It is often said that people who work out regularly have a higher standard of living. The obvious results can be seen in the body, but the improvements do not stop there. People who are fit tend to be more emotionally stable and confident. They tend to flourish in other [...]
What if you could group the sexiest athletic guys from Myspace into one place, make them all gay and then converse with them through email, live chat and blogging? Well, you can! RealJock is one of the best organized and fastest growing online communities for gay men who are looking [...]
LONDON, England — As a follow-up to a story previously reported in Q-Notes, Mehdi Kazemi, a 19-year-old Iranian exile in the U.K., has won his bid for asylum. Kazemi feared he would be executed if forced to return to Iran after hearing that his former partner had been tried for [...]
Gas is expensive. Really expensive. For those who would like to get away but find the costs of traveling too far from home prohibitive, or for those who would like to explore their home region more deeply, there are many options located within the Carolinas. Vacationers don’t need to look [...]
The word “stress” conjures negative images in most people’s minds. For good reason: Many types of stress are not only unpleasant, but they have been shown to adversely affect all the various modalities of health. Stress can cause a chain reaction that begins as physical or emotional harm, but which [...]
Polish priest calls for LGBT deaths KRAKOW, Poland — Father Rafal Trytek (pictured) has called for the deaths of LGBT people. “Homosexuals should be burned at the stakes, as in the Medieval Age. I hope that these beautiful days return to our great Poland.” These comments were made while the [...]
As if security weren’t already a good enough reason to get off petroleum-based fuel sources, their escalating price is a wonderful motivation to stop using them completely. With oil and gas becoming ever more problematic for a variety of political, economic, inter-cultural and environmental reasons, alternative fuels are making great [...]
exQlusive When deciding on a meeting place for our interview, animal rights activist Dan Mathews and I first considered one of those ubiquitous corporate coffee shops. (You know — the ones that are so plentiful they need not be named because you can probably see one or two of them [...]
Jamaican activist seeks asylum QUEBEC, Canada — After the deaths of 13 of his activist colleagues, Gareth Henry, one of Jamaica’s leading LGBT rights activists, has fled the impoverished island nation to seek asylum in Canada. He has claimed refugee status because his life is in danger if he stays [...]
Throughout the world there are religions that celebrate the arrival of spring as a time of renewal. It is easy to understand why this season inspires awe in our spirits: In places where there are four distinct seasons, spring is the time when the world seems to burst into green, [...]
The Alliance for Full Acceptance (AFFA), a Charleston-based organization focused on promoting LGBT “Acceptance Without Exception,” has been extremely active the last year. Aside from building coalitions with the NAACP, Camp Hope (a program for at-risk children), the S.C. Progressive Network and the Unitarian Universalist Church, AFFA grew 12 percent [...]
Thai Red Cross ends blood ban BANGKOK, Thailand — Activists have succeeded in their bid to amend the screening form required for blood donation. To date, questions on the form have asked about high-risk sexual behavior, but only related to same-sex behavior, and all gay men have been prohibited from [...]
Artistic and life partners Scott Hinkle and Joe Wilcox collaborate extensively, each looking for details the other might miss to create their vivid and uplifting floral images. The inaugural Charlotte Fine Art Show is coming to the Carolinas on May 10 and 11. Setting up shop in the Merchandise Mart [...]
