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
A newcomer to the Berkshires, Charlie Catacalos (they/them) grew up in Maryland, right outside of D.C. After attending Temple University in Philadelphia, they spent half a year working in the Adirondacks. They eventually found their way to North Adams, where they have been living for about a year. Charlie is the Exhibitions Research and Content Editor at the Berkshire Museum and enjoys their job of learning new things and sharing with others. Charlie is an avid musician and spends most of their free time working on new music and playing with their 15-year-old cat, Percy.
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!
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.
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.
India (she/her) is a lesbian and very happy to be on the BSCC board! She lives in North Adams, MA and moved to the area only two years ago from Phoenix, Arizona. India works in apparel design in Vermont. She is passionate about hanging out, listening to audiobooks, acting, her cats, feeling wonder in nature, connecting with the community and writing in the third person!