Salem Rainbow Stroll
JOIN THE SALEM RAINBOW STROLL, A PRIDE-FILLED JAUNT ABOUT TOWN, AS WE UNCOVER THE HIDDEN LGBTQIA+ HISTORY OF SALEM & NEW ENGLAND.
WALK WITH AN EXPERIENCED GUIDE AND CELEBRATE QUEER LOCAL STORIES, OLD AND NEW.
Lemaris Bell is the creator of the Salem Rainbow Stroll. Lemaris is a multimedia entertainer who tells stories through history, theater, pictures and prose.
A three-decade resident of Salem, they have led tours in Salem for almost a decade!
This certified silly goose and dedicated resistance-historian has been a Rainbow Stroll guide since the tour’s creation in 2021. Sebastian is an actor, enthusiast, and flaming antiquarian who has haunted Salem for nearly a decade and his incendiary scholarship celebrates the revolutionary sensuality of queers of yore. Don’t get him started about gay pirates...
Lawrence is a local Salem artist who incorporates queer history into his performance, playwrighting, poetry, and visual art. He believes that respecting LGBTQ history and the challenges our ancestors faced is essential to understanding ourselves and surviving what the future brings.
This year, The Rainbow Stroll will proudly be donating 100% of the ticket price to the Trans Emergency Fund of Massachusetts.
Founded in 2008, Transgender Emergency Fund is dedicated to supporting low income and unhoused Transgender and Gender Nonconforming individuals in Massachusetts.
The Transgender Emergency Fund runs the only transitional housing program for the Gender Nonconforming community in Massachusetts. Since its inception, TEF has been a source of financial aid for low-income Trans and Nonbinary people for necessities such as rental assistance, shelter assistance, nutrition assistance, prescription co-pay help, transportation, and winter clothing, among other forms of support. All services are contingent on the availability of funds. The Transgender Emergency Fund is operated solely on donations and contributions from our sponsors.
Visit their website to learn more about their mission.
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We are The Salem Rainbow Stroll and our sensational, seasonal tour winds a scenic path through the historic heart of Witch City. Our local guides are expert historians who are eager to geek out about all the queer romance, revolutionaries, and revelry in Salem’s past. We are talking about:
- badass nonbinary mystics
- messy 19th century sapphic breakups
- yearning gay love letters between famous American authors
- our community’s centuries old fight against censorship and criminalization.
We’ve always been here and we aren’t going anywhere.
Let’s gooooo!!!
Pay What You Can
a sliding scale for accessibilty
When selecting a ticket type guests will see several different priced tiers.
We are a small locally owned business that usually charges $30 for our ghost tours. However, every dollar of your chosen ticket price for the Salem Rainbow Stroll goes to a the deserving charitty. Please pay what you can, as little as $5.