PRIDE Month
June is known around the world as Pride Month. A time of parades and celebration for the LGBTQ+ community.
PRIDE month also commemorates the Stonewall Riots that started on June 28, 1969, just 51 years ago at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village in New York City. At the time, homosexuality was considered a crime with several aspects of the law restricting the existence of LGBTQ+ people.
NYPD had repeatedly raided and arrested Queer spaces throughout NYC. This particular raid on the Stonewall Inn was met with resistance from the bar patrons, like Marsha P. Johnson, Stormé DeLarverie, and Sylvia Rivera, and started a series of riots that lasted until July 3, 1969. The Stonewall Riots are often cited as the catalyst of the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement, and for the past fifty years are remembered and honored with parades and events throughout the country and the world.
PEAK — Pride Education Advocacy Knowledge
PEAK is a North Central Texas College Employee Resource Group meant to foster student engagement, inclusion and institutional excellence by focusing on diversity and representation of the LGBTQ+ population in all aspects of the campus community. Peak’s mission is to:
Build and maintain a LGBTQ+ campus community to foster an inclusive environment
Establish and maintain a coalition with other campus constituencies and active supporters to create a more socially just institution and community
Promote academic and personal growth of all LGBTQ+ students
Advance access and equity
Promote education, understanding and awareness that supports intersectional identities and economic justice in policies and practices
Offer programs and resources to educate the campus community about sexual orientation, gender identity and expression
Support the LGBTQ+ student organization
Spotlight
What is Aromanticism?
Aromanticism is a romantic orientation, which describes people whose experience of romance is disconnected from normative societal expectations, often due to experiencing little to no romantic attraction, or sometimes feeling repulsed by romance or being uninterested in romantic relationships.
Picks**
Book — “The Black Tides of Heaven”, JY Yang
Book — “Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl”, Carrie Brownstein
Podcast — “Positively Trans Podcast”
**Content may contain adult themes.
Connect with Affinity Groups
The LGBTQ+ Affinity Group offers advocacy, inclusion, and mentorship to our LGBTQ+ students.
Pride Alliance
Pride Alliance is the LGBTQ+ student group formerly known as Spectrum Alliance. The purpose of Pride Alliance is to promote LGBTQ+ equality, awareness, and acceptance. Through educational opportunities, we seek to build community and understanding among NCTC students. Our goal is to empower students to not just be themselves but to holistically represent their truth in a place where they know they can feel safe and supported.
Spotlight Video
Other Awareness Dates
February 7 — National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
#NBHAAD
This observance is an opportunity to increase HIV education, testing, community involvement, and treatment among black communities.
The first National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) was marked in 1999 as a grassroots-education effort to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS prevention, care, and treatment in communities of color.
February 20-26 — Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week
Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week (ASAW) is an annual, international event meant to spread awareness and acceptance of aromantic spectrum identities and the issues we face, as well as making more people aware of our existence while celebrating it.
ASAW generally occurs the first full week (starting Sunday) following Valentine’s Day; it began in large part as a way for those in the aromantic community who had difficulty finding space for their experiences in such a universally romanticized event to come together and celebrate their own unique experiences.
July 14 — International Non-Binary Peoples Day
This occasion shines a light on those who identify as non-binary and celebrates the rich diversity of the community. View the video by NCTC PEAK to learn more!
March — Bisexual Health Awareness Month
Bisexual+ Health Awareness Month (#BiHealthMonth), led annually in March by the Bisexual Resource Center (BRC), raises awareness about the bisexual+ (bi, pansexual, fluid, queer, etc.) community’s social, economic, and health disparities; advocates for resources; and inspires actions to improve bi+ people’s well-being.
March 31 — Transgender Day of Visibility
Trans Day of Visibility is an annual awareness day celebrated around the world. The day is dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments of transgender and gender nonconforming people while raising awareness of the work that still needs to be done to achieve trans justice.
Resources
For students or employees wanting to get involved, email PEAK@nctc.edu (Pride Education Advocacy Knowledge).