Pride: Durham, NC
Saturday
09.28.2024
Sábado
28.09.2024
Sunday
09.29.2024
Domingo
29.09.2024
Let’s be honest: We didn’t get to honor our trans and nonbinary community members last year as intended, and their courage and leadership are still worth centering and celebrating, so we are happy to lift up the same theme, “GIVE THEM THEIR FLOWERS,” with renewed enthusiasm and excitement.
Again, we intend to commemorate our ancestors who sowed past seeds that still bear fruit today and to pay tribute to the LGBTQ+ people who are alive and help us be our best selves now, embodying our greatest values and visions for a more whole and liberated Durham, North Carolina.
Logistics & Accessibility Features
You've asked, and we've heard you! We're making things way more accessible!
We are co-creating several new resources and assets as part of our Pride: Durham, NC events, with hopes that this allows more of our community members to have more positive and equitable experiences overall. Please read below and let us know if there's something else that would help you participate more fully.
General Orientation
These visuals below are meant to give you an idea of where we will be located on each day. Note the legends for each map include references to low-sensory spaces (in case you get over-stimulated and just need a break) as well as reserved ADA & family spaces so that it's easier to participate, regardless of your ability or age. Please note that these spaces will require wearing masks for those who are able to wear them. Be sure to scroll through the slider above too for more details on the times and locations of each Pride event.
Saturday
Sunday
Parking Guides
If you're unsure of where to park, here are some guides to consult—use them to make a parking plan for each day, and give yourself extra time to arrive at a parking lot or deck and move from your vehicle to your destination.
Please note that the lines in red are routes where volunteers will be present and that the areas in green are recommended for those with additional accessibility needs.
If more support is needed about moving around downtown or Duke's campus, please contact us directly via email pride@lgbtqcenterofdurham.org and we'll notify volunteers in advance so that you have more support.
Additional Accessibility Assets
Thanks to a lot of creativity, diligence, and generosity of our community members and partners, we have several additional resources to share that expand our accessibility!
To start, we will have masks, hand sanitizer, & COVID tests available to share. While all of our events are outdoors as a precaution, we also welcome and encourage wearing masks as you're able and will require masks in our reserved ADA/family spaces in order to better protect those who are immunocompromised and/or are unable to wear them.
On Saturday, we'll have several portable bathrooms downtown, stationed at our concert stage and pop-up market locations. For those who can't use those bathrooms though, please contact one of our volunteers (we're wearing bright pink shirts!) and they'll be able to point you to the nearest accessible bathroom location made available by some of our downtown partners: Self-Help, Trinity UMC, and Velvet Hippo.
Additionally, our concert stage at CCB Plaza will have local community members providing Spanish and ASL interpretation. If you or someone you know would benefit from Spanish interpretation, please complete this Google form so we can ensure our Spanish-speaking community members connect with our interpreters. And for those that require ASL interpretation, please use the seating in our reserved ADA/family space to ensure proximity to the interpreters during the performances.
Finally, our friends at CANDOR have collaborated with us to provide more information about our low sensory and rest spaces along the parade route, communication cards to indicate talk preferences and improve our capacity to connect with each other, and more. Visit this special CANDOR/Pride: Durham, NC webpage to review these resources, and check out their Instagram (@candornc) for additional resources that they are creating and sharing in partnership with Pride: Durham, NC.
Virtual Parade
In partnership with our friends at The INDY, we are happy to announce that the Pride: Durham, NC 2024 Parade will be officially streamed online!
If for some reason, you can't participate in-person, that's okay—just click here to visit The INDY website on Sunday morning from 11AM to 1PM, and you should be able to watch the parade from the comfort of the location of your choice.
If you want to avoid being recorded in the live stream altogether, we recommend avoiding 9th Street, particularly between Hillsborough Rd/ W. Markham Ave and Perry St. We do not want to record anyone in/at the parade who doesn't want to be recorded in/at the parade. If you want to increase your chances of being seen in the stream though, we recommend watching the parade in-person near JuJu Durham. Our host Desmera Gatewood will be there, interviewing special guests as well as describing the marchers, vehicles, and floats in the parade.
Headliners & Talent
In case you missed it, we've announced our headliners for Pride: Durham, NC 2024! We're so excited to welcome Halima & Madison
Additionally, Saturday's concert stage will comprise several area performers: Triangle Gay Men's Chorus, Common Woman Chorus, KHX05, NiiTO, and more! Special guests DJ AYO VIP and Samantha Rise will have multiple sets during the day. Also, Sunday's kickback will also feature music from The Conjure as well as a brief community presentation of youth drag performances to help wrap up the weekend.
For all of our events, particularly where you might stand for some time, we welcome and recommend bringing your own chairs, blankets, or other seating assets. And if you're unable to carry one along, feel free to grab one that we have to share or ask a volunteer nearby to help you find a seat!
More Coming Soon
Stay tuned for more information—we're creating more accessible PDFs that we'll share here and on social media soon. If you have questions or concerns about accommodations that will help you participate more fully, please contact us directly via email: pride@lgbtqcenterofdurham.org. And if you're on Instagram, don't forget to 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
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