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• Next week: Special online-only Pride Month features
• Pride: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
• Pride: Our Roots
• Pride: 2013 Season
• City manager attends forum
• Scholarships awarded
• Pride: Still so much more than a party
• “Forward, Together, Not One Step Back!” Moral Mondays and North Carolina’s LGBTQ Community
• QPoll: Do you plan on attending any Pride events this year?
• Charlotte: Schools program partnership formed
• Charlotte: Leader invited to White House
• Western: Music, art fest slated
• Coastal: Group creates online site
• Beyond the Carolinas: Boy Scouts allow gay youth

Next week: Special online-only Pride Month features Posted: 07 Jun 2013 01:29 PM PDT We'll continue celebrating community Pride during this special National LGBT Pride Month with great online-only features next week.

Pride: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow Posted: 07 Jun 2013 06:00 AM PDT The world was an unfriendly place for LGBT people in June 1969. Late that month, some folks were fed up with how they were being treated.

Pride: Our Roots Posted: 07 Jun 2013 05:58 AM PDT The birth of our modern-day LGBT civil rights movement is largely credited to the spontaneous riots at the Stonewall Inn in June 1969 and the resulting media coverage and community galvanization it spurred.

Pride: 2013 Season Posted: 07 Jun 2013 05:56 AM PDT All across the region and the U.S., Pride season takes off with a flourish of events to satisfy everyone's palette.

City manager attends forum Posted: 07 Jun 2013 05:30 AM PDT The Queen City’s newly-installed city manager, Ron Carlee, attended a public forum with leaders of the LGBT community on May 23.

Scholarships awarded Posted: 07 Jun 2013 05:29 AM PDT Local students Sam Tarleton, Cameron McBee, Londyn Marshall, Melissa Black and Natalie Martinez have each been awarded funds to assist in their college education.

Pride: Still so much more than a party Posted: 07 Jun 2013 05:00 AM PDT Each June, the LGBT community commemorates one of its most defining historical moments. National LGBT Pride Month gives us the opportunity to celebrate our history and what we’ve accomplished.

“Forward, Together, Not One Step Back!” Moral Mondays and North Carolina’s LGBTQ Community Posted: 07 Jun 2013 04:58 AM PDT “Freedom, freedom, freedom in the morning, freedom in the evening,” sang the impromptu chorus of women and men outside of the golden doors of the North Carolina House of Representatives in Raleigh’s Legislative Building for three Mondays in a row.

QPoll: Do you plan on attending any Pride events this year? Posted: 07 Jun 2013 04:56 AM PDT Do you plan on attending any Pride events this year?

Charlotte: Schools program partnership formed Posted: 07 Jun 2013 04:30 AM PDT Time Out Youth (TOY) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) of North Carolina have entered into a partnership to bring Welcoming Schools to the region.

Charlotte: Leader invited to White House Posted: 07 Jun 2013 04:29 AM PDT Shane Windmeyer, executive director of Campus Pride, participated in a White House conference on mental health on June 3.

Western: Music, art fest slated Posted: 07 Jun 2013 04:29 AM PDT Siren Mountain Jam will be held June 21-22 at the High Country Fairgrounds, 748 Roby Green Rd.

Coastal: Group creates online site Posted: 07 Jun 2013 04:29 AM PDT The Craven-Cateret Chapter of Parents of Lesbians and Gays has recently unveiled its new website, its vice president, Roy Smith, Jr., announced.

Beyond the Carolinas: Boy Scouts allow gay youth Posted: 07 Jun 2013 04:28 AM PDT The Boy Scouts of America’s 1,400-member National Council voted to allow openly gay youth members in their programs on May 23. The change was approved by 61 percent of voting delegates, sparking controversy from anti-LGBT opponents of the new policy, some of whom have said they will pull their support of Scouting.