Pride is celebrated across the nation in June, but here ENC it’s too hot! We will be showing our pride during LGBT History month in October. All of our permits have finally been approved by the city and we can’t wait for our inaugural pride festival Read More
ENC Pride has been selected to be a part of New Belgium Brewing’s “Brewed For All” program for the month of July. New Belgium Brewing choses a bar or restaurant to partner with and during a one month period they donate $1 for every New Read More
Thanks to everyone who submitted a design for our 2022 theme! We narrowed it down to our final 5. You get to decide the winner. Vote in the poll below. Poll closed. Submissions for 2022 are now closed. Enter the second annual ENC Pride 2022 Theme Read More
Go shopping, and support ENC Pride! Belk’s Charity Sale is April 29th – May 1st during regular hours in every Belk Store. Purchase a ticket for only $5, benefitting ENC Pride, and receive $5 off your first purchase at Belk’s Charity Sale. This ticket will Read More
11/17/21 UPDATE: ENC Pride events will resume December 1st with the first event being our Holiday Drag Brunch on 12/18. The community events calendar has also opened back up. After many long discussions, the ENC Pride Board has made the difficult decision to suspend all Read More
You can support ENC Pride just by shopping on Amazon! When you shop AmazonSmile, Amazon will make a donation to ENC Pride. Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases at no extra cost to you. Enroll by clicking here, and remember to always Read More
ENC Pride is hosting our pride festival in October 2021 (official date to be announced soon.) We want to fill the area by the stage at Pearson Park in Kinston with pride flags to show we are here, we are queer, and we’re here to Read More
Photographer Madeline Gray came to the June ENC Pride Drag Brunch Fundraiser and took some amazing photos! See the photos and read the story here. Photographer Madeline Gray documented a drag brunch in Kinston, spending time with some of the performers in this rural North Read More
ENC Pride hosted an amateur drag show after the ENC Pride June Drag Brunch Fundraiser. Natty Nice, Jupiter Moon, Chris Pleasure, Ivory Sanchez and Makoto Stone all competed for a booking in our July 18th Drag Brunch Fundraiser. A big congratulations to Chris Pleasure and Read More
The new ENC Pride Y’all Means All T-Shirts are available for free with a minimum $25 donation to ENC Pride.