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☕ In Today’s Edition
1. A Rainbow Blockade in Morrisville
2. A Living Archive in Chapel Hill
3. A Record Label Mailroom in Durham
4. A Look at LGBTQ Progress, from the INDY Archives
Good morning, readers.
It’s Pride Month again, your annual reminder that people need better hobbies than dragging literal millstones around and attempting to ostracize the LGBTQ community.
This is exactly what happened at Morrisville’s Pride in the Park event on Friday, a very fun, family-friendly celebration that an out-of-town concrete company tried—and failed—to ruin with the use of weird props and religious rhetoric.
While the Town of Morrisville concluded that it had to allow the Beaufort-based vendor to participate in its public event due to Constitutional/free speech requirements, some members of the queer community skipped the event in protest. Others showed up and had a blast, spreading out on the lawn with their neighbors for live music, popsicles, and drag bingo. Others still surrounded and blockaded the concrete vendor’s tent, holding rainbow flags and singing Disney songs to obscure the vendor’s visibility.
One of the latter was Morrisville town council member Anne Robotti, who held a sign reading “Do not engage.” She was pleased to see community members show up for one another.
“I thought it was just going to be me out there with a sign,” Robotti told the INDY at Friday’s event. “And to have these people, many of whom are from Morrisville, turn up and stand up and be allies, is really, really beautiful and really heartening.”
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—Jane
Rollin’ With PRIDE
A Roller Skating Disco Event to Support the LGBTQ+ Center of Durham
- When: Thursday, June 12th, 2025
- Time: 6:30pm – 9:00pm Doors open 15 minutes prior to the start of the event.
- Price: $35 per person includes admission, skate rental, slice of pizza and small drink
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ORANGE COUNTY
A Living Archive
From The Rock Wall, an ongoing project of the Marian Cheek Jackson Center, is a repository of oral histories from Chapel Hill and Carrboro’s historically Black neighborhoods, Brian Howe reports for the INDY.
MUSIC
What’s Up With the Psychic Hotline Mailroom?
A Durham record label keeps an open line with fans at its modest pop-up, INDY’s Justin Laidlaw reports.
PRIDE MONTH
After Stonewall
From the INDY Archives: 50 years after Stonewall, we asked local LGBTQ leaders what progress looks like (originally published in 2019).
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