Pride: Durham, NC

Saturday
09.28.2024

Sábado
28.09.2024

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Sunday
09.29.2024

Domingo
29.09.2024

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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.

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ALT TEXT: Image of pink and blue flowers on a light green background with the words, “Échales Unas Flores: Honramos Con Soma Gratitude La Valentía y Liderazgo De Nuestras Coomunidades Trans” — Pride: Durham, NC 2024 in green, black and pink letters.
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ALT TEXT: Image of pink and blue flowers on a light green background with the words, “Give Them Their Flowers: Honor and Gratitude for the Courage and Leadership of Our Trans Communities” — Pride: Durham, NC 2024 in green, black and pink letters.

We are organizing a whole weekend for Pride: Durham, NC 2024!

Check out our weekend calendar below, including planned times and locations for each day.

Saturday, Sept. 28

Music and Market Festival
Festival de Música y Mercado

ALT TEXT: Simple, line-based map that showcases the locations of Pride on Saturday. The highlighted locations are Durham Central Park, CCB Plaza, the Chapel Hill Street Lot and the Parrish Street Lot.
ALT TEXT: Simple, line-based map that showcases the locations of Pride on Saturday. The highlighted locations are Durham Central Park, CCB Plaza, the Chapel Hill Street Lot and the Parrish Street Lot.

Pop-up Market / Mercado Temporal

Parrish St Lot (Lot 8) & Chapel Hill St Lot — 12pm–4pm

Concert Stage / Escenario de Concierto

CCB Plaza — 12pm–8pm

Food Truck Station / Estación de Comida

Durham Central Park — 2pm–6pm

Sunday, Sept. 29

Parade and Community Kickback
Desfile y Reunión Comunitaria

ALT TEXT: Simple, line-based map that showcases the Pride parade route on Sunday. The parade starts on Campus Drive off Main Street, moves toward Broad Street, up to Knox Street then West to 9th street before moving South back toward Main Street and ending back at Campus Drive. The map also shows the location of the float line-up as well as the kickback location which is on Duke's East Campus.
ALT TEXT: Simple, line-based map that showcases the Pride parade route on Sunday. The parade starts on Campus Drive off Main Street, moves toward Broad Street, up to Knox Street then West to 9th street before moving South back toward Main Street and ending back at Campus Drive. The map also shows the location of the float line-up as well as the kickback location which is on Duke's East Campus.

Parade / Desfile

Duke East Campus — 11am–1pm

Community Kickback / Reunión Comunitaria

Duke East Campus — 1pm–4pm

Headliners

In case you missed it, we've begun announcing our main talent for Pride: Durham, NC 2024!

We're so excited to welcome Halima & Madison McFerrin as concert headliners to this year's stage at CCB Plaza. Also, Durham's very own Naomi Dix is graciously serving as this year's parade grand marshal!

While our registrations have closed, there's still a lot to do to get ready for the big weekend. We're doing our best to prepare, including sharing everything you will need to know in order to participate.

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 IG, don't forget to follow us — @pridedurhamnc

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(ALT TEXT: An image with flowers, text, and portraits of the main talent for Pride: Durham, NC divided into four sections. The first section announces the dates: Sept 28 and 29, 2024. The second and third sections announce Halima and Madison McFerrin on Sept 28 as concert headliners, and the fourth section announces Naomi Dix on Sept 29 as parade grand marshal.)
(ALT TEXT: An image with flowers, text, and portraits of the main talent for Pride: Durham, NC divided into four sections. The first section announces the dates: Sept 28 and 29, 2024. The second and third sections announce Halima and Madison McFerrin on Sept 28 as concert headliners, and the fourth section announces Naomi Dix on Sept 29 as parade grand marshal.)

Parade / Desfile (Duke East Campus)

More info coming soon.

Festival / Festival (Parrish St Lot & Chapel Hill St Lot)

More info coming soon.

Concert / Concierto (CCB Plaza)

More info coming soon.

Thanks to our sponsors for Pride: Durham, NC 2024!

(ALT TEXT: A horizontal chart thanking the sponsors for Pride: Durham, NC 2024 and listing them by level of giving: Presenting, Stonewall, Lavender, Equality, and Community.)
(ALT TEXT: A horizontal chart thanking the sponsors for Pride: Durham, NC 2024 and listing them by level of giving: Presenting, Stonewall, Lavender, Equality, and Community.)

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!

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ALT TEXT: A poster stating a quote by Alexandria Webb. The poster says, "Creating Opportunities for us to thrive, not survive, not only gives us our flowers but also nurtures us to grow to our fullest potential." The quote is laid atop a pink tulip with a light green poster background.
ALT TEXT: A poster stating a quote by Alexandria Webb. The poster says, "Creating Opportunities for us to thrive, not survive, not only gives us our flowers but also nurtures us to grow to our fullest potential." The quote is laid atop a pink tulip with a light green poster background.

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.

Our History

“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