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Berkshires LGBTQIA+ Calendar

Follow along with Berkshire Pride's Events Calendar that features events happening in Berkshire County and beyond.

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Pride Night by DJ Pup Daddy

First Thursday of the Month: 8 - 11p

Methuselah Bar & Lounge

North Street

Pittsfield, MA

Pride Late hours with DJ Pup Daddy is a monthly queer dance party at Methuselah for the LGBTQ+ community and their allies. Each month a different artist or genre is put into the spotlight.

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Berkshire Trans Group

Two Monthly Meetings

Berkshire Athenaeum (Pittsfield Library)

One Wendell Ave, Pittsfield

UNO Community Center

River St, North Adams

Berkshire Trans Group is a peer discussion group for people who are trans, non-binary, and gender-questioning in the Berkshires. Follow the page of Facebook for event updates.

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Drag Brunch with Hor & Friends

First Saturday of the Month: 12p - 2p

Hawks & Reed

Main St, Greenfield, MA

Think of Drag Brunch as dinner theater with Berkshires born, Boxxa Vine. Wh

Kingston’s new designated queer bar is finally here. Located in the old Beverly Lounge identify on Foxhall Avenue, Unicorn Bar had a three-phase opening over the past week. Things touched off with a friends-and-family adj opening last Thursday, April 25 before heating up with a spicy, sold-out burlesque show on Saturday, and a rollicking grand opening on Wednesday, May 1.

“The response has been overwhelmingly positive,” says local musician, event organizer, and bar owner Francesca Hoffman. “People are so grateful for a designated queer space. It’s been a humbling experience to just be a proprietor of this. It’s something I've wanted to do for so long, there is such a clear need.”

Hoffman worked Deb Parker on the bathrooms and with Kingston-based designer Brooke Lane to give fresh life to the bar’s interior, while maintaining gems like the historic bar and back bar. “Brooke came in and wanted to lean heavily into the Art Deco influences that were already in the space,” Hoffman says.

“She hit the ball out of the park. She ran stuff by me, but I really loved everything she pic

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Ronald Reagan might be credited with prompting the inception of Northampton’s Pride March. Following his swearing-in as the 40^th U.S. President on Jan. 20, , the Valley experienced growing violence toward women, gays and people of color. The Valley Women’s Voice, an area feminist monthly newspaper, carried reports of this from alternative news sources across the country during

Springfield experienced an increase in forcible rapes that was three times the average national increase (though that also rose). One analysis of that increase in rape in California found that 30% of the victims were lesbians. Within a two-month period, six women drivers in Springfield and South Hadley were forced off the road or lured to halt their cars then beaten and raped by the “tire iron man.”

The Puerto Rican communities in the North End of Springfield and Holyoke were targets of arson. In the first eight months of , 85 fires in Holyoke left people homeless and killed six residents. That same summer, the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses in Westfield.

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In honor of Pride Month this June, we will be highlighting local Pride organizations that support and empower the region&#;s LGBTQ+ community. The current LGBTQ+ rights movement began with The Stonewall Rebellion on June 27th, , in protest of the NYPD&#;s raids on gay bars. According to the Trevor Project, &#;Thousands took to the streets in the days and weeks that followed, leading community organizations to form globally, and the first Gay Pride march to mark the uprising one year later.&#; Trans women of color Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were pioneers in organizing and progressing this movement. To learn more about pivotal events and individuals in LGBTQ+ history, the Trevor Project has created a comprehensive document, which you can access here.

Founded in , Berkshire Pride was organized by M Florence Hall, and according to their site, “welcomes over 1, members of the LGBTQIA+ community in The Berkshires and beyond.” As a non-profit (c)3 organization, Berkshire Pride offers a variety of programming to support the community and allies, integrating pr