Pride: Durham, NC
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.
Happy Summer, y'all!
Our organizing team has been working diligently to prepare for Pride: Durham, NC 2025. Check out our festival event lineup, and click below to register as an official volunteer this year and/or to participate in our Parade, Kickback, or Market.
Friday, Sept. 26
Justice Concert & Rally | 5PM–9PM
Saturday, Sept. 27
Community Parade & March | 12PM–2PM
Health & Wellness Kickback | 2PM–5PM
Sunday, Sept. 28
Food Truck & Vendor Market | 12PM–4PM
Event registration will flow differently this year.
We have a new registration option for Parade marchers (stationary floats and large vehicles!), and we are pointing all non-profit, advocacy, health, and wellness organizations to our Kickback and pointing all businesses and vendors to our Market. Please reach out to us via email *BEFORE REGISTERING AND PAYING* to confirm you're making the right decision for your group.
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!
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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
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