September Events
NC PrideFest
NC
Pride has held 25 pride celebrations in North Carolina since 1981. Festivities currently take place at Duke University's East Campus. The
festivities include a street fair - with a variety of LGBTIQA vendors and
LGBTIQ-friendly organizations and a Pride Parade to round out the day. Drag
queens, drag kings, extravagant rainbow costumes, anti-gay protesters, and
rainbow paraphernalia - what more could you want?
PRIDE has attended NC PrideFest as a group since 2008 and has continued going since. It's a fun bonding experience and a great way to meet your fellow PRIDE members!
October Events
National Coming Out Day
An internationally-observed civil awareness day for coming out
and discussion about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer
(LGBTIQ) issues. It is observed on October 11 every year
by members of the LGBTIQ communities and their allies.
It is highly encouraged for participants on this day to wear gay pride symbols, such as the pink triangle (gay men), the black triangle (gay females), the Greek letter lambda, and rainbows in jewelry and on clothing.
MyStory
MyStory is held every Fall Semester as part of PRIDE Week on campus. It is the only program of the week that we hold every year.
Come and tell your story!
MyStory is an open mic event.
Come, sit and eat and listen to your peers share their stories with you -
and maybe share one of your own.
All forms of self expression are welcome.
Drawings, poetry, literature, song, dance, you name it!
December Events
World
AIDS Day
Observed
December 1 each year, the day is dedicated to raising awareness of
the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. It is common to
hold memorials to honor persons who have died from HIV/AIDS on this day.
Government and health officials also observe the event, often with speeches
or forums on the AIDS topics.
AIDS has killed more than 25 million people between 1981 and 2007 and an
estimated 33.2 million people worldwide live with HIV as of 2007, making it
one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history.
April Events
Southeastern
Regional Unity Conference
Annual gathering of progressive lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,
intersex, and queer identified people and their allies in the Southeast at
the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
It was founded to create dialogues about the intersections of gender and
sexuality with ability, age, class, faith,
health, and race/ethnicity, to
explore strategies for effective grassroots organizing, and to share work
that we and other LGBTIQ activists are doing in the Southeast.
National
Day Of Silence
The National Day of Silence brings attention to
anti-LGBTIQ name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. Each year the
event has grown, now with hundreds of thousands of students coming together
to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT
behavior.
PRIDE takes this event to the next level by instead of being silent, finding other ways to make the UNC Wilmington campus aware of the anti-LGBTIQ language and behaviors that they see everyday.
Divas Live Drag Show
Male & female impersonation is a tradition that dates back all the way to
Medieval theater. PRIDE continues this tradition with our annual Divas Live
Drag Show, which showcases the best in male and female impersonators from both Wilmington and abroad.
You've seen them at the clubs, you've heard all sorts of things about them, you've wondered what exactly is must be like to be them, now come and get acquainted and educated with one of the oldest and most diverse forms of entertainment!