Durham gay pride parade

The Chronicle’s guide to celebrating Pride Month in Durham

As June enters full swing, Durham gets a little more colorful — rainbow flags in the windows of local businesses and city-wide people celebrations recognize the LGBTQ+ community in honor of Lgbtq+ fest Month. For Durham residents and those on campus during the summer, The Chronicle has compiled a list of events to support you celebrate Identity festival in the Bull City.

LGBTQ+ history

For those looking to study more about the origins of the LGBT civil rights movement, check out the Pauli Murray Center. This landmark, originally their childhood home, commemorates the life of the queer human rights activist Pauli Murray. It is expose to the universal as a vacuum of community and activism. Visitors can purchase a guided home tour for $20, take a free self-guided outdoor tour or go to events like Artists’ Days of Inspiration, an opportunity for artists to collaborate and seek inspiration.

The LGBTQ Center of Durham also records the city’s extensive history of LGBTQ activism, including North Carolina’s first activism for LGBTQ civil rights in 1981, which took place at the Durham County Judicial Building. The center has played a decisive

June: Pride Month

Risk Factors for LGBTQ+ Individuals Key Protective Factors for LGBTQ+ Individuals LGBTQ+ juvenile people are more than four times as likely to attempt suicide than their peers (Johns et al., 2019; Johns et al., 2020). LGBTQ+ young people with at least one accepting senior in their animation report significantly reduce rates of attempting suicide. The Minority Force Model, one of the most predominant theories used to explain mental health disparities experienced by LGBTQ+ individuals, suggests that experiences of LGBTQ+-based victimization — and the internalization of these experiences and anti-LGBTQ+ messages — can compound and produce negative mental health outcomes and increase suicide risk among Homosexual individuals (Meyer, 2003). Transgender and nonbinary juvenile people attempt suicide less when their pronouns are valued, when they are allowed to officially change the gender marker on their legal documents, and when they acquire access to spaces (online, at college, and home) that affirm their gender identity. The Trevor Project’s 2023 national survey found that nearly all LGBTQ+ fresh people of colo

[CANCELED] Durham Pride Parade

Update 09/22: Due to heavy rain in the forecast for Saturday, Durham Tech organizers have decided not to participate in this year's Durham Celebration Parade.

March with Durham Tech in Durham's Pride Celebration. The event takes place on Duke's East Campus but Durham Tech participants will meet up at 10 a.m. in Whole Foods parking lot. The parade begins at 10:30 a.m.

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This year’s theme for Pride is “Give them their flowers" to offer honor and gratitude for the courage and leadership of our trans communities, particularly our Black and brown gender non-conforming women and non-binary folks. Pride events will provide opportunities to center and celebrate members of the LGBTQ+ community who boldly certify our public standards for human dignity, all while facing physical aggression, hateful legislation, and other harmful experiences. We design to commemorate our ancestors who sowed past seeds that still bear fruit today and to compensate tribute to the people who help us be our best selves now, embodying our highest principles and greatest visions for a more whole, secure, and liberated Durham, North Carolina.

— LGBTQ Center of Dur

It started with a murder, then a march, and now a parade. These are the words of John Short, the executive director of North Carolina Celebration. Ronald Antonevitch’s 1981 beating and murder sparked a vigil, poetry readings, and North Carolina’s first gay and lesbian march, famous as “Our Day Out.” These actions brought LGBTQ hate crimes to the headlines of Durham newspapers and to the forefront of Durham’s consciousness. Over the next five years, Durham’s LGBTQ community coordinated picnics and other community-building events to build on this new visibility and energy.

In 1986, a group that would eventually be known as the Triangle Lesbian and Gay Alliance coordinated Durham’s first annual identity festival march. The June 28, 1986 event, titled “Out Today, Out to Stay,” included almost 1000 marchers, both LGBTQ individuals and allies. They marched from 9th street to the Durham reservoir, where they heard Joe Herzenberg, the man who would develop the first openly gay elected official in North Carolina, converse his famous words: “It’s hour for the gay and female homosexual movement.” These simple words signified the beginning of a tradition that would bring about years of rich LGBTQ+ organizing and communit