QOTD
"There's all kinds of different families. But what makes us a family is that we love each other."
— Frank, one of the gay dad characters who made history on a recent Sesame Street episode
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Tonight!
Pride Night // @ Granite Coast Brewing // Peabody, MA
Fri JUN 25 // 5 – 8pm
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Queer Cinema // Manchester City Library // online via zoom
Fri JUN 25 // 7pm
Organizers write, "Cinema has been an integral part of Queer artistic expression for many years...Liz Ryan, Librarian and Film Scholar, will explore LGBTQ milestones and trailblazers in cinema, covering groundbreaking films like Paris is Burning , directors like Gregg Araki and Gus Van Sant, and ongoing issues such as representation behind and in front of the camera."
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This Weekend!
Life Is Drag: More Is Better and Never Too Much // @ 3S Artspace* // Portsmouth, NH
Fri JUN 25 – Sun JUN 27
Exhibit is free and open to the public during gallery hours. You can also reserve a private gallery visit on Saturdays and Sundays for groups up to 10.
more info // * venue covid safety
Pride Outside Hike Series // The Trustees // @ Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens // North Andover, MA
Sat JUN 26 // 10am
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Windham's 1st Pride Festival! // Windham Citizens for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion // @ Searles School // Windham, NH
Sat JUN 26 // 1 – 5pm
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Nashua (Virtual) Pride Festival 2021 // online
Sat JUN 26 // 3pm
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NAGLY's Youth Pride // NAGLY // @ Old Town Hall // Salem, MA
Sat JUN 26 // 3 – 7pm
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White Mountains PRIDE Day // White Mountains PRIDE // @ Tricks and Treats // North Conway, NH
Sat JUN 26 // 1 – 3pm
Celebrate Pride with ICE CREAM! Wear Pride gear and get a free scoop! Check out their full schedule for other Pride month events.
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Portsmouth PRIDE at the Park 2021 (SOLD OUT!!) // Seacoast Outright // @ Prescott Park // Portsmouth, NH
Sat JUN 26 // 5 – 10pm
Live drag show at 6:30pm and followed by a screening of Love, Simon at sundown! Celebrate Pride in person and outdoors. Pod reservations are required for park entry and are currently sold out for this event.
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Families of All Configurations Picnic & Drag Storytime! // @ Main Street Congregational Church UCC // Amesbury, MA
Sun JUN 27 // 11:15am
Picnic starts at 11:15am and Miss Clara Divine will host a drag storytime starting at 12pm! Organizers write, "COVID-safe: Bring your own water bottles/plates/cups/food (no potluck). Kids, parents, drag queens and kings, LGBTQIA+, allies welcome."
Next Week
Family for All Folx : A QTPOC Talk on Family Planning & Birth Journeys // hosted by House of Bawdy // online via facebook
Tue JUN 29 // 6 – 8pm
Organizers write, "BIQTPoC are regularly and frustratingly excluded from family planning conversations be it medically, legally, or otherwise. With so much love, effort, and financial weight given to the decision to create new life, we want to help. Join us to learn about how to start, navigate, and integrate new life in into your own."
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Next Month
Big Queer Historical Bar Tour // University of Southern Maine Foundation // starts @ Plaza at 511 Congress Street // Portland, ME
Sun JUL 11 // 2 – 4pm
The first date for this historical walking tour of Portland's LGBTQ+ bars sold out, so get your tickets now! The two-mile walk takes you to 7 locations that have been the site of 17 different queer bars over the past 53 years!
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“Gay” Old Times Walking Tour // starts @ Discover Portsmouth Welcome Center // Portsmouth, NH
Sun JUL 11 // 2:30pm
Learn the hidden history of the Seacoast LGBTQ community! Tour guide Tom Kaufhold leads an engaging 75-minute tour around Portsmouth. Among the many beautiful historic sites you'll hear all about the people, places and events that make up our local LGBTQ+ history, where the first gay and women's bars were in Portsmouth, the restaurant credited with starting Portsmouth's restaurant renaissance and more!
LGBTQ Book Club // Portsmouth Public Library // online via zoom (password: 3GWdHC)
Tue JUL 20 // 7pm
Next up: The Deep by Rivers Solomon! Everyone welcome to attend the book discussion. Copies are available with a Portsmouth library card.
more info
Save the Date
Brandi Carlile // @ Thompson's Point // Portland, ME
Fri AUG 20 // 7pm
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EqualityMaine Awards Gala 2021 // @ Thompson's Point // Portland, ME
Sat AUG 28 // tba
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Randy Rainbow: The Pink Glasses Tour // @ Chevalier Theatre // Medford, MA
Sun NOV 7 // 3pm
Sun NOV 7 // 7pm
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EMPLOYEES REQUESTED!
Throwback Brewery is still hiring! Now open for inside drinking and dining, our favorite brew house would love to be open more hours this summer but they need more staff to make that happen, including a brew house assistant, line cook, bartenders and barbacks.
Apply here and you could work with these objectively awesome people!
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