Mass 50501Fenway Health's Strides for Action returns May 31 on Boston Common!
π Join this free 5K walk/run to kick off Boston Pride and stride for LGBTQIA+ health, HIV/AIDS research & care, and health equity.
Register free at stridesforaction.org π
knizer#BostonWeekend 28/x PRIDE x SALEM - Sat North Shore Pride Parade - Noon start in #SalemMA
https://northshorepride.org/parade-festival/
#Boston #BostonPride #BostonLGBTQIA #LGBTQIA #Pride #Salem #massachusetts #NorthShore
https://northshorepride.org/parade-festival/
#Boston #BostonPride #BostonLGBTQIA #LGBTQIA #Pride #Salem #massachusetts #NorthShore
#BostonWeekend 27/x PRIDE x BOATS Sat Pride parade on the Mystic River - 11am-1145 boats launching, noon-1p parading aboat in a loop.
Come give cheers for floating queers?
https://www.gentlegiantrowing.org/pride
#Boston #BostonLGBTQIA #BostonPride #Pride #LGBTQIA #MedfordMA #SomervilleMA
Mystic River Pride Flotilla β Gentle Giant Rowing Club
The Mystic River Pride Flotilla is on the last Saturday of June (rain date is Sunday). Think: Pride parade on the water. Located at the Mystic River basin, situated on the Somerville & Medford city lines. Free and open to all, this is a family-friendly non-alcoholic event to showcase the Mystic
DaphneEven with all the tired, I love the early-morning T ride in on parade day. I love how each stop of the Green Line adds a few more parade-goers, station by station, as we get closer to Boston. A Pride flag here, a trans patch there, a dusting of sparkles, color, brightness.
On Saturday's ride in, we ended up chatting briefly with a young woman in a "Kiss More Girls" t-shirt. She was visiting Boston on a summer internship away from her home and college and family in Florida. She was really feeling the difference between Florida and Massachusetts. "I'm a gay woman and I can...", she gestured around at the Pride-goers on the train, at herself, at her shirt, "...up here."
And then she cried. Just a bit.
We all went our own ways in Boston, but I keep thinking about her. May she find her way to a place where she can always (gestures around) and Kiss More Girls.
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Coming off of an extremely, extremely full weekend. Dyke March. The Trans Memorial. Eating fire. The love, the tears, the caring, .... the fear nibbling around the edges.
I haven't really processed everything yet, but I did want to tell you about someone I met on the T Saturday, heading into the Boston Pride parade.
I'm not really a crowds and parades person. I'm kind of introverted, can be painfully shy, and am a perfect example of Hannah Gadsby's "Quiet Gay" - you'll find me with a book and a cup of tea in the queer-friendly bakery, not at the dance party.
But still, every year my partner and I march in the Trans Memorial section of the big Boston parade. It's important to me to be there, to carry a sign with a name, and bear witness to who we've lost, despite the lack of sleep after the wonderful Dyke March the night before.
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π πairchild πI've seen variations of this one, so thought I'd post this as well.
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#Boston is ELECTRIC right now, even in the pouring rain.