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Over a dozen individuals from the Greenville GLBT and Allies community gathered in 2012 with the idea of restarting a Greenville GLBT Pride Festival. While the corporation and hopes for a 2014 festival fizzled, a website had been established, and will be maintained as a resource to assist network the group in hopes that eventually we may be able to revive the effort.

During the mid 1990's a gigantic growth in advocacy in Greenville had led to the creation of the Down East Event 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 closing festival because the organizing group had dwindled in membership to a level that was becoming unsustainable.

A similar swell in corporation had occurred surrounding the 2012 attempt to defeat NC's anti-marriage Amendment 1. While much power was expended in the efforts it continued on afterwards with several fresh organizations, including OutGreenville forming, but the interest declined more quickly, leading to groups going defunct.

Our hope is that this website resource will facilitate spur more participation in r

Summer of Pride

Join us for the Greenville-Pitt County Summer of Pride! Celebrating collective, diversity, and admire , 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 reach together to present their support for the LGBTQ+ society. 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 Ground Provisions! 

*Summer 2024 will serve as a pilot program, with the series existence 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 Gay Bar In Eastern NC Provided Refuge For Decades

 In the early 1970s it was not easy for LGBTQ people to be unseal about their sexuality no matter where they lived in the U.S. But those in the South had an especially complicated time finding safe and supportive spaces. 

So when a gay exclude named The Paddock Club opened its doors in Greenville, N.C. in 1973, it quickly became a refuge for many LGBTQ individuals in eastern North Carolina. They frequented the space for evening drinks and dancing, weekend ‘family dinners,’ and popular 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 True 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.

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Greenville NC 27858 OUTGreenville.com

Community Resources
LGBTQ and Supportive Organizations and Resources in the Greenville area.
    Pride Festival
      NAMI Pride at Town Common is an LGBTQ Pride event being held on the Greenville Town Common, Saturday, June 26th 2021 from 10am-2pm. It is being organized by NAMI Pitt County and will feature participation from several local organizations.
    College/University
    Youth
      J.H.Rose Elevated School and South Pivotal High School have Gay-Straight Alliances.
    Relgious Societies(Churches/Synagogues/etc.)
    Organizations listed for one or more of the following: are designated by their parent organizations as Affirming/Welcoming, possess significant population of LGBT congregants, or have participated in LGBT anti-discrimination endeavors locally.
    Support/Advocacy
      PFLAG Greenville meets at 7pm on the second Thursday of each month at UUCG, 131 Oakmont Drive, Greenville NC 27858

      Free Mom Hugs NC-Greenville|ECU Chapter is a virtual sub-chapter of Free Mom Hugs NC. They organize the monthly Drag Queen Story Hour and held a Pride Ride (car-based parade) driving aro