Join us for a night of queer short films, drag, music and a RAFFLE with prizes from local artists & businesses to benefit our beloved Holyoke-based queer archives & the Muslim Alliance for Sexual & Gender Diversity (MASGD)!

Flywheel presents
A Benefit for the Sexual Minorities Archives featuring:
JUANA B ONTOP
(https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069342126907)
PERENNIAL
(https://perennialtheband.bandcamp.com/album/art-history)
FEMININE AGGRESSION
(https://feminineaggression.bandcamp.com/)
Selected video shorts from SMA collection
More acts TBA
Hosted by: Lorelei Erisis
Holyoke Media
1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA

Doors at 7:30pm / Show at 8pm

$10-20+ suggested donation

Mask required & free at door to be more accessible to immunocompromised folks

Flyer by Crystal Ford

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Minorities Archives (SMA), one of the oldest and largest LGBTQI archives in the United States, located in Holyoke, MA. Now occupying most of an historic Victorian house affectionately called “The Pink Lady,” the Archives has been stewarded for most of its five decades by curator Ben Power and many dedicated community volunteers and board directors.
As a community resource with a mission to remain outside of institutional/university ownership, the SMA is currently struggling to make ends meet–to pay monthly utilities and basic operating costs. As a national treasure located right in our backyard, we are hosting this benefit to help the SMA continue its work as a steward of 10,000s of pieces of queer media and a community resources for researchers, students, activists and LGBTQI folks looking to understand more about the people and movements that make up their lineage.

Please visit the:
SMA’s website (https://sexualminoritiesarchives.wordpress.com/) Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/FollowtheSMA) and Instagram @sexualminoritiesarchives
…for more info as well as episodes from the “Out of the Archives” podcast (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1005022).”