Haywood Pride

wncapasheville

Date: June 27, 2025
Time: Friday - Sunday
Location: Main Street, Waynesville
Community Outreach Events
Haywood County’s first full-scale Pride Parade & Festival, Pride on Main works towards a future without discrimination where all people have equal rights and access to safe spaces both virtually and physically.

Yanci-Mitchell Pride Fest

wncapasheville

Date: June 14, 2025
Time: 1 PM - 6 PM
Location: Penland School of Craft
Community Outreach Events
Join MY Pride for PrideFest: Holler Back Stronger—a joyful, in-person celebration of LGBTQIA+ resilience, creativity, and community. Get ready for a full day of music, movement, making, and magic — a space to embrace your true self, connect with others, and celebrate all the vibrant ways we show up in the world.

Trans Pride Festival

wncapasheville

Date: June 21, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 6:00
Location: High-Wire Brewing
Community Outreach Events

Please join us as we celebrate Trans lives, Trans culture, Trans health, and our beautiful community of Trans youth. Stop by the WNCAP table to learn more about our programs and services, grab some free safer-sex supplies, and find out about upcoming volunteer opportunities, events, and news from our event day staff. 

Sylva Pride

wncapasheville

Date: September 15, 2025
Time: 1:00 -6:00 PM
Location: Sylva, NC
Community Outreach Events | Events

Sylva Pride is an inclusive organization that celebrates LGBTQ+ identities across Western North Carolina.

Christmas in July Drag Brunch

wncapasheville

Date: July 6, 2025
Time: 11:00 am AND 1:00 PM
Location: HiWire Event Space *Biltmore Village* 2B Huntsman Pl, Asheville, NC 28803, 28803
Community Outreach Events | Events
Don we now our gay apparel at Christmas in July, a dazzling drag show brunch extravaganza set for Sunday, July 6. There will be TWO SHOWS, one beginning at 11:00 a.m. and a second at 1:00 p.m. This year's Christmas in July will take place at Highwire Brewing in Biltmore Village at 2A Huntsman Pl. Asheville, NC […]

National HIV Testing Day

wncapasheville

Date: June 27, 2025
Time: 9:00 am -5:00 pm
Location: Walgreen's Pharmacy
Community Outreach Events
Don't miss your chance to get your FREE HIV test this year on National HIV Testing Day, taking place on June 27th. New screening guidelines recommend that everyone between the ages of 15 and 65 get tested for HIV because early diagnosis and treatment, helps people live a long, healthy life and drastically reduces the risk of transmission.  Free testing will be available at Walgreens in […]

Rahim Thawer Book Release

wncapasheville

Date: June 25, 2025
Time: 6 PM - 7PM
Location: Malaprops Bookstore
Community Outreach Events
Join us Wednesday, June 25, for a book launch, reading and discussion with Rahim Thawer, author of "The Mental Health Guide for Cis & Trans Gay Guys." Thawer's book offers  a safe, inclusive space to examine, understand, and heal from systemic and interpersonal threats to mental well-being. WNCAP's own Director of Prevention Raymond Velazquez-Turner will be leading a discussion […]

Hendersonville Pride Festival

wncapasheville

Date: June 7, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 5:00 PM
Location: Jackson Park, Hendersonville, NC
Community Outreach Events
Hendersonville Pride is committed to promoting respect, visibility, acceptance, and building a community of inclusion for all people.

Blue Ridge Pride

wncapasheville

Date: September 27, 2025
Time: 11 AM - 7 PM
Location: Asheville Pack Square
Community Outreach Events

The largest celebration of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies in WNC. WNCAP will be there with a booth and mobile HIV testing van.

World AIDS Day AIDS Memorial Quilt Exhibit

wncapasheville

Date: December 1, 2025
Time: 9 AM to 6 PM
Location: Revolve Gallery 821 Riverside Dr #179, Asheville, NC 28801
Events | WNCAP Signature Events
For World AIDS Day 2025, Western North Carolina AIDS Project (WNCAP), the National AIDS Memorial, Campaign for Southern Equality, and Revolve Gallery are partnering together to bring 7 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt to Asheville as part of the Community Display Program. The Quilt panels will be on display from 9 AM to 6 PM at Revolve Gallery on […]