• The Live & Let Live Alano Club at 1730 Monroe Street, in University Heights, holds 12-step meetings for alcoholics, narcotics, sex, food and crystal meth addicts, as well as meetings for friends and families of alcoholics – among many other types of recovery groups. 12-step recovery programs are based on the spiritual principles of Alcoholics Anonymous. For more information, visit www.lllac.org

• Stepping Stone Center for Recovery is a treatment center and halfway house with a primary focus on the GLBT community. It also has a day-treatment program, located in Hillcrest on Fourth Avenue, and operates Enya House, a sober-living home for HIV-positive individuals, and Our House, a sober-living residence in east San Diego. Recovery Home. For more information, visit www.steppingstonesd.org.

• Once a year, the GLBT sober community hosts a Round Up called Feeling Good, which takes place during Labor Day Weekend (with AA and Al-Anon participation) that includes marathon meetings, dances, main speakers, live entertainment, and tons of food. This event is attended by people from all over the United States, as well as from Canada and Mexico. For more information, visit www.feelinggood.org.

• If you like the outdoors, then once a year in the hills of Julian, Calif., you can participate in a weekend of fun and recovery at the Gay Men’s Spiritual Retreat (a San Diego-sponsored event hosted by the gay men’s recovery community). The retreat includes a drag contest for Miss Camp Stevens, hiking, workshops and swimming. You can find out more about the GMSR by visiting www.gmsr.org.

• The LLLAC also sponsors an annual Easter Bonnet Social, with food, fun, fellowship and a grand prize for the best Easter Bonnet. Every summer LLLAC holds a picnic in Balboa Park. It also holds dances, hosts Bitchy Bingo!, participates in the San Diego LGBT Pride Parade and holds a coffee venue at the Pride Festival.

• There is also the Lambda Retreat, which has women’s meetings, men’s meetings, mixed meetings, candlelight meetings, speaker meetings; the list goes on and on. You can learn about it all, by visiting www.lrwsd.org.

If you or someone you know thinks they might have a problem with alcohol or drugs there is help. Contact one of the support groups mentioned in this article, or contact Alcoholics Anonymous. They are listed in the white pages of the phone directory across the United States. In San Diego they can be reached at 619-265-8762.