city_hall

Official websites use .boston.gov

A .boston.gov website belongs to an official government organization in the City of Boston.

lock

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS

A lock or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Last updated:

Pride in the Prado

June 17, 2025
2025-06-17T17:00:02 - 2025-06-17T19:00:02

Join your neighbors for the 4th Annual North End PRIDE in the PRADO. Enjoy an evening filled with joy and celebration for our LGBTQIA+ community and allies as we uplift and honor love in all its beautiful forms. Special performances by the North End Music and Performing Arts Center.

June 17, 2025
2025-06-17T17:00:02 - 2025-06-17T19:00:02
Last updated:

Pride T-shirt and Posting Making Craft Night

May 27, 2025
2025-05-27T18:00:02 - 2025-05-27T20:00:02

Get ready to design and personalize your own Pride swag as we gear up for Pride Month. We'll provide a variety of crafting materials available for you to design your own unique t-shirts and posters. Kindly bring the t-shirt(s) you wish to decorate.

May 27, 2025
2025-05-27T18:00:02 - 2025-05-27T20:00:02
Last updated:

Equality Fund Grantee and Pride Celebration

June 12, 2025
2025-06-12T16:00:32 - 2025-06-12T18:00:32

Celebrating Pride is an annual tradition for the Equality Fund, the largest philanthropic fund dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community in Massachusetts. Each year, this is a time when we announce new grantees, celebrate our nonprofit partners’ transformative work, and recognize our donors’ commitment to the Fund’s mission: to advance the equitable treatment of LGBTQ+ individuals and their families and support Greater Boston nonprofit organizations that serve and strengthen the LGBTQ+ community.

June 12, 2025
2025-06-12T16:00:32 - 2025-06-12T18:00:32
Last updated:

The Longest Day

Join Age Strong at The Longest Day

June 20, 2025
  • 12:00pm - 2:00pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Corinne White
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2025-06-20T12:00:16 - 2025-06-20T14:00:16

Join us on the Summer Solstice to raise awareness for Alzheimer’s disease & other dementias. Gather resources & support from community organizations.

Event includes healthy snacks, raffle prizes and somatic therapy program.

For more information contact Corinne White at corinne.white@boston.gov or 617-635-3745.

June 20, 2025
  • 12:00pm - 2:00pm
  • 1 City Hall Square
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Corinne White
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2025-06-20T12:00:16 - 2025-06-20T14:00:16
Last updated:

City of Belonging Festival

The Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement (MOIA) announced the launch of the annual City of Belonging Festival in observance of Immigrant Heritage Month with the unveiling of the You Belong Here banners at City Hall’s Mezzanine Gallery. 

May 21, 2025
2025-05-21T13:00:07 - 2025-05-21T15:00:07

The large-format banners will hang in the Mezzanine until July 18. After this, they will be displayed at different locations for a You Belong Here banner tour to continue spreading the message of belonging across the city for the remainder of 2025. MOIA welcomes community requests for displays. 

The gallery launch will take place on May 21 at 1 p.m. and include food, photos, and a speaking program. The event is open to the public, but registration is requested.

MOIA designated 2025 as the Year of Belonging with the You Belong Here campaign to integrate its goals of creating a more inclusive Boston while addressing pressing challenges, such as public sentiment and policy shifts on immigration. The campaign supports immigrant communities through grants, empowers resilience with morale-boosting messaging, and inspires action through events. The campaign aims to ensure Boston remains a community where residents feel welcomed, respected, and valued, regardless of background. This awareness campaign prioritizes diversity, equity, and social cohesion for residents across Boston’s neighborhoods, sharing one message, “You Belong Here,”  in the city’s 12 main languages. 

The large-scale banners are also in these languages, and the campaign design has already been featured in digital billboards across the city, most recently at Opening Day in Fenway Park.

May 21, 2025
2025-05-21T13:00:07 - 2025-05-21T15:00:07
Last updated:

Belonging in Boston: LGBTQIA2S+ Immigrant Voices

Join us for a family-friendly panel invited in honor of Immigrant Heritage Month and PRIDE Month!

May 29, 2025
  • 4:30pm - 7:00pm
  • Civic Pavilion
    5 Congress St
    Boston, MA 02203
  • Contact:
    Mayor's Office for Immigrant Advancement
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Downtown
  • Posted:
  • Boston 250

2025-05-29T16:30:52 - 2025-05-29T19:00:52

This event kicks off both Pride Month and Immigrant Heritage Month, centering the lived journeys of queer immigrants and the unique challenges and strengths they bring to our city.

Refreshments and food provided!

LGBTQ Panel May 2025

May 29, 2025
  • 4:30pm - 7:00pm
  • Civic Pavilion
    5 Congress St
    Boston, MA 02203
  • Contact:
    Mayor's Office for Immigrant Advancement
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Downtown
  • Posted:
  • Boston 250

2025-05-29T16:30:52 - 2025-05-29T19:00:52
Last updated:

Freedom Dreams in America

The Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture and The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University welcome you back to The Embrace for another season of public conversations on democracy, justice, memory, and values.

May 14, 2025
2025-05-14T18:00:20 - 2025-05-14T20:00:20

Join us for a free public conversation.

The Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture and The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University welcome you back to The Embrace for another season of public conversations on democracy, justice, memory, and values.

The series kicks off on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. and will be followed by a free public dinner and reception. This event will be co-hosted by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

V4 Freedom Dreams in America

Professor Peniel E. Joseph and Professor Danielle S. Allen will explore the meaning of “Freedom Dreams in America” and discuss the importance of using our imagination as a tool for individual and collective liberation. Brandon M. Terry, the John Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University will introduce the event. Seating will be provided. Stay for a book signing with the speakers!

What does it mean to dream of freedom in a time of deep division—and how can we turn those dreams into a new reality? At this special conversation at The Embrace, Danielle Allen, a leading political theorist, classicist, and former Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate, and Peniel Joseph, a prominent historian of the Black freedom struggle, will invite us to think boldly and critically with them about the past, present, and future of American democracy. What would it mean to create a democracy built not on fear and exclusion, but on real power-sharing and mutual recognition? How can freedom be reimagined—not just as the absence of oppression, but as the hard, collective work of building a society where dignity and opportunity are widely shared? And at a time of rising cynicism, how should we think about democracy itself—its promises, its failures, and its possibilities? This conversation will be a space for hope, doubt, imagination, and serious reckoning with the question of how we might still rethink the traditions we have inherited in order to shape the future together.

Peniel E. Joseph holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition, he is the founding director of the LBJ School's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD). His career focus has been on "Black Power Studies," which encompasses interdisciplinary fields such as Africana studies, law and society, women's and ethnic studies, and political science. His work encourages us to explore the power of collective imagination in the pursuit of justice, reminding us that dreams for freedom and equality planted from our past generations will continue to lead us towards a more equitable country. His most recent book, Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution, brings to life the dramatic year when James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., and a generation of activists reshaped the fight for freedom, influenced President John F. Kennedy and his approach on civil rights, and changed the nation’s destiny.

Danielle S. Allen is one of Harvard’s esteemed “University Professors,” and a prolific political theorist and classicist who has devoted her career in academia and beyond to exploring the foundations of democracy and the question of justice. Her work, including Justice By Means of Democracy and Our Declaration, reimagines key democratic texts and ideals in ways meant to confront our contemporary struggles. A former gubernatorial candidate in Massachusetts, Allen is a tireless advocate for civic engagement and participation. Her work reminds us of our individual and collective responsibilities in creating and protecting and strengthening a more democratic future. In her most recent book, Justice by Means of Democracy, she offers a bold, inspiring vision for rebuilding democracy through real equality, power-sharing, and a commitment to embracing difference without domination.

RSVP is encouraged and will be required to attend reception. This event is free and open to the public, so we hope to see you there!

May 14, 2025
2025-05-14T18:00:20 - 2025-05-14T20:00:20
Last updated:

Lowell Lecture with Sasha Velour - The Revolutionary Art of Drag

May 13, 2025
  • 6:00pm - 7:30pm
  • 700 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116
    Rabb Hall
    Boston, MA 02116
  • Contact:
    Jullieanne Lee
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2025-05-13T18:00:34 - 2025-05-13T19:30:34

Join BPL in person or over Zoom Webinar as acclaimed drag queen, author, and artist Sasha Velour gives the May Lowell Lecture, The Revolutionary Art of Drag. Sasha Velour will be in conversation with local performing artist and theater company director Giselle Byrd. After the main program, there will be a book signing with local independent bookstore partner, Trident Booksellers & Café.

Register

May 13, 2025
  • 6:00pm - 7:30pm
  • 700 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116
    Rabb Hall
    Boston, MA 02116
  • Contact:
    Jullieanne Lee
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Event Type:
  • Posted:
2025-05-13T18:00:34 - 2025-05-13T19:30:34
Last updated:

Brewing Connections: Intergenerational LGBTQ+ Café

May 10, 2025
  • 10:00am - 11:30am
  • 5 Congress Street
    Civic Pavilion
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Jullieanne Lee
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Downtown
  • Posted:
2025-05-10T10:00:00 - 2025-05-10T11:30:00

History isn’t just something we look back on—it’s something we live and shape every day. Brewing Connections brings together LGBTQ+ community members across generations to share stories, experiences, and perspectives over coffee and donuts (with fresh fruit for those who prefer a lighter bite!). Whether you’re looking to learn from the past, connect in the present, or inspire the future, this gathering is a space to celebrate our shared history and build meaningful relationships. Join us for a morning of conversation, community, and, of course, good coffee!

Presented by Ethos; The History Project; and The City of Boston’s Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA2S+ Advancement, Age Strong Commission, and Office of Youth Engagement and Advancement

Folks can sign up here: brewingconnections.eventbrite.com

See flyer here

May 10, 2025
  • 10:00am - 11:30am
  • 5 Congress Street
    Civic Pavilion
    Boston, MA 02201-2006
  • Contact:
    Jullieanne Lee
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Downtown
  • Posted:
2025-05-10T10:00:00 - 2025-05-10T11:30:00
Last updated:

Age Strong Feedback Session

Share your ideas and concerns with Age Strong!

May 23, 2025
2025-05-23T13:00:00 - 2025-05-23T15:00:00

Age Strong and DEAF, Inc. seek feedback from older Deaf and Hard of Hearing Boston residents (age 50+)! Let us know your ideas and help us set priorities for Boston to be the best place to live and age.

Boston Public Library, Brighton Branch

40 Academy Hill Road, Brighton

Parking available on site and street

American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided.

May 23, 2025
2025-05-23T13:00:00 - 2025-05-23T15:00:00
Subscribe to Social good
Back to top