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Summer of Pride
Join us for the Greenville-Pitt County Summer of Pride! Celebrating society, diversity, and affection, this action-packed summer has something for everyone.
The Summer of Pride event series was created by our local LBGTQ+ leaders and allies, with the back of NAMI Pitt County, with the goal of curating a centralized calendar of Pride events happening from June through August 2024. Each event seeks to create a safe space for everyone to appear together to business their support for the LGBTQ+ group. Whether you are a visitor or a Pitt County native, be sure to mark your calendar with your favorite event opportunities!
While you are out and about in Downtown Greenville for the Summer of Pride, stop by some of our favorite queer-friendly businesses! Grab some breakfast at the Scullery, a coffee off of the Pride Menu at Backstage Coffee, a brew at Pitt Street Brewing, or some holistic home goods at Sojourner Whole Planet Provisions!
*Summer 2024 will serve as a pilot program, with the series creature managed primarily by volunteers, so we may not be able to accommodate every request for an event to be included on the calendar but encourage you to reach
How A Homosexual Bar In Eastern NC Provided Refuge For Decades
In the early 1970s it was not easy for LGBTQ people to be open about their sexuality no matter where they lived in the U.S. But those in the South had an especially tough time finding protected and supportive spaces.
So when a male lover bar named The Paddock Club opened its doors in Greenville, N.C. in 1973, it adv became a refuge for many LGBTQ individuals in eastern North Carolina. They frequented the space for evening drinks and dancing, weekend ‘family dinners,’ and widespread drag pageants.
When the club closed in 2003, it was one of the longest-running, continually-operating LGBTQ businesses in America. The story of the club is told in the documentary “Dickinson Avenue: The Mostly Accurate Story of the Paddock Club.” The film screens Sunday, Aug. 13 and Thursday, Aug. 17 as part of the North Carolina Gay + Lesbian Film Festival in Durham.
Host Frank Stasio talks with Michael Bojtos, the film’s director and producer, and Jeremy Jordan, longtime patron of The Paddock Club and co-owner of Crave Uptown Restaurant and Bar.
During the mid 1990's a huge progress in activism in Greenville had led to the creation of the Down East Pride Festival, held from 1996 to 1998. A 1999 festival was planned, but cancelled due to the landfall and subsequent flooding of Hurricane Floyd. Organizers had already planned for that to be the final festival because the organizing group had dwindled in membership to a level that was becoming unsustainable.
A similar swell in organization had occurred surrounding the 2012 effort to defeat NC's anti-marriage Amendment 1. While much energy was expended in the efforts it continued on afterwards with several fresh organizations, including OutGreenville forming, but the interest declined more fast, leading to groups going defunct.
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