8:30 AM - Saturday - Maple Grove Breakfast
2020-02-01 08:30 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | The Original Pancake House, 6322 Vinewood Lane N, Maple Grove, MN, 55311, United States
Let’s meet up on the first Saturday of the month at 8:30 am at the The Original Pancake House (6322 Vinewood Ln N, Maple Grove, MN 55311, Phone: 763-383-0888). This long- standing classic location for breakfasts never disappoints. From their website: “The Original Pancake House was voted by James Beard as one of the nation’s “Ten Best” breakfast restaurants in the category of “American’s Regional Classic Award.” Please RSVP with Ray by email here.

3:00PM - Saturday - Game Night!
2020-02-08 15:00 - 18:00 | Falls & Pinnacle, 110 1st Avenue NE, Minneapolis, MN, 55413
Come join the PrimeTimers for an evening of fun and games. Mark and Hung will be hosting a game night at their condo’s party room in Northeast Minneapolis from 3-6PM. They will have a few games for the group to play and invite you to bring along a favorite game (if you have one). They will also be serving chili, a vegetarian soup, and drinks. Please bring along a snack to share if you’d like.
Please note this will be in the 5th floor party room and enter at the Pinnacle entrance on the 2nd Street side (not the 1st Ave entrance if you’ve beento their condo before). A buzzer code will be posted at the door. Parking is also limited in the area and street parking is metered. Public paid parking ramps are available across the street on 2nd Street or in the building on the first floor at the 1st Ave NE entrance. Free street parking is about a block to the west on 2nd or Main Street.
RSVP with Mark and Hung by email here by February 5th.

11:00AM - Sunday - Healthy Life Expo
2020-02-09 09:00 - 12:00 | Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 2nd Street, Minneapolis, MN, United States
On Sunday February 9 from 11:00am to 1:00pm, we’ll be visiting the Healthy LIFE EXPO at the Minneapolis Convention Center (1301 2nd St, Minneapolis, MN). We’ll meet in the main lobby by the Information Booth outside the area where the expo will be held. Nutrition, Fitness, and Longevity – It’s all here! Explore up to 200+ exhibitors offering everything for health, balance and success in all areas of life. 3 – Stages of on-going speaker presentations, and demonstrations. Hourly prize drawings that include Good Earth Restaurant Gift Cards and Expo Guys Famous Hot Sauce! Play Booth Bingo and win a FitBit. New this year is three Stages with non-stop speaker’s presentations! Product sampling, hourly drawings and free health information. The Smart place to get the free tips information to start living a healthier life. See the latest in nutrition, fitness, men’s & women’s health, medical information, weight loss, health services, and much more! Seminars, product demonstrations, entertainment, and great shopping all weekend long! The cost is just $6 at the door or FREE with food shelf donation. Please RSVP with Glenn by email here.

11:30 AM - Tuesday - Let's Do Lunch
2020-02-11 11:30 - 13:30 | Wilder Community Center for Aging, 650 Marshall Avenue, St. Paul, MN, 55104, United States
Wilder Center for Aging 650 Marshall Ave, St. Paul

More Info: 651-280-2273

Bus route 65

Our FREE monthly “café” brings together LGBTQA seniors, boomers and allies in friendship and acceptance.

Catered lunch and dessert
Friendly conversation
Information about senior & LGBTQservices

All are welcome!
Let’s Do Lunch Café is a joint effort between Prime

Timers MSP and LBFE

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2020-02-15 13:00 - 16:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
What: The Unpunished Vice
By: Edmund White
Host: Rick
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: Feb 15 at 1:15 PM
Contact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here.
Book Review:
Edmund White, …the author of “A Boy’s Own Story” and “The Farewell Symphony,” is back with a new book-crazy memoir, “The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading.” It finds him seductively “rambling” (his word) through his boyhood memories of library-stack escapades, both bibliophilic and erotic; his literary friendships with John Irving, Alison Lurie, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Ondaatje and others; and his marriage to writer Michael Carroll, which he makes sound like a union between a social butterfly (himself) and an extremely fit but soberly devoted apostle of literature (Carroll). There’s also brilliant commentary on novelists Colette and Penelope Fitzgerald, cult author Curzio Malaparte, playwright-filmmaker Jean Cocteau and Britain’s greatest literary eccentric, Henry Green, whom White discovered at the Evanston Public Library.
The teenaged White lived with his divorced mother on Chicago’s Near North Side before heading to college in Michigan. As he puts it, he was “a midwestern public library aesthete and would-be intellectual” who hankered after Paris — and eventually got there too.
Michael Upchurch, Chicago Tribune

7:00 PM - Wednesday - Dining Out
2020-02-19 19:00 - 21:00
This month let’s head southeast and visit CHEROKEE TAVERN in wonderful West St. Paul. It is located at 886 Smith Avenue South (at Annapolis Street – MTC Route 62). There is both on and off parking available. The tavern has a rich and long history that started in 1935. Their menu includes steaks, chicken, fish and seafood delights and much more! If you wish, please check the on- line menu. The date is set for WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2020 at 7 PM.

Please RSVP with Terry by 10AM on the 19th by email here.

1:00PM - Wednesday - Weekday Lunch
2020-02-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Quang’s, 2719 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Weekday Lunch for February will be Quang! Quang is a family-owned restaurant serving delicious Vietnamese cuisine since 1989.
It is a Vietnamese mainstay providing pho, banh mi, bubble tea & more in a bustling, no-frills setting We’ll meet on Wednesday, Feb. 26th at 1PM 2719 Nicollet Avenue Minneapolis.
MTC Route 18
Please RSVP with Terry by email here by 10:30AM that Wednesday, this will permit the group to sit together.

11:30 AM - Friday - Let's Do Lunch
2020-02-28 11:30 - 13:30 | Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly, 1845 E. Lake St., Minneapolis, MN, 55407
February 28th – 11:30am – 1:30pm

Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly 1845 E. Lake St., Mpls

For questions or information, call 612.746.0726 or mhaas@littlebrothersmn.org

Bus route 21, 22, 27, 111
Our FREE monthly “café” brings together LGBTQA seniors, boomers and allies in friendship and acceptance.

Catered lunch and dessert
Friendly conversation
Information about senior & LGBTQservices

All are welcome!
Let’s Do Lunch Café is a joint effort between Prime

Timers MSP and LBFE

11:30 AM - Tuesday - Let's Do Lunch
2020-03-10 11:30 - 13:30 | Wilder Community Center for Aging, 650 Marshall Avenue, St. Paul, MN, 55104, United States
March 10th – 11:30am – 1:30pm Wilder Center for Aging
650 Marshall Ave, St. Paul More Info: 651-280-2273
Bus route 65

In collaboration with

our FREE monthly “café” brings together LGBTQA seniors, boomers and allies in friendship and acceptance.

Catered lunch and dessert
Friendly conversation
Information about senior & LGBTQ
services

All are welcome!
Let’s Do Lunch Café is a joint effort between Prime Timers MSP and LBFE
The topic of the two senior lunches in March is “Senior Scam” –
Tues is Part 1 and Friday is Part 2
The topic does NOT repeat

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2020-03-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
What: Flannelwood
By: Raymond Luczak
Host: Gus
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: March 21 at 1:15 PM
Contact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here.
Book Review:

Raymond Luczak (Assembly Required: Notes from a Deaf Gay Life) performs a delicate balancing act in this romantic elegy, taking inspiration from the tone and plot of Djuna Barnes’s groundbreaking 1936 novel Nightwood while still crafting an original and modern, but somewhat unsatisfying story about learning to love and to let go. When failed poet and full-time barista Bill Badamore meets James Alan at the annual OctoBear Dance at the local VFW, he is overwhelmed. James, a surly and secretive amputee, seems to be everything that Bill has ever wanted in a lover, and their chemistry is incendiary. But after a tumultuous six months together, James abruptly ends their relationship. Lost and forlorn, Bill recalls his life, his failed romance with the troubled James, and his discovery of true love with a courageous playwright in the wake of heartbreak. Luczak explores a number of significant themes in these rambling ruminations, including living with disability and finding one’s true self within a repressive masculine culture. Unfortunately, the utter devotion to emulating Barnes’s style often leaves the prose feeling belabored, and some of the book’s impact is lost beneath the waves of references, quotes, and digressions. This experiment is not unsuccessful, but only fans of interwar modernist queer literature are likely to really dig it.

Publishers Weekly

6:00 PM - Saturday - Adventures in Dining
2020-03-21 18:00 - 20:00 | Sakura, 350 St. Peter Street, St. Paul, MN, United States
Japanese Restaurant & Bar Dinner @ 6:00pm March 21st 350 St. Peter Street, St. Paul, MN which is just one block down the street from the St. Paul Hotel.

Please RSVP with Glenn by email here.

2:00 PM - Sunday - Dominoes
2020-03-22 14:00 - 17:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Location: Quatrefoil Library – 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis on the corner of Lake Street and 13th Avenue South. The library occupies a street level space in the Spirit on Lake Apartments.

MTC Bus Route 21.

1:00 PM - Tuesday - Weekday Lunch
2020-03-24 13:00 - 15:00 | Longfellow Grill, 2990 West River Parkway, Minneapolis, MN, United States
On Tuesday, March 24th, let us meet at the river where the cities meet (at the foot of the Lake Street Bridge)! Yes, the location is well- known; it is Longfellow’s Grill. Located at 2990 West River Parkway, Minneapolis. Your choice of a breakfast or luncheon plate. Parking on the street or lot – it is all free. Again, time is 1 PM on Tuesday, March 24th. Please call or text Terry by 11 AM, if you are coming and your warm-seat chair will be waiting.

MTC # 21
For more information, please contact us by email here.

11:30 AM - Friday - Let's Do Lunch
2020-03-27 11:30 - 13:30 | Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly, 1845 E. Lake St., Minneapolis, MN, 55407
March 27th – 11:30am – 1:30pm

Little Brothers – Friends of the Elderly 1845 E. Lake St., Mpls
For questions or information, call 612.746.0726 or mhaas@littlebrothersmn.org
Bus route 21

In collaboration with

our FREE monthly “café” brings together LGBTQA seniors, boomers and allies in friendship and acceptance.

Catered lunch and dessert
Friendly conversation
Information about senior & LGBTQ
services

All are welcome!
Let’s Do Lunch Café is a joint effort between Prime Timers MSP and LBFE
The topic of the two senior lunches in March is “Senior Scam” –
Tues is Part 1 and Friday is Part 2
The topic does NOT repeat

8:45 AM - Saturday - Roving Breakfast
2020-03-28 08:45 - 10:30 | Hoagie’s Family Restaurant, 824 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN, United States
Let’s give Hoagie’s Family Restaurant a try for our Roving Breakfast event for March.
Please RSVP with Ray by email here.

7:00 PM - Tuesday - Dining Out
2020-03-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Kinhdo, 2755 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States
On Tuesday, March 31st at 7PM, please join the group as we visit the Uptown district, specifically the Kinhdo Restaurant, 2755 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis

At the corner of Hennepin & 28th Street West.
A free parking lot just a few steps from the front door and the Uptown Transit Station just a block away.
Please text or call Terry by 3 PM on March 31st for that warm seat saved just for you.
MTC # 6 & 17

JustUs Health Opportunity Conference
2020-04-18
JustUs Health Presents the Fourth Annual Opportunity Conference on April 18th and 20th
Conference Works to Advance LGBTQ & HIV Health
Building on the success of its past conferences, JustUs Health announced today that its Fourth Annual Opportunity Conference will be held over two days in April. For the first time, this year’s conference will directly engage LGBTQ and HIV- positive community members in addition to the organization’s historic emphasis on health care professionals. The new community day will be on Saturday, April 18th at Minneapolis Community Technical College, while the professional day will follow on Monday, April 20th at the Earle Brown Heritage Center.
The Opportunity Conference continues to be a major project hosted by JustUs Health to advance health equity, and will focus on four topics: aging, HIV and/or AIDS treatment and prevention, transgender health, and general LGBTQ health. The professional day of the conference will continue to focus on policy makers, practitioners, and providers who work in health care or for supportive care systems and will feature a keynote address by Sean Cahill, Director of Health Policy Research at the Fenway Institute in Boston. The program will provide six Continuing Education Credits (CEUs)* for professionals who are looking

for education programs that meet the Minnesota Medical Association or Minnesota Board of Social Work curriculum standards.
“Each year, we train hundreds of professionals on the complexity of health equity issues within the LGBTQ community, those living with HIV and/or AIDS, and about elders in our communities who are facing incredible challenges of growing older as part of a marginalized population,” said Phil Duran, Director of Advocacy, Research and Education for JustUs Health.
“This year, we’re responding to community interest by expanding the conference to members of the public who are passionate advocates for justice. It’s critical to engage both providers and consumers in the work of advancing health equity.”
Tickets for the Opportunity Conference community day may be purchased online in advance for $10 per person (scholarships in cases of hardship are available). Participants have the option of adding a meal pass for the day.
Early Bird registration for the professional day is available before March 9th at a reduced rate of $120 per person. On March 10th and later, registration for the conference will be $150 per person. A discounted rate of $75 per person is available for students. **
Complete registration information, an overview of speakers, session topics and schedules for the both the community and professional days are available at OpportunityConference.org. Sponsors or conference exhibitors for our vendor/health fair should contact development@justushealth.org for sponsorship information or exhibitor pricing details.
*Credit application for six CEUs with the Minnesota Medical Association and Minnesota Board of Social
Work is pending.
**Current student ID required on the day of the conference.
About JustUs Health
The mission of JustUs Health is to work for equitable health care access and outcomes for people who experience injustice at the intersection of health status and identity. Our work is centered on individuals and communities at risk of and living with HIV or facing barriers to equitable health care access and outcomes because of their identity as gender, sexual and/ or racial minorities. Learn more about us at JustUsHealth.org

Happy Hour in Beltrami Park
2020-08-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Beltrami Park, 1111 Summer Street NE, Minneapolis, MN, 55413, United States
The event in July was enjoyed by the 7 folks that attended, so we’re giving it another go!
Let us gather outside for Happy Hour in Beltrami Park in Northeast Minneapolis.
August 4th 1pm – 2pm
The address of the park is 1111 Sumner Street NE, Minneapolis. There should be plenty of on street parking on Filmore Street.
Bring a chair and a beverage of your choice. If it rains or the weather is inclement, we will cancel.
Please RSVP with Mark by email here.

9:00 AM - Thursday - Weekday Breakfast
2020-08-20 08:55 - 11:00 | Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 8324 Lyndale Avenue, Bloomington, MN, 55420, United States
The Weekday Breakfast returns to Perkins.
Thursday August 20th @8:55am
Bus route 538
We MUST make reservations!
Maximum people to our party is 8 people. 2 tables of 4. Please RSVP
by email here.
Wearing a FACE MASK is required to enter (MN State Requirement) until the food arrives.

2:00 PM - Thursday - Coffee at Wilde Cafe
2020-08-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Wilde Roast, 65 Main Street SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The next meeting of the Wilde Roast group will be VIRTUAL

via ZOOM on Thursday, August 20th from 2-3 pm.

9:00AM - Saturday - Maple Grove Breakfast
2020-08-22 09:00 - 11:00 | The Original Pancake House, 6322 Vinewood Lane N, Maple Grove, MN, 55311, United States
Let’s meet up on Saturday August 22nd at 9:00am at The Original Pancake House
(6322 Vinewood Ln N, Maple Grove, MN 55311, Phone: 763-383-0888). This long-standing classic location for breakfasts never disappoints.
Please RSVP by Monday, August 20th with Ray by email here.

We MUST make reservations!
Maximum people to our party is 12 people – 6 per table.

Wearing a FACE MASK is required to enter (MN State Requirement) until the food arrives.

2:00 PM - Thursday - Virtual Coffee at Wilde Cafe
2020-12-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Wilde Roast, 65 Main Street SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The next meeting of the Wilde Roast group will be VIRTUAL via ZOOM on Thursday, December 17th from 2-3 pm. For more information on joining the Zoom meeting, please contact us by email here.

Friday - Newsletter Deadline
2020-12-18
Please submit any articles by Friday, December 18th to be included in the January 2021 issue.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2020-12-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
What: History of Violence
By: Edouard Louis
Host: Rick
Where: Zoom
When: Dec. 19th at 1:15 PM
Contact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here.
Book Review:

History of Violence is international autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath.
On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the village, the family, and the past he had sworn to leave behind.
A bestseller in France, History of Violence is a short nonfiction novel in the tradition of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, but with the victim as its subject. Moving seamlessly and hypnotically between past and present, between Louis’s voice and the voice of an imagined narrator, History of Violence has the exactness of a police report and the searching, unflinching curiosity of memoir at its best. It records not only the casual racism and homophobia of French society but also their subtle effects on lovers, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives. It represents a great step forward for a young writer whose acuity, skill, and depth are unmatched by any novelist of his generation, in French or English.

10:00 AM - Saturday - A Celebration of Friends Klassic Coffee Klatch
2021-01-02 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom
Prime Timers Worldwide recently shared information with all
local chapters about another worldwide group of senior gay men
called A Celebration of Friends (www.celebrationoffriends.org).
This well-known social organization has been active for more
than 15 years, is based in Florida and was founded by Tom
Pence (aka, “Tomcat”) who is a gregarious and welcoming man.
Tomcat runs a weekly Zoom call every Saturday morning at
10:00am Central Time for all members of A Celebration of Friends (ACOF). Tomcat recently invited Prime Timers everywhere to join their weekly Zoom meetings called the Klassic Coffee Klatch.
Please contact us for more information by email here.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2021-01-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
What: How We Fight For Our Lives
By: Saeed Jones
Host: Rick
Where: Zoom
When: Jan 16 at 1:15 PM
Contact Rick for details or to subscribe to book club notices by email here.
Book Review:

As How We Fight for Our Lives is Saeed Jones’ biography, it is a unique narrative of the events that shaped him.
However, it is also a story packed with elements that profoundly connect him to poetry, to every black person that came before him in this country, and to many of us who grew up dreaming of a chance at upward social mobility through education that we couldn’t afford. Extremely personal, emotionally gritty, and unabashedly honest, How We Fight for Our Lives is an outstanding memoir that somehow manages a perfect balance between love and violence, hope and hostility, transformation, and resentment.

Despite the changing backgrounds, the core of his life remained the same: his mother; his family; his passion for words; and his sexuality. Jones knew he was gay at an early age but finding himself and developing the strength to show his true self to the world took years. His memoir highlights that he was painfully aware of how discrimination, homophobia, and racism work in this country, how they contaminate everything, and that made him cognizant of the possible consequences of being an openly gay black man. The struggles that he faced and the journey he embarked on to find and (re)define his identity after every major change are the heart of this book. And it’s a wild heart full of need — and one desperate to communicate its humanity with the world.

2:00 PM - Thursday - Coffee at Wilde Cafe
2021-01-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Wilde Roast, 65 Main Street SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Our Wilde Cafe discussion group is typically held monthly on Thursday from 2-4 PM at the Wilde Roast Café.

The next meeting of the Wilde Roast group will be VIRTUAL via ZOOM on Thursday, January 21st from 2-3 pm. Please contact us for more information by email here..

9:00 AM - Saturday - Breakfast in Maple Grove
2021-02-06 09:00 - 10:30 | The Original Pancake House, 6322 Vinewood Lane N, Maple Grove, MN, 55311, United States
Let’s meet up on Saturday February 6th at 9:00am at The Original Pancake House (6322 Vinewood Ln N, Maple Grove, MN 55311, Phone: 763-383- 0888). This long-standing classic location for breakfasts never disappoints.

We MUST make reservations!
Maximum people to our party is 12 people – 6 per table.

Please RSVP by Thursday, February 4th with Ray by email here.
Wearing a FACE MASK is required to enter (MN State Requirement) until the food arrives.

1:00 PM - Tuesday - Weekday Lunch
2021-02-09 13:00 - 15:00 | Longfellow Grill, 2990 West River Parkway, Minneapolis, MN, United States
We have heard and have confirmed that the Longfellow Grille in Minneapolis has reopened. So circle Tuesday, February 9th on your calendar and join your fellow members at 1PM for a weekday lunch.
Longfellow Grille is located at 2990 West River Parkway, Minneapolis (at Lake Street & Mississippi River – MTC Route 21). Both on-street and off- street parking available.
We MUST make reservations! Maximum people to our party is 8 people. – 2 tables of 4.
Wearing a FACE MASK is required to enter (MN State Requirement) until the food arrives.

Please RSVP with Terry by 10 AM Tuesday, February 9th by email here.

10:00 AM - Saturday - Our Famous Saturday Breakfast
2021-02-13 10:00 - 11:30 | Bakers Square Restaurant & Pies, 2239 Ford Parkway, St. Paul, MN, 55116, United States
Saturday Feb. 13th 10:00AM
Bakers Square
2239 Ford Parkway
St. Paul 55116
MTC Routes 23, 74, and A-LINE
We MUST make reservations! Maximum people to our party is 16 people – 4 per table (2 tables and 2 booths). Please RSVP by NOON on Friday – February 12th.
Contact Terry by email here.
Wearing a FASK MASK is required to enter (MN State Requirement) until the food arrives.
