NC Rural Center: "We see you for who you are and celebrate the joy you bring to the rural communities you call home."
“We see you for who you are and celebrate all the joy and love you bring to the rural communities you call home,” says The NC Rural Center in its note of support and love for LGBTQ+ youth in rural North Carolina.
The NC Rural Center’s mission is to develop, promote, and implement sound economic strategies to improve the quality of life of rural North Carolinians.
Read more notes in the Love Notes to Rural LGBTQ+ Youth Project and learn how to send your own below.
(Sign up for the Rural Assembly newsletter to receive updates from this project and more.)
Dear Rural NC’s LGBTQ+ Community:
You deserve a future that is brimming with opportunity, a life that is overflowing with love, and a community that embraces everything you have to offer. In the words of Glennon Doyle, “You are human, and your birthright is to remain fully human. So you get to be everything: loud, quiet, bold, smart, careful, impulsive, creative, joyful, big, angry, curious, ravenous, ambitious. You do not need to shrink. You do not need to hide any part of yourself.” We see you for who you are and celebrate all the joy and love you bring to the rural communities you call home. Happy Valentine’s Day! You will always have a friend in us.
Love, the NC Rural Center
This note was submitted as part of The Rural Youth Catalyst and Rural Assembly’s Love Notes to Rural LGBTQ+ Youth project. We invite you to write your own – a few sentences, a paragraph, or even a short video. Learn how and read more in this series below.
Other Love Notes
A Collection of Rural LGBTQ+ Youth Love Notes
A round up of love notes to rural LGBTQ+ youth from friends across the country. Love Notes to Rural LGBTQ+ Youth is a project of The Rural Youth Catalyst Project in collaboration with the Rural Assembly.
Rural LGBTQ+ Youth Love Note: May Love Find You Today
“May love find you today,” write Maureen Truax Holland, Esq (an Obergefell attorney) and Dr. S. Taylor Williams (physician) in their love note to rural LGBTQ+ youth.
Read more notes in the Love Notes to Rural LGBTQ+ Youth Project and learn how to send your own below.
Rural LGBTQ+ Youth Love Note: We Celebrate the Joy You Bring to the Rural Communities You Call Home
“We see you for who you are and celebrate all the joy and love you bring to the rural communities you call home,” says The NC Rural Center in its note of support and love for LGBTQ+ youth in rural North Carolina.
Rural LGBTQ+ Youth Love Note: These traditions belong to you
Writer Skylar Baker-Jordan shares an important piece of advice in this note of support for rural LGBTQ+ youth: Enjoy your youth. Do not let anyone tell you the rituals and traditions of your hometown do not belong to you.
Rural LGBTQ+ Youth Love Note: “We are Thankful You’re Here”
We’re thankful you’re here and unapologetically you, says Delaine Anderson in this note to rural LGBTQ+ youth as part of the Rural Youth Catalyst Project Love Notes for LGBTQ+ Youth project.
Rural LGBTQ+ Youth Love Note: From Tim and Liz
You’re exactly what we need, say Norris, Tennessee couple Tim Marema and Liz McGeachy in this love note to rural LGBTQ+ young people. This video was submitted as part of The Rural Youth Catalyst and Rural Assembly’s Love Notes to Rural LGBTQ+ Youth project. We invite you to write your own – a few sentences, a paragraph, or even a short video. Learn how and read more in this series below.
