Boston Pride

In 2018, I worked with activist Jo Trigilio to present the Boston Pride board a list of community concerns and accompanying action plan to center equity, racial justice and inclusion in throughout their programming. Then we joined the Boston Pride Communications Team, working with the Board to develop and actualize the theme for the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in 2019 and the 50th Anniversary of Boston Pride in 2020.

Check out some of my favorite projects with Boston Pride below.

Following the murder of George Floyd as organizations wrote statements expressing solidarity, the Boston Pride Board removed “#blacklivesmatter” and rewrote portions of a statement written by the communications team condemning unjust police violence against Black People, and posted it. This “misstep” was not an isolated incident of failing to adequately address racism, but part of a long history of intentionally marginalizing Queer & Trans Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPOC). After 3 years of consulting with Boston Pride, I decided to leave the Communications team and help convene Trans Resistance, Pride for the People - Boston and joined the Board of the Transgender Emergency Fund.

The Boston Pride Ally Guide

When White supremacists attempted to bait the Boston LGBTQ community, as well as racial and ethnic minority communities in Boston by organizing a ‘straight pride parade’ the summer of 2019, we decided to turn our energy into supporting and empowering members of the LGBTQ community.  I’m grateful to my partners Jo Trigilio and Mati Dupont and the whole Boston Pride Communication Team for putting this together.

“Allies are CRUCIAL in movements for social change. We are thankful to the estimated one million people, including our straight allies, who joined us at the Boston Pride parade and festival. We know we have more allies today than ever before. This is a guide for all people who want to address forms of social injustices that they do not experience.”