OURFest, Philadelphia’s National Coming Out Day festival, is back on Oct. 12 with a day-long event that runs 12-7 p.m. But the festivities got started a little early this year — with a week of new events happening across the city.

Tyrell Brown, founder of Philly Pride 365 — the organization that cultivates the city’s Pride and OURFest events, wanted the events leading up to OURFest — which also include a poetry slam, Friday night party and fundraiser, and a resource fair hosted outside the Gayborhood — to continue in the spirit of the broader festival by sharing resources but also by encouraging LGBTQ+ people to get to know one another as they consider what it will take to fortify the queer community during ongoing attacks from the Trump administration.

On Oct. 4, approximately 40 people

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