Reply #8: Oh wow, I got sober in that area years ago.

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Been to the Midtown meeting. When I was getting sober, it was a just a huge speaker meeting on either Sat or Sun night,can't remember which, mostly very young attendees and very social. There were speakers, but mostly people would talk and smoke cigarettes outside. It was not a clique or cult or whatever it has evolved into now.

There was a clique, called the Cue group or Que group or Q group, I dunno, something like that. Anyway, there was a charismatic older man at the center of it and lots of younger people, particularly women. They had a rep for being weird, and there was allegedly plenty of 13th stepping going on. I steered way clear, so I don't know much about them. But I'll bet that is the antecedents of whatever is going on there now. There was also a group that was becoming very anti-young person and someone actually told me they wanted to make a rule against really young recovering people attending meetings at a local AA club 'cause they were "taking over" :crazy:

So sad. DC was a great town to get sober in when I was there in 90's.