Boston Pride Launches 2016 Pride Guide
Boston Pride has unveiled its 2016 Pride Guide that includes information about Pride events happening during the month of June, which is Pride Month. The Pride Guide also contains articles and perspectives written by more than 40 members of the LGBTQI and ally community, from the Bay State to Southeast Asia.
This year's Pride theme, "Solidarity through Pride," encourages the LGBTQI community to see that there are multiple struggles in a wide range of communities, and that they are all related and intertwined. To realize the goal of justice for all, we must stand together in solidarity and support one another's causes. Pride is a vehicle to help achieve this end. 2016 marks the first time that Boston Pride has had the same theme as InterPride, the organization that unifies Pride organizations across the globe.
"The 2016 Pride Guide is truly a collaborative effort among a highly diverse group of contributors, all volunteers spanning the globe, in order to bring our message of solidarity to an international audience," said Michael Anthony Fowler, Editor-in-Chief of the Boston Pride Guide. "Boston Pride is grateful for and #wickedproud of their work, which helped to create this special publication that will be read by tens of thousands."
Beginning on May 19th, the 180-page Pride Guide will be distributed to 435+ locations throughout New England and will also be available online. For information on where to find the magazine or to read the digital version, visit www.bostonpride.org/guide.
The Pride Guide contributors include:
� LoAnn Halden, Communications Director at the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA)
� Frank van Dalen, Chair of Pride United, Chair of the LGBTI Committee of Liberal International, and Vice President of InterPride
� Billy Bean, Major League Baseball Ambassador of Inclusion and Vice President, Social Responsibility and Inclusion
� Chaylin Diaz, Co-founder Youth Voices Silent Cries and 2015 Boston Latin@ Pride awardee
� Fadi Kanaan, Risk manager in the financial sector
� Marianne Bonnard, Qu�bec Government Office in Boston
� Lamar Brown, Jamaica native and Administrative Assistant at AIDS Project Worcester
� Sarah Ouano, Development officer at a local nonprofit
� Allie Rhode, Display designer at IKEA Stoughton
� Sarah McBride, trans activist and Campaigns and Communications Manager for LGBT Research and Communications Project at the Center for American Progress
� Librarians of the Reader's Services Department, Boston Public Library
� Tina LaFleur, musician, archivist, and teacher; founder of Queer Women in Music Boston
� Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, openly gay US Navy combat veteran, physician, Co-director of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Program for LGBTI Health, and member of the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association
� Andrew Lear, PhD, professor and leading scholar on same-sex love in Greek antiquity, and founder of Oscar Wilde Tours
� Alison Murray, Emily Arkin, and Hilken Mancini of the local alternative riot grrl band Shepherdess
� Anjimile, local solo acoustic rock musician
� Heather Mack and Julez Sheerah of the funky hip-hop group Solo Sexx
� Emily McGranachan, East Coast Regional Manager of Family Equality Council, including interviews of the same-sex parented Azar-Tanguay and Marder-Austen families
� DJ Mike Ross (formerly DJ Shpank)
� Daniel Headstrong and Alex Willow, pseudonymous LGBTQ writers from Indonesia, reporting on the latest homo- and transphobic backlash in the country
� Kimberly Zeiselman, JD, intersex activist and Executive Director of interACT
� Local queer poets of color: Jayy Dodd, If� Franklin, and Jha D
� Jose Abrigo, JD, staff attorney for the LGBTQ/HIV Advocacy Project of Legal Services NYC
� Hala-Mary Hazar, leader of Boston's Queer Arab, Desi, North African group (QADNA)
� Andrea Gilbert, New York expat living in Greece for over two decades and a founding organizer of Athens Pride
� Mark Krone, regular contributor to Boston Spirit Magazine, LGBTQ historian, and volunteer at The History Project for over 15 years
� Dave White, freelance writer and historian of LGBTQ history
� Diane Tomaz, Director of Family Support Services at Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange
� Jo Trigilio, PhD, scholar of nonbinary gender, and Director of the Graduate Program in Gender and Cultural Studies at Simmons College
� Earnest Offley, Director of Human Resources at Cambridge Housing Authority
� sisterwerx, local artistic collective designer of the cover
� MB Jones, Massachusetts native mixed-media artist
About Boston Pride
Boston Pride produces events and activities to achieve inclusivity, equality, respect, and awareness in Greater Boston and beyond. Fostering diversity, unity, visibility and dignity, we educate, communicate and advocate by building and strengthening community connections. Pride Week 2016 will be held June 3rd-12th.