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I’m sorry I missed you with our Local News Team Member Newsletter last week. Jim and I were working against a grant deadline — to support the awesome team we have at Qnotes. Ensuring our ability to bring you the news and information you need, from the only LGBTQ+ media in the Carolinas takes a variety of sources for revenue. Ads, grants, sponsorships, and you. So, thank you for supporting local LGBTQ+ news in our community.

I’m showing up in your inbox today with a special Pride Edition of our Local News Team Newsletter. Charlotte Pride honors Jim Yarbrough this weekend as one of the 2024 Charlotte Pride Parade Grand Marshals. You can catch him being driven by Local News Team Member Lee Robertson in Sunday’s parade.

Join me in congratulating Jim and thanking him for his commitment to the Charlotte LGBTQ+ community.

About the 2024 Grand Marshals

| From Charlotte Pride

Jim Yarbrough has been a steadfast advocate since 1986, running QnotesCarolinas and owning White Rabbit, NC’s only LGBTQ+ focused retail store. He has also served on numerous community boards, including Pride Charlotte and MCC Charlotte.

Shann D Roc Fulton (they/he), Chair of Charlotte Black Pride, champions the visibility and rights of Black LGBTQ+ individuals. With a career at Spectrum and a dedication to volunteerism, Shann supports local organizations focused on LGBTQ+ and POC youth mentorship.

What you need to know to see the Parade

The Charlotte Pride Festival & Parade will return to Uptown this weekend, Saturday, August 17 and Sunday, August 18. The event is the city’s largest street festival and largest parade.

The parade is Sunday, 1-4 p.m. along N. Tryon Street.

The parade will stop off at N. Tryon St. and 9th St. It will run south on Tryon St. toward 4th St. and turn toward College St. where it will disband between 4th and Trade. The parade emcee stage will be located at 4th and Tryon Streets. Be aware of several road closures Uptown this weekend and organizers are encouraging people to use public transit, such as CATS buses and the LYNX Blue Line.

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Volume 1, No. 1

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Charlotte’s Pride events consisted of small, but public, picnics first hosted by Queen City Quordinators (QCQ). Pride Week events dated back to 1981.

In this issue, QCQ had transitioned to Q-Notes, producing a formal monthly newspaper and now planning Charlotte’s Pride Week events in 1986. Those events included a community softball game, the Carolinian of the Year award banquet, group trip to the Pride Week March in Durham, and Carnival in the old Scorpio parking lot with booths, games and entertainment.

Read the full issue from June 1, 1986

The Q-List

Things we’re reading, watching or just plain intrigued by this week:

Why queer media organizations are essential to the local media ecosystem, Local Media Association
What the Jarren Duran suspension tells us about MLB’s struggles with homophobia, MSNBC
SouthBound Replay: Josh Burford on documenting the LGBTQ history of the South, WFAE
Record 199 out LGBTQ athletes made Paris Summer Olympics the gayest ever, OutSports
Dr. Ruth: An Ally for LGBTQ People, Women and People Living with AIDS, The Body

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