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The J.S. Bryant School
The J.S. Bryant School is a therapeutic day high school that will energize LGBTQ+ students’ curiosity and learning passion through creative exploration, farming entrepreneurship, and climate innovation, emphasizing learning excellence.
Children’s Museum at Holyoke
Step, climb, or crawl your way into a world of imagination and play. The Children’s Museum at Holyoke is dedicated to enhancing the educational and cultural awareness of all children through the arts, the sciences, and the world around them. The Museum features participatory exhibits that invite interaction and programs that promote learning and self-discovery.
The Fantasies of Youth
The Fantasies of Youth by artist Elayna Sturm (she/they/xe/he) translates dreams into something tangible.
The Majestic Saloon
The Majestic Saloon is a downtown Northampton LGBTQIA+ bar, community space, restaurant and venue. They hosts weekly events like karaoke, comedy open mics, drag shows, dance parties, bingo and many more themed events! Plus, enjoy an extensive cocktail list named after queer icons.
Beth Pellettieri Coaching
Beth Pellettieri (she/her) is a Certified Martha Beck Life Coach. She works with heart-centered, creative business owners to implement new evolutions of business growth with fun, fulfillment, and financial flow.
Homeward Bound Nutrition
Homeward Bound Nutrition LLC is a private practice owned by Cara D’Anello (she/her) MS RD LDN. Cara proudly identifies as a queer and neurodivergent provider supporting adult folks navigating eating disorders, disordered eating, and health from a size-inclusive framework.
Northampton Community Music Center
Regardless of age, music experience or financial situation, NCMC has something for you!
Translate Gender
Translate Gender is a trans-led nonprofit organization founded in 2006 to serve its community here in Western Massachusetts. They provide innovative programming for youth and families, gender affirming therapeutic services, host and collaborate on community events to empower and inspire. They offer resources to advocate for gender justice in K-12 schools, organizations, and communities, and provide training and education services to ensure all spaces can be affirming for our communities. At the heart of the organization, they pride themselves on being a space for trans and gender expansive people to build community, resilience, and joy.
Bloom Local’s Community Guide highlights small businesses, nonprofits, and working artists who are supporing the LGBTQ+-community of the CT River Valley of Western Massachusetts.
Resilient Community Arts
RCA’s mission is to sustain collective efforts for social progress and equity through affordable arts programming.
Federal Street Books
Federal Street Books specializes in fiction, sci fi, fantasy, classics, current events, local and regional interest, magic, memoir, and more, along with bookish gifts.
M Rudder
M (they/them) is a Japanese-American non-binary, trans, and queer facilitator, spiritual director, and artist, living on unceded Nipmuc & Pocumtuck land, who centers agency, connection, liberation, presence, and wholeness.
Moon Beam Steams
Julia Demillones Moore is creatress of Moon Beam Steams and a Pelvic Steam Practitioner +educator, teaching people how to steam safely at home to support reproductive/menstrual health and well-being.
Pioneer Valley Pelvic Health
Em Ike (they/them) OTR/L, CLT is a queer non-binary pelvic floor therapist and the owner of Pioneer Valley Pelvic Health.
The Color Collaborative
The Color Collaborative work swith organizations, municipalities, and communities to create vibrant murals that breathe life into spaces.
Sanctuary
Sanctuary is a center for personal healing and collective well-being located in downtown Northampton, Mass.
Sebastian Merrill Yoga & Poetry
Sebastian Merrill (he/him) is an award winning poet and yoga instructor. His debut poetry collection GHOST :: SEEDS was selected by Kimiko Hahn as the winner of the 2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize from Texas Review Press.
Astral Cherry Art
Cultivating spaces of radical authenticity and trauma aware care through the transformative power of art.
Copy Cat Northampton
CopyCat Northampton is a local, woman-owned business with over 30 years of dedicated, quality service to the Pioneer Valley.
High Five Books
High Five Books is an independent kids’ community bookstore in downtown Florence, Massachusetts, right off the bike path. They've quickly become the neighborhood go-to for graphic novels, middle-grade and young adult readers, and picture books, plus art kits + other creative supplies for families. The High Five Books collection is strongly based in social justice and LGBTQIA+ themes, and the team loves seeing readers find themselves on their shelves.
Small Victories
The Small Victories studio (formerly The Bower Studio & Gamut Pins) was established in 2011 by artists Isa Wang and Vincent Frano. They combined their interests in illustration and environmental stewardship to design beautiful and functional items that inspire us to connect, uplift, and care for one another.
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