Archive for February, 2011
North Carolina’s statewide LGBT advocacy organization received a $10,000 grant today from the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization.
Real facts and figures show a reality much different from WBTV’s hysterical and hyped-up sensationalism regarding alleged incidents of sexual activity in public parks.
In our last print edition and online, qnotes ran an article on the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network’s (RAIN) “Amazing Race Bar Crawl.” The event was set for March 5 but has been pushed back to April 2. Event planners say the original date coincided with the last day of the [...]
A news report on public park cruising by a local TV news station has managed to ruffle some feathers among the LGBT community, including reaction from one national LGBT media watchdog group.
Gaston County Sen. James Forrester on Tuesday filed his anti-LGBT constitutional amendment on marriage, joined by 22 other Republicans.
The North Carolina chapter of GetEqual and Blue Ridge Pride have announced their ‘State of Equality’ conference, to be held March 6. The event, free and open to the public, will feature national speakers as well as state and local organizations.
When the Human Rights Campaign Carolinas Gala comes to Raleigh on Feb. 26, they’ll bring with them a home design hottie, an actress and singer known for her work with the best divas of the past half-century and the mayor of the largest city ever to elect an openly gay executive.
Are you heading to Raleigh for this year’s Human Rights Campaign Carolina Gala on Feb. 26? Interested in experiencing all the city has to offer? Try out one of our pre-planned bundles to round out your experience! See there, we love you so much we made your travel plans for you. No stress, just fun: Take them as a whole or mix-and-match. It’s up to you!
Screaming orgasms. Angry rants. Stories of sensuality and shame, physicality and emotion, self-discovery and relationship. For over 15 years now, Eve Ensler’s landmark work “The Vagina Monologues” has left the hearts of audiences sexed, shaken and stirred by widely varied and creatively performed soliloquies of women’s sexual experience.
One Voice Chorus and other local musicians including Jenny Chen will perform the AIDS requiem, “When We No Longer Touch,” on March 25 and 26 at Myers Park Baptist Church’s Heaton Hall.
It was anti-gay, Gaston County Sen. Jim Forrester (R) who first called Equality North Carolina and its team “lavender lobbyists.” Forrester meant it as a jab; little did he know that LGBT journalists, bloggers and activists would later claim the phrase as their own.
LGBT Prom Charlotte 2011 will be held on April 16 at the American Legion #380, 4235 W. Tyvola Rd., from 8 p.m.-1 a.m. The “A Dream Come True” prom is being dedicated to all LGBT suicide victims and survivors.
OutRaleigh, a day-long, family-friendly festival will be held downtown on May 14 in an area that includes City Plaza through Martin St. Organizers have announced that vendor space applications are now being accepted and can be downloaded online.
There’s a lot going on these days. For me, my personal and professional lives are jam-packed, especially after returning to college again this semester. The community is moving full-steam ahead on many fronts nationally, statewide and locally. It’s hard to fit everything in, but I’m gonna try.
Brannon Braga, who produced many of the episodes and feature films in the “Star Trek” universe, told AfterElton.com that the franchise’s lack of gay characters was “a shame.” His new show, “Terra Nova,” so far also has no gay characters.
National and global headlines: Iowa marriage repeal, birth registration, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and more…
A small group of people got together on Jan. 18 to begin the process of creating a Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays chapter. Each of them simply wanted to help create a safe place for those who have gay and lesbian children or friends. They wanted to provide a confidential environment for conversations and discussions to ease the pain and/or confusion of the coming out process.
News briefs from across Carolina: New board members at Time Out Youth, Winston-Salem plans a Pride parade, Asexuals to hold meeting, other event news and more.
A few times a year those of us in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill-Carrboro area are told that we are the first, second or third for a host of being the “best at” and “worst at” for many categories. For example, Money magazine designated Raleigh as number one for business in 2006, while a group called “Tax Foundation” designated Raleigh as one of the “worst” places for business in 2009 (high taxes!). The headline surprising — well, shocking — me concerned the snapshot crowning the Triangle area as the third in the nation having same-sex couples heading households with children by the American Community Survey.
Miss Della dishes on two Carolina girls, as she laments her absence from the social media scene: “I sit here owing my editor a story on two NC girls, one current and one from the past, who are making waves and are in the headlines,” she writes, “but have not gotten in touch with either one because I’m not partaking of the social networking tools of today.
