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Welcome to Pride in the Piedmont: Past and Present. Launching soon, this online, interactive community history exhibit explores the LGBTQ Pride Movement in the Western Piedmont of North Carolina, including in Charlotte, Gastonia, Greensboro, Hickory, Salisbury, Winston-Salem and elsewhere. This online exhibit is presented by the Charlotte Pride History Project, an ongoing community history initiative to document, collect, preserve, and present LGBTQ and Pride Movement history in Charlotte and the broader Carolinas region.

Pictured Above: A photo showing a variety of political and LGBTQ buttons, displayed during the 1994 NC Pride Expo, June 1994, MS-478, Box 4, Folder 1, Sue Henry Collection, King-Henry-Brockington LGBTQ Archive, UNC Charlotte Archives, Charlotte, NC.

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FEATURE:

20 Years of Charlotte Pride, 40 Years of Legacy

2021 Marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of Charlotte Pride and the 40th anniversary of the first Pride events in Charlotte and North Carolina

Project Contributors

Daniel Valdez (he/him/his), Board Project Coordinator
Matt Comer (he/him/his), Staff Project Coordinator
Tina Wright (she/her/hers), Chief Project Advisor
Kayla Schultz (she/her/hers), History Project Intern

Board of Advisors

Tina Wright (she/her/hers), Chief Project Advisor
Oral History Interviewer, UNC Charlotte Special Collections

Kent Brintnall, PhD
Associate Professor, Religions Studies/Affiliate Faculty, Women’s & Gender Students, UNC Charlotte

Karen Cox, PhD
Director of Public History, UNC Charlotte

Willie Griffin, PhD
Staff Historian, Levine Museum of the South

Tom Hanchett, PhD
Former Staff Historian, Levine Museum of the South

Oscar Lansen, PhD
Teaching Professor, UNC Charlotte Department of History

Dawn Schmitz, PhD
Associate Dean for Special Collections and University Archives, UNC Charlotte

Tina Shull, PhD
Assistant Professor, UNC Charlotte Department of History