JQY

This week's Breakaway is Disability: What the Health? where we will talk about the intersection of q***rness and disability and navigating the world. All are welcome!

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Join us from 6:30 pm-9:30 pm EST at 135 W 41st Street

No need to register for the Drop-In Center, just show up! We’ll have plenty of cholov yisroel pizza and ice-breaker games to go around. For anyone ages 13-23

If you need assistance with transportation to drop-in please apply at jqy.org/travelrequest

Coming out can look like a dramatic speech, a text sent at 2 am, a new haircut, telling one trusted friend, or just finally being honest with yourself. There’s no “right” way to do it — what matters is what it means to you. Join us for an evening of storytelling, connection, and community as we share coming-out experiences in all their forms. Share your own coming out story, cheer others on, laugh, listen, and help create a space where every experience is welcome — whether you’ve been out forever, just came out yesterday, or are still figuring things out.

This week's Breakaway is Disability: What the Health? where we will talk about the intersection of q***rness and disability and navigating the world. All are welcome!

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Join us from 6:30 pm-9:30 pm EST at 135 W 41st Street

No need to register for the Drop-In Center, just show up! We’ll have plenty of cholov yisroel pizza and ice-breaker games to go around. For anyone ages 13-23

If you need assistance with transportation to drop-in please apply at jqy.org/travelrequest

What else goes in the middle?!

Here’s to the full Venn diagrams of who we are — Jewish, q***r, and [insert all the other circles that make you, you]

Happy !! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✡️🌈

This week’s parsha, Nasso, contains one of the oldest blessings in the Torah – Birkat Kohanim – wishing protection, grace, and peace.

The final word of the blessing is “shalom” – commonly translated as peace, hello, or goodbye. But in Hebrew, shalom also carries meanings of wholeness, completeness, and wellbeing. True shalom isn’t just about peace or quiet; it’s about feeling fully at home in yourself and in the world around you.

Blessings don’t have to come from a single source. They can come from chosen family, from community, from the people who see you exactly as you are, from yourself.

As we near the end of Mental Health Awareness Month and Jewish American Heritage Month, and as we enter into Pride Month: May you find peace and wholeness, exactly as you are.

Eilu v’Eilu is our guiding philosophy: “both these and those.” It reminds us that seemingly oppositional truths can coexist at the same time.

This Sunday, March 31st, there are many ways to participate in Jewish community gatherings. March with the LGBTQ+ cluster at Israel Day on Fifth, Protest peacefully with Israelis for Peace, and decompress with JQY, whether you marched, protested, or didn't attend either.

Sign up to march with the LGBTQ+ cluster (2:20 PM): https://www.eshelonline.org/event/israel-day-on-fifth-2026/
Protest Peacefully (11 AM): Meet on 63rd street and 5th ave. More info on the instagram page
Decompress (4:30-6:30 PM): jqy.org/cooldown

With parades, parties, and rainbows everywhere, it can be hard to get through June without knowing it is Pride Month - even in most culturally contained communities. For some, Pride is the highlight of their year. For others, it can be uncomfortable or hard to relate to.

In this installment of Holding Complexity, JQY experts: Jeremy Novich, PsyD, and Rachael Fried, reflect on how Pride is understood and experienced by LGBTQ youth from historically unaccepting communities, by adults who support them, and by those who struggle to understand why Pride matters.

Join us for a conversation that invites curiosity and asks what we might learn when we try to see Pride through more than one lens.

Because this event will be held via Zoom Webinar, your participation will not be seen by others attending.

Sign up at jqy.org/training

If you marched in the parade, if you didn’t march, or if you just want a place to hang out in the A/C, join JQY for a cooldown. We’ll have snacks, drinks, and ice cream!

This event is open to ages 13-23 and will take place in Midtown, with the exact location shared upon registration.

We can’t wait to see you!

This week's Breakaway is the Trans+ group, with special Guest Ma'ayan Seligsohn, where we’ll explore all things gender-related, through schmoozing, crafting and asking big questions. All trans, gender questioning or non-conforming and generally curious people are welcome to join.
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Join us from 6:30 pm-9:30 pm EST at 135 W 41st Street

No need to register for the Drop-In Center, just show up! We’ll have plenty of cholov yisroel pizza and ice-breaker games to go around. For anyone ages 13-23

If you need assistance with transportation to drop-in please apply at jqy.org/travelrequest

Make it Werk, designers! This week at Drop-In, we'll express our identity through fashion design. What parts of our Jewish and Q***r identities do we express via what we wear? How can we take ownership of our identities in the ways that we present ourselves? And then we'll create fashion and walk the runway! Featuring special guest Alex Weissman, fashion designer at Vince Camuto.

This week's Breakaway is the Trans+ group, with special Guest Ma'ayan Seligsohn, where we’ll explore all things gender-related, through schmoozing, crafting and asking big questions. All trans, gender questioning or non-conforming and generally curious people are welcome to join.
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Join us from 6:30 pm-9:30 pm EST at 135 W 41st Street

No need to register for the Drop-In Center, just show up! We’ll have plenty of cholov yisroel pizza and ice-breaker games to go around. For anyone ages 13-23

If you need assistance with transportation to drop-in please apply at jqy.org/travelrequest

Shavuot is the time when we celebrate receiving the Torah while serving looks and lactose 🥛

It’s a holiday about revelation – standing at Mt. Sinai and saying yes to tradition, to identity, and to a future that’s still unfolding. And honestly, what’s q***rer than a massive coming out moment surrounded by thunder, lightning, and a dramatic flowery mountain reveal?

Us q***r Jews know a thing or two about revelation. About standing tall, about choosing authenticity again and again, even when it’s hard. Like the Torah, our identities are living, evolving, and sometimes even a littttttle extra.

So this Shavuos, whether you’re sipping oat milk lattes or raiding the cheesecake fridge at all hours, celebrate Torah and celebrate you.

Wishing you a Shavuot full of learning, lactose, and dairy royalty.