Pride: Durham, NC
Happy Pride Month, y'all! Our organizing committee is working diligently to prepare for Pride: Durham, NC 2025! Check out our event lineup for each day, and scroll below to learn more about our theme for this year's Pride.
Friday September 26
Justice Concert & Rally | 5PM - 9PM
Saturday September 27
Community Parade & March | 12PM - 2PM
Health & Wellness Kickback | 2PM - 5PM
Sunday September 28
Food Truck & Vendor Market | 12PM - 4PM
PRIDE: DURHAM, NC 2025
WE ARE THE RAINBOW: TOGETHER IN SUPPORT FOR OUR COALITIONS, ENVIRONMENTS, AND FUTURES.
This year's theme is meant to center ourselves as the ones we have been waiting for. We are the ones who have the solutions to the problems we face, who have got what it takes to not just survive but succeed, overcoming the storms of life to see brighter days ahead. From this dignified posture, we are coming TOGETHER to offer and receive support for:
>> OUR COALITIONS -- Every partnership, every collaboration, every solidarity, all of them matter. We continue to pour into one another, building people power that improves our collective capacity to take care of one another and to meet the material & non-material needs we all have. Let's lean into our intersectional partnerships in accessibility, arts, advocacy, public health, and more.
>> OUR ENVIRONMENTS -- This acknowledges our relationships to the land, the water, the air, and all living things in creation. We must care for our creeks & rivers and our parks & trails. Let's move in solidarity with our champions of Durham's natural resources: the stewards of the Eno, the Beaver Queens, and more. This also includes the human-made environments, such as our neighborhoods, schools, and other community spaces where all LGBTQIA+ people deserve to exist within and belong to as whole human beings.
>> OUR FUTURES -- Investing in the wellbeing of young people is always a worthwhile labor of love because they represent what's to come. We welcome and celebrate our children, centering and nurturing their development as essential. We also stand with parents and caregivers, working with them so that their families have what they need to participate fully. Let's make it easier for Durham's queer kids to be who they are and to grow up proud of who they are.
We're still updating our processes for registration, so stay tuned for more information to be shared later this month about registering for our PARADE, KICKBACK, and MARKET. Thanks in advance for your patience and cooperation!
2024 Portraits & Quotes
Contact Us
If you have questions, suggestions, or concerns about Pride: Durham, NC, please feel free to contact us directly via email: pride@lgbtqcenterofdurham.org. And if you're on Instagram, please follow us — @pridedurhamnc
Thanks to our sponsors for Pride: Durham, NC 2024!
Creating and Facilitating Community
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. Join us in the celebratory political act of demonstrating our pride for our community!
Our History
With more community input and intergenerational guidance, Pride: Durham, NC is the location for members of the LGBTQ community in Durham and beyond to celebrate and rejuvenate their spirits. Please read more about the history of NC Pride (from the NC Pride Archives) and Pride: Durham, NC.
“Somebody, your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour—and in the oddest places!—for the lack of it.”
James Baldwin
Photo Gallery
Our Library
Since the Center opened in October of 2015, one of the most anticipated programs has been the LGBTQ Center of Durham Library. Our library room at the center has been designed to accommodate a diverse collection of LGBTQ focused books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, and 'zines to serve the local community. We have am extensive collection of materials that you are welcome to come peruse and hang out for a while reading. Once the library is fully up and running community members will additionally be able to check out materials from the center sometime in 2020.
Our Catalog
Our volunteers have begun entering our current collection, cataloging, and setting up our future and circulation management using TinyCat.
Though it is still a work in progress you can begin to get a sneak peek at our collection here via TinyCat and LibraryThing.
Fun, Learning, & Friendships
50+ LGBTQ & Allies in and around Durham
FAQ* is a collaborative effort to build community among LGBTQ+ folks aged 50+ in & around Durham. Partners include the LGBTQ Center of Durham, Transitions LifeCare, and the Durham Center for Senior Life (DCSL)
We initially scheduled five events between February and April to launch this effort. We need your help to continue to craft what this effort can and will look like as it continues to grow and serve the community. Will you join us? At each event we hope to hear what sorts of events you would like to co-create.
For more info contact FAQ@lgbtqcenterofdurham.org
FAQ* Film Series
Join us on the third Thursday of each month for a movie and popcorn.
Durham Center for Senior Life Movie Theater
113 Hunt Street, Durham, NC 27701
(ample parking is right out front; make sure to use the HUNT STREET address in your GPS!)
Time: Gather at 6:30; film starts at 7:00 pm
- March 20, 2020 Signature Move
- April 16, 2020 Saving face
Folks Aiming for More
Project FAM was born out of the desire to bring direct, basic services for LGBTQ+ folks in our community under one umbrella. Project FAM seeks to embody the notions that when basic needs are met; when folks are given an opportunity to have stability and independence; and when community is seen and valued, then we can begin to undo the harm of oppressive systems that have excluded us for far too long. Project FAM prioritizes the needs of Transgender Womxn and Femmes of Color and all Queer and Trans BIPOC folks. We know that if we can uplift TWOC, FOC, and QTBIPOC, then we can successfully uplift all in our community.
Finding a Safe Space Shouldn't Be Hard.
As with all programming offered by the LGBTQ Center of Durham, Project FAM is a community-led and informed project and operates under the frameworks of anti-oppression, antiracism, intersectionality, and trauma-informed care. We intentionally uplift the experiences of all marginalized folx, especially those who are BIPOC, Queer, and Transgender.
Project FAM brings three programming areas together - Gender Resources, Advocacy, and Support Programs (GRASP), housing and therapeutic services, and services for LGBTQ+ survivors of sexual and domestic violence. All services are accessible to LGBTQ+ folks ages 18 and older, and seek to support LGBTQ+ individuals and families in all stages of life. Project FAM services are low barrier, free of cost, and support folks living in the Triangle region of NC with a focus on folks living in Durham.
Project FAM is led by Vanity Reid Deterville and Gemynii Black as Co-Directors. Vanity serves as the Director of Advocacy and Support and Gemynii Black serves as the Director of Housing and Therapeutic Services. Additionally, Alix Adrian provides Name Change Navigation assistance.
We thank our community for your continued support as our services and capabilities grow and expand to meet our most pressing needs.
Program Areas
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LGBTQ+ Youth Center
The LGBTQ+ Youth Center within the LGBTQ Center of Durham serves youth ages 12-24 through programming, drop-in space, and events.
The Youth Center staff are available to meet with Gender and Sexuality Alliances at local middle and high schools. The Youth Center is open to conversations with like minded organizations and educational spaces seeking a deeper understanding of the intersectional needs of queer youth.
The Youth Center strives to provide intergenerational programming as capacity allows.
Contact us at youthcenter@lgbtqcenterofdurham.org.
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Write to us at youthcenter@lgbtqcenterofdurham.org
Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming, and Gender Diverse Programs
GRASP
Gender Identity Programs have moved to the Gender Resources, Advocacy, and Support Program through Project F.A.M.
Transgender Day of Visibility Zine