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The Wake County Board of Commissioners on Monday passed an LGBTQ Pride Month proclamation, recognizing the Stonewall Riots and the county’s recent efforts to support LGBTQ equality.

Southern Baptist elected a new president Tuesday, elevating a young pastor with a long anti-LGBTQ track record.

Three Carolinians — a longtime SC Pride leader, a Raleigh trans community leader and a North Carolina immigration activist — were recently honored for their work in the community by two major media groups.

It’s that time of the year when the LGBTQ community sets out to celebrate Pride Month. To keep the tradition going, here is a list of the celebrations taking place all over the Carolinas.

The premiere film screening of the documentary “Grief Journeys” will take place on June 16, the Triangle Gay Men’s Chorus will present their “Journey to the Past” spring concert on June 2, the Triangle Empowerment Project has invited the community to “Ignite Durham! ‘Are we PrEP-ared?’ on June 25, the Triangle Expo for LGBTQ Aging Adults will be held on June 23 and Village Hearth Cohousing is seeking participants to fill the last four units of its residential project.

The Fair Courts, Fair Votes Day of Action, sponsored by Democracy North Carolina, NAACP of North Carolina, North Carolina Voters for Clean Elections and Progress NC, will be held on June 5.

LGBTQ Pride Month kicks into high gear on Friday, with parties, fundraisers and other festivities slated across the Carolinas.

Lea Michele and Darren Criss are Carolina bound, Stan Kimer received the LGBTQIA Alum of the Year Award from Georgia Institute of Technology, Triangle Empowerment Center will hold its Power of Love cocktails and couture event on June 9 and Durham County Library’s Adult and Humanities Programming will present The Human Library-Durham on June 2.

Equality North Carolina will hold it Day of Advocacy on June 19 and NC AIDS Action Network has released a statement praising Gov. Roy Cooper’s 2018-2019 budget.

Offices up and down the ballot being up for grabs in an unusual, highly competitive campaign season. One national outlet says some N.C. congressional races will be important.

Organizers of the annual Out! Raleigh festival say they had their biggest event in history on Saturday, May 5, as some 62,000 people strolled up and down Fayetteville St. in downtown Raleigh for the event raising funds for the city’s LGBT Center.

ReachOUT NC has just celebrated another anniversary serving the Triangle area and is searching for volunteers.

William Lloyd Barber, 74, died on April 20.

A new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) shows increasing support for marriage equality across almost all states, faith communities, races and other social groups — with only few glaring exceptions, North Carolina among them.

A nationally-known Youtuber and conservative activist will join a statewide hate group for a rally protesting LGBTQ-inclusive and medically-accurate sex education in Uptown Charlotte Monday evening. 

iNSIDEoUT is holding its Twelfth Annual Awards Banquet and Gaiety, the 2018 Crape Myrtle Festival Host Party is being held Saturday, SAGE Raleigh has announced the date for its Triangle Expo for LGBTQ Aging Adults, Stan Kimer finished his U.S. Figure Skating’s 2017-2018 competitive adult series, Barton College’s Justice Lord celebrated a win with a cookie.

Today is National Transgender HIV Testing Day, which occurs annual each April 18. Get some quick facts and see where you can get tested at special events across the state today.

Several North Carolina groups are gearing up for a flurry of awareness and education events as next week’s National Transgender HIV Testing Day nears.

The Human Rights Campaign recently praised two dozen North Carolina hospitals as “Leaders in Healthcare Equality,” for their perfect 100 scores on the organization’s annual Healthcare Equality Index.

Duke Divinity School LGBTQ students are demanding justice, the Raleigh Business and Professional Network welcomes N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s LGBTQ Center will celebrate its 15th anniversary on April 14 and the We Are 1 Conference will be held in the Triangle.