About
The Berkshire Stonewall Community Coalition (BSCC), located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization composed of representatives from LGBTQ+ organizations in the Berkshire area, as well as interested individuals.
Board of Directors
Ephraim Alexander Schwartz is an openly transgender man who lives in the heart of the Berkshires. He prefers interviewing YOU for the Berkshire Queer History Project – contact him at Ephraim@berkshirestonewall.org to make it happen! [email info@berkshirestonewall.org]
When he’s not chasing down local history, Ephraim can be found at various book clubs, workshops, in the words across the site and emails, and fine-tuning behind the scenes.
Ephraim Alexander Schwartz passed away at the end of February, 2026
Ray Garnett is a bisexual and transgender man who lives in West Stockbridge. Ray was born and raised in Chapel Hill, NC, then attended and graduated from UNC Chapel Hill. Ray worked as a first-grade teacher for six years before he moved to the Berkshires to live and work with family in 2014. On moving to the Berkshires, he looked for a similar group to the Trans Discussion Group he attended in Chapel Hill, but couldn’t find anything in the Berkshires. So, he created Berkshire Trans Group, a peer group which has meetings in Pittsfield, North Adams, and online. Ray, together with his aunt Bonnie Benson and Ripley, the store cat, owns and runs Yellow House Books in Great Barrington. Ray is an active member at his congregation, the Unitarian Universalist Meeting of South Berkshire, in Housatonic. In his free time, Ray also enjoys making books and learning Scottish Country Dance.
Mike Connors, returning founding member of Berkshire Stonewall Communitu Coalition, bio forthcoming