Join the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro this June for a month-long celebration of Pride. We want to affirm community values and ensure that all residents, regardless of gender identity and sexual orientation, feel safe in our communities.
Wear your colors. Wave your flag. Walk with Pride.
The party doesn't stop in Chapel Hill! Check out Carrboro's lineup of Pride activities this June.
El Centro Hispano, 201 W Weaver St, Carrboro, NC 27510
Join local officials to help roll Rainbow Ram down Weaver Street from El Centro Hispano to Town Commons for the Carrboro Orgullo Pride Celebration.
Carrboro Town Commons, 301 W. Main St., Carrboro, NC 27510
Join community for food, dance and frolicking on the lawn in an event that fosters unity, inclusivity and empowerment.
Morrow & Max Dowdle, 2026
Temporarily located at 140 West Franklin Plaza during Chapel Hill-Carrboro’s Small Town Pride
Shelter for the Coming Out speaks to the experience of finally coming out about one’s queer identity, whether it is to a friend, family member, or community. For queer folk, coming out signifies the moment in which we have decided the pain of keeping our identity secret is so great that it becomes worth the risks of revealing that identity to others. My poem, “I Come Out to My Daughter,” embodies my own experience in this realm. I think it is particularly important because we hear so many stories about coming out to our peers and elders, and more rarely about coming out to the younger people in our lives, particularly our children.
Iris Gottlieb, 2024
Located on a Chapel Hill Transit bus
This bus represents some of Chapel Hill’s queer activists and artists who shaped the community and its politics and enriched the creativity and culture of the area. Some are nationally known, such as writer and civil rights activist, Rev Pauli Murray, and writer, Randall Kenan. Others are locally famous for their impact such as UNC professor, Gerald Unks, gay activist, Lightning Brown, and Joe Herzenberg, the first openly gay elected politician in North Carolina. The legacy of their work and lives all hold significance to the triangle and beyond and their memory will be riding around their old stomping grounds for a few years.
Compiled by local musicians, curators, and staff, Tracks Music Library is featuring a PRIDE playlist celebrating belonging, loving who you love, and giving visibility around the fight for equality.
Explore Chapel Hill Public Library’s recommended reads to celebrate Pride Month! Lists include titles and topics for all ages.
Get Social
While you’re out and about in Chapel Hill and Carrboro this June, keep an eye out for all things PRIDE! Snap a pic and tag it with #SmallTownPride. We’ll be sharing photos throughout the month!