Opening in 2026, HYPHAE: Makers Market & Skills Studio is a co-creation of M and Jey of Yet Another Queer Pop-Up Market. It is the first 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC-centered creative retail and workshop space in Western Massachusetts. Offering a mix of unique handmade items, artist-led skills courses, and creative business support for local makers, our goal is to be a “third space” for authentic, intersectional community-building and connection.

Colorful Resilience is a Queer-Afro-Latina-owned outpatient mental health services office in West Springfield, Massachusetts. We provide therapy – primarily, but not exclusively – to BIPOC, LGBTQ+, First Generation, and immigrant folks. We offer in-person sessions to those in Western MA area and virtually for those all across Massachusetts. Our clinicians and clinical interns are proud representatives of the communities we serve, fearless allies, or both.

Slanted Ceiling Pictures is a Massachusetts based and LGBTQ+ Founded Independent film production company formed by three filmmakers, each with over 15 years of professional experience. We are passionate about telling original stories rooted in the woods of Western Massachusetts, drawing from the seasons, the community, and our love of the region. We are currently in pre-production for our upcoming feature film, The Grey Veil Haunt.

50 Arrow Gallery is a new free to use gallery space dedicated to social equity and inclusion in Easthampton. This 2000 square ft. BIPOC focused curated gallery space is free to use, free to attend, and does not charge artists any form of gallery fees for sales. This space will focus on providing a platform to historically marginalized communities, while maintaining a “meet people where they are” philosophy.

Stavros Center for Independent Living is a disability justice organization based in Western Massachusetts, run by and for people with disabilities. We fight for equity, autonomy, and access—not as charity, but as a right. Our services range from peer advocacy and housing support to transitional services and systems change work.

Stavros is proudly inclusive of LGBTQ+ community members—many of our staff and consumers are LGBTQ+ themselves. We know that true independence includes the right to live authentically. Whether you’re navigating barriers in healthcare, housing, or public life, we’re here in solidarity.

Access is love. Liberation is collective.

The Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce (GNCC) is an investor-supported, nonprofit organization that creates meaningful connections, , facilitates strategic collaborations, and supports community-building opportunities. Through a shared vision for a thriving economy and community, our investors, volunteers, staff, and other stakeholders are dedicated to personal and business growth, economic development, and collective engagement to drive progress for all.

Franklin County Pride, Inc. is a 501c3 non-profit organization run by a committee of dedicated volunteers. Franklin County Pride mission is to create a community in which all LGBTQIA+ youth, adults, and families can enjoy the freedom to live safely, openly, and genuinely, free from discrimination due to race, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.

Jess Martin, a singer-songwriter from Western Massachusetts, fuses gothic folk, punk, and modern rock with haunting melodies and poignant lyrics. Dubbed "a punk rock Joan Baez," Jess’s music explores themes of identity, transformation, and belonging.

Integrity Veterinary Center is a specialty and urgent care veterinary hospital in Northampton, Massachusetts.

The Queer Joy Collaborative is dedicated to promoting individual and collective queer joy through the transformational and healing power of art, music, and mutual aid. Their programming currently includes adult and youth choruses, recurring craft nights, recurring Sending Joy Postcard nights, writing workshops, partnerships with local arts organizations, and more.

Since 1986 the mission of Northampton Parents Center (NPC) has been to provide a safe, nurturing, and non-judgmental space for young children and their caregivers to meet and play: a place for caregivers to find support, information, affirmation and frieindship.

The support of individuals, businesses, and grants sustains our programming at no cost to families. NPC is a lifeline and a landmark in the Pioneer Valley and beyond and we welcome ALL families!

SPEC [suspended play & educational circus], founded by artistic and life partners Mykelle Walton and Jennifer Thornquest, is a creative collective rooted in connection and driven by curiosity.

Foxtrot Farm is a certified organic, six-acre farm in Ashfield, MA. We are proudly woman-owned, and our small team of queer, female, and nonbinary farmers grows the highest quality botanical herbs and climate resilient foods using no-till and human-scale methods. We sell bulk fresh & dried organic herbs, herbal teas, elderberry products, and specialty produce to apothecaries, restaurants, and makers. Our sliding scale CSAs and PYO program aim to make using these plants approachable, accessible, and fun, and we offer a 15% BIPOC reparations discount on everything we grow.

Martha is a licensed massage therapist, full spectrum doula, and fertility awareness educator. They offer trauma informed and gender inclusive care to all bodies on Nipmuc and Pocumtuc land. With a specific expertise in reproductive & generative health, they cultivate spaces where their clients feel fully informed, autonomous, relaxed, and empowered.

The Sexual Minorities Archives (SMA) is one of the oldest and largest archival collections of LGBTQIA+ books, historical documents, media, art, textiles, and artifacts in the world.

Indë (they/he) is a multimedia composer based in Northampton, making interdisciplinary work about intersectional experiences. Painter/performer/songwriter/designer/multi-this/poly-that. A renaissance person passionate about music theory & production, communication design, fairies, expressionism, and liberation.

Keith Aron (he/they) is a Martha Beck certified Wayfinder Life Coach and an International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach. Keith supports folks in navigating the growing pains that are a natural part of personal transformation and life expansion. Having lived on both sides of the gender binary and several places in between, they especially enjoy working with queer, trans and GNC folks who are in the process of embracing their essential selves.

Crafty Queer Studio is a queer-owned and operated business that focuses on fun, affordable, and inclusive accessories and gifts for the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies. Everything at Crafty Queer Studio is individually handmade or designed, with a wide, affirming selection for *everyone*.

Double Edge is a cultural cooperative and ensemble collective -- a place of nurturing and sanctuary. Like the water that runs around and through the land it occupies, Double Edge is a river for artists who thirst. From all ancestral legacies, cultural backgrounds, community contexts, & walks-of-life. Often artists, educators, and scholars come here to identify more clearly, to understand themselves, and to seek where their courage will allow them to go. Double Edge protects the silence of their internal space, while simultaneously ensuring that no one is silenced. They fuse the highest caliber of artistic work, a deep love of the natural environment, and an unwavering faith in human potential. They value awareness of the earth around us as essential to the ability to invent, cultivate, witness -- and to share a communal meal, or fruit from the trees, or an intimate conversation. Double Edge is a place of demand, deep research and development outside the rigid structures of institution, academia, and form. It is a place of continuous experimentation and necessary risk taking.

Warm Welcome is a Latinx, queer-owned practice providing inclusive midwifery and doula care for over 25 years. They've also been dedicated to nurturing the next generation of skilled, compassionate birthworkers with doula workshops since 2000. Reach out if you want to learn how the childbearing year can honor you, your family, and your multilayered identities.