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Happy Pride Month!!

This week, our In Focus Triangle edition takes a special look at Out! Raleigh Pride as it celebrates 11 years in North Carolina’s capital.

Out! Raleigh Pride celebrates 11 years

Street festival in state’s capital highlights a month of events celebrating the LGBTQ community

Color and camaraderie are two crucial pieces of the Out! Raleigh Pride Festival on Fayetteville Street in Raleigh, which will take place on Saturday, June 24 […]

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Pride event list

Celebrate Pride Month with these events around Raleigh and the Triangle.

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PRIDE MONTH ACROSS N.C.

How can Pride fight hate?

The possibility of an LGBTQ pride parade or celebration without some sort of drag performance, for most in the queer community, is unthinkable […]

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A Letter from Kendra: Seeing Ourselves in the Movement

This March marked five years since I accepted an offer to move from Arkansas and take the helm of Equality NC, the Equality NC Foundation and the Equality NC PAC. I made the decision to come to the Tarheel State because I witnessed a dramatic increase in vitriol directed toward minority communities as Trumpism began to rise […]

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THIS WEEK IN CHARLOTTE

Qnotes recently kicked-off its Qnotes Connect program to build stronger connections between local LGBTQ journalists and the community, but there’s a lot you can do as a small business to amplify your company, product or services. Join us for this overview of the LGBTQ market survey and tips on advertising, writing press releases and building a stronger connection through local LGBTQ media.

MORE HEADLINES

Love Wins at Pride

by Liz Schob (she/her) Communications Manager, Charlotte Pride […]

Charlotte Royals Rugby Club hosts first-ever international Gay Rugby Tournament

Twenty-five North American teams competed for the NorAmCup,NorAmBowl and NorAm Vase […]

Televangelist Pat Robertson has died, but his anti-LGBTQ legacy will live on

Televangelist Pat Robertson, known as one of the nation’s most vicious anti-LGBTQ evangelical Christian leaders […]


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