Work That Makes an Impact.

Portraits of Pride → Boston LGBTQ+ Museum

Portraits of Pride began as a project dedicated to celebrating, documenting, and increasing the visibility of LGBTQ+ people through portraiture, storytelling, public art, and community representation. What started as a visual campaign grew into something much larger: an effort to preserve the people, stories, culture, and history of the LGBTQ+ community in Boston and beyond.

Over time, Portraits of Pride expanded beyond simply creating portraits. We worked on public exhibitions, community programming, large-scale visual installations, digital promotion, partnerships, and opportunities to place LGBTQ+ stories in spaces where they could reach a much broader audience. One of the important collaborations included working with Orange Barrel Media, helping bring Portraits of Pride into highly visible public-facing environments.

As the project grew, it became clear that these stories deserved more than temporary exhibitions or campaigns. There was an opportunity to create a permanent institution dedicated to preserving them. That evolution ultimately helped lead to the creation and development of the Boston LGBTQ+ Museum, a 501(c)(3) organization focused on preserving and celebrating LGBTQ+ history, art, culture, and community.

The museum concept expanded the original mission of Portraits of Pride into exhibitions, educational programming, cultural events, storytelling, historical preservation, and community engagement. Programming has included initiatives such as Portraits of Pride, the Queer Arts Festival, Rainbow Tales, and exhibitions through the Pryde Gallery, while working toward the much larger goal of establishing a permanent LGBTQ+ museum in Boston.

The long-term vision is not simply to create another gallery. It is to build an institution where LGBTQ+ history is collected, protected, taught, exhibited, and passed on to future generations—while continuing to celebrate the people who are making that history today.

In that sense, Portraits of Pride became more than a campaign. It became part of the foundation for the Boston LGBTQ+ Museum.

For Sabor Cruise Festival, we helped build and manage the experience from the ground up—handling brand development, graphic design, website development, digital marketing, advertising, ticketing strategy, sponsorship development, print production, merchandise, artist promotion, event programming, and creative direction.

Our involvement extended far beyond marketing. We helped coordinate talent, partners, vendors, guest communications, event spaces, schedules, payments, on-board activations, and production—while overseeing the brand and customer experience from the initial launch through the final day of the cruise.

The result was a multi-day destination festival at sea, bringing together hundreds of guests, artists, DJs, comedians, influencers, sponsors, and partners while generating significant ticket sales and sponsorship revenue.

Sabor demonstrates our ability to take an ambitious concept and manage the creative, marketing, business, and production pieces required to turn it into a real experience.

For VISIONS’ 40th Anniversary Ceremony at 60 State Street in Boston, Raink Boston provided complete creative and event support from concept through completion. Our work included event design, graphic design, print production, visual direction, and on-site event direction.

Our team remained on-site throughout the entire ceremony to ensure the visual presentation and event details were executed properly, then stayed through closing to make sure everything concluded professionally.

This project represented what Raink does best: combining branding, production, and hands-on event execution to deliver a polished experience from beginning to end.