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'She welcomed everybody into her chosen family': Jahaira DeAlto honored at Pittsfield vigil


PITTSFIELD — Jahaira DeAlto Balenciaga spent just a few short years in Pittsfield, but she didn’t need long to make her impact in the community.
“When she showed up into a room, you knew that she was there,” Kelan O’Brien, a friend of DeAlto’s and an organizer for Berkshire Pride, said at a Saturday evening vigil for DeAlto, 42, who died last Sunday in a violent attack at her Boston apartment.
“She was loud in the best type of way, she loved unconditionally, she welcomed everybody into her chosen family, into her community and we can see that here tonight,” O’Brien said to more than 100 people who gathered in Pittsfield’s Pontoosuc Park. ....

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Freeman Center to retool 'Walk a Mile' fundraiser, citing LGBTQ+ concerns


PITTSFIELD — The Elizabeth Freeman Center will reformulate its annual “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event, citing feedback it received that the event reinforced gender stereotypes and did not more fully include the LGBTQ+ community.
The campaign, which takes place each September, will be replaced by a new event, according to a letter to the community from Executive Director Janis Broderick and board President Marie Paradise.
“For the past ten years Elizabeth Freeman Center participated in an international campaign called ‘Walk a Mile in Her Shoes.’ In the Berkshires, this event occurred every third Thursday of September and grew each year,” the letter said. ....

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Freeman Center retires 'Walk a Mile' fundraiser, citing LGBTQ+ concerns


PITTSFIELD — The Elizabeth Freeman Center will reformulate its annual “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event, citing feedback it received that the event reinforced gender stereotypes and did not more fully include the LGBTQ+ community.
The campaign, which takes place each September, will be replaced by a new event, according to a letter to the community from Executive Director Janis Broderick and board President Marie Paradise.
“For the past ten years Elizabeth Freeman Center participated in an international campaign called ‘Walk a Mile in Her Shoes.’ In the Berkshires, this event occurred every third Thursday of September and grew each year,” the letter said. ....

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