Pride 2000 Marches Through OWD
Diversity, harmony, and community paraded in full color through the neighborhood on June 10.
Our sign welcomed vistors and residents to the festivities.
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Support from the Durham community at large has been strong. Ninth Street merchants have made donations and hung rainbow banners, symbols of gay pride, on their storefronts. The Neighborhood Association of Old West Durham will march in the parade... "Our neighborhood slogan is, 'Diversity, Harmony, Community,' said Kelly Rimer of the association. "The march is in our neighborhood, and we thought that participating would be in keeping with that spirit." The association's board of directors voted unanimously to participate in the march, Rimer said. --Herald-Sun (June 8, 2000) N.C. Pride 2000 is getting support from others this year: The Old West Durham Neighborhood Association plans to march under a banner and has invited other neighborhood organizations to participate, and 10 to 12 religious congregations will participate, organizers said. A contingent of Duke faculty and students is among the 67 groups signed up to march. -- News & Observer (June 9, 2000) |
Old West Durham Neighborhood Association members on their way to the march, which began at the entrance of Duke's East Campus.
OWDNA brought out its banner to lend support to the marchers as a host neighborhood of Pride 2000.
The colors were showing all along Ninth Street.
Folks managed to be colorful even while trying to stay cool in the 90-plus degree June heat.
Our OWD T-shirts kept us cool and stylish!
On the last turn, going back to East Campus from Broad Street, marchers kept up the good cheer.
Above: IBM employees, being filmed by a TV crew. Below: the NC Pride Marching Band..
