Archive for October, 2010
Feast your eyes upon the cover for NYC’s Next nightlife mag. More skin than us, for sure. They’re even showing buttocks! And, the guys are covered in honey. Yes. Honey. Don’t ask me why. But it sure is hot.
Democrats might become the minority following this election, but I don’t care. Though the alternative might be even worse, I refuse to vote for what I see as a force of evil. I’m disappointed, primarily in the Democrats’ inability to stand for their own, stated progressive principles. I’m disappointed in [...]
MAPLight.org and Wired.com have teamed up to provide at-your-finger-tips info on your elected officials’ top donors and contributors. From a release: Wired.com has joined forces with MAPLight.org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that provides citizens and journalists the transparency tools to shine a light on the influence of money on [...]
Longtime LGBT advocate Ed Madden says South Carolina’s gubernatorial candidates, Republican Nikki Haley and Democrat Vincent Sheheen are part of a problematic culture in which discrimination, prejudice and harassment aren’t only tolerated, but encouraged. He makes the assertion in a guest commentary in Columbia’s Free Times. He writes: Neither addressed [...]
Last week, qnotes published endorsements for this year’s midterm elections from three Carolina LGBT political action committees. The founder of one, Replacements, Ltd. PAC‘s Bob Page, released an open letter today encouraging LGBTs and allies to vote next Tuesday. He writes: I am very concerned about the November 2, 2010 [...]
Blogger Carolyn Castiglia at Babble’s Strollerderby has a more in-depth commentary on the incident. She asks whether “Gender Bender” day is good or bad for transgender and other gender non-conforming students: Contrary to what you might think, many people say “Gender Bender” days at school actually harm students who don’t [...]
Local and state LGBT groups have made their endorsements in this year’s midterm elections, to be held on Nov. 2.
The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science held a dialogue at Howard University in Washington, D.C. last month to discuss the underpresence of science in the African-American (which, it turns out, all Americans are African-American, as Dawkins explains after the introductions) community. Moderator Mark Hatcher posed a question to [...]
Greensboro’s Guilford Green Foundation (GGF) awarded $52,000 to area LGBT community groups on Oct. 13, with Mayor Pro-Tem Nancy Vaughan in attendance.
Lily Tomlin will hold a special meet-and-greet to benefit Time Out Youth after her show at Belk Theater on Oct. 24. A special $100 ticket ($54.55 for the show, $45.45 for Time Out Youth), available through Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, will include an orchestra-level seat and a tax-deductible donation to [...]
OK Cupid came out with another of their fascinating user surveys (via Queerty). In it, they asked people across the country about their sexual habits (and desires). In one question, they found that (surprise!) 13 percent of “straight” men had at least one encounter with another dude and 5 percent [...]
Here in the last week or so, qnotes staff members have been looking through past issues of the paper, our online news coverage and in other community resources for possible candidates for 2010′s Person of the Year. Since 2007, we’ve honored one individual each year who staff felt exemplified the [...]
Police have arrested one man in connection with a potential anti-gay hate crime and assault on two women on the campus of East Carolina University (ECU). Investigators are also looking for a second man they think was involved in the incident, which occurred early Friday morning outside of a campus dormitory.
A Triangle-area social justice group is planning to demonstrate at the Cameron Village shopping center this weekend after its co-director and partner were booted from the premises after showing signs of “gentle affection.”
Famed comedian and actor Lily Tomlin heads to Charlotte on Oct. 24, performing at Blumenthal’s Belk Theater. We got some of her thoughts on her upcoming show, Hollywood and entertainment culture and reality TV, along with her thoughts on the recent reports of gay teen suicides across the nation.
Marcus Brandon says he grew up steeped in traditions of Civil Rights legacies. That’s not a rare occurrence, especially for a young person growing up around Greensboro and who later attended North Carolina A&T University.
Theresa Knight, an obstetrician and gynecologist in St. Louis, Miss., says the best thing women can do to protect their health is know their risk. That’s especially true for lesbian women, she says, who are at a greater risk for both breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
“It Gets Better” is an entirely appropriate message to send to young people. It’s a message I wish I could have heard earlier in my coming out process. Though I never actually attempted suicide, the thought crossed my mind more than a couple times. In one instance, I found myself sitting in my bedroom, crying with blade in hand, wrist turned up. Thank God I never went through with it. Thank God I had the opportunity to grow up and learn first-hand that, indeed, life does get better.
Do you think a repeal to ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ will be passed before the end of this year? See what these military veterans and one Citadel grad have to say.
