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Blue Ridge Pride Center
About Blue Ridge Pride Center
Our mission is to promote equality, safety, and quality of life for western North Carolina’s LGBTQ and allied communities, working as a united community through advocacy, celebration, education and service. We envision an inclusive community, where people are embraced for who they are and feel welcomed to engage and contribute.
Blue Ridge Pride seeks to support our rural LGBTQ+ community in partnership with the many wonderful people and organizations who are only too eager to help. Our goal is to serve as a valued partner, collaborating with WNC’s many community service organizations and companies that welcome and serve our community. We seek to build the connective tissue that will enable this diverse and far-flung community to build a better future together. We partner with corporations, churches, hospitals, non-profits, entrepreneurs, and government officials — anyone who openly declares that they seek to build a community that welcomes all who come in good will.
Blue Ridge Pride Center, Inc. was formed in 2009 by a group who saw the need for a community-driven organization that would appeal to the diverse LGBTQ communities of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.