Preserving LGBTQ+ History
While Charlotte’s Pride Festival and Parade — the largest annual parade in Charlotte and the largest LGBTQ+ pride event in the Carolinas — may be over, Pride season certainly is not. Pride celebrations in the two-state region extend all the way into November, presumably concluding with Matthews Pride in the Park in Stumptown Park on…
Come as you are: Lexington Pride returns Aug. 29
In a city best known for barbecue and its furniture-making history, Lexington Pride is carving out space for something equally rooted in community: a place where LGBTQ+ people can show up, be themselves and know they belong. The Lexington Pride Festival returns Saturday, Aug. 29, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Breeden Insurance Amphitheater…
Greensboro Pride celebrates 20 years
Twenty years ago, Greensboro Pride was a much smaller affair. According to historic information published by IMPAQT GSO, the nonprofit behind the annual celebration, the first Triad Pride Festival welcomed about 400 people and six vendors to Festival Park — now LeBauer Park — in downtown Greensboro in 2006. This September, organizers are preparing for…
Our People: Tom Warshauer
Happily settled in Charlotte’s Plaza Midwood neighborhood is a guy who once asked for a hippopotamus for Christmas. Imagine his surprise when his nephew took the request to heart and sent him a giant stuffed hippo as a Christmas gift. Hopefully, the impact of that memorable present is something its recipient knows all too well…
Equality NC celebrates 47 years of community at annual ‘Ga(y)la’ in Durham
Equality North Carolina, one of the nation’s oldest statewide LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations, is inviting supporters from across the state to celebrate 47 years of organizing, advocacy and community at The Ga(y)la on Saturday, September 19, at the 21c Museum Hotel in downtown Durham. For 47 years, Equality NC has worked alongside LGBTQ+ North Carolinians to…
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