About FFBC

Founded in 1996, First Friday Breakfast Club is a safe haven for all LGBTQ+ members, allies, and guests. What began as a few friends deciding to meet regularly for breakfast, soon grew into one of Iowa’s largest breakfast clubs focused on education, outreach, and awarding scholarships.

Our Mission

First Friday Breakfast Club is an educational forum that embraces the LGBTQ+ community and its allies, nourishes meaningful dialogue through monthly speakers, and cultivates young advocates for equity and inclusion by awarding leadership scholarships to Iowa graduating high school seniors.

Our Vision

First Friday Breakfast Club envisions an inclusive environment to become well-informed LGBTQ+ members and allies for a world without prejudice or discrimination and to empower young leaders in outstanding efforts to counter homophobia by promoting acceptance in Iowa schools and communities.

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In 1620, Sir John Melton wrote: “If a man walking in the fields find any four-leaved grass, he shall in a small while after find some good thing.”

LGBTQ+ people are like four-leaf clovers.

We are perfectly natural and authentic, just with a beautiful variation. Whether you search one out or simply discover one, your life is supposed to be luckier with fortunate connections. 

Each of us is like a four-leaf clover.