The theme for this year’s Charlotte Black Gay Pride week, scheduled for July 18-21, is “G.R.O.W. U.P. – Gay Rights: Openly Working Toward Unity and Peace.”
According to Q Notes, the event will feature a town hall meeting at the LGBT Community Center moderated by Councilwoman LaWana Mayfield, Charlotte’s first and only openly LGBT elected official. Saturday will feature an expo complete with Zumba sessions, open mics for singers and poets and a drag show, and Sunday will feature a field day at the Naomi Drenan Recreation Center.
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Q Notes spoke with the event’s chairman, William Singleton, about the significance of black Pride week to the community:
“It is a movement to celebrate who you are, not only in your sexuality, but also celebrate our ethnicity. It’s not to segregate, because we do participate with Charlotte Pride, but it is important to celebrate the uniqueness that is our community.”
Read Q Notes’ announcement of the event here.
This article appears in Jul 3-9, 2013.
Whaaaaat?
UNITY; noun; the state of being unified or joined as a whole; harmony or agreement between people or groups.
The word UNITY is grossly misrepresented in the G.R.O.W.U.P. ‘black’ gay pride week.
Openly Working Toward Unity and Peace with whom? Are they seeking unity and peace within the black community only or within our multicultural community as a whole? If it’s the latter, then it will be kinda hard to accomplish when one group is self-segregating itself based on race, culture, and sexual orientation.
People suck….
Is every other ethnicity ok having their own pride then?