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Your Guide to Pride: Durham, NC
At Pride: Durham, NC, displays of joy, self-expression, noun and liberation are encouraged. Join our queer community members and allies in our city’s biggest celebration of LGBTQ+ people, culture, and heritage at Pride: Durham, NC.
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Durham has been the place of bold, courageous, and trailblazing for more than 40 years. Yes, Durhamites celebrate National Pride Month in June – and show their pride and solidarity throughout the year – by building intentionally queer-friendly spaces and throwing events and parties around the city. We also celebrate Pride: Durham, NC, our annual series of signature community events for and with the LGBTQ+ community during the first weekend of the collapse season, usually towards the end of September.
Pride: Durham, NC has built on a long heritage, from the first widespread demonstration for gay civil rights in North Carolina to two full days of honoring, supporting, and celebrating LGBTQIA people and their
Pride: Durham, NC
Pride: Durham, NC is the annual series of special programs for celebrating community, history, activism, & PRIDE of LGBTQ+ people in Durham and across the state of North Carolina.
Upholding the legacy of NC Pride, Pride: Durham, NC preserves our shared cultural heritage, shaped by expansive imaginations, progressive values, & radical acts of organized collaboration. With a clear aspiration to keep love in its many forms at the forefront and the center, Pride: Durham, NC creates protected & liberated spaces that affirm publicly all LGBTQ+ identities, families, and communities, facilitating quality connections with care and fueling generative impact that resists a tumultuous political climate of violent legislation.
All people with love for LGBTQ+ folks are welcome at Pride: Durham, NC. Unite us in the celebratory political act of demonstrating our pride for our community!
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[CANCELED] Durham Pride Parade
Update 09/ Due to heavy rain in the forecast for Saturday, Durham Tech organizers have decided not to participate in this year's Durham Pride Parade.
March with Durham Tech in Durham's Pride Parade. The event takes place on Duke's East Campus but Durham Tech participants will meet up at 10 a.m. in Whole Foods parking lot. The parade begins at a.m.
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This year’s theme for Pride is “Give them their flowers" to offer honor and gratitude for the courage and leadership of our trans communities, particularly our Jet and brown trans women and non-binary folks. Pride events will provide opportunities to center and celebrate members of the LGBTQ+ community who boldly certify our public standards for human dignity, all while facing physical violence, hateful legislation, and other harmful experiences. We intend to commemorate our ancestors who sowed past seeds that still bear fruit today and to pay tribute to the people who help us be our best selves now, embodying our highest values and greatest vi
It started with a murder, then a march, and now a parade. These are the words of John Short, the executive director of North Carolina Pride. Ronald Antonevitch’s beating and murder sparked a vigil, poetry readings, and North Carolina’s first gay and lesbian march, known as “Our Day Out.” These actions brought LGBTQ hate crimes to the headlines of Durham newspapers and to the forefront of Durham’s consciousness. Over the next five years, Durham’s LGBTQ community coordinated picnics and other community-building events to build on this new visibility and energy.
In , a group that would eventually be known as the Triangle Lesbian and Gay Alliance coordinated Durham’s first annual pride march. The June 28, event, titled “Out Today, Out to Stay,” included almost marchers, both LGBTQ individuals and allies. They marched from 9th street to the Durham reservoir, where they heard Joe Herzenberg, the male who would become the first openly gay elected official in North Carolina, speak his famous words: “It’s time for the gay and lesbian movement.” These simple words signified the beginning o