Archive for August, 2011
I read a number of message boards devoted to music and I follow the “Billboard” charts pretty closely. I like to think I have my ear to the ground and am pretty good at spotting trends before they bloom. If it’s true, I have a feeling the presently scattershot sniping about Lady Gaga’s recent commercial results might kick into overdrive any moment now.
Our free-wheeling summer ways were fun, but now it’s time to get serious. Both the Sun and Venus enter Virgo and ask us to eat our peas and clean our rooms. Before you start shoving peas under your bed in protest, step back and see how nice everything looks when all is in place. Maybe even nice enough to keep it that way?
A fib-telling reader inquires for a solution: “This may sound juvenile, but I’m afraid to tell my girlfriend that I’m younger than I said I was. I’m afraid she’ll dump me. She always says, ‘I really like that you’re older than me.’ And, so on. What should I do?”
Yesterday, we published our report on a town hall forum held by North Carolina Speaker of the House Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) in his home district north of Charlotte. At the forum, an audience member asked Tillis about the proposed anti-LGBT constitutional amendment that could come up for consideration during the [...]
Two gay philanthropists were honored yesterday for their longtime advocacy on behalf of North Carolina’s LGBT community.
The speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives addressed both supporters and critics at a town hall meeting in his home district in Cornelius, N.C., on Tuesday evening, answering questions about jobs, energy, the state’s education budget, his staff’s salary raises, a proposed anti-LGBT marriage amendment and other topics passionately debated in the legislature this year.
North Carolina’s largest daily newspaper has published a staff editorial opposing a proposed anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment that could ban both marriage and other relationship recognition for same-sex couples.
A locally-based, national non-profit group working with LGBT college and university students has joined a lawsuit against a Missouri school district accused of improperly blocking student access to websites with LGBT content.
Charlotte’s Creative Loafing has released their Best of Charlotte 2011. Several LGBT businesses, a community leader and others of interest got top pick by both critics and readers alike. Roberta Dunn, who sits on the MeckPAC steering committee and board of directors for The LGBT Community Center of Charlotte, won [...]
A local, LGBT foundation has announced it will fund projects this year that seek to raise the profile of Charlotte’s LGBT community in front of a national audience when the city hosts the Democratic National Convention next year.
North Carolina Speaker of the House Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) will be met with protest when he appears in Cornelius, N.C., tomorrow for a public Q&A and town hall meeting.
Local lesbian author Frances Richter will offer personally autographed copies of her books to visitors of Pride Charlotte, slated for Uptown Charlotte on Aug. 27. According to a release, Richter will offer autographed copies of her introductory novel, “Friend of the Firm, a Sheldon Bailey Mystery,” to the first 50 [...]
The LGBT Community Center of Charlotte has announced it will begin offering new, expanded hours. In order to meet the need, the organization has issued a call for volunteers to help staff the building.
An accident knocked out power to the Carolina Theatre on Friday evening and brought the night’s N.C. Gay & Lesbian Film Festival’s screenings to a halt, according to a statement posted on the theater’s website Saturday.
The local Charlotte chapter of the NAACP will hold their “March Against Academic Genocide” on Saturday, Aug. 13, 9 a.m. The group’s press release is below: MARCH AGAINST ACADEMIC GENOCIDE SATURDAY, August 13, 2011 9:00 a.m. Marshall Park to Government Center The NAACP and its Partners in the Local Peoples [...]
The South Carolina LGBT Pride Movement (SC Pride) has been named for the fourth year in a row “Best Activist Group or Cause” by the readers of The Free-Times, a local alternative news-weekly.
Crossroads Charlotte will present their Know It 2 Work It Civic Summer School throughout August. Three separate classes will seek to educate and inform citizens and grassroots organizers on local and state government, budgeting processes and other topics. The three classes, offered to the public for free, will be held [...]
QNotes asks non-profits, businesses to update their already existing QGuide listings or add new listings in advance of the Aug. 20, 2011 issue’s printed QGuide, the annual LGBT resource guide of Carolina.
Tonight, I’ll have the opportunity and pleasure to represent qnotes and provide an LGBT voice at a community forum and panel discussion organized by We Are One Charlotte, a project of the North Carolina AFL-CIO. The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 6:30 p.m. at [...]
Following their report on the growth of same-sex households in Union County, The Charlotte Observer published today a new report on similar increases in Charlotte. Statewide, North Carolina experienced an increase of some 68 percent, according to an analysis by UCLA’s Williams Institute. Reporter Adam Bell writes: The Charlotte area’s [...]
