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Chesterwood’s outdoor sculpture exhibit brings climate change into focus

This year, Chesterwood’s 47th annual outdoor sculpture show, “Global Warming/Global Warning,” asks viewers to consider such themes amid the threats that climate change poses to Chesterwood’s own old-growth forest. 

Pride Tours at the Yiddish Book Center

Celebrate Pride Month at the Yiddish Book Center! Throughout the month of June, we’re offering special tours of our permanent exhibition, Yiddish: A Global...

‘Ask Your Gay Uncle’: New podcast to spread love, self-acceptance

Each week, the pair hold each other accountable, play outrageous games and answer listener questions about relationships, sex, family, culture, coming out and more.

Elizabeth Freeman Center supports victims of systemic violence

We will continue to support Black and Brown LGBTQ+ people surviving relationship or sexual violence by providing counseling, support, advocacy, and healing.

Barrington Stage Company to host queer virtual story slam in celebration of Pride Month

“This is a chance for our community to come together in affinity and hear each other’s stories, listening with support and care.” - Allison Lerman-Gluck, Barrington Stage Company education coordinator

‘After rain comes a rainbow’: Great Barrington crosswalks sporting new colors

Town manager Mark Pruhenski said the rainbow symbol is widely believed to have been launched in Italy, appearing in communities from western Europe to the United States.

CHP’s Dr. Stoepker helping to change the landscape of accessible health care for LGBTQ infividuals

Dr. Jeremy Stoepker has worked to create a safe zone in his office by providing informed, compassionate medical care to LGBTQ patients.

FILM REVIEW: ‘Ask Dr. Ruth’ profiles the astonishing life of famous sexpert

This 4-foot-7-inch dynamo with a thick German accent connected with her audience because of her candor and her good intuitive advice.

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Shortest Way Home’: The making of a presidential candidate

“There is no going back … This is the deepest lie of our recent national politics, the core falsehood encoded in “Make America Great Again.” Beneath the impossible promises—that coal alone will fuel our future, that a big wall can be built around our status quo, that climate change isn’t even real—is the deeper fantasy that time itself can be reversed, all losses restored, and thus no new ways of life required." --Mayor Pete Buttigieg

Alan Chartock: Progressives rule N.Y. Legislature, thanks to Trump

So, when you consider all of what has happened in the few short weeks since the Democrats took power, you have a real revolution.

BRIEFS: Standout for LGBTQ rights; Race Amity Day community retreat

Race Amity Day recognizes that the people of the Commonwealth are its greatest asset and that the state is made up of multicultural, multi-ethnic and multiracial citizens.

Bits & Bytes: Live Out Loud conference; climate change roundtable; Berkshire South 5K fundraiser; CAS art exhibit; ‘Behind Closed Doors’

The Live Out Loud conference's keynote speaker will be Pat Griffin, a longtime advocate for LGBT equality in sports, who will speak on “Seeking Common Ground: LGBTQ People and People of Faith in College Athletics.”

EDGE WISE: Why can’t we all be trans?  

In the 21st century, we have the opportunity to break out of gendered limitations and move on to a better personhood. Women can bring their listening and cooperative values to men, and men can bring their courage and confidence to women.
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