Attend one of the following in-person or virtual events:

• Belchertown Pride 
  June 1 
  Belchertown MA
• Strides for Action 
  June 1 
  Boston MA
• 5K run/walk for LGBTQ+ healthcare and LGBTQIA+ Pride Flag Raising 
  June 2 
  Holyoke MA
• City of Boston LGBTQIA2S+ Pride Kickoff and Flag Raising Celebration 
  June 2 
  Boston MA
• MFA First Fridays 
  June 6 
  Boston MA
• Springfield Pride Parade! 
  June 7 
  Springfield MA
• Queer Prom 2025 
  June 13 
  Holyoke MA 
  Hosted by House of Colors
• Boston Dyke March 
  June 13 
  Boston MA
• Pride Flag Raising 
  June 13 
  Chicopee MA
• Chicopee Pride Festival 
  June 14 
  Chicopee MA
• Boston Pride for the People 
  June 14 
  Boston MA
• Holyoke Rainbow Run 5K 
  June 14 
  Holyoke MA
• Road of Rainbows Pride 5K 
  June 14 
  Boston MA 
  Hosted by the Boston Theater Company
• JP BLOCK PARTY 
  June 15 
  Boston MA
• Holyoke Pride Fest 
  June 21 
  Holyoke MA
• Family Pride Day 
  June 21 
  Springfield MA 
  Hosted by Springfield Museums
• Amherst Pride Parade and Celebration 
  June 22 
  Amherst MA
• The Rise and Fall of Boston Pride 
  June 26 
  Boston MA 
  Hosted by Boston Public Library
• Boston's Big Queer Picnic 
  June 28 
  Boston MA
• North Shore Pride Parade and Festival 
  June 28 
  Salem MA
• LGBTQ+ Pride Hike 
  June 28 
  Lenox, MA 
  Hosted by Mass Audubon, Queer Men of the Berkshires (Q-MoB) and the Housatonic Valley Association
• Pride Fest at the Nest 
  June 28 
  Canton MA 
  Hosted by Mass Audubon
• Boston Black Pride 
  June 29-July 6
  • Black Pride Health Summit
    June 29
  • Legacy of Color Paint Night
    June 30
  • Get Fit with Blu and Ram
    July 2
  • Welcome to Boston Open Mic
    July 3
  • Neon Nights Youth Glow Party
    July 3
  • Radiant Ascension Ball
    July 4
  • All Black Met Galabr />July 4
  • Drip Pool Party
    July 5
  • Entourage Y2K
    July 5
  • Black Pride Parade
    July 6
• Trans Resistance March 
  July 19 
  Boston MA
• Boston's LGBTQ Past Tour 
  multiple dates, book tours online 
  Boston MA

• Persistence and Existence: LGBTQ History at Mount Holyoke College
• LGBTQ Oral History Project

• 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

Join us in reading and working through:

• 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 by 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
• Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom

2024-2025 books

• 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 Erasureby 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

For young adults and children:

• 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 by Kai Cheng Thom, illustrated by Kai Yun Ching & Wai-Yant Li
• Julián is a Mermaid by 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

2024-2025 children’s books:

• 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