Archive for March, 2010
CHAPEL HILL — The Southeast Regional Unity Conference will be held April 9-11 at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill campus. The conference is open to LGBT and queer identified people and their allies. It was created to provide a safe place for dialogues across a wide range of topics, [...]
Time to celebrate WINSTON-SALEM — Theta Beta Chi Fraternity’s annual celebration conference weekend, “Unity & Understanding,” will be held April 22-25 at Lawrence Joel Coliseum, 2825 University Pkwy. The event was established to allow the community of persons of color to spend one weekend to network, as well to celebrate [...]
Blacks and gays. If it isn’t one group, it’s the other. All of Charlotte’s — indeed, the nation’s — problems can be placed directly at the feet of African-Americans and LGBT people. That’s the impression you’d get if all you ever heard was a recounting of current events, news and [...]
For the first time, the Navy will let women serve on submarines. Personally, I’d sooner serve on a garbage barge than spend months trapped underwater, but I’m sure the idea appeals to some. Submarines are the only class of ship from which women have been barred, so this is a [...]
CHARLOTTE — Homelessness is an incalculable epidemic. Estimates of youth homelessness range from 575,000 to approximately 2 million. Definitive numbers are difficult to get, but it is believed the LGBT community makes up approximately 20 to 30 percent of homeless youth aged 12 to 24 years old — a disproportionate [...]
An LGBT Hip Hop duo with a growing fan base and popularity took to the stage of Columbia’s Club 1800 on March 5. They didn’t let fans down as they ripped the stage with their high energy, smooth popping moves and silky, erotic voices. The duo’s stars, IQ and Nor, [...]
When I taught at Duke Divinity School, one of my colleagues made this audacious, bold claim: When we baptized our children as infants, we were giving them the mark of Christ that would last throughout their lifetime. The theological point is this: While saved by God’s grace, the watery mark [...]
The Sun enters robust Aries and unleashes our basest instincts. Good thing too. We were getting to staid and sedentary. Let loose and run with the herd. It gets you off the couch and into the fresh air. Ah! PISCES (02.20-03.20) Money appears to be the solution to all your [...]
Dearest Trinity, I’m 27, male, straight and have fetishes for woman’s panties. My girlfriend lets me wear hers and I also own other woman’s panties I call “mystery panties” because I don’t know who they belonged to. How can I get my girlfriend to let me wear my mystery panties [...]
Oh, boiz and gyrls, here we are once more at my little inkspot on the page to talk about accomplishments in pageantry and the folks who do them. After a rough week that I got through, thanks to dear friends Big Mama B., Tajma Hall, Carmendy, and my sister Ree, [...]
CHARLOTTE — Looking to raise awareness of their upcoming AIDS Walk, the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network (RAIN) teamed up with Adams Outdoor Advertising to display two billboards advertising the May 1 event. The 14th annual AIDS Walk Charlotte, the largest HIV/AIDS fundraising event in the Carolinas, will be held May [...]
The Soulforce Equality Ride is in North Carolina March 17-19. While in the state, the group of 25 young activists will visit Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest and Campbell University in Buies Creek. Join us here at the qnotes blog each day for personal commentary on their activities [...]
Yesterday, I wrote a small piece on an anti-gay activist-candidate’s remarks regarding the state’s new anti-bullying law and sex ed law. Albemarle, N.C., resident Jason Phibbs is running against incumbent Democratic state Sen. Bill Purcell. Phibbs, a Republican and activist for the anti-gay NC4Marriage, says Purcell is promoting a “gay [...]
The Soulforce Equality Ride is in North Carolina March 17-19. While in the state, the group of 25 young activists will visit Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest and Campbell University in Buies Creek. Join us here at the qnotes blog each day for personal commentary on their activities [...]
LAURINBURG, N.C. — An anti-gay grassroots activist running for a spot in the state Senate is attacking his incumbent, Democratic opponent over his pro-equality votes on anti-bullying and sex ed laws passed last year Jason Phibbs, who has worked as the Stanly County organizer for the anti-gay NC4Marriage, told a [...]
Meltdown Productions and Goodlyfe Entertainment Group sponsor a Thank Goodness It’s Thursday party for the men. Every first and third Thursday, come out and get your groove on with the DJ Spinn of Charlotte. This Thursday, March 18, there will be no cover all night. That is right, no cover! [...]
Compared to partners of other same-sex relationships, black women from same-sex households are more likely to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces, according to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute’s 2004 report, “Black Same-Sex Households in the United States.” They are also being discharged from the military [...]
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, will host a town hall conversation on issues of faith and equality on Thursday, March 18. The group hopes to engage people of faith in LGBT equality advocacy and address ways to combat misleading information [...]
March 18-21 • Greensboro Dixie’s Tupperware Dixie Longate, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, packed up her catalogues, left her children in an Alabama trailer park and took Off-Broadway by storm! Now, join Dixie as she travels the country throwing good ol’fashioned Tupperware Parties filled with outrageously funny tales, heartfelt accounts, Free [...]
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Community members will gather this weekend for a special LGBT conference and explore new HIV research, LGBT history, transgender issues and more. Sponsored by the UNC-Wilmington PRIDE student group, the Outreach Conference will feature Dr. Bertram Jacobs of Arizona State University, who will present new HIV/AIDS research [...]
