Archive for July, 2011
Charlotte City Council candidate LaWana Mayfield has received a national endorsement from a group formed to support the candidacies of out LGBT citizens.
In June and July, the Charlotte LGBT community lost three leaders involved in various community organizations and initiatives. Their friends and colleagues say they will be missed.
The North Carolina-based national education group Faith in America warned state lawmakers today that they would be held accountable for their votes on anti-LGBT pieces of legislation.
State lawmakers briefly considered changing their session rules this week in order to hear several constitutional amendments, possibly including an anti-LGBT amendment on same-sex relationships, but decided against the plan today, The Associated Press and several other news agencies are reporting.
Another Democratic candidate has filed to run for the Charlotte City Council District 5 seat which is being vacated by current incumbent Democratic City Councilmember Nancy Carter.
The executive director of The LGBT Center of Raleigh announced Wednesday that he will leave the organization on Oct. 14 in order to pursue other career opportunities.
On Monday, filing opened for candidates running for Charlotte City Council. More than a dozen filed their official paperwork. (See our story, “Candidates file for Charlotte elections.”) This year, qnotes will be asking each candidate a set of four questions designed to gauge their support of the LGBT community and [...]
Candidate filing for local city council elections opened on Monday with more than a dozen incumbents and newcomers making their reelection and challenging bids official. Among those filing on Monday was out candidate LaWana Mayfield, who is challenging incumbent Councilmember Warren Turner for her chance to represent District 3.
In Sunday’s Charlotte Observer, writer Adam Bell covers the reported rise in the number of same-sex couples living in North Carolina and, in particular, in Union County. Bell writes: Union County has seen a rise in lesbian and gay households over the past decade, part of a fast-growing demographic across [...]
North Carolina has a proud history. We’ve also produced some legendary, iconic and fab-n-famous people. Below are just a sampling — perhaps some you might not have heard of before.
For the 16th year, the N.C. Gay & Lesbian Film Festival returns to Durham’s historic Carolina Theatre, Aug. 11-14. The event, one of the premier LGBT film festivals across the nation and in the South, brings together nearly three dozen short and feature-length films with LGBT themes.
The LGBT community was nearly ripped apart in 2007 during the months-long debate that ultimately stripped transgender protections out of the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). Versions of the bill since then have included gender-identity along with sexual orientation, but deep and unhealed wounds still exist between some transgender leaders and the larger LGB community. Charlotte’s Bishop Tonyia Rawls hopes to heal some of those wounds with the new TransFaith In Color Conference.
Organizers of the 2011 Charlotte Black Gay Pride set out this year to organize around a simple theme: “Together We Can.” They carried it off with a series of events meant to stimulate the mind, senses and spirit. On July 14, the group held a roundtable discussion and forum on [...]
National and global news briefs: Department of Justice files anti-DOMA brief.
Brett Webb-Mitchell, qnotes columnist and a Presbyterian minister recently shared his story of his 2008 relocation to a small North Carolina town as an interim clergy person with Salon.
A Catholic, LGBT-inclusive mass and celebration will be held on July 27, 7 p.m., at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 507 S. Tryon St.
We R Indie & Indiegrrl Songwriter Retreat will be held Sept. 20-22 at Jonica Gap Campground in Mineral Bluff, Ga. This event features award-winning songwriters Tret Fure, Karen E. Reynolds and Vicki Blankenship who will serve as instructors, mentors and coaches.
While East Carolina University moves to make its campus safer, another Eastern North Carolina establishment is being accused of kicking out a gender-ending customer.
Former United Methodist pastor Jimmy Creech has released a book entitled “Adam’s Gift, A Memoir of a Pastor’s Calling to Defy the Church’s Persecution of Lesbians and Gays.”
I’d always thought it’d be fun to encounter a couple of cute and innocent Mormon missionary guys at my humble abode’s doorsteps. Unfortunately, divine providence has not looked favorably upon my quest to josh around with cute messengers from God; the only door-knocking evangelists to stumble upon my humble abode have been Jehovah’s Witnesses. Recently, though, I nearly had my chance. Again, like a legendary tragic hero, fate proved my adversary.
