🏳️‍🌈💅 Pride Month is here and QUEER

It’s Monday, Boston.

🌈 Our mood this Pride Month: “Love on the Spectrum” star Pari Kim yelling “Gay train! Gay train!” at the new rainbow Green Line trains. Never change, Pari.

🏃‍♀️ Calling all hot girl runners, joggers, and walkers! We’re collabing with We’re Not Really Runners for a three-mile run (or walk!) followed by drinks at Night Shift this Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. B-Side Members get a free bev. Register here!

👀 What’s on tap today:

• Late night food trucks

• Harvard Square’s Kiosk rebrand

• Market Basket is giving “Succession”

Up first…

PRIDE 2025

Your Pride Month itinerary

It’s Pride Month, baby! And Boston is going ALL OUT to celebrate our LGBTQ+ community with parades, events, music, parties, and so much more.

Here are a few ways to join in on the fun:

🏳️‍🌈 Ring in Pride with Mayor Wu. While Pride *technically* started yesterday, the City of Boston is kicking off its celebrations with a flag-raising ceremony and party at City Hall Plaza today at 11:45 a.m. (there will be music and snacks!).

🎉 Hit up Boston’s BIGGEST Pride celebration. A.k.a., Pride For The People’s Festival and Parade on June 14! Per usual, over a million people will descend on Downtown for a citywide party (just look at the scene from last year), including a massive parade from Copley to the Common, a festival on the Common, and a block party at City Hall Plaza. We’ll drop more info later, but for now, you can sign up to volunteer.

✊🏽 Oooor … one of these other Pride marches. The Boston Dyke March on June 13 offers a “non-commercial, intersectional, and fundamentally grassroots alternative.” And while technically not in Pride Month proper, the BLU Foundation’s Black Pride Parade on July 6 is poised to be a banger (they also have tons of other events this month). P.S. Don’t forget the 20+ other Pride celebrations happening around Mass.

🎵  Dance to some huge queer artists IRL. The OUTLOUD LGBTQ+ music fest is coming to Suffolk Downs for the first time EVER on June 21, featuring headliners like Kim Petras, Flo Milli, Rebecca Black (tbt), and Frankie Grande. Bonus: Tickets start at just $69! 

💸 Open your heart … by opening your wallet. If you have a few bucks to spare, supporting local LGBTQ+ orgs can be as easy as grabbing a brew, riding a rainbow Bluebike, or dropping a dollar or two to BAGLY, Greater Boston PFLAG, or the LesBiGay Urban Foundation.

🌈 Slot these must-do events into your calendar:

• Orville Peck’s Boston Pops cameo | June 5. Queer cowboy icon Orville Peck is joining the Pops for one night ONLY. There are still a few seats left! 

• The MFA’s Pride-themed First Friday | June 6. Think: All the art, music, sips, and dancing of a regular First Friday … but make it queer. 

• Boston Pride Market | June 7. Support over 50 LGBTQ+ and ally vendors when they hit Boylston Street for a Pride-themed market.

• All She Wrote’s Pride Bookfair | June 28. By day, this family-friendly book fair has reads, drag storytime, performances, and queer vendors. By night, it’s “the gayest scholastic book fair for grown ups.”

👀 Want more? There are TONS of other Pride events where that came from. Check them out here.

POP QUIZ!

🩰 How often do you go to fine and performing arts events in Boston?

CITY

Quick & dirty headlines

😋 Your 2 a.m. drunchies prayers have been answered: Boston is getting late-night food trucks! The city’s nightlife czar announced trucks are coming to nighttime hotspots this summer: 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. at Faneuil Hall and Fenway, 24 hours (!) at Boston Medical Center, 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Roadrunner on concert days, and more. Here’s the full list. Apps are open now, and the final trucks will be selected on June 6. Stay tuned!

🎓 Harvard’s international students are peacing out. Or at least are thinking about it. Though a federal judge blocked President Trump’s move to ban the college from admitting international students (for now), many are still heading for the door. Harvard said the news has created an environment of “profound fear, concern, and confusion” among international students. Some sat out their graduation, some canceled international trips to see family, while “too many … to count” asked the school about transferring.

🗞️ Tired: The Harvard Square Kiosk. Wired: The Cambridge KiOSK. The former entrance to Harvard Square station-turned-newsstand is now entering its third act. It reopened last Friday as a venue for exhibitions, art classes, and open mics (plus Cambridge’s visitor info center) after a decade of renovations and pandemic-induced delays. And she looks stunning. It currently features an exhibit on the history of Cambridge’s local print journalism. As for the surrounding Harvard Square Plaza — we’ll have to wait till Fall 2026.

🍺 It’s a BIG summer for beer lovers. Why? 1. Mighty Squirrel just expanded to Watertown’s Arsenal Yards with a newly opened taproom (we could cry at this outdoor seating). 2. Roundhead Brewing is running back last year’s roving beer garden, traveling throughout the city all summer. It’s heading to Southie’s A Street Park on June 9. 3. There’s a new beer in town: Masshole Light (not a prank), a local brew by and for the Massholes. Find it at your local packie. Cheers!

THINGS TO DO

Weekday checklist

🍦 Eat your weight in ice cream. That’s the unofficial rule at the iconic Scooper Bowl from June 3 to 5. Your ticket gets you UNLIMITED scoops from some of the best local and national names. 

🌆 Skip those $30 pilates classes. ‘Cause the Greenway is coming in CLUTCH with this free outdoor Barre3 class in Dewey Square on June 4 (with another planned in July!).

💁‍♀️ Geek out with other girl bosses. We have your post-work plans for June 4: This women’s networking night at WXYZ Bar that includes a drink, light bites, and some new LinkedIn connections.

🍹 Speaking of the Scooper Bowl … If you like your ice cream boozy, stop by Scoop at Night on June 5, where your ticket gets you the event’s all-you-can-eat ice cream PLUS two drinks. 

💐 Buy yourself the damn flowers. Then turn them into a beautiful bouquet at Trident’s build-your-own bouquet bar event on June 5 (a tea-infused cocktail is included!).

💋 Play matchmaker on Tinder .. Kinda. Enter: “Tinder Live” on June 5, where comedian Lane Moore projects dating profiles, and the audience votes if she should swipe left or right.

🥤 DIY your drink of the summer. Saguaro Garden Bar in Kendall Square is not only unbelievably cute, but it’s also repping a delicious customizable seltzer bar (someone’s been watching the “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” huh?).

💅 Meet the baddie behind “Bridgerton.” Julia Quinn, NYT-bestselling author and the lady behind your fave spicy British read, is coming to Lovestruck Books for a FREE signing event on June 6.

ONE LAST THING

The Market Basket saga continues

This Market Basket family drama is *almost* as good as “Succession.”

ICYMI: Back in 2014, two cousins (both named Arthur Demoulas) went toe-to-toe over control of the company. The fight ended with tens of thousands of employees and customers participating in MASSIVE walkouts for Arthur T. Demoulas, winning him (and his sisters) the company — and creating some of New England’s very best lore.

Now, the fam is back at it. Last week, Demoulas, his two kids, and three other execs were suspended and placed on leave by the board … who represent his three sisters. Demoulas’ people are calling the move a “hostile takeover,” but the sisters allege he was going “Succession”-mode on them, unilaterally running the company and plotting to appoint his kids as successors.

Will there be another walkout? Who knows. Will we be eating up the drama in the meantime? YES.

— Written by Gia Orsino and Emily Schario

💸 Thanks for reading! Somebody call Andy Cohen, this family NEEDS a TV show.

🌧️ The results are in: We’re on a roll with these pop quizzes: 47% of readers said Boston got 19.95 inches of rain during Boston’s infamous summer of 2023, but it actually got a whopping 20.33. One reader said: “I was scouting wedding venues that summer, so I got to see the ‘backup rain location’ at every venue!”

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