Events
Trans Support Group (all ages, in-person)
This meeting is designed for trans people (including non-binary and gender non-conforming identities) of all ages and topics are varied. This is a space where folks who are in early transition can come for support; those who are further in their journey can come to provide support; and everyone can come to build community.
This meeting meets on the first and third Thursday of each month.
Sponsored by: MaineTransNet
For more info, email Kris at kris@mainetransnet.org
EQME Network for Older Adults Brunch
Sponsored by: EqualityMaine
Join us for our monthly community meal for older LGBTQ+ adults!
These meals will be catered by a different restaurant thanks to the Southern Maine Agency on Aging. This event is free, but if you would like to donate $8 to cover the cost of the meal, your donation is always appreciated.
If this is your first NOA Lunch/Dinner this year, please fill out this registration form. This is NOT an RSVP form or menu ordering form. All of the information provided on this registration helps Southern Maine Agency on Aging continue to provide meals like these.
Email izzy@equalitymaine.org with any questions.
Port Veritas Open Mic Night
Co-sponsored by: Equality Community Center
Welcome to Port Veritas! We meet every Tuesday night for an open mic night in person AND online. We are a diverse collaboration of creative minds, bound by a common love of creating a space for artists of all kinds to come and express themselves.
You may use this link to join us virtually:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83057477506
35+ Trans Support Group (in-person)
This meeting is designed for trans people (including non-binary and gender non-conforming identities) 35 years and older. Topics are varied, but special attention is given to aging while trans, transitioning later in life, workplace-related experiences, and issues involving significant others, children, and grand-children. This is a space where folks who are in early transition can come for support; those who are further in their journey can come to provide support; and everyone can come to build community.
This meeting meets on the third Sunday each month.
Sponsored by: MaineTransNet
For more info, email Kris at kris@mainetransnet.org
Roadmap to Connection Discussion Group
Looking for more connection, community, support, and joy? Feeling lonely or disconnected from the queer community?
We’re gathering this fall to explore what true, authentic community and connection can look like, and to discuss how we might begin to build more of this in our own lives.
We’ll use Mia Birdsong’s book, How We Show Up, to guide our conversations. When I read it, I felt more hopeful, inspired and energized than I had in a long time. The book provides a springboard to discuss how we can queer our friendships and communities. As we read stories of how social connection and community can counteract the forces of patriarchy, capitalism and white supremacy (as well as homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and poverty), I hope we will design a roadmap toward more joy, connection, meaning, and real joy in our lives.
We will explore how we can meet our needs for friendship, connection, touch, financial and emotional well-being, physical support, and community in a way that will endure as we move in and out of romantic and other relationships. We will dig into what it would look like to create a community that helped us feel safe, connected, needed, supported and loved throughout the inevitable ups and downs of our lives.
This will be a monthly gathering to discuss what this community would look like for each of us and how we might begin to build it. You are welcome to join even if you haven’t read the book. Let me know if you need help accessing a copy of the book.
***Masks are required. Please reach out to me if you need a mask for the event.
Hosted by: Jill McCain (community member) - mccainjill@gmail.com
Space sponsored by: Equality Community Center
MTN: Trans & Allies Support Group
Sponsored by: MaineTransNet
Contact: Kris Pitts (kris@mainetransnet.org, 207-531-8229)
Type of event: educational/support group
Private/Public event: open for Trans folks & allies
Event time: 2pm-3:30pm
Note: This support group is for trans folks and their allies to come together. The group meets on the second Sunday of each month.
For more information: https://www.mainetrans.net/groups
The Holiday Rainbow Affair & After Party
The Holiday Rainbow Affair
An Evening to Support the Equality Community Center
More details HERE!
Trans Support Group (all ages, in-person)
This meeting is designed for trans people (including non-binary and gender non-conforming identities) of all ages and topics are varied. This is a space where folks who are in early transition can come for support; those who are further in their journey can come to provide support; and everyone can come to build community.
This meeting meets on the first and third Thursday of each month.
Sponsored by: MaineTransNet
For more info, email Kris at kris@mainetransnet.org
Youth Self-Advocacy Group
Sponsored by: Disability Rights Maine, Co-sponsored by: Equality Community Center
Are you a young person, aged 14-25, with an intellectual or developmental disability? If so, the Youth Self-Advocacy Group could be the place for you!
Designed for folks to find community, learn advocacy skills to increase independence, and work together to overcome challenges, our monthly meetings will serve as a ‘home base’ for connection and collaboration!
Email project director Kate Turpen at kturpen@drme.org if you have any questions or would like more information.
Queercovery Monthly Sober Potluck
Sponsored by: Queercovery
Event Time: 6pm-9pm
For more information, contact James (queercovery@gmail.com)
Virtual Queercovery Meeting
Join us weekly for a virtual peer-led “All-Recovery” meeting for all who struggle with addiction, are affected by addiction, and/or support the recovery lifestyle. Because Queercovery is not formally affiliated with the traditions of any 12-step “Anonymous” program (such as AA), our meetings are uniquely designed to support healing and fellowship amongst members of our local LGBTQ+ community, as well as friends and allies.
Reach out to Queercovery for the meeting link, and to stay in the know!
Instagram
Facebook: Queercovery Maine
Email: queercovery@gmail.com
Queercovery Meeting
Co-sponsored by: Equality Community Center
Join us weekly for a peer-led “All-Recovery” meeting for all who struggle with addiction, are affected by addiction, and/or support the recovery lifestyle. Because Queercovery is not formally affiliated with the traditions of any 12-step “Anonymous” program (such as AA), our meetings are uniquely designed to support healing and fellowship amongst members of our local LGBTQ+ community, as well as friends and allies.
Facebook: Queercovery Maine
Email: queercovery@gmail.com
Port Veritas Open Mic Night
Co-sponsored by: Equality Community Center
Welcome to Port Veritas! We meet every Tuesday night for an open mic night in person AND online. We are a diverse collaboration of creative minds, bound by a common love of creating a space for artists of all kinds to come and express themselves.
You may use this link to join us virtually:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83057477506
LGBTQIA+ Sober Sunday Meeting
Co-sponsored by: Equality Community Center
Open meetings are available to anyone interested in Alcoholics Anonymous’ program of recovery from alcoholism. Nonalcoholics may attend open meetings as observers. Safe space for LGBTQIA+ and allied community members to work through the AA 12-step program together.
For more info, click HERE.
Rainbow Reels
Sponsored by: EqualityMaine & the ECC
Contacts: Brooke (brooke@eccmaine.org) & Izzy (izzy@equalitymaine.org)
Public event - join us for a movie!
Trans Support Group (all ages, in-person)
This meeting is designed for trans people (including non-binary and gender non-conforming identities) of all ages and topics are varied. This is a space where folks who are in early transition can come for support; those who are further in their journey can come to provide support; and everyone can come to build community.
This meeting meets on the first and third Thursday of each month.
Sponsored by: MaineTransNet
For more info, email Kris at kris@mainetransnet.org
Virtual Queercovery Meeting
Join us weekly for a virtual peer-led “All-Recovery” meeting for all who struggle with addiction, are affected by addiction, and/or support the recovery lifestyle. Because Queercovery is not formally affiliated with the traditions of any 12-step “Anonymous” program (such as AA), our meetings are uniquely designed to support healing and fellowship amongst members of our local LGBTQ+ community, as well as friends and allies.
Reach out to Queercovery for the meeting link, and to stay in the know!
Instagram
Facebook: Queercovery Maine
Email: queercovery@gmail.com
EQME Network For Older Adults Lunch
Sponsored by: EqualityMaine
Join us for our monthly community meal for older LGBTQ+ adults!
These meals will be catered by a different restaurant thanks to the Southern Maine Agency on Aging. This event is free, but if you would like to donate $8 to cover the cost of the meal, your donation is always appreciated.
If this is your first NOA Lunch/Dinner this year, please fill out this registration form. This is NOT an RSVP form or menu ordering form. All of the information provided on this registration helps Southern Maine Agency on Aging continue to provide meals like these.
Email izzy@equalitymaine.org with any questions.
Queercovery Meeting
Co-sponsored by: Equality Community Center
Join us weekly for a peer-led “All-Recovery” meeting for all who struggle with addiction, are affected by addiction, and/or support the recovery lifestyle. Because Queercovery is not formally affiliated with the traditions of any 12-step “Anonymous” program (such as AA), our meetings are uniquely designed to support healing and fellowship amongst members of our local LGBTQ+ community, as well as friends and allies.
Facebook: Queercovery Maine
Email: queercovery@gmail.com
Port Veritas Open Mic Night
Co-sponsored by: Equality Community Center
Welcome to Port Veritas! We meet every Tuesday night for an open mic night in person AND online. We are a diverse collaboration of creative minds, bound by a common love of creating a space for artists of all kinds to come and express themselves.
You may use this link to join us virtually:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83057477506
Pride Parade & Festival 2024
Come celebrate with us at our annual Portland, Maine Pride Parade!