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The Pride emblem: Ms. Shawn Lorraine © 2001 |
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Pride 2001 Marches Through OWD Diversity, harmony, and community paraded in full color through the neighborhood on September 29. |
| An oversized
gay pride flag cut a swath of rainbow colors past Duke University East Campus
[and through the streets of Old West Durham] as people from all over North
Carolina strode in the 16th N.C. Gay Pride Parade Saturday... Participants
and onlookers displayed American flags nearly as often as rainbow-colored
ones. Event spokesmen invoked the Sept. 11 attacks and equal rights and
individual freedoms for all, gay or straight.
It was the seventh time and the second year in a row the event has been held in Durham. "They are very supportive and cooperative," organizers said. "They are happy to have us here... Durham is a progressive pocket of North Carolina." --Herald-Sun (September 30, 2001) |
State
Rep. Verla Insko, a Democrat from Orange County, expressed hope that the
terrorist attacks would motivate the state legislature to extend the state's
hate crimes law to punish those who commit a crime against someone because
of sexual orientation. "After September, I can't imagine that anyone in
this country doesn't understand at a gut level what a hate crime is," Insko
said. "The intention of that act was to terrorize us all, to make us all
live in fear." --News & Observer (September 30, 2001) |
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See pictures from Pride 2000.
