Community Outreach Events
Shelby Pride is an organization dedicated to serving the LGBTQIA+ community of Cleveland County by creating safe social spaces, providing education on LGBTQIA+ issues, and advocating for equality. This site also celebrates queer joy through digital artistic forms. We embrace queerness as an intersectional, celebratory aspect of humanity.
The largest celebration of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies in WNC. WNCAP will be there with a booth and mobile HIV testing van.
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 28803.
The event, hosted by Asheville Drag Brunch, is an all-ages, family-friendly affair, and all proceeds will be donated to the Western North Carolina AIDS Project’s (WNCAP)
Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online by clicking the button below. Buy your tickets today! Asheville Drag Brunch fundraisers are popular, and shows sell out fast!
Hendersonville Pride is committed to promoting respect, visibility, acceptance, and building a community of inclusion for all people.
Signature Events
On the last Thursday of April, Dining Out For Life encourages residents of Asheville and surrounding counties to eat out at Participating Restaurants. This celebration supports both the local restaurants that host the events, and the lives of those living and thriving with HIV. Now in its 23nd year, the money raised by WNCAP’s annual Dining Out for Life is more critical than ever. Donations provide care, rental assistance, and education in our fight against HIV/AIDS. Dine Out. End HIV.
WNCAP’s annual World AIDS Day Luncheon will take place on Sunday, December 1 at the DoubleTree Hilton Biltmore on Hendersonville Rd. You’re invited to join us for this important opportunity to remember those we have lost, educate our community, and inspire action to finally end the HIV epidemic. The luncheon will feature a moment of remembrance for those lost to HIV/AIDS, a very special keynote speaker, delicious food provided by DoubleTree, and the presentation of the Mark Doucet Volunteer of the Year Award.
Get your tickets to this year’s luncheon HERE!
Don't miss this year's film screening of Day With(OUT) Art, a creative film project produced by Visual AIDS. View short films by national and international artists living with HIV.
2024 showtimes and locations:
Sunday, December 1st, 4pm at Citizen Vinyl
Thursday , December 5th, 2pm at Pack Library
Sunday, December 8th, 4pm at Firestorm Books
Learn more about Visual AIDS here: www.visualaids.org
