2025 Special Events
We will update this page as event details become available.
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LGBTQ+ and Friends Pride on the Belle
July 15, 2025 (rain date is July 17th)
Join us in celebrating Pride while we cruise around the lake on the Chautauqua Belle dancing to the Pride hits of the 70’s and 80’s, as well as contemporary hits. Your Pride cruise departs from the Miller Bell Tower at 6:30PM and returns at approximately 8:30PM. Please arrive by 6:00PM for an on-time departure. Tickets are $75 per person and include appetizers. Drinks are available for purchase. Everyone is welcome but tickets are limited so please purchase tickets early.
Tickets for this event will go on sale in May 2025
Event will be capped at 70 attendees.
Post-Theater Intermezzo Gathering
Tuesday, July 22
Intermezzo Bar, St. Elmo’s Basement
This event is really, really fun. We all buy our own tickets to the 4:00 pm performance of Chautauqua Theater Company’s “Execution of Justice”. After the show we will gather at the Intermezzo to meet the cast and crew and share food and drink. You can find details about the play and purchase tickets through the Chautauqua Institution website, but just let me say that this play is a doozie. We hope you join us!
Book Bans: Fighting Censorship and Celebrating our Diversity
Friday, August 8, 2025 : 12:15 - 1:15pm, Smith-Wilkes Hall
This panel discussion will focus on the impact of banning books on the LGBTQ+ community. So far, we have John Spears, head librarian at Buffalo-Erie and Jamie Lyn Smith, Ohio Chapter Lead for PEN America confirmed to be on the panel. This topic couldn’t be more timely given current events. Many thanks to Rhoda Schulzinger and Steve Rozner for organizing this!
