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Pride Paint Nite

Registration Required
Wednesday, June 10th, 2026
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
The Galleries At Lynn Arts (GALA)
25 Exchange St. | Lynn, MA 01901
Enjoy an evening of paint and refreshments, as you follow along a professional artist in creating your own piece to take home and admire forever.
No need for any prior art experience, the main goal is to have fun and expand one's creative thinking.
Registration Link will be below, as soon as available. To express early interest, email sunilgulab@gmail.com
Events
"Queer Heroes" Author Reading
& Film Screening:
Finding Refuge Demanding Equality

Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
EmVision Studiosr
131 Essex St. | Lynn, MA, 01902
Author Jim Moser will read from his new book, Queer Heroes of the North Shore
Four Centuries of Love, Rebellion and Survival
Followed by a captivating documentary celebrating a century of LGBTQ+ history in Lynn! This film explores the joys, successes, challenges, and hardships experienced by Lynn’s LGBTQ+ community in their ongoing fight for equality.
Featuring stories from Lynn’s gay bars and extensive interviews with community members.
Watch and take pride in over a century of remarkable progress for Lynn’s resilient LGBTQ+ community.
"This event is funded in part by a grant from the Lynn Cultural Council, a local agency supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency."
Register at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1987602043216
Pride Picnic
Monday, June 22rd, 2026
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Lynn Harbor Park
Hanson St. entrance | Lynn, MA, 01905
Rain date June 25th.
Join us at the Lynn Harbor Park for an informal picnic to celebrate Pride with community.
Make connections, bring a blanket and your picnic dinner, throw around a frisbee, and enjoy an evening along Lynn's beautiful shoreline with your queer family.
Some lawn games will be available, but please feel free to bring your own to play with others.
Park at the Hanson Street lot and take a short walk to the scenic picnic areas, where we will be gathering.

Pride Flag Raising
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Lynn City Hall
3 City Hall Square | Lynn, MA, 01901
The raising of the Pride Flag at City Hall has been an annual tradition in Lynn, MA since the first event in 2010.
By continuing this tradition, the City of Lynn affirms its commitment to supporting it's LGBTQ+ residents and honoring their right to express their gender and sexual orientation proudly.
In addition to the Flag Raising, their will be speeches from local leaders and performances by talented members of the community featuring a drag performance by Mizery and music by DJ Amador.

Community Potluck Meal

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
St. Stephens Episcopal Church
74 South Common St. | Lynn, MA, 01902
Following the Pride Flag Raising at City Hall, United Lynn Pride invites you to a community meal. A potluck style event, please bring a dish to share and plenty of food will be available to share.
The community meal is meant to build connection through good food, good people, and good experiences.
Let Billy Mulcahy Moser know if you can bring something. (781) 596-2241
Walking Tour of LGBTQ+
Downtown Lynn
Registration Preferred
Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Tour begins at Lucille's Wine Shop
776 Washington St. | Lynn, MA, 01902
Join us for a fabulous 1/2 mile walk exploring the vibrant LGBTQ+ history of Downtown Lynn!
Get ready to discover hidden gems, hear fascinating stories, and celebrate the resilience and creativity of the LGBTQ+ community in Lynn.
We will visit seven sites of which housed sixteen of the nineteen LGBTQ+ bars that have opened and closed in Lynn from 1937 to 2016.
Register at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1987672624326

Final Fridays Pride Xtravangaza
Friday, June 26th, 2026
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Lynn Museum
590 Washington St. | Lynn, MA, 01901
Join us for the first installment of our 2026 Final Fridays series on Friday, June 26, from 5 to 9 p.m. for Pride Xtravaganza.
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A night built for and by the queer community of Lynn and beyond. Ballroom competition hosted by Big Body Kweeng Doll and the House of Saint Morta, a vogue workshop, live performances, a glam station, and a mocktail bar—all inside a museum holding a queer art exhibition on its walls. Homecoming. But—like—for real.

LGBTQ+ Artist Showcase
Opening:
Friday, June 26th, 2026
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Lynn Museum
590 Washington St. | Lynn, MA, 01901
The LGBTQ+ Art Gallery showcases creative works by LGBTQ+ identifying artists from the City of Lynn, other areas of the Massachusetts, and even artists from across the globe
Accepted artwork includes: paintings, photographs, poetry, prints, sculpture, and other visual artworks.
Call for Art Below

Pride Interfaith Service
Sunday, June 28th, 2026
2:30 PM
Tabernacle Congregational Church
50 Washington Street | Salem, MA 01970
Faith leaders and community members from across the North Shore will gather at Tabernacle Congregational Church in Salem for an Interfaith Pride Service— a joyful, healing, and spiritually grounded celebration of the LGBTQ+ community.
The service, rooted in the theme "How Good It Is To Be Together," brings together clergy and congregants from Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, and Unitarian Universalist traditions in a shared act of welcome and affirmation.

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