. Often, the active alcoholic will avoid any source of help which might reveal his or her identity.

Alcoholics Anonymous is not affiliated with any other organization, although many have adapted A.A.’s Twelve Steps for their own use. A.A. is self-supporting, declining outside contributions; and we are non-professional, offering only the voluntary support of one alcoholic helping another. [ read more... ]
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The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous

  1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
  2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
  3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
  4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
  5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
  6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
  7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
  8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
  9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
  10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
  11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
  12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. [ read more... ]
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The Tweleve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous

  1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery  depends upon AA unity.
  2. For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority a loving God as he may express himself in our group conscience.  Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
  3. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking.
  4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or AA as a whole.
  5. Each group has but one primary purpose - to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
  6. An AA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the AA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
  7. Every AA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
  8. Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever non-professional, but our service centres may employ special workers.
  9. AA, as such, ought never be organised; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
  10. Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
  11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, and films.
  12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities. [ read more... ]
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The Twelve Promises
Page 83 and 84 of the Big Book

1. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.
2. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.
3. We will comprehend the word serenity.
4. We will know peace.
5. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.
6. The feelings of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.
7. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.
8. Self-seeking will slip away.
9. Our whole attitude and outlook on life will change.
10. Fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us.
11. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us
12. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
" Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are beingfulfilled among us -- sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them."
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The Twelve Rewards
1. Hope instead of desperation.
2. Faith instead of despair.
3. Courage instead of fear.
4. Peace of mind instead of confusion.
5. Self-respect instead of self-contempt.
6. Self-confidence instead of helplessness.
7. The respect of others instead of their pity and contempt.
8. A clean conscience instead of a sense of guilt.
9. Real friendships instead of loneliness.
10. A clean pattern of life instead of a purposeless existence.
11. The love and understanding of our families instead of their doubts and fears.
12. The freedom of a happy life instead of the bondage of an alcoholic obsession
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