Archive for October, 2009
Charlotte’s Bishop Tonyia Rawls will be among several panelists at a discussion on race, sexuality and power in the Bible Belt South tonight, Oct. 27. The event takes place at the University of South Carolina in Columbia and is co-sponsored by SC Equality. The Columbia event is the second in [...]
There’s no doubt the LGBT community has seen success in North Carolina. Our achievements aren’t quite as grand as those in New England or elsewhere, but they are steps forward nonetheless. Our progress has largely come in baby steps, as municipalities slowly add sexual orientation and gender-identity to non-discrimination policies [...]
Bessemer City: 5,119. Boone: 13,843. Carrboro: 16,782. Charlotte: 687,456. Population isn’t the only fact or figure separating these three small towns from the largest city between Atlanta and Washington, D.C. Unlike Charlotte, these three quaint hamlets have taken a step forward in fulfilling the American promise of equality and now [...]
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“Being an artist is like being an athlete,” California-born, Broadway, Va. resident Lisa Aronzon says. “You have to train your body. Teach yourself all the moves, how to handle the tools and know when to take all the steps.” Her chosen craft, blown glass, is a physical art, she says, [...]
The Carolinas are known for their majestic, mountain beauty and seaside serenity. In between, urban high rises dot the rural, Piedmont landscape. LGBT-friendly oases in the Bible Belt Carolinas include Charlotte, Columbia, the Triangle area and Greensboro. But, maybe, city life just isn’t your thing. Perhaps the easy-going, simple routine [...]
GREENSBORO — An Obama Administration official and liaison to the LGBT community has been announced as this year’s keynote speaker at the Equality North Carolina Conference & Gala, as the group plans to honor the state’s only openly gay or lesbian legislator at their annual gala the same day. The [...]
Story to tell? WILMINGTON — Meaghan Nappo, a Public History graduate student at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington is currently involved in a 1976 Bicentennial acquisition project. Objects are being collecting for an exhibit to be installed at the University next year about material culture in 1976. Along with collecting [...]
BOONE — High Country Pride (HCP) will hold its Masquerade Halloween dance for ages 21 and up on Oct. 31 from 9 p.m.-1 a.m. at the Broyhill Inn, 775 Bodenheimer Dr.This party offers an night of costumes on parade, mysterious identities and dancing. Enjoy upbeat hit music from all eras, [...]
Gay man tapped for Ambassador NEW YORK, N.Y. — The White House wants David Huebner to be the U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and the Independent State of Samoa. If confirmed by the Senate, he will be the first openly gay Ambassador appointed in the Obama administration. He currently serves [...]
Nominations sought CHARLOTTE — Campus Pride has released its official call for the Voice Action National Leadership Award, an honorary recognition highlighting the extraordinary contributions of young adult leaders at colleges and universities across the United States. For the second year, the award is the only one nationally focused on [...]
In his New York Times Magazine column called “The Ethicist,” Randy Cohen recently tackled a modern dilemma. A mother wrote in to say that her daughter, in her late 20s, has a same-sex partner, a fact known to most of the large Catholic family. But the writer’s in-laws, the lesbian’s [...]
Given increased press coverage trans issues have garnered over the past five years, I remain skeptical regarding the media’s ability and/or desire to report fairly and objectively. Any fiction that much of the collective press desires objective reporting or that it isn’t exhibitionistic is destroyed in the wake of the [...]
Matthew Shepard was neither the first nor the last to die in a brutal gay bashing, yet his death, in particular, touched hearts around the world. Perhaps it was his age, 21 at the time, or perhaps it was the sheer brutality of his murder — Matt’s death was far [...]
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Autumn is to album releases what Summer is to movie releases — the season that matters more than any other. As a result, every year the Fall musical harvest yields a cornucopia of projects spanning from potentially star-making debuts to superstar juggernauts seeking to extend their chart reigns to heritage [...]
Dear Trinity, Everything, including sex with my lover, couldn’t be better with one exception: he wants me to defecate on him. Despite my refusals, he persists, but I’m afraid if I don’t satisfy his “dirty pleasures” he’ll seek it somewhere else. Help? Dirty Pleasures, Boston, Mass. Dear Dirty Pleasures, You [...]
Originally published: Oct. 14, 2009, 4:57 p.m. Updated: Oct. 15, 2009, 1:25 p.m. Right-wing groups have taken aim at an openly gay Obama Administration official after conservative media and several activists and pundits chastised the official over sex advice he gave a gay student in 1988. The attacks culminated Thursday [...]
Candidates for mayor, city council and school board in Charlotte turned out to the joint MeckPAC-Charlotte Business Guild candidates reception at the Lesbian & Gay Community Center on Oct. 14. View photos from the evening here. Despite a cold and rainy evening, approximately 60 or more citizens gathered to meet [...]
DENVER, N.C. — Anti-gay former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) will visit Western North Carolina and attend a fundraiser at the end of the month. Santorum, who served in the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 2007 and also represented the state in the U.S. House from 1991 to 1995, lost [...]
