Nowoco Pride News Today

LOWELL — White supremacist ideology was the last thought on Allison Vollmar’s mind when she scanned a QR code off a sticker pasted to a railing along Lowell’s Riverwalk. Later, she found swastikas marked on elevator panels in the Downes Garage in Downtown Lowell.

Although Pride Month is officially in June, NoWoCo Pride has good reasons for keeping the party going into July.

The commonwealth, country and world are painted in rainbows every June, marking the start of Pride Month and an effort for LGBTQ+ people to be seen and heard in their identities.

The commonwealth, country and world are painted in rainbows every June, marking the start of Pride Month and an effort for LGBTQ+ people to be seen and heard in their identities.

Open Sky plans to open Safe Homes North, an LGBTQIA+ youth resource center, at Fitchburg State University this fall.

For the first time since its debut in 2019, Pride Week will not be held virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic.