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qnotes is the LGBT arts, entertainment and news publication of Carolinas. With a strong and robust presence online at goqnotes.com, and a bi-weekly print circulation of approximately 10,000, we are the largest and most trusted source of news, politics, opinion, entertainment, art, lifestyle, community events and more for LGBT North Carolinians and South Carolinians.
Our print edition is distributed in major cities and small-to-medium sized cities and towns in the Carolinas including Charlotte, where the paper is based; Asheville; Chapel Hill; Columbia; Durham; Greensboro; Greenville, S.C.; Raleigh; Wilmington, Winston-Salem and more.
Our online edition receives tens of thousands of hits each month and offers daily news, arts and entertainment updates and upcoming events.
Origins
In 1983, the now defunct Queen City Quordinators started publishing a small, monthly newsletter named “Queen City Notes.” The newsletter ended its run in 1984, with the close of the non-profit. In 1986, the newsletter was revived, and “Q-Notes” was reborn as a monthly, print newspaper. The first issue of the revived community news source was published in June 1986, to coincide with National LGBT Pride Month.
In 1989, Jim Yarbrough, the owner of Pride Publishing and Typesetting, Inc., bought the publication and in 1996, qnotes began distributing every other week.
Merger with The Front Page
On May 12, 2006, qnotes merged with the Raleigh, N.C.-based The Front Page, another North Carolina LGBT newspaper. The Front Page began publishing in 1979 in Raleigh, N.C., under longtime publisher and editor Jim Baxter.
Continued Growth
In April 2008, qnotes revamped its online presence and debuted a new website and content management system at www.q-notes.com. Changes to the website continued gradually until our January 2010 redesign, rebranding and editorial re-direction, in which “Q-Notes” became qnotes. The publication’s new direction calls for more in-depth, future-focused features in its bi-weekly print edition and a far more robust, daily updated website at the new goqnotes.com.
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