Archive for September, 2011
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill may change its housing policies. On the table is a proposal to give men and women the chance to share rooms and apartments at the schools residence halls.
Sporting a brand new venue and a breezy day produced by the feeder bands from Hurricane Irene, Pride Charlotte 2011 became one of the most successful events to date for the LGBT and allied communities of the Queen City.
The Carolina Bear Lodge will hold its Coming Out! Cotillion Ball on Oct. 1, 7:30-11 p.m, at the Holiday Inn Raleigh North, 2805 Highwoods Blvd.
South Carolina Pride held a week-long slate of events leading up to their Sept. 3 march and festival in the state’s capital.
O’Henry’s, 237 Haywood St., is now under new ownership. Pete Moyle and Steve McCain sold it to Kevin Austin and Jim Haggerty, after having been its proprietors for 20 years. They took over on Aug. 17.
The Adam Foundation (AF) will host its Adam in Wonderland: A Mad Hatters Ball 2011 on Oct. 8, 7 p.m.-1 p.m. at Gateway Gallery at The Enrichment Center, 1006 S. Marshall St.
Not even five years old, the LGBT Center of Raleigh has nonetheless experienced its fair share of milestones. Those involved credit the group’s leaders’ and volunteers’ commitment for its accomplishments.
The 27th annual NC Pride Parade and Festival will be held at Duke University’s East Campus in Durham on Aug. 24, including hundreds of business and non-profit vendors, a celebratory parade and thousands of on-lookers.
A 2010 Tony Award nominee for Best Play and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “In the Next Room,” tells the story of the invention of our most cherished bedroom toy. In the late 1800s doctors invented a new medical device to treat patients afflicted with “female hysteria.” A charming and insightful story [...]
What makes a “real” singer long to be a pop diva – the next Britney, Katy or Rihanna? If you asked vocalist Liz Primo that question she would probably give you one simple, straightforward answer: An irresistable love for the music.
They’ve become as familiar to you as your own living room: auditoriums filled with uniformed, spine-straight soldiers on their way to deployment or smiling men and women, arms full of family, on their way home. And, no matter what auditorium they’re in, no matter which small town or big city, [...]
A reader has a very difficult situation indeed, and asks, “My boyfriend moved into a house with four other gay men. Now, he hardly wants to be with me anymore. He also won’t talk about it. Help!”
Start your engines, compadres. Mars enters glorious Leo and life rockets upward. We succeed at anything and everything…at least we believe that we can. Repeat the mantra and light the fuse. Do I hear a sizzle and a pop?
Journalist, blogger and progressive activist Matt Comer, editor of qnotes, Charlotte’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community newspaper, will join host Vince Coakley on-air at WBT 1110 AM and streaming on wbt.com on Friday afternoon, 4:30 p.m., to debate local anti-gay leader Dr. Michael Brown on the topic, “What’s [...]
As community members across the nation, and even here in Charlotte, prepare to celebrate the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Washington Blade political reporter Chris Johnson reveals new plans by Congressional Republicans to slow or even halt the policy’s repeal. Read more: washingtonblade.com/2011/09/15/house-gop-seeks-to-delay-end-to-dont-ask/
District 3 Democratic primary winner LaWana Mayfield is distancing herself from attack ads sent by a new political action committee headed by a prominent gay businessman in Raleigh.
It’s been a couple weeks since Pride Charlotte’s successful Uptown festival on Aug. 27, but local writer Amanda Pagliarini is still weighing in with some of her thoughts. Pulling historic photos of anti-segregation and other racist protests, Pagliarini sets them side-by-side with photos from this year’s Pride Charlotte events. “The [...]
Washington Blade political reporter Chris Johnson reached out to the White House following today’s passage of an anti-LGBT constitutional amendment in the North Carolina Senate. White House spokesperson Shin Inouye issued a statement to the D.C. newspaper. Johnson reports: “The President has long believed that gay and lesbian couples deserve [...]
Community organizer LaWana Mayfield sailed to victory tonight in her Democratic primary against Charlotte City Council District 3 incumbent Warren Turner. She’ll face Republican challenger Ed Toney in the Nov. 8 general election.
As the North Carolina Senate was considering and later approved a measure to send an anti-LGBT constitutional amendment to the ballot, Charlotte Observer writer Peter St. Onge asked one very important question: Why is Perdue quiet on gays? St. Onge writes: Perdue doesn’t get a chance to veto lawmakers’ action [...]
