Rainbow Toastmasters meet every Thursday from 6:00pm to 7:30pm at the San Francisco LGBT Center: Room 301, 1800 Market Street, San Francisco, CA. Visitors are always welcome — no need to register — just show up! Visitors are invited to introduce themselves during the meeting and join us for dinner at the Crepevine afterwards.

What should you expect? In a 90-minute meeting, you will hear humorous and inspirational speeches, see people think on their feet with impromptu responses, and observe members giving one another praise and constructive feedback through evaluations. If you're new to Toastmasters and would like to know what a typical meeting is like, please see our Frequently Asked Questions page.

Rainbow Toastmasters is a member club of Toastmasters International, a world leader in communication and leadership development with 280,000 members across thousands of clubs in 116 countries. Our club serves the LGBT community of the San Francisco Bay Area. Our membership is open to everyone regardless of sexual orientation. Our meetings are fun and entertaining! Drop in for a visit and see for yourself.

Annual elections for Club officers will be held on June 6th. Members must be present to vote.

Rainbow Toastmasters currently has 7 out of 10 points (we still need half of criterion 1, plus criteria 2 and 4). CC and CL manuals need to be completed by June 30th to count towards distinguished club points, and that we're striving to earn at least 9 to become president's distinguished for the 6th year in a row.

Congratulations to George and Alan for sweeping the Division D Speech Contests! George won the International Speech Contest and Alan won the Tall Tales Speech Contest at the Division D Speech Contest on April 23, 2013.

At the Division D Speech Contest, Rainbow Toastmasters was also recognized for renewing 75% of our members before the end of March. Congratulations to our Treasurer Ray for making this happen and winning us the March Madness Traveling Trophy to use in our upcoming meetings. Rainbow Toastmasters is making a big splash in Toastmaster history this year with over 50 active members, distinguished club status, and speech contest winners!

A portion of every Rainbow Toastmasters meeting is devoted to Table Topics, when members can practice impromptu speaking. A Table Topics Master asks fun, open-ended questions of club members, who then have 1 or 2 minutes to speak extemporaneously. Alan shows how it's done in this short video from a recent meeting. He was given the topic of "pride" and spoke about his upcoming plans to dress up proudly for Burning Man as "Captain Rainbow."

Table Topics are a great way to sharpen your skills in public speaking, and they are a lot of fun as well. Come to our next Rainbow Toastmasters meeting and see for yourself — and maybe someday soon you'll have a video like this on our web site, too!

Every meeting features two or three prepared speeches by club members. These speeches generally last between five and seven minutes, and they are formally evaluated later in the evening by other club members who share their constructive opinions about the effectiveness of the speeches and offer friendly suggestions for improvements. In this video, Jim evaluates another member's speech. He talks about the goals of the speech and how good speeches should have a beginning, middle, and end that support a single point. He praises the speech, offers a few suggestions for making it even better, and closes with an invitation to the speaker to challenge herself constantly as her speaking skills improve.

President	Jaiya Alamia
VP of Education	Alan Davis and Steven Marsh
VP of Membership	Claudine Offer
VP of Public Relations	Hoa Su and John Celenza
Treasurer	Rayson Roldan
Secretary	Club Member
Sergeant at Arms	Yasser Albazian and Tranh Pham

Rainbow Toastmasters is club #822664 within Toastmasters International. We are part of Toastmasters District 4, which includes clubs along the California Pacific Coast from San Francisco to Monterey.