Archive for October, 2008
LANCASTER, S.C. — Since Tuesday, illegal robo-calls have targeted moderate-to-liberal residents in rural Lancaster and York Counties. Claiming that State [...]
NOTE: See the updated story as published in Q-Notes‘ Nov. 1 print edition: House arrest for gay DJ’s second HIV [...]
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Charleston City Paper is reporting what might be the first documented case of possible gay baiting [...]
CONCORD, N.C. — A Republican North Carolina congressman is coming under fire for controversial remarks he made at a John [...]
WINSTON-SALEM — The organizer of the Obama Pride North Carolina LGBT Get out the vote (GOTV) efforts said Tuesday that [...]
RALEIGH — Democrats are in the lead with likely voters as the general election draws even nearer. Less than two [...]
RALEIGH — Statewide LGBT advocacy group Equality North Carolina has announced the nationally-respected leaders to speak at its second annual [...]
WINSTON-SALEM — A multitude of same-sex couples is rushing to the altar ahead of California’s ballot referendum on Proposition 8, [...]
RALEIGH – The first two days of early voting in North Carolina drew a record number of voters to the [...]
In the past few weeks, the nation has looked to Wall Street with shock, confusion and anger as the stock market and every other part of the U.S. economy seemed to do nothing but slip away.
When the Dow Jones dropped 777 points on Sept. 29, after a failed attempt by Congress to pass a Wall Street bailout plan, folks on Main Street took notice — in a big way. Even after President George W. Bush signed a more than $800 billion bailout plan, the Dow stumbled again — more than 600 points. In early October, for the first time since 2004, the Dow plummeted below 10,000 points — reaching an unheard of more than 5,000-point drop in only one year. At press time, the markets were still struggling from their dangerous Oct. 10 dip below 8,000 points.
This election season much is at stake for the LGBT community. On a federal, regional and local level gay and [...]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Appearing at a lecture at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte on Tuesday, former Human Rights Campaign (HRC) [...]
While both candidates for president have made statements that they want to combat HIV/AIDS, a comparison of the voting records, [...]
CHARLOTTE — Ten years ago this month, a brutal attack left a gay University of Wyoming student dead. That man, [...]
When Howard McQuirter Jr.’s parents found out he was gay, they disowned him. Stripped of his car, cell phone [...]
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Lambda Legal has filed suit against this eastern Tennessee city and Police Chief John Lowry on [...]
CHARLOTTE — The Pride Charlotte Task Force of the Lesbian & Gay Community Center has announced new details for its [...]
At the end of September a South Carolina gentleman sent out a letter to local LGBT leaders and news publications. [...]