
Welcoming WNC Virtual LGBTQ Community Center
We are launching a series of welcoming directories: groups, community services, health care providers, speakers, companies.
Does Your Group or Organization Roll Out the Welcome Mat?
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Community News

Haywood Art Council’s first Pride evevnt
Haywood County Arts Council hosted their ‘Meet the Makers’, part of their first Pride month event. Blue Ridge Pride Center supported, in part, the event through our Community Partner Fund. Working with such groups allows us to help in a small way but more importantly it provides us an opportunity to share our mission and vision for the WNC region.

Are you interested in staying in your home & community as you age?
Are you interested in staying in your home & community as you age? Community Assessment for an Aging in Place Program – a new project being led by the Jewish Family Services of WNC Jewish Family Services of WNC is excited to share that we are conducting an Aging in Place Community Assessment, with the goal of providing data and

June Gayby-Sitters Club meetup
Announcing the June Gayby-Sitters Club meetup- Pride party edition! 🌈🎉 Y’all means all in this group.☺️ This is a free monthly meetup social group for Asheville queer, trans, gender non-confirming, and questioning parents of kiddos from pregnancy to beginning school age. We aim to help folks find community throughout the young years of their littles and through pregnancy/gestation as well. This is a

50% of all respondents in all categories of gender identity and sexual orientation have suffered sexual harassment online.
Sharing this information for our community https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/lgbtq-guide-online-safety/ Finding Community Online Navigating a heterosexual and cisgender society can be difficult for members of the LGBTQ+ community. Alienated from their family, condemned by their community, and isolated from their friends, many LGBTQ+ people turn to the internet for solidarity. With just the click of a button, they can escape their physical surroundings and
Upcoming Events
Welcoming Communities of Western North Carolina
You might not know it from some headlines, but our state is full of welcoming people and organizations. Look to these pages for …
- A searchable data base of welcoming organizations in WNC
- Links to useful resources and programs
Welcoming Communities of Western North Carolina
You might not know it from some headlines, but our state is full of welcome.
Blue Ridge Pride is launching a new series of programs to celebrate and support the growth of welcoming communities. We plan to launch programs covering communities of faith, health care providers, businesses, schools, and community service organizations. Each program will include:
- A searchable data base of welcoming organizations in Western North Carolina
- Criteria, developed in partnership with each community, that clarify what it means to be welcoming
- Educational materials and programs for organizations who want to become more welcoming and inclusive
While our Welcoming Communities program began with a focus on the LGBTQ community, we want to emphasize that a warm welcome mat makes no such distinctions. We intend this program to be inclusive of other groups as well. We stand with our allies. Watch this page for frequent developments in Q3/Q4 2017.
Welcoming Community Directories
We are launching a series of welcoming directories: groups, community services, health care providers, speakers, companies.
WNC is full of welcome. Find out where!
List your services. Find resources to help you … or your organization.