Hartford Pride Center

09/14/2026

A great celebration. A great cause. A night that gives back. ❤️

Join us THIS FRIDAY September 18th as we launch The Driscoll Fund and come together for an evening of cocktails, dinner, entertainment, and community, all while helping people living with HIV when they need it most.

This fund is personal. It is about dignity, compassion, and making sure that when someone is facing a difficult moment, Hartford Pride Center is there.

We are honoring Thomas Driscoll, whose life and memory helped inspire this work, and beginning a new chapter of caring for our community in his name.

Join us for an unforgettable evening of dinner, drinks, entertainment, and a celebration of what happens when a community comes together and chooses love over stigma.

📍 September 18th | 6 PM
🥂 Dinner | Entertainment | Drinks
❤️ Benefiting people living with HIV

Come celebrate the launch. Come hear the story. Come be part of the legacy.

The Driscoll Fund. Because no one should have to face a difficult moment alone.

09/10/2026

Next Month! ✨

By Kevin Ferrisi – Fifty years is a long time for any nightclub, but for Chez Est, reaching the half-century mark is about much more than longevity. The Hartford institution has spent five decades serving as a gathering place for Connecticut’s LGBTQ+ community, and this October, the club will ce...

09/04/2026

A little glamour. A lot of heart. One unforgettable night.

Get dressed up and join us for cocktails, dinner, dancing, performances, and the official launch of The Driscoll Fund, Connecticut’s only privately funded, unrestricted financial assistance program for people living with HIV.

September 18 at 6 PM. Your seat is waiting.

09/04/2026

One of the MANY reasons why we love The Chez and the community they have cultivated ❤️

09/03/2026

This , we are blessed by our many volunteers and supporters who help bring our programs to life. This includes our incredible team of peer group facilitators and community partners like Prism Counseling and Support LLC.

Because of our community and the incredible people who call our state home, we are excited to officially launch our Intersex Support Group! This group will be for folks who identify as intersex and/or family and friends of people who identify as intersex.

Time for a lesson.

S*x vs. Gender: Intersex describes a physical bodily trait, not a gender identity or sexual orientation. An intersex person may identify as a man, woman, non-binary, or transgender, and can have any sexual orientation. This community is represented on the Progress Pride Flag by a simple purple circle centered on a bright yellow background, which was introduced in 2013 by Morgan Carpenter.

The colors and shapes used to represent the intersex community carry deep intentional meaning:

The Color Yellow: Historically seen as a non-gendered color, yellow explicitly rejects the traditional blue-and-pink binary often associated with male and female expectations.

The Purple Circle: Like yellow, purple is chosen as a gender-neutral color mix. The circle itself symbolizes wholeness, completeness, and integrity.

Unbroken Line: The circle is completely unbroken to represent the community's ongoing fight for bodily autonomy. It stands as a direct statement against non-consensual medical interventions and "corrective" surgeries performed on intersex infants and children.

Want to learn more? Reach out to [email protected]. Our first group meeting will take place in October, so stay tuned.

09/01/2026

Our team and our partner organization The Lavendar Policy Center were so honored to share our resources and services at Overdose Awareness Day, hosted by the Village for Children and Families!

We gave out harm reduction supplies, signed up community members for our programs, and networked with our neighbors in need and neighboring organizations. Stay tuned for more pictures and information about our work in recovery, prevention, awareness, and harm reduction!

08/28/2026

Last week, members of our LGBTQ 50+ Women’s Group, , came together to create cards and collect school supplies for Love146, an organization dedicated to ending child trafficking and exploitation while supporting young survivors.

Collaborations like this reflect our belief that strong communities are built when organizations and individuals work together in service of others. Our support groups provide affirming spaces where participants can form friendships, strengthen social bonds, and experience a sense of belonging, but their impact reaches far beyond each meeting. By transforming connection into collective action, our folks are helping care for the greater community and demonstrating that everyone, at every stage of life, has something meaningful to contribute.

Today at 5:30 pm, our @50+GayMen'sGroup will be meeting at the in Newington. If you're available and identify as an LGBTQIA+ man, please feel free to join us. Food will be provided. Special shout-out to Cliff Oliver for helping to keep this movement going and our meetings accessible.

To learn more about the important work of Love 146, please visit their website. https://love146.org/

08/26/2026

Today, Hartford Pride Center honors the extraordinary Tim Curry, an artist whose brilliance, courage, and unmistakable presence helped generations of LGBTQIA+ people feel free to be exactly who they are.

For so many in our community, The Rocky Horror Picture Show was never simply a movie. It became a sanctuary. A celebration of q***rness, gender expression, sexuality, camp, chosen family, and the beautiful freedom that comes from refusing to fit neatly inside society’s expectations.

As Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Tim Curry gave us a character who was bold, glamorous, provocative, unapologetic, and unforgettable. At a time when LGBTQIA+ visibility was painfully limited, that performance gave countless q***r people permission to explore who they were, find one another, and celebrate the parts of themselves the world sometimes told them to hide.

And somehow, more than 50 years later, it still feels revolutionary.

But Tim Curry’s brilliance extended far beyond Rocky Horror. His remarkable career spanned nearly six decades across theater, film, television, music, voice acting, and recording. He earned three Tony Award nominations for his acclaimed stage performances in Amadeus, My Favorite Year, and Monty Python’s Spamalot. He won a Daytime Emmy Award for his unforgettable voice performance as Captain Hook in Peter Pan and the Pirates, received a Primetime Emmy nomination, earned a Grammy nomination for his audiobook work, and received recognition from some of the most prestigious institutions in theater and entertainment.

Tim Curry’s legacy reminds us that sometimes art does more than entertain us. Sometimes it finds the person sitting in the dark who feels different and whispers, you belong here too.

From all of us at Hartford Pride Center, we celebrate Tim Curry with immense gratitude and love for the joy, freedom, fabulousness, and fearless self-expression he has given generations of our community.

And in the spirit of the role that changed so many lives:

Don’t dream it. Be it. 🏳️‍🌈