Lift For Pride is a deadlift-only powerlifting event that celebrates inclusivity and diversity in sports.

Unlike traditional powerlifting events and competitions, Lift for Pride has eliminated weight classes and gender categorizations so that all gender identities and all weight classes lift together.

This year we are raising funds for 2 Boston area LGBTQIA+ organizations: Mass Trans Political Coalition and Trans Resistance MA!

Why Lift for Pride?

Fitness spaces are often spaces that are unwelcoming, uncomfortable, and unsafe for folks in historically marginalized bodies.​

But ALL folks deserve to have access to safe, welcoming, and inclusive spaces for movement and all aspects of life.

​The mission of this event is to create safer, welcoming, and affirming spaces for folks who have historically been left out of or felt unsafe in fitness and powerlifting spaces.

On June 21, 2025, we will lift together and raise funds for local LQBTQIA+ affirming organizations in a space that is welcoming and safer for all genders and bodies to experience the empowerment and community of sport.

​Funds raised from this inclusive, welcoming and affirming space for athletes of all cultural and racial backgrounds, genders, sexual orientation, body size, age, and abilities event will provide local Boston agencies with funds to support LQBTQIA+ folks affirming support and programs.

Who Are We Raising Funds For?

Mass Trans Political Coalition “MTPC works to ensure the wellbeing, safety and lived equity of all trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive community members in Massachusetts. We educate the pub lic; advocate at state, local, and systemic levels; and through collective action, we mobilize community, engage in capacity building, and advance community wellness and prosperity.

Trans Resistance MA: Trans Resistance MA is a nonprofit transgender advocacy organization based in Boston, MA. We advocate for the safety, joy, and liberation of Trans, Queer, Black, Indigenous People of Color (TQBIPOC), and organize an annual March & Festival in June that returns to the authentic origins of pride.