Help us make this event a success!
Come show your PRIDE with us! RAIN OR SHINE
Join us for music, drag, circus acts, children’s activities, and more on June 3rd from 11-4pm by the Waltham Common bandstand. Various LGBT and social organizations will have tables on the common as well!
Wear something FESTIVE! This is PRIDE after all - go wild! (but keep it family friendly 🙂)
Bring cash to tip the musicians & drag performers (in mixed denominations)
Be respectful to other attendees and remember we all have different lived experiences!
Have a great time!
NOTE: The weather shows a rainy Saturday, but the show must go on! Please dress warmly and bring an umbrella, and come down and enjoy the festivities! Also, be sure to grab lunch from the food trucks!
Schedule of Events
11:00AM - 12:00PM hour
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Jennifer Costa, from the Waltham Public Library, will hold an all-ages story-time in front of the Gazebo.
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Jen Williams will get your blood pumping by leading an energetic Zumba session by the pavilion. Open to people of all ages!
12:00PM - 1:00PM
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Join us for our welcoming remarks, delivered by our very own Pride committee member, Nick Hammond.
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Charles Layton, currently a student at a Waltham Public Middle School, is a passionate member of the community and one of the first trans students in the Waltham school system. He is an advocate for trans students and is speaking up against anti-trans bullying and harassment he has faced within the Waltham schools.
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Waltham resident Katie Gullotti returns for her second year, singing a selection of uplifting and beautiful tunes.
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Fusion dance group Balter Dance will be performing and leading a free and open dance session in front of the Pavilion.
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1:00PM - 2:00PM
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Students Rain & Caelum will speak about their experiences living and going to school in Waltham.
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Jennifer Rose works in the field of downtown revitalization. She is also a funeral and wedding officiant and especially delights in marrying queer couples. Her second poetry collection, Hometown for an Hour, received the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. The co-founder of a number of Waltham activist organizations, including Waltham Concerned Citizens, Waltham Farmers’ Market and Way Out in Waltham (WOW), she has been a “breezer” since 1977.
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Dr. Kapya Kaoma is a Zambian Anglican priest, Visiting Researcher at Boston University Center for Global Christianity and Mission, Distinguished Visiting Professor at St. John’s University College in Zambia, and Rector of Christ Church Episcopal in Waltham. He is noted for his pro-LGBTQ+ activism in the face of repressive anti-gay legislation in Africa, and his work for uncovering organizational ties between American anti-gay hate groups and a notable increase in homophobia in African politics. In 2014 he received the International Human Rights Award of the Lesbian and Gay Association Mexico City.
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Evan Greer is a queer indie punk musician, writer, and activist based in Boston, returning for her second year at Waltham Pride.
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2:00PM - 3:00PM
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Alex is the founder of the Waltham Trans Alliance, a new organization dedicated to building radical trans community and power in Waltham.
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Gail Bello is a Jewish, Queer and Fat poet and playwright from Waltham Massachusetts and is the co-founder and editor of Crow Name Zine. These days she can be found beneath their cat Monty’s paws and looking for glimmers of hope in this messed up world.
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Julián Cancino is the inaugural director of the Gender and Sexuality Center at Brandeis University. He has worked at prominent law firms working on high-profile matters including the National Center for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco; and LGBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders in Boston. In 2016, he served as policy advocate for the first statewide anti-discrimination law passed by referendum in support of transgender rights.
3:00PM - 4:00PM
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Proprietors Katie & Krysta, of The Little Queer Library, will deliver remarks about continuing to provide LGBT books and resources despite the challenges of being highly visible in the community.
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Bring your singles! Back by popular demand! Missy Steak is a Boston drag queen with a penchant and a passion for comedy/culture/and listing things in threes. She’ll make ya laugh, she’ll make ya cry, and she’ll do it all for cheap.
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Bring your singles! Toast is a Drag Artist and Musician from Boston. Or alternatively, they are a “Surrealist Pop Star from the bread dimension” returning for their second year at Waltham Pride.
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Iris will be making her Waltham Pride debut as the final act of the day!
Tables and Vendors
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As an explicitly Open and Affirming congregation in the United Church of Christ (UCC), Agape is welcoming to all people, and in particular those who have been marginalized or outcast by church and society. Agape affirms that LGBTQIA persons are created wonderfully and beautifully by God just as they are.
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Boston Alliance of Gay WebsiteLesbian, Bisexual Transgender Youth or “BAGLY” provide support services for LGBTQ+ youth.
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The Boston Vet Center provides mental health counseling and benefits assistance and referrals to Veterans, Active Duty Service members and their families, including members of the Coast Guard, National Guard and Reserves. The Boston Vet Center offers individual, group, and couples counseling services focused on developing meaningful connections, developing skills to address PTSD, and achieving success in military and civilian life. If you're a Veteran who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, or a related identity, we can help you find counseling, support and referral services to meet your specific needs.
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Shop on Moody St, Waltham.
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Provides weekly meals on the Waltham Common for those in need.
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Food truck providing Haitian faire.
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The Little Queer Library provides free books about queer and LGBT+ people and issues to the Waltham, MA community and beyond.
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The help line is a completely free resource to anyone of any age in Massachusetts that just launched January 3rd and is available 24/7/365 in over 200 languages via text, chat, or phone. It is a huge part of Massachusetts's plan to make behavioral health resources more accessible. We do any type of call from routine/looking for resources, to urgent or crisis situations. Our call takers are train clinicians who do free assessments live then warm handoff's to the appropriate resource or appointment.
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Professional Face Painter.
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OUT MetroWest builds communities where LGBTQ+ youth thrive. Our free programs connect LGBTQ+ youth with supportive peers and LGBTQ+ adult role models.
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PCAC is an annual event currently being held at the Westin Waltham-Boston at the end of August. As our name implies, we are a popular culture and animation festival that serves an all-ages audience with a special focus on young adults and families. A large number of both our staff and constituents are members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Offer a free sand art activity for anyone who stops by at the event.
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Indoor mini golf in the Seaport.
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Come connect with community. Heartwarming and fun. Consciously raising. Anti-capitalist. Share, Laugh, and receive support.
The Democracy Center, 45 Mt Auburn st, Cambridge MA, Sat June 11
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Queer vendor.
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Founded in 2010, The Chubby Chickpea aims to be at the cutting edge of Middle Eastern Cuisine, fusing traditional favorites and authentic recipes with fresh local ingredients and contemporary styles. As a Mobile Food Truck and full service catering company, The Chubby Chickpea is committed to making your meal or event top notch. With our customers in mind, we promise to deliver the very best in ethnic comfort food.
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Regional cosplay group with strong overlap with the LGBT community.
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Local cannabis dispensary.
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Food vendor.
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Support your local aspiring entrepreneur!
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A group that discusses and plans local action for gender, sexuality, and reproductive rights and justice.
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The Watch City Steampunk Festival is a free outdoor community festival held in historic Waltham, MA. Established in 2010, The Watch City Steampunk Festival brings steampunks and people of all ages and interests into Waltham, MA for a day of artisan and craft vendors, spectacular entertainment, food, fun and more! We will return for the Saturday of Mother’s Day Weekend, May 11th, 2024.
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Waltham Trans Alliance is a new organization dedicated to building radical trans community and power in Waltham.
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Voter Registration
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Willow Zietman is an artist blacksmith from Lunenburg, MA. She takes inspiration from plants, animals and fairy tales to make work that is elegant, humorous and often cute. For Willow, blacksmithing is about using traditional techniques to create forms that are surprising when looked at up close. Her work is about the details and quirks that make you laugh or smile.
https://willowthewispmetalwork.com/
http://www.prospecthillforge.com/
Interested in tabling or performing at the event NEXT YEAR?
Please send us an email to info@walthampride.org or contact us on Facebook to work out the details! We’re offering a stipend for performers, and tabling is free - just bring your own table / chairs!