Archive for February, 2009
It could be the end of an era, as evangelical leader James Dobson leaves his post at the anti-gay Focus [...]
CHARLOTTE — A local community leader and drag performer, Clay Smith, was the subject of a death threat this week.
Smith, [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. — Conservative lawmakers in North Carolina introduced an anti-LGBT, anti-family state constitutional amendment on marriage today in the [...]
After the passage of an anti-LGBT, anti-family marriage amendment by the Rowan County Board of Commissioners, LGBT advocates across the [...]
This self-proclaimed diva may forever be known as the androgynous face (and voice) of The Eurythmics. But her latest disc, [...]
Which kind of legislation do you think EqualityNC should focus on first in the 2009-2010 legislative session?
Hate crimes
Employment non-discrimination
Safe Schools
Stopping [...]
The Human Rights Campaign is known to almost every member of the LGBT community, even if only in the slightest [...]
After 10 years on the music charts, Kristine W continues to remain on top with hits like “Walk Away” and [...]
Little Charlotte is getting a bit of L.A., Hollywood taste with the opening of “AmerWrecka,” the first production of the [...]
CHARLOTTE/RALEIGH — Less than a month after the start of the 2009-2010 biennial legislative session, the statewide LGBT advocacy group [...]
A group of LGBT Raleigh professionals are hoping their hard work to organize a Triangle chapter of a nationwide LGBT [...]
Five companies in the Carolinas received a perfect 100 score on HRC’s 2009 Corporate Equality Index:
• Bank of America, Charlotte, [...]
[Ed. Note — Joseph Urbiniak is an inmate at Harnett Correctional Institution in Lillington, N.C., and is the plaintiff in [...]
Charlotte
Show your wares
CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte Business Guild will host its 1st Annual CBG Business Expo on March 21 from [...]
Early parole denied
COLUMBIA — The South Carolina Parole Board denied early parole on Feb. 11 for Stephen Andrew Moller, who [...]
MOSCOW — A group of Russian gay activists launched a campaign on Feb. 6 demanding their government stop requesting [...]
Historic gay shop to close
NEW YORK CITY — The nation’s oldest gay and lesbian bookstore has announced it will close [...]
When I came out at the end of eighth grade, one of the first LGBT organizations I learned about was [...]
Let the struggle continue
We are writing to you in disagreement with your editorial calling for a backing off of the [...]
It would be wrong to say that the majority of Republicans are racist. But, it is fair to say that [...]