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LGBTQIA+ Alumni Network
mission statement
The LGBTQIA+ Alumni Network (L+N) at UNC Charlotte was established by alumni to build a community, strengthen the bond among LGBTQIA+ alumni, faculty, staff, and advance current and future niners. This will provide a territory where LGBTQIA+ alumni can examine and grow their professional and personal development through networking and community building. The network will work together to provide resources, community, and cultivate relationships with the different LGBTQIA+ student organizations on campus.
signature annual events
- Niner Nation is Where You Belong Welcome Event
ways to get involved
As alumni, we share a love of our alma mater, yet we relate to the University in our own personal ways. The UNC Charlotte Office of Alumni Engagement invites you to state interest in joining our LGBTQIA+ Alumni Network. All are welcome!
- Volunteer:The LGBTQIA+ Alumni Network is looking for passionate and proud Charlotte Alumni who LGBTQIA+ community and allies to donate their moment to helping host Lavender Graduati
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Charlotte North is one of the most decorated women’s lacrosse players in the United States. She first picked up a stick at 13 years elderly and was offered the final recruiting spot of her year on Duke’s women’s lacrosse team roughly three years later. She played her first two seasons there before transferring to Boston College, where she became a national champion in and two-time Tewaaraton winner.
But ask her what she wanted to be as a kid and she won’t hesitate.
“I grew up playing basketball and dreaming of playing in the WNBA,” North said.
Take lacrosse out of the question and March Madness is her favorite college sports event to watch. From Dallas, North relished growing up in the Dirk Nowitzki era and said she “went to as many games as possible” as a kid at the Mavericks’ home of American Airlines Arena. Now she basks in the likes of Luka Dončić while admiring the “lack of size but creativity and range” of Golden State Warriors guard Steph Curry.
“Now I’d say I’m even a bigger fan of women’s college basketball and the WNBA and the trailblazers that occur in that space,” she
Charlotte, North Carolina, affectionately established as the “Queen City,” is gaining a reputation as a southern hub for the LGBTQA+ group. With a rich tapestry of history, welcoming neighborhoods, and progressive movements, the city is blossoming into a space where everyone can find both collective and acceptance.
Charlotte’s LGBTA+ history went mostly undocumented until , when Oleen’s and The Scorpio Lounge opened. Oleen’s was “The Demonstrate Bar of the South,” known for launching the careers of some of the city’s most celebrated drag queens. It closed in The Scorpio, still open for business, began its life as a disco and drag reveal venue and has evolved back to its roots. Expect big (wildly diverse) crowds and much festivity here.
The 70s and premature 80s marked the launch of Charlotte’s first-ever same-sex attracted publication, the Charlotte Free Press and what is now the nation’s longest running lesbian journal, Sinister Wisdom. In , the Queen City Quordinators debuted as a fundraising-focused group and put together North Carolina’s first-ever Pride events.
The s brought a wave of advocacy,