For a city in a metro area with the eighth-largest population of LGBTQ-identifying people in the United States, it is a surprise to learn how few opportunities there are for the community to gather.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are events for Pride and Juneteenth – including a parade – as well as the return of Cambridge’s Dance Party, a visit from storyteller David Sedaris, the history of ice and plenty of poetry, music and theater, including the little-seen opera “Savitri.”

LGBTQ+ stories are important to celebrate year-round. But Pride Month – especially this one – makes for a good time to shine a light on these stories, new and old.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Gallery 263 has a 15th Birthday Bash, there’s the Saint Anthony Feast, a Greek Fest and the 44th annual Boston Dragon Boat Festival, a baguette-baking competition, The Taste of Somerville, readings, screenings and much more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events – now running from one Friday to the next – there’s comedy with Rachel Bloom, a museum exhibit for Someerville’s Phil Reavis; “As You Like It” joins “The Gaaga,” a Winslow Homer painting arrives, there’s a dumpling festival, poetry, film and Eventual Dance.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a chat with Astronauts, the end of the Campfire. Festival, plenty of drag for Pride Month, “The Gaaga” theater experience comes to Harvard Square and Jamie Loftus brings us The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs.”

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the Cambridge-Somerville Asian Festival, return of Inman Eats & Crafts and Comix Con and LadiesCon, the Longwood Symphony Orchestra and Niki Luparelli’s Strip Zeppelin, bike month events and a Wild Rabbit motorcycle show.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s music and dance galore, including “Ink in Motion” at The Foundry and “This Love Unbound” at Arts at the Armory, as well as Arbor Week events, nature challenges, a Hypnothesis music experience and “Hand Me Down” art exhibit.

Danny Riordan, 24, of Cambridge, and Alyssa Moskites, 30, of Somerville, made history Monday as nonbinary runners in the 127th Boston Marathon – a first-of-its-kind category for the oldest marathon in the world.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Rock & Roll Rumble preliminaries continue and the Down Home Up Here music festival is back at Club Passim, the MIT Museum looks at the science of comedy and there are plenty of dances to see and poems and literary readings to be heard.