Stonington Pride
About us
Stonington Pride started with a protest pulled together by Meg Blanchette and yours truly in 2023, and just… never stopped!
The grassroots group has grown since then, serving Southeastern CT, Southern RI, and beyond providing resources, education, and community building, all centered around queer joy, intersectionality, and the knowledge that diversity makes us stronger, and strength is in community.
I could go on for ages and ages, and I have! I built us an entire website about our work, so I encourage you to hop over there and learn more. If that’s one click too many, you can learn a bit more about a few of the things we’ve been up to since June of 2023, below. A more complete list is on the Stonington Pride website, of course.
what we’ve been up to
Post-Election Community & Self Care Meetups
Rage & Resources Meetups
Queer Book Group - We are super proud to partner with Thought Fox and Bank Square Books on Stonington’s Queer Book Group! Check it out HERE
Panelist for outCT & The Garde Art Center’s 2025 screening & discussion of “Queer” and “Emelia Perez”
Co-organized Stonington Stands Up! September 2024
Stonington Pride! Town of Stonington’s Pride Proclamation - June 2024
We were proud to work with the Town of Stonington CT to help put together the town’s first ever official Pride Month Proclamation! We also were able to donate a Pride flag to the town for use at the proclamation, and in future years for flag raisings.
You can read an article about the event here, or if you don’t have a subscription, view a PDF here.Vigil in Honor of Nex Benedict, Union Baptist Church, Mystic CT - March 2024
Social Media - Like most groups, we are on the socials. Instagram and Facebook, specifically. We post about LGBTQ+ history, rights, events, and so much more! We really focus on keeping people up to date on local events, but most importantly, anti-trans legislation, and what they can do about it!
That said, our current “claim to fame” is in June of 2023, we posted mems and content about the history of the Stonewall Uprising of 1969. This caused our State Representative Greg Howard (R) to make public posts and statements about how this was “anti-police rhetoric” and that we were “trying to incite violence” and that I (and Meg?) shouldn’t be allowed to run for public office.
Lol.Read with Pride Protest, Stonington CT - June 2023
Most of the work that I do in this arena is unpaid; it is work that I do because it matters deeply to me, impacts me personally, and absolutely lights my fire. That said, I would like to say that disabled folk, as much as anyone else, deserve to be paid for their work. My work should not be held up as an example of how disabled folk should work for free for causes we care about or that matter to us.
With that in mind, if you appreciate the work that I do and would like to support it and me, you can Buy Me A Coffee or become a Patron.