Community Guide

Small Businesses, Nonprofit Organizations, and Special Projects
Serving the LGBTQIA+ Community of the River Valley and Beyond

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Resources

"Queer” as in “Free Palestine”
List of Local Actions

T/GNC Care Guide
For our Trans and Gender-Diverse Communities

Winter Gift Guide
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Guide Team

  • Luc Abbott

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    Lead Designer

  • M Rudder

    Editor

  • Fran Astino

    Partner Liason

    Editor

Partners

Big thanks to our community for partnering with us in 2024!

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Bloom Local’s Partner Network

Double Edge Theatre

Double Edge is a cultural cooperative and ensemble collective -- a place of nurturing and sanctuary. Like the water that runs around and through the land it occupies, Double Edge is a river for artists who thirst. From all ancestral legacies, cultural backgrounds, community contexts, & walks-of-life. Often artists, educators, and scholars come here to identify more clearly, to understand themselves, and to seek where their courage will allow them to go. Double Edge protects the silence of their internal space, while simultaneously ensuring that no one is silenced. They fuse the highest caliber of artistic work, a deep love of the natural environment, and an unwavering faith in human potential. They value awareness of the earth around us as essential to the ability to invent, cultivate, witness -- and to share a communal meal, or fruit from the trees, or an intimate conversation. Double Edge is a place of demand, deep research and development outside the rigid structures of institution, academia, and form. It is a place of continuous experimentation and necessary risk taking.

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The International Language Institute of Massachusetts

ILI has promoted intercultural understanding and diverse communities by providing high-quality language instruction and teacher training for over 35 years!

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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.

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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.

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