Boston Queer Events
queer joy, advocacy, & art
for Greater Boston’s LGBTQIA+ and Ally Community
Urbanistas Meetup: Night of the Living Urbanistas
Join The Queer Urbanistas & TQNC (The Queer Neighborhood Council) this Wednesday at Dani's Queer Bar for a night of city gossip, haunted vibes, and queer mischief. Think less “networking,” more “urban legends with cocktails."
This meetup is for anyone interested in transportation, housing, and other urbanism policy & work, and all members of the LGBTQIA+ and ally communities are welcome. No particular knowledge or experience is required, come as you are!
Open Streets Jamaica Plain <> TQNC Meetup Hub
🌈 Open Streets Jamaica Plain is back, and TQNC will be there to host a dedicated community resource table and meetup hub at this event!
📍Come find us, connect with neighbors, and enjoy the day! 🏳️⚧️
During Open Streets Jamaica Plain, Centre Street (from Lamaritine St. to South St.) becomes a lively hub of community and play.
🌸🌸🌸
The goal is to connect neighbors, local businesses and visitors to our communities.
Open Streets Boston is a collection of vehicular-free, family friendly events offering programming across a wide spectrum of interests—from wellness activities and performance art to artisanal crafts and “kids zones” (and much more!) During these events, the City of Boston will close major thoroughfares to motor traffic, instead opening the roadways up for pedestrian use that will include walking, rolling, biking and other modalities. Special programming and activities, including a fantastic community marketplace and musical entertainment, will be featured throughout the day from 10:30am - 3:00pm.
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.
Queer Advocacy Action Collectives
Ready to advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights? 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Join TQNC for our Queer Advocacy Action Collective virtual meeting!
💡This is a collaborative online space dedicated to our Action Collectives—participant-led subgroups focused on accelerating our impact and organizing beyond monthly meetings. We'll be taking urgent action on queer issues prioritized by our community, including trans shelter, right to counsel, and queer youth spaces. ⚡️⚡️⚡️
📢 Learn from others, contribute your skills, and lend your voice to this vital work. No prior experience is required—just your passion for change. All are welcome and encouraged to participate. Come be a part of something powerful!
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 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 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.
Reading is Resistance: December in-person Book Club & Community Hang
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? All She Wrote Books, Somerville MA
When? Tuesday, December 9th from 6-8PM
What are we reading? We’ll choose together! Books that support us in these times—whether that means radical resistance, queer joy, or both.
December Book of the Month: The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love by Janet W. Hardy
Because reading is resistance. And resistance is better together.
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.
Reading is Resistance: October 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, October 27th from 7-8:30PM
What are we reading? We’ll choose together! Books that support us in these times—whether that means radical resistance, queer joy, or both.
October Book of the Month: Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger by LAMA ROD OWENS
Because reading is resistance. And resistance is better together.
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.
Intersex Awareness Day; Screening & Discussion
Intersex Awareness Day; Screening & Discussion
hosted by Boston City Councilor Henry Santana
Join us for a screening and discussion in honor of October’s Intersex Awareness Day! The MRKH Intersex Organization, Boston City Councilor At-Large Henry Santana, and BPL Parker Hill are proud to co-host a special screening of the acclaimed documentary "Every Body."
This compelling film shares the incredibly personal journeys of three intersex individuals who have transformed childhoods shadowed by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries into vibrant, thriving adulthoods.
Following the screening, we invite you to participate in a discussion led by Esther Leidolf, founder of the Jamaica Plain MRKH Organization and intersex activist. Esther will delve deeper into the themes of the film and share insights from their book, "Not Uncommon, Just Unheard Of."
Copies of "Not Uncommon, Just Unheard Of" will be available for purchase at the event. Don't miss this opportunity to gain a deeper understanding, engage in meaningful dialogue, and show your support for the intersex community.
About the Facilitator: Esther Leidolf is a semi-retired carpenter and medical sociologist with a background in public health data management. Their essays have been published internationally, and Esther has appeared in a number of documentaries, including the award-winning Intersexion. Esther currently works as a consultant on federal and local levels, hoping to make their experience and community less “unheard of.”
Community Partners!
Bisexual Resource Center https://biresource.org/ Stonewall Sports https://sites.google.com/stonewallsports.org/bos QNEST https://qnest.org/ SpeakOUT https://www.speakoutboston.org/ interACT https://interactadvocates.org/ MA Commission on LGBTQ+ Youth mass.gov/orgs/massachusetts-commission-on-lgbtq-youth Allston-Brighton Food Pantry & Brighton Allston Congregational Church https://www.brightonallstonucc.org/food-pantry
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 Action Collectives
Ready to advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights? 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Join TQNC for our Queer Advocacy Action Collective virtual meeting!
💡This is a collaborative online space dedicated to our Action Collectives—participant-led subgroups focused on accelerating our impact and organizing beyond monthly meetings. We'll be taking urgent action on queer issues prioritized by our community, including trans shelter, right to counsel, and queer youth spaces. ⚡️⚡️⚡️
📢 Learn from others, contribute your skills, and lend your voice to this vital work. No prior experience is required—just your passion for change. All are welcome and encouraged to participate. Come be a part of something powerful!
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.
Open Streets Mattapan <> TQNC Meetup Hub
🌈 Open Streets Mattapan is back, and TQNC will be there to host a dedicated community resource table and meetup hub at this event!
📍Come find us, connect with neighbors, and enjoy the day! 🏳️⚧️
During Open Streets Mattapan, Blue Hill Ave. (from River St. to Babson St.) becomes a lively hub of community and play.
🌸🌸🌸
The goal is to connect neighbors, local businesses and visitors to our communities.
Open Streets Boston is a collection of vehicular-free, family friendly events offering programming across a wide spectrum of interests—from wellness activities and performance art to artisanal crafts and “kids zones” (and much more!) During these events, the City of Boston will close major thoroughfares to motor traffic, instead opening the roadways up for pedestrian use that will include walking, rolling, biking and other modalities. Special programming and activities, including a fantastic community marketplace and musical entertainment, will be featured throughout the day from 10:30am - 3:00pm.
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.
LGBTQIA+ Community Fireside Chat w Mayor Wu
The Queer Neighborhood Council (TQNC), in partnership with The Equality Fund at The Boston Foundation, Pride in Our Workplace, Boston LesBiGay Urban Foundation, BAGLY, MassEquality, and the MA Commission on LGBTQ Youth, is organizing a Boston Mayoral Candidates LGBTQIA+ Community Forum!
Abundant Housing MA x TQNC City Council At-Large Candidate Housing Forum
Boston City Council At-Large Candidates Housing Forum
This Forum is About Your Rent, Future, & Safety 🌈🏠
Boston is facing a historic housing crisis 🚨 and it disproportionately impacts our LGBTQIA+ community. From housing instability and discrimination to youth homelessness, a safe and affordable home is a fundamental queer issue.
📣 Boston City Council At-Large Candidate Housing Forum hosted by AHMA in proud partnership with TQNC
Whether you’re a renter, homeowner, advocate, or a concerned neighbor, this is your chance to evaluate the candidates through a housing-focused lens, ensuring they address the needs of our most vulnerable community members. We’ll be discussing:
👉 Affordability & Cost Burden
👉 Zoning Reform for Equitable Growth
👉 Tenant Protections (Crucial for vulnerable groups)
Hear their plans to make Boston a place where everyone—including queer youth, trans residents, and our elders—can truly find and afford a home 🔑🏳️⚧️
JOIN US:
🗓️ October 9
⏰ 6–8 PM
📍 Roxbury Community College
Let’s make sure the next City Council is ready to fight for housing justice for all.
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.
Urbanistas Meetup: Pumpkin Spice & City Life
URBANISTAS MEETUP:
🍂 Pumpkin Spice & City Life ☕️
Join Boston’s queer urban planning crew as we sip into fall and talk cities.
Urbanistas is where LGBTQIA+ friends and allies gather to mix city talk with community and good vibes.
This month we’re celebrating fall flavors, cozy streets, and all things pumpkin spice.
Come for the conversation, stay for the community.
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.
Digital Censorship + Coffee Chat Hour
Digital Censorship + Coffee Chat Hour
We need your support and all hands on deck. After our sold-out free event educating Boston’s queer community on digital and AI censorship, several local grassroots queer and trans organizations, including The Queer Neighborhood Council (TQNC), Trans Resistance, Trans Emergency Fund, Help by AMG, and others , came together to sign a letter urging our senators to oppose harmful censorship bills that threaten our access to life-saving online and digital resources.
We are hand-delivering this letter/petition to ensure our presence is seen and felt. This is your chance to directly contribute to frontline efforts by showing up with us. Coffee is on us!
After the delivery, we’ll be gathering for a casual coffee chat at the Boston Public Market. This will be a space to connect, debrief, and for Fight for the Future and me to answer any questions you may have on digital or AI censorship.
Please try to arrive by 10:55 am outside the JFK federal Building. This initial meeting location is located on federal property, under the jurisdiction of the federal government.
Brought to you through Intersectional Innovation, TQNC, and Fight for the Future.
Bi+ Visibility Day
In the face of rising biphobia and bi erasure, the need to uplift and celebrate the bisexual community is more urgent than ever. Join the Bisexual Resource Center and Boston City Councilor At-Large Henry Santana as we mark the 26th anniversary of Bi+ Visibility Day as well as the 40th anniversary of the Bisexual Resource Center.
Together we'll dive into a Community Engagement and Action Session focused on current Bi+ community needs and the pervasive issue of bi+ erasure. This is an opportunity to share, learn, and strategize for a more inclusive future.
Allies and families are warmly welcomed, and children of all ages are encouraged to attend. 10:00-10:30am Community Connection & Intros
10:30-11:30am Policy Roundtable
11:30-12pm Sharing Bi+ Joy & Resources
12:00-1:00pm Presentation during the Boston City Council Meeting
Meet Bisexual Resource Center: The Bisexual Resource Center works to connect the bi+ community and help its members thrive through resources, support, and celebration. We envision an empowered, visible, and inclusive global community for bi+ people. https://biresource.org/ Thank you to our Community Partners! TQNC https://www.tqnc.org/ Stonewall Sports https://sites.google.com/stonewallsports.org/bos QNEST https://qnest.org/ bi+ (in)visibility https://www.genderspecialist.com/bi-invisibility SpeakOUT https://www.speakoutboston.org/ MA Commission on LGBTQ+ Youth mass.gov/orgs/massachusetts-commission-on-lgbtq-youth sweeties sweeties-social.com
Queer Advocacy Action Collectives
Ready to advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights? 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Join TQNC for our Queer Advocacy Action Collective virtual meeting!
💡This is a collaborative online space dedicated to our Action Collectives—participant-led subgroups focused on accelerating our impact and organizing beyond monthly meetings. We'll be taking urgent action on queer issues prioritized by our community, including trans shelter, right to counsel, and queer youth spaces. ⚡️⚡️⚡️
📢 Learn from others, contribute your skills, and lend your voice to this vital work. No prior experience is required—just your passion for change. All are welcome and encouraged to participate. Come be a part of something powerful!
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.
Open Streets Dorchester <> TQNC Meetup Hub
🌈 Open Streets Dorchester is back, and TQNC will be there to host a dedicated community resource table and meetup hub at this event!
📍Come find us, connect with neighbors, and enjoy the day! 🏳️⚧️
During Open Streets Dorchester, Dorchester Ave (from Ashmont St to Adams St.) becomes a lively hub of community and play.
🌸🌸🌸
The goal is to connect neighbors, local businesses and visitors to our communities.
Open Streets Boston is a collection of vehicular-free, family friendly events offering programming across a wide spectrum of interests—from wellness activities and performance art to artisanal crafts and “kids zones” (and much more!) During these events, the City of Boston will close major thoroughfares to motor traffic, instead opening the roadways up for pedestrian use that will include walking, rolling, biking and other modalities. Special programming and activities, including a fantastic community marketplace and musical entertainment, will be featured throughout the day from 10:30am - 3:00pm.
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 Potluck Picnic
It's our last picnic of the season! ☀️ The sun may be setting on another beautiful summer, but the fight for justice is heating up 🔥
Join us for a Queer Advocacy Potluck Picnic on Tuesday, September 2nd, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Rose Kennedy Greenway, located directly across from the Boston Public Market. In proud partnership with The Greenway
This is your opportunity to engage directly with the issues that impact our community - while enjoying 🍕 good food and 🤝 good company.
On the Gay Agenda™️🌈
🏛️ Local preliminary/municipal elections overview: Get the scoop on the upcoming races that directly affect our futures
🗳️ Voter registration guidelines and volunteer opportunities: Learn how to empower your neighbors and ensure every voice is heard
🗣️ Candidate forum campaigns: Discover opportunities to advocate for candidates to engage in upcoming forums
Bring a 🍽️ dish to share and your ❤️🔥 hunger for change. All 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.
Reading is Resistance: August 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, August 25th from 7-8PM
What are we reading? We’ll choose together! Books that support us in these times—whether that means radical resistance, queer joy, or both.
AUGUST Book of the Month: We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
*available at local and online libraries
Because reading is resistance. And resistance is better together.
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 Action Collectives
Ready to advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights? 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Join TQNC for our Queer Advocacy Action Collective virtual meeting!
💡This is a collaborative online space dedicated to our Action Collectives—participant-led subgroups focused on accelerating our impact and organizing beyond monthly meetings. We'll be taking urgent action on queer issues prioritized by our community, including trans shelter, right to counsel, and queer youth spaces. ⚡️⚡️⚡️
📢 Learn from others, contribute your skills, and lend your voice to this vital work. No prior experience is required—just your passion for change. All are welcome and encouraged to participate. Come be a part of something powerful!
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.
Open Streets Hyde Park <> TQNC Meetup Hub
🌈 Open Streets Hyde Park is back, and TQNC will be there to host a dedicated community resource table and meetup hub at this event!
📍Come find us, connect with neighbors, and enjoy the day! 🏳️⚧️
During Open Streets Hyde Park, between Hyde Park Ave. & River St. to Fairmont St. and Davidson St. becomes a lively hub of community and play.
🌸🌸🌸
The goal is to connect neighbors, local businesses and visitors to our communities.
Open Streets Boston is a collection of vehicular-free, family friendly events offering programming across a wide spectrum of interests—from wellness activities and performance art to artisanal crafts and “kids zones” (and much more!) During these events, the City of Boston will close major thoroughfares to motor traffic, instead opening the roadways up for pedestrian use that will include walking, rolling, biking and other modalities. Special programming and activities, including a fantastic community marketplace and musical entertainment, will be featured throughout the day from 10:30am - 3:00pm.
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.
QUEERAOKE for Digital Freedom
Queereoke is always a party, but on July 24th it will be a protest too! Open bar for the first 30 minute, and we'll be singing extra loud against fascist attempts to censor LGBTQ expression, from book bans and drag bans to online censorship legislation like the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). Cover charge waived, free food! Concrete actions you can take to stand with trans youth against censorship bills.
6pm - 8pm: food, drinks, information and live performances from Ryan Cassata, Hazel Afrodite, Killah Croc, Molly O'Leary, Justin Arena, and more. Co-hosted by Evan Greer and Burhanika Rebels.
8pm til late: Queeraoke as usual, but it's FREE!
Sponsored by Fight for the Future in partnership with iiiLabs, Trans Resistance MA, TQNC, Stonewall Sports, HELP, Lavender Education, and more to come! Contact Burhan@iiilabs.org with questions or to learn on how your organization can get involved in fighting for a safer internet for LGBTQ+ people.
Boston Trans & Non-Binary Pride 2025
The 2nd Annual Boston Trans and Non-Binary Pride 2025 is almost here! 🎉
Presented by Trans Resistance MA & Chastity's Consulting and Talent Group.
This year, Boston Trans Pride is bigger than ever. A celebration of our trans, non-binary, and gender-expansive community, centering Black, Brown, and Indigenous trans brilliance and power. Allies, come show your support!
Kick-off begins THIS THURSDAY, July 17th!
Full Lineup: July 17–20, 2025
Thu, July 17: dbar Night | 6–10PM | 21+ @dbarboston
Fri, July 18: Legacy Night | 10PM–2AM | 21+ @legacybos @bussdown_fridays @frolicbostonfor
Sat, July 19: Trans Resistance MA Festival | 12–5PM | NEW LOCATION: Reggie Lewis Center!
Sun, July 20: Club Cafe Brunch | 11AM-3PM | @clubcafeboston
IMPORTANT FESTIVAL LOCATION UPDATE: The TRMA Festival has moved to the Reggie Lewis Center (1350 Tremont St)!
Please register in advance on the website: https://www.transresistancema.com/events-1/2025-trans-resistance-ma-festival
Support this work or get involved: transresistancema.com
Queer Advocacy Action Collectives
Ready to advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights? 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Join TQNC for our Queer Advocacy Action Collective virtual meeting!
💡This is a collaborative online space dedicated to our Action Collectives—participant-led subgroups focused on accelerating our impact and organizing beyond monthly meetings. We'll be taking urgent action on queer issues prioritized by our community, including trans shelter, right to counsel, and queer youth spaces. ⚡️⚡️⚡️
📢 Learn from others, contribute your skills, and lend your voice to this vital work. No prior experience is required—just your passion for change. All are welcome and encouraged to participate. Come be a part of something powerful!
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.
Open Streets Roxbury <> TQNC Meetup Hub
🌈 Open Streets Roxbury is back, and TQNC will be there to host a dedicated community resource table and meetup hub at this event!
📍Come find us, connect with neighbors, and enjoy the day! 🏳️⚧️
During Open Streets Roxbury, Blue Hill Avenue (from Warren St. to Quincy St.) becomes a lively hub of community and play.
🌸🌸🌸
The goal is to connect neighbors, local businesses and visitors to our communities.
Open Streets Boston is a collection of vehicular-free, family friendly events offering programming across a wide spectrum of interests—from wellness activities and performance art to artisanal crafts and “kids zones” (and much more!) During these events, the City of Boston will close major thoroughfares to motor traffic, instead opening the roadways up for pedestrian use that will include walking, rolling, biking and other modalities. Special programming and activities, including a fantastic community marketplace and musical entertainment, will be featured throughout the day from 10:30am - 3:00pm.
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 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.
Pride Beyond Continents - Webinar
Pride Beyond Continents - Webinar
Attention Boston, and the rest of the world!
The Queer Neighborhood Council (TQNC) would love you to join us for this free, high-impact, and fun webinar where you’ll hear powerful strategies, tactics, and insights shaped by the international and intersectional perspectives of visionary grassroots organizers from Pakistan who are reshaping what it means to build, survive, and innovate within community-centered spaces.
Please share, and hope you can make it!
Now more than ever, centering non-Western perspectives is essential to creating shared spaces of resilience, imagination, and collective growth. Let’s build the campsite together.
This event will be hosted by Stonewall Sports Boston, Intersectional Innovation and Impact (III) Labs, The Queer Neighborhood Council (TQNC), and Trans Resistance MA. Since all human beings benefit from an opportunity like this, please let us know if your organization would like to be added as a collaborator: Email: Muhammad.burhan@stonewallsports.org
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.
Museum of Science PRIDE Celebration <> TQNC
Museum of Science Pride Celebration 2025
FREE access to the Exhibit Halls and celebration when using the Promo Code PRIDE25
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.
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.
