2025 Worcester LGBTQ+ Community Candidate Forum

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🌈 2025 Worcester LGBTQ+ Community Candidate Forum

📅 Wednesday, August 20, 2025

🕠 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

• School Committee Forum: 6-7 PM
• District Discussions (Tabling): 7-7:30 PM
• City Council Forum: 7:30-8:30 PM

📍 YWCA of Central Massachusetts, 1 Salem Square, Worcester, MA

As LGBTQIA+ people across the country face increasing legislative attacks, our local communities are coming together to demand a future rooted in equity, dignity, and safety for all. The 2025 Worcester LGBTQ+ Community Candidate Forum is a space for LGBTQ+ residents and allies to hear directly from local candidates about how they plan to support and stand with the LGBTQ+ community—not just on LGBTQ-specific issues, but across the broader concerns that impact our lives: immigration, education, housing, healthcare access, racial justice, economic opportunity, and more.

This forum invites candidates to engage meaningfully with queer and trans residents of Worcester and our allies, and for our community to organize, ask questions, and be heard.

🗓️ Event Schedule

• 5:45 PM – Doors Open (first forum begins promptly at 6:00 PM)
• 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM – School Committee Candidate Forum
• 7:00 PM – 7:30 PM – Community Break & District Candidate Tabling Continues
• 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM – At-Large City Council Candidate Forum

Moderators:

1. School Committee Forum: Lezlie Braxton Campbell, Deputy Director at Neighborh to Neighbor Massachusetts
2. City Council At-Large Forum: Domenica Perrone, Community Engagement Practitioner, Researcher, Youth Worker

Event Partners:

1. Love Your Labels
2. MassEquality
3. Pride Worcester
4. YWCA Central Massachusetts

✨ Submit Your Questions We want this forum to reflect the priorities of the people. Community members are invited to submit questions for candidates in advance when you register.

📣 This event is free and open to the public. Come connect with your community, hear directly from those seeking to represent you, and help shape a future where LGBTQ+ people are safe, celebrated, and centered in local decision-making.

Let’s make Worcester a city where all of us can thrive.

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Host or Publisher Love Your Labels