To the LGBTQ+ readers of this website and their families, born and chosen, and to those queer Tar Heel fans who haven’t yet found us. I hope that we can be a place where you feel included in the umbrella that is this fandom.
To the LGBTQ+ students at UNC, which has a long, rich history of being a place where queer lives are protected and celebrated, and which was in fact introduced to me, on my first day on campus, as the “Land of the Free and the Home of the Gay.”
To the out queer athletes and coaches currently representing UNC, like Courtney Banghart and Ciera Toomey.