Boston Queer Events
Visibility, Access & Advocacy
for Metro Boston’s LGBTQIA+ and Ally Community
TQNC Tabling at Museum of Science PRIDE Celebration
Museum of Science Pride Celebration 2025
The Museum of Science is thrilled to host Pride Celebration 2025 — a special event highlighting the LGBTQ+ community's contributions, innovations, and leadership in science, the arts, and more. This day-long event invites guests of all ages to participate in learning activities and experiences that are lively and life-affirming.
Celebrate the accomplishments of LGBTQ+ communities in STEM and beyond during a full-day Pride celebration at the Museum on Saturday, June 28.
The event will feature live performances, hands-on activities for all ages, inspiring guest speakers sharing stories of discovery and impact, and local partner organizations serving LGBTQ+ individuals across Greater Boston.
FREE access to the Exhibit Halls and celebration when using the Promo Code PRIDE25
Queer Advocacy Potluck Picnic
Join us for a Queer Advocacy Group meeting, over a potluck picnic!
This is an opportunity to engage in advocacy on queer issues prioritized by the group, including housing, transportation, healthcare, and queer youth — while enjoying a chill social vibe and food. All experience levels are welcome!
A note on the “potluck”
It’s ok to bring something small
It’s ok to bring something store-bought
It’s ok to bring absolutely nothing and still eat!
TQNC is a grassroots nonprofit fostering queer joy, advocacy, and arts for Greater Boston’s LGBTQIA+ and ally community. TQNC hosts queer community events where we can safely exist as our whole selves, advocates for our queer community, and provides support services for queer community members facing threats to their basic physical and mental health. Find us on Instagram & Bluesky @tqncboston or TQNC.org.
Queer Advocacy Virtual Working Session
Ready to advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights? Join TQNC for a Queer Advocacy Virtual Working Session
💡This is a collaborative online space to actively engage in advocacy efforts and take urgent action on queer issues prioritized by our community, including housing, transportation, healthcare, and queer youth support.
📢 Learn from others and contribute your skills. No prior experience is necessary – all are welcome and encouraged to participate and lend their voices to this important work. Let's work together to create meaningful change.
TQNC is a grassroots nonprofit fostering queer joy, advocacy, and arts for Greater Boston’s LGBTQIA+ and ally community. TQNC hosts queer community events where we can safely exist as our whole selves, advocates for our queer community, and provides support services for queer community members facing threats to their basic physical and mental health. Find us on Instagram & Bluesky @tqncboston or TQNC.org.
2025 Equality Fund's Annual Pride Celebration
Celebrating Pride is an annual tradition for the Equality Fund, the largest philanthropic fund dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community in Massachusetts.
You’re invited to the Equality Fund’s annual Pride Celebration as they announce their new grantees, including TQNC! Come celebtrate the transformative work of their nonprofit partners and recognize our donors’ commitment to the Fund’s mission: to advance the equitable treatment of LGBTQ+ individuals and their families and support Greater Boston nonprofit organizations that serve and strengthen our diverse LGBTQ+ community.
Join us on Thursday, June 12, at 4:00 PM at LGBTQ Senior Housing, Inc.’s, The Pryde, the first affordable housing for low-income LGBTQ seniors in New England. We’ll celebrate with new and past nonprofit grantees, donors, collaborators, the Boston Foundation’s President and CEO Lee Pelton, a performance by Living Water, and special guests to be named later!
Reading is Resistance: June Book of the Month
Reading is Resistance: A TQNC Book Club & Community Hang
In times like these, stories are our refuge, our resistance, and our roadmap to a better future. Join facilitator Kimberly Rhoten for Reading is Resistance, a monthly book club and community gathering designed to nourish, inspire, and empower our LGBTQIA2S+ community.
Each month, we’ll read books that challenge injustice, celebrate queer joy, and deepen our understanding of the world and each other.
*PLEASE NOTE: You do NOT have to read the book to join. This isn’t just a book club—it’s a space for connection. Come for the books, stay for the conversation, and build relationships with fellow queer neighbors who believe in the power of literature as activism.
Where? Virtual (with quarterly opportunities to meet in person!)
When? Monday, May 12th from 7-8PM (monthly)
What are we reading? We’ll choose together! Books that support us in these times—whether that means radical resistance, queer joy, or both.
JUNE Book of the Month: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
*available at local and online libraries
Trigger & Content Warnings
Transmisia
Deadnaming
Outing
Cheating
Graphic miscarriage
Abortion discussed
Because reading is resistance. And resistance is better together.
Queer Advocacy Virtual Working Session
Ready to advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights? Join TQNC for a Queer Advocacy Virtual Working Session.
💡This is a collaborative online space to actively engage in advocacy efforts and take urgent action on queer issues prioritized by our community, including housing, transportation, healthcare, and queer youth support.
📢 Learn from others and contribute your skills. No prior experience is necessary – all are welcome and encouraged to participate and lend their voices to this important work. Let's work together to create meaningful change.
TQNC is a queer community collective fostering queer joy, advocacy, and arts for Greater Boston’s LGBTQIA+ and ally community. TQNC hosts queer community events where we can safely exist as our whole selves, advocates for our queer community, and provides support services for queer community members facing threats to their basic physical and mental health. Find us on Instagram & Bluesky @tqncboston or TQNC.org.
Reading is Resistance: a TQNC Book Club
Reading is Resistance: A TQNC Book Club & Community Hang
In times like these, stories are our refuge, our resistance, and our roadmap to a better future. Join facilitator Kimberly Rhoten for Reading is Resistance, a monthly book club and community gathering designed to nourish, inspire, and empower our LGBTQIA2S+ community.
Each month, we’ll read books that challenge injustice, celebrate queer joy, and deepen our understanding of the world and each other.
*PLEASE NOTE: You do NOT have to read the book to join. This isn’t just a book club—it’s a space for connection. Come for the books, stay for the conversation, and build relationships with fellow queer neighbors who believe in the power of literature as activism.
Where? Virtual (with quarterly opportunities to meet in person!)
When? Monday, May 12th from 7-8PM (monthly)
What are we reading? We’ll choose together! Books that support us in these times—whether that means radical resistance, queer joy, or both.
May Book of the Month: Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade
*available at local and online libraries
Because reading is resistance. And resistance is better together.
Queer Advocacy Supper Club
QUEER ADVOCACY SUPPER CLUB
🆕🪩 Join us in JP for a special Queer Advocacy Meeting with Ethos’ LGBTQ+ Elders & Friends Out4Supper Club!
All are welcome 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
🍝 DINNER PROVIDED! Please RSVP to reserve a seat 🎟️
🍒 5pm-6pm: Appetizers & Social
🗒️ 6pm-8pm: Dinner & Meeting
This is an opportunity to engage in advocacy on queer issues prioritized by the group, including housing, transportation, healthcare, and queer youth — while enjoying a chill social vibe and food. All experience levels are welcome! 🌸
Space is limited. RSVP to reserve a seat by emailing ethoscafe@ethocare.org.
TQNC is a queer community collective fostering queer joy, advocacy, and arts for Greater Boston’s LGBTQIA+ and ally community. TQNC hosts queer community events where we can safely exist as our whole selves, advocates for our queer community, and provides support services for queer community members facing threats to their basic physical and mental health. Find us on Instagram & Bluesky @tqncboston or TQNC.org
Queer Advocacy Virtual Working Session
Join us virtually to engage in advocacy on queer issues prioritized by the group, including housing, transportation, healthcare, and queer youth. All experience levels are welcome!
Budget Advocacy Workshop
TQNC Budget Advocacy Workshop
hosted by Morgan McDaniel
Join TQNC for a virtual Budget Advocacy Workshop for the City of Boston.
Please join regardless of where you live! Anyone who cares about Boston is welcome.
TQNC is a queer community collective fostering queer joy, advocacy, and arts for Greater Boston’s LGBTQIA+ and ally community. TQNC hosts queer community events where we can safely exist as our whole selves, advocates for our queer community, and provides support services for queer community members facing threats to their basic physical and mental health. Find us on Instagram & Bluesky @tqncboston or TQNC.org.
Queer Advocacy Policy & Potluck
Join us for a Queer Advocacy Group meeting, over a potluck dinner Downtown (RSVP for address).
This is an opportunity to engage in advocacy on queer issues prioritized by the group, including housing, transportation, healthcare, and queer youth — while enjoying a chill social vibe and food. All experience levels are welcome!
A note on the “potluck”
It’s ok to bring something small
It’s ok to bring something store-bought
It’s ok to bring absolutely nothing and still eat!
TQNC is a queer community collective fostering queer joy, advocacy, and arts for Greater Boston’s LGBTQIA+ and ally community. TQNC hosts queer community events where we can safely exist as our whole selves, advocates for our queer community, and provides support services for queer community members facing threats to their basic physical and mental health. Find us on Instagram & Bluesky @tqncboston or TQNC.org
Trans Day of Visibility Celebration with Boston City Council
Hosted by Boston City Councilors Henry Santana and Sharon Durkan.
Join us in recognizing the amazing work local organizations are doing to support Boston's transgender community.
TQNC will be publicly acknowledged during the presentation, and all members are invited to join the Councilors on the City Council floor.
Councilors Santana & Durkan will be introducing a resolution officially recognizing Transgender Day of Visibility in Boston
Join TQNC after for a BYO lunch at the Boston Public Market!
TDOV Reception: 11AM, City Council Reception, 5th floor of Boston City Hall
City Council Presentation: 12PM, Iannella Chamber, 5th floor of Boston City Hall
TQNC Lunch: 1:30pm, Boston Public Market 100 Hanover Street, Boston MA 02108
TQNC is a queer community collective fostering queer joy, advocacy, and arts for Greater Boston’s LGBTQIA+ and ally community. TQNC hosts queer community events where we can safely exist as our whole selves, advocates for our queer community, and provides support services for queer community members facing threats to their basic physical and mental health. Find us on Instagram & Bluesky @tqncboston or TQNC.org
Queer Advocacy Virtual Working Session
Join us virtually to engage in advocacy on queer issues prioritized by the group, including housing, transportation, healthcare, and queer youth. All experience levels are welcome!
TQNC is a queer community collective fostering queer joy, advocacy, and arts for Greater Boston’s LGBTQIA+ and ally community. TQNC hosts queer community events where we can safely exist as our whole selves, advocates for our queer community, and provides support services for queer community members facing threats to their basic physical and mental health. Find us on Instagram & Bluesky @tqncboston or TQNC.org
Queer Advocacy Potluck Dinner
Join us for a Queer Advocacy Group meeting, over a potluck dinner Downtown (RSVP for address).
This is an opportunity to engage in advocacy on queer issues prioritized by the group, including housing, transportation, healthcare, and queer youth — while enjoying a chill social vibe and food. All experience levels are welcome!
A note on the “potluck”
It’s ok to bring something small
It’s ok to bring something store-bought
It’s ok to bring absolutely nothing and still eat!
TQNC is a queer community collective fostering queer joy, advocacy, and arts for Greater Boston’s LGBTQIA+ and ally community. TQNC hosts queer community events where we can safely exist as our whole selves, advocates for our queer community, and provides support services for queer community members facing threats to their basic physical and mental health. Find us on Instagram & Bluesky @tqncboston or TQNC.org.
Queer Advocacy Virtual Working Session
Join us virtually to engage in advocacy on queer issues prioritized by the group, including housing, transportation, healthcare, and queer youth. All experience levels are welcome!
TQNC & BAGLY: QuAC LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness Roundtable
TQNC and BAGLY will host a roundtable discussion on housing policy, and then we'll talk about ways folks can get involved in supporting a trans youth shelter in Boston.
Queer Advocacy Potluck Dinner
Join us for a Queer Advocacy Group meeting, over a potluck dinner Downtown (RSVP for address).
This is an opportunity to engage in advocacy on queer issues prioritized by the group, including housing, transportation, healthcare, and queer youth — while enjoying a chill social vibe and food. All experience levels are welcome!
Queer Advocacy Virtual Working Session
Join us virtually to engage in advocacy on queer issues prioritized by the group, including housing, transportation, healthcare, and queer youth. All experience levels are welcome!
Queer Advocacy Potluck Dinner
Join us for a Queer Advocacy Group meeting, over a potluck dinner Downtown (RSVP for address).
This is an opportunity to engage in advocacy on queer issues prioritized by the group, including housing, transportation, healthcare, and queer youth — while enjoying a chill social vibe and food. All experience levels are welcome!
Housing & Policy Advocacy Council Meeting
The more action-oriented companion to our Housing & Policy Potluck Dinner series, this meeting will focus on making decisions on ideas discussed during potlucks, and coordinating on advocacy campaigns.
This will be a hybrid meeting — join in-person Downtown, or virtually.
Housing & Policy Potluck Dinner
Join us for a Housing & Policy Advocacy Group meeting — over a potluck dinner hosted in Downtown Crossing.
This will be a policy-oriented social, with some planning for our upcoming advocacy work, with a low-key vibe. All are welcome, no experience required!
Housing & Policy Potluck Dinner
Join us for a Housing & Policy Advocacy Group meeting — over a potluck dinner hosted in Downtown Crossing.
This will be a policy-oriented social, with some planning for our upcoming advocacy work, with a low-key vibe. All are welcome, no experience required!
Housing & Policy Over Potluck Dinner
Join us for a Housing & Policy Advocacy Group meeting — over a potluck dinner hosted in Downtown Crossing.
This will be a policy-oriented social, with some planning for our upcoming advocacy work, with a low-key vibe. All are welcome, no experience required!
Housing & Policy Over Potluck Dinner
Join us for a Housing & Policy Advocacy Group meeting…over a potluck dinner Downtown (RSVP for address).
We’ll be planning for our upcoming advocacy work and Policy Roundtables, but with a chill social vibe with food.
A note on the “potluck”
It’s ok to bring something small
It’s ok to bring something store-bought
It’s ok to bring absolutely nothing and still eat!
We also have drinks left from our birthday party — this won’t be an alcohol-centric event, but 21+ attendees are welcome to a drink.
Housing & Policy Potluck Dinner
Join us for a Housing & Policy Advocacy Group meeting…over a potluck dinner hosted in the North End.
This will be a policy-oriented social, with some planning for our upcoming advocacy work, but with a summer “can’t we just be queer and take a break” kinda vibe.
Housing & Policy Over Dinner & Drinks
Join us for a Housing & Policy Advocacy Group meeting…over dinner and drinks at Democracy Brewing.
This will be a policy-oriented social, with some planning for our upcoming advocacy work, but with a summer “can’t we just be queer and take a break” kinda vibe.
Policy Roundtable with Boston City Councilor At-Large Henry Santana
Join a dynamic discussion with Boston City Councilor At-Large Henry Santana, covering legislative priorities his office is working on, Boston’s annual budget, and the critical issues you want to see the Boston City Council address!
TQNC Housing & Policy Advocacy Group Working Session
This Working Session will be in preparation for our Policy Roundtable on 5/22 with Boston City Councilor At-Large Henry Santana, along with updates on our advocacy campaigns including Trans Youth Shelter and Right to Counsel (legal representation for tenants facing eviction).
TQNC Housing Policy Advocacy Group Working Session
We’ll be meeting to continue work on our advocacy campaigns for Boston Trans Youth Shelter and Right to Counsel. All are welcome to join, no prior experience required.
TQNC Housing Policy Advocacy Group Working Session
We’ll be meeting to continue work on our advocacy campaigns for Boston Trans Youth Shelter and Right to Counsel. All are welcome to join, no prior experience required.
TQNC Housing Policy Advocacy Group Working Session
We’ll be meeting to continue work on our advocacy campaigns for Boston Trans Youth Shelter and Right to Counsel. All are welcome to join, no prior experience required.