Archive for January, 2011
No Rules Theatre Company’s three UNCSA alums started their company nearly two years ago and have been presenting plays and musicals in both the Twin City and the nation’s capital.
FOX Charlotte’s Morgan Fogarty, who won this year’s Don King Bridge Builder Award from the Charlotte Business Guild, reports on a significant rise in youth attendance at Time Out Youth (which, coincidentally, also won honors from the Guild this year). Her report from Thursday: See more at FOX Charlotte…
Debate on recent and proposed changes to higher education in North Carolina are heating up. Though not directly related to LGBT issues, if you’re LGBT and want to attend any of North Carolina’s 58 community colleges or 17 constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina you might want to pay attention; after all, LGBT people aren’t the only folks targeted by government-sanctioned discrimination.
We’d like to thank each of you for bearing with us this afternoon and evening while qnotes staff performed some much needed maintenance on goqnotes.com. We appreciate your patience as we work to make your viewing experience at goqnotes.com more fulfilling. For you techies, an explanation: We’ve noticed — as [...]
From The News & Observer: Raleigh is one of the highest-ranked metropolitan areas in the nation for gay parents. Nearly one-third of the same-sex couples who live here are raising children under the age of 18. The American Community Survey says Raleigh has the third-highest percentage of same-sex couples with [...]
Jeffrey Richardson, a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill alumnus, has been appointed head of Washington, D.C., Mayor Vince Gray’s Office of LGBT Affairs. From The Washington Blade‘s Lou Chibbaro, Jr.: D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray today named the president of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, Jeffrey Richardson, as his new director [...]
Queen City Theatre Company (QCTC) will present the Carolinas regional premiere of Shores’ “Southern Baptist Sissies” (SBS) on Jan. 21 (a day before this issue’s street date). The performance continues through Feb. 5 at Duke Energy Theatre at Spirit Square in Uptown Charlotte.
The once-optimistic vision of progress in North Carolina came to a screeching halt for many LGBT Tar Heels following November’s midterm elections. For the first time in a century, Republicans took control of both houses of the North Carolina General Assembly. No doubt, Republicans across the state are happy to be back in power, but at what cost to LGBT people will their victory come?
Queen City Theatre Company (QCTC) continues its mission of spreading acceptance with yet another wonderfully-composed theatrical performance. “Southern Baptist Sissies” was written by Del Shores, a gay director, playwright and native of Texas, where the play is set from 1979 to 2000 in a church called Calvary Baptist.
Spring A&E Guide 2011: Still-motion art in frames, in statue and on canvass
If you’re LGBT and live in Charlotte, odds are likely you make your home in the city’s Eastside. If not, at the very least you work, eat, shop or drink here or have friends who live here. With such a great number of LGBTs in East Charlotte, we stand a phenomenal chance to have an impact especially on movement toward better public transit.
President Obama created a stir last month when he reiterated that while he doesn’t support gay marriage, he still struggles with the issue. He said his views are “constantly evolving.” In the Republican Party, the fracture over issues concerning homosexual individuals revealed itself more clearly in the vote for repeal [...]
It’s always quiet at Santa’s Workshop in the first half of January. Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus are in Hawaii and the elves are sleeping. But not one elf. Smizzle, the lead choo-choo train builder, kept his eyes open long enough to call for an end to “Shut Up, Make Toys” (SUMT), Santa’s long-standing policy on gay and lesbian employees.
Thanks to the HUNDREDS of qnotes readers who participated in our online QPoll voting for 2010′s Cover of the Year. We’d like to congratulate photographer Jimmy Cobb (JC Digital Photography Works) and thank him for his phenomenal photo in the Nov. 27, 2010, print edition. If you missed it, be [...]
In December, President Barack Obama said his views on gay marriage equality were “evolving.” However, his personal position stands in stark contrast to his administration’s recent decision to defend in court the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which bars the federal government from recognizing legally married same-sex couples.
