• Strides for Action, May 31, Boston MA 
• 5K run/walk for LGBTQ+ healthcare
• LGBTQIA+ Pride Flag Raising, June 1, Holyoke MA
• Queer Prom 2026, June 5, Holyoke MA
• Hosted by House of Colors 
• Boston Dyke March, June 5, Boston MA
• MFA First Fridays, June 5, Boston MA
• Springfield Pride Parade, June 6, Springfield MA
• Boston Pride, June 6, Boston MA
• Road of Rainbows Pride 5K, June 6, Boston MA
• Hosted by the Boston Theater Company
• Birding with Pride, June 6 and 13, Easthampton MA 
• Boston Black Pride, various events June 6-July 4, Boston MA
• Pride Picnic and Bird Walk, June 12, Lenox MA
• Holyoke Rainbow Run 5K, June 13, Holyoke MA
• Chicopee Pride Festival, June 13, Chicopee MA
• Neuroqueer Roundtable, June 13, Boston MA 
• WTF is Gender? Virtual Workshop Series, June 16, virtual 
• The People's Coalition; Activism Workshop, June 20, Boston MA 
• Belchertown Pride, June 20, Belchertown MA
• Pride in Nature Festival, June 20, Mattapan MA 
• Paddle for Pride, June 25, Allston MA 
• Holyoke Pride Fest, June 27, Holyoke MA
• North Shore Pride, June 27, Salem MA
• Amherst Pride, June 28, Amherst MA
• Boston's LGBTQ Past Tour, multiple dates, Boston MA 

• Persistence and Existence: LGBTQ History at Mount Holyoke College
• We have to Show the World Who We Are – Trans and Gender Nonconforming History at Mount Holyoke 
• LGBTQ Oral History Project

•  Trans Resistance and Histories at Mount Holyoke College & Beyond: An evening with Dr. Perry Zurn
• Remembering Marsha: What Love, Joy, and Defiance Can Offer Queer/Trans Liberation featuring Tourmaline in conversation with Dean Spade - Mount Holyoke College Events
• Life at the Intersections: Centering Multiple Margins with Dr. Tameeka Hunter 
• Let Trans Kids Play: Protecting Trans Lives On and Off the Field with Chris Mosier 
• Beyond Pronouns: Gender in Action with Gabe Hall
• Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next) with Dean Spade, Taylor Alxndr, and Jina Kim 
• Resisting Oppression Showing up in Solidarity for our TGNC community with Attorney Rachel Weber
• "REMEMBERING REVOLUTIONARY LOVE: Transformative Justice At the End of the World" with Kai Cheng Thom 
• BOOM! Conference Keynote 2020 -- Tourmaline

Join us in reading and working through:

• We Are Pride 2026: 75 Books for Children, Teens & Adults — a staff-created list from Boston Public Library
• A Black Queer History of the United States by C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost
• Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
• Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline
• How We Make Each Other by Perry Zurn 
• Love in a F*cked-Up World by Dean Spade
• Thunder Song by Sasha LaPointe
• Pretty by KB Brookins
• Hollywood Pride by Alonso Duralde
• How to Live Free in a Dangerous World By Shayla Lawson
• A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel
• Here Are My People by David Reichard
• Dear Bi Men: A Black Man's Perspective on Power, Consent, Breaking Down Binaries, and Combating Erasure by J.R. Yussuf 
• So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color by Caro de Robertis 
• Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler 
• Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam
• The Tradition by Jericho Brown
• Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
• Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet by Pauli Murray
• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
• The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
• I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom
• Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom
• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
• Gender Queer: A Memoir | Book by Maia Kobabe 
• The Great Believers | Rebecca Makkai 
• Trans Allyship Workbook by Davey Schlasko 
• The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook: Skills for Navigating Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression by Anneliese A. Singh
• Are You Ok? by Jesse Freidin
• The Risk It Takes to Bloom by Raquel Willis
• Revolution is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation
• We are Everywhere by Matthew Reimer and Leighton Brown
• Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility edited by Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley and Johanna Burton
• Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson
• A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson
• Gaysians by Mike Curato
• “Baldwin: A Love Story” by Nicholas Boggs
• “Awakened” by A.E. Osworth 
• Let the Moon Wobble” by Ally Ang
• “The Lilac People” by Milo Todd
• “American Scare: Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives” by Robert W. Fieseler
• “The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity 1869-1939” by Jonathan D. Katz
• "Seahorses: Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender-Expansive Pregnancy", by Simon Knaphus 

For young adults and children:

• “Sometimes the Girl” by Jennifer Mason-Black
• “Hick: The Trailblazing Journalist Who Captured Eleanor Roosevelt’s Heart” by Sarah Miller
• “He’s So Possessed with Me” written by Corey Liu
• “Devils Like Us” by L. T. Thompson
• Woods & Words: The Story of Poet Mary Oliver” by Sara Holly Ackerman, illustrated by Naoko Stoop 
• “Ollie in Between” by Jess Callans
• “The Ink Witch” by Steph Cherrywell
• “Call Me Gray” written by Andrew Larsen and Bells Larsen illustrated by Tallulah Fontaine
• “Halfway to Somewhere” by Jose Pimienta
• “One of the Boys” by Victoria Zeller
• One Day in June by Tourmaline 
• Circle of Love  by Monique Gray Smith
• Hooray for She, He, Ze, and They! by Lindz Amer
• Marley's Pride by Joëlle Retener
• It's Pride, Baby! by Allen R. Wells
• Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve 
• Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• A Family is A Family is a Family by Sara O'Leary and illustrated by Qin Leng
• Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders and illustrated by Steven Salerno
• Sharice’s Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman by Sharice Davids and Nancy K. Mays and illustrated by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley
• What Are Your Words?: A Book About Pronouns by Katherine Locke and illustrated by Anne Passchier
• The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes
• Bellies by Nicola Dinan
• Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon 
• From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea 
• Julián is a Mermaid - Jessica Love 
• June - Pride Month Coloring Sheet by @QueenOfTacosTX
• Trans Affirming Coloring Book PDF by Theo Nicole Lorenz
• Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek
• A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger 
• The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher
• Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
• The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
• Pageboy by Elliot Page

Explore These Websites:

• Digital Transgender Archive 
• The Outwords Archive
• LGBTQ History | GLSEN
• The Trevor Project 
• Human Rights Campaign
• PFLAG 
• Trans @ Women's Colleges | Megan Nanney, PhD