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𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵 𝓯𝓻𝓾𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓯𝓪𝓰𝓼 𝓹𝓵𝓪𝔂𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓫𝓪𝓼𝓮𝓫𝓪𝓵𝓵
⚾️ next practice 10/22, 6:00 pm
🏳️‍⚧️ queer, trans+, BIPoC adults 21+
📍 @durhamnc

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Get ready for a day packed with queer joy, fruity fun, and community celebration right in the heart of Durham! This isn't just a game, it's a grassroots, glitter-filled, queer joy-dipped baseball + performance extravaganza, and you're invited!

To celebrate our team's second birthday and Durham Pride/Queer history month, we're throwing our biggest bash of the year! A day full of baseball, queer art, vendors, performances, fundraising, and community love. Whether you’re stepping up to the plate or cheering from the sidelines there’s a place for you!

Doors Open at 12:00 PM!

🧢 Pick-Up With a Purpose 🧢 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Warm up the day with a donation-based, all-are-welcome pick-up game. Sign up link in bio!

🎶 Field Performance Spectacular Part One 🎶 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
A variety of performances from local artist, musicians, and field game activities!

⚾️ Fruits vs. Queer All-Stars Game ⚾ 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Our hometown heroes, the Durham Fruits, will take on the Queer All-Stars, a team made up of all our Trans, queer, and non-binary friends traveling from across the country (this could be YOU!). Sign up link in bio!

🌈 Field Performance Spectacular Part Two 🌈 7:45 PM - 8:45 PM

💸 Why We’re Fundraising

This event helps us raise money to:

- Cover costs for team needs & equipment

- Ensure our games, practices, travels, and community events stay free or low-cost for community members (focused on serving the queer, trans+, and BIPoC community).

- Keep our Fruity Fund thriving so the team can keep playing, growing, and providing mutual aid within our queer community and across Durham

- Help us continue to support other local organizations in our upcoming season. taken in The Historic Durham Athletic Park by @durhamfruits

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Screenshot this, put it on your fridge, tattoo it on your arm, invite your crush ✨️🌈🍑 Can't wait to celebrate and be gay with you Durham!!! taken in Durham, North Carolina by @durhamfruits

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18 days ago

Have you always dreamed of *baking* the world a better place? If this sounds like you, now is your chance to donate your baked goods to the 2nd annual Fruits Pride Invitational! ✨️🧁🥧🍰🍪🍩

Sign up today to donate 6-12 baked goods of your choice to our bake sale at our biggest fundraiser event of the year at the Durham Athletic Park on October 24th, 2026 ✨️OR✨️ come to the bake sale and buy some goodies for a suggested donation of $5+ a piece!

There will be LOTS more detail on the signup form, but here’s the nitty gritty:
✨️ you’ll drop off your baked goods late morning of 10.24.26 at the Durham Athletic Park.
🍎 Fruits Volunteers will sell them at our big event - all proceeds going to The Durham Fruits in support of our free to play model centering queer, trans+, and BIPoC folks and our mutual aid Fruity Fund!
🌈 This community fundraising event will help support The Fruits in the upcoming season AND support us in paying all the artists in the variety show sustainable rates (and the ability to do it again)!

🍪 SIGNUP LINK TO DONATE BAKED GOODS IN BIO!
🫶🏼 THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR SUPPORT! taken in The Historic Durham Athletic Park by @durhamfruits

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Practice yesterday was peachy 🍑🍑🍑
Next open practice is 10/22! Come play with us! No equipment, experience, sign ups needed! DM us for the location!

In the meantime join us this Saturday 10/17 for some Halloween themed baseball shenanigans against the @chapelhillthrillbillies 👻🎃 taken in Durham, North Carolina by @durhamfruits

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Edit: Submissions will close Thursday 10/15 at 11:55pm!! Thank you all for all your amazing sign ups and support! We currently have more submissions than we have time for the show and while we wish we could have infinite time to showcase all of you, we unfortunately have to make selections 😢 Everyone will receive and email by Sunday 10/18! And don't worry, there will be more shows!!

📣 COME SHARE YOUR ART AND YOUR ANTICS📣

We are still looking for acts for the 2nd Annual Durham Fruits Pride Invitational on Oct 24th! ⚾️🌈 Whether you do drag, music, comedy, clowning, poetry, dance, or literally anything in between ✨️we want YOU in the lineup✨️👏🏽

This is a PAID opportunity, because your talent and skills deserve to be sustained! We are intentionally prioritizing and centering queer, trans+, and BIPOC performers for this showcase. If all that wasn't enough, the entire spectacular will feature emcee magic from the iconic Stormie Daie! 🎤👑

👉 Hit the link in our bio to apply, or slide into our DMs and we’ll send the link straight to you.

Tag your favorite local performers in the comments so they don't miss out! ✨️🌈🍓🪩 taken in The Historic Durham Athletic Park by @durhamfruits

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4 days ago

Calling all artists, makers, and mutual aid besties! We literally cannot throw our biggest party of the year without you in it. 🎪🍓✨

The Fruits are heading to Historic Durham Athletic Park on Oct 24th for our 2nd Annual Pride Invitational. While we're causing chaos on the diamond, we want to build a little queer pop-up village (safely) next to the action.

We’re turning the space off the field into a community market and love letter to the Durham Queer community. Bring your zines, bring your wares, your ideas, and bring a pop-up tent to hide from rogue foul balls! ⛺️⚾️

Financial barriers are not our jam, so vendor spots are entirely sliding scale and donation-based (starting at $0 for Queer, Trans+, and BIPoC folks). Just bring your lovely selves, set up shop, and enjoy the games!

👉 Swipe to see the full day of baseball, performances, and community joy. Hit the link in our bio, scan the flyer, or send me a lil DM and we'll send you the link directly to sign up! Let’s pack the park with our Queer joy! 🌈🍉 taken in The Historic Durham Athletic Park by @durhamfruits

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October shenanigans are shenaniganing 🎃👻👽 Get spooky, silly, and ready for some baseball! 🕷 Join us for a Halloween themed showdown featuring the Durham Fruits and the Chapel Hill Thrillbilles!

🗓 Oct 17 | 5 PM 📍 Hillside Park

✨️Join the fun with a Costume Contest & fall themed chaos!✨️

Flyer art credit: Mathew from the @chapelhillthrillbillies
#fuckai taken in Durham, North Carolina by @durhamfruits

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7 days ago

No better place to be on a Thursday evening than having a gay ol' time playing baseball with your friends ✨️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈🩷🍓 taken in Durham, North Carolina by @durhamfruits

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🗣 TRANS PEOPLE MAKE SPORTS BETTER 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
Happy Pride Durham! taken in Durham, North Carolina by @durhamfruits

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13 days ago

It wouldn't be Durham Pride for the Fruits without a little bit of Gay baseball🌈✨️🍓 It might be a little damp but we'd love to see you for some gay baseball shenanigans in between all your Durham Pride festivities! And if you're at the parade, we'll catch you there too 🩷🌈✨️ taken in Durham, North Carolina by @durhamfruits

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15 days ago

Your ferral fruity ~rascals~ are raking in the fall season with a game against the trash eatin' @playinpossumbaseball 🌈✨️🐀✨️🍎✨️🌈 Come hang out with us this Saturgay at Crest St!!

But also skip the raking and #leavetheleaves this fall 🪲🦋🐛🐌🐞 taken in Durham, North Carolina by @durhamfruits

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24 days ago

The Robins and the Fruits will start the month of September with an open scrimmage at Hillside Park. Come on out for some good vibes. #baseball #carolinasandlotcollective #sandlotbaseball #fullsteamahead by @durhamfruits

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