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May 16, 2013 in A&E / Life&Style, Featured Stories by Matt Comer
Old Crow Medicine Show’s lead singer Ketch Secor opens up on gay acceptance in Country music, progressive history and more.
Tags: Charlotte
May 15, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
State Rep. Marcus Brandon (D-Guilford) has formally announced his decision to run for North Carolina’s 12th Congressional District.
Tags: Charlotte, Legislative Watch, Politics, Raleigh, Triad
May 14, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Marcus Young, gay, contemporary Christian singer and songwriter will perform at New Life Metropolitan Community Church this weekend.
Tags: Charlotte
May 10, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Local organizers affiliated with the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights group, will give City Councilmember LaWana Mayfield a kickstart to her 2013 re-election campaign at a private fundraiser scheduled for Saturday.
Tags: Charlotte, Politics
May 10, 2013 in Editor's Note by Matt Comer
After 21 years of publishing, Greensboro’s The Rhinoceros Times announced on April 30 that it was producing its last print edition.
Tags: Charlotte, Print Edition 2013-05-10, Raleigh, Triad
May 9, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
The North Carolina Senate today approved a bill that would allow student groups on college and university campuses to discriminate in membership and leadership.
Tags: Legislative Watch, Politics
May 8, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
A bill restricting teenagers’ access to medical and mental health care initially scheduled for a floor vote on Wednesday was instead taken off the calendar and sent back to the North Carolina House’s Judiciary Committee.
Tags: Charlotte, Legislative Watch, Politics, Raleigh, Triad
May 8, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
North Carolina’s statewide LGBT advocacy and education group is asking community members across the state to join them in commemorating the one-year anniversary of Amendment One today.
Tags: Legislative Watch, Raleigh
May 5, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Overcast skies, windy cooler temperatures and the threat of sprinkling rain didn’t hold back the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network’s (RAIN) AIDS Walk Charlotte on Saturday.
Tags: Charlotte
May 5, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Organizers with the LGBT Center of Raleigh say more than 15,000 people attended their annual Out! Raleigh festival on Fayetteville St. on Saturday.
Tags: Raleigh
May 3, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Local leaders are praising Rhode Island’s decision to become the tenth state to enact marriage protections for same-sex couples.
Tags: Charlotte, Politics
May 3, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Organizers say they are expecting as many as 15,000 attendees at Saturday’s Out! Raleigh, slated for City Plaza and Fayetteville St. from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Tags: Raleigh
May 2, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Constituents of an eastern North Carolina state senator say his legislative assistant crossed the line when she said two weeks ago that LGBT equality was not a civil rights issue and said the devil had tormented a mother’s deceased gay son.
Tags: Legislative Watch, Politics, Raleigh
May 1, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
A newly-rebuilt Harris Teeter in the Plaza Midwood neighborhood will reopen on May 29, according to Harris Teeter spokespeople.
Tags: Charlotte
May 1, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Statewide LGBT education and advocacy group Equality North Carolina is among five organizations and individuals being honored next week by the North Carolina Justice Center at its Defenders of Justice Awards
Tags: Politics, Raleigh
May 1, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
The former owner of the popular NoDa restaurant Fat City Deli has been arrested and charged with four counts of solicitation for prostitution.
Tags: Charlotte, Columbia
April 29, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
In Charlotte, ACT UP organizing efforts were met with an astounding thud, according to one local who shares what he remembers about the Queen City’s short-lived ACT UP chapter.
Tags: Charlotte, Politics
April 28, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
A White House spokesman said Sunday that President Barack Obama plans to name Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx as his new transportation secretary on Monday.
Tags: Charlotte, Politics
April 27, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Hundreds of friends, family and others touched by the life and work of Jamie Hahn attended a memorial service for her today at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church.
Tags: Raleigh
April 27, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Jamie Kirk Hahn, 29, a well-known Democratic fundraiser, died early Wednesday morning from injuries sustained after an attack on Monday evening.
Tags: Politics, Raleigh
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