Archive for November, 2011
There’s a bit of a dust-up this week, with The Christian Post picking up on LGBT blogger Bil Browning’s traditional, holiday-time call for donors to avoid the anti-gay Salvation Army like the plague. The Salvation Army’s anti-gay theology and positions have been known for years. Browning has, for some years [...]
Actor Josh Charles, one of People‘s Sexiest Men Alive and star of CBS’ “The Good Wife,” is the latest in a string of high-profile leaders and celebrities to join the Human Rights Campaign’s Americans for Marriage Equality. His 30-second message is currently gracing the front page of the campaign’s website [...]
The LGBT Center of Raleigh says today that it’s neared its $10,000 Fall Fundraising Campaign goal. The campaign ends today and they’re seeking the extra $500 they need to put them over the top. In addition to the $10,000 one-time donation goal, the center hopes to meet a $2,500 challenge [...]
The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina NAACP, spoke out ferociously against the Republican-led North Carolina legislature’s special session this week. In an official statement shared by NC Policy Watch’s Progressive Pulse Blog, Barber called the legislature’s agenda items racist, classist and regressivist. Barber writes: [...]
The conservative N.C. Civitas Action released their 2011 rankings of state legislators last week. The group’s rankings reveal a more conservative-leaning legislature than in years past, though the state’s only openly gay lawmaker and most other Democrats still took a hit in the group’s assessment.
Campus Pride, a locally-based, national non-profit organization that works with LGBT college and university students, is featured in a new documentary scheduled for release next year.
Mayors from across the state will flock to the Queen City this week for their annual N.C. Metropolitan Mayors Coalition fall meeting. On Friday, the group hosts anti-gay amendment sponsor, state Sen. Bob Rucho, R-Mecklenburg.
Evan Wolfson, executive director of the national Freedom to Marry, spoke to students at the University of North Carolina School of Law on Monday. In a video released by the statewide Equality North Carolina, Wolfson tells the students that the impending anti-LGBT constitutional amendment banning marriage, civil unions and domestic [...]
QNotes marks World AIDS Day and the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the 1980s AIDS Crisis in our special section presented by Raleigh’s Alliance of AIDS Services-Carolina.
This year marked the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the AIDS Crisis and screenwriter and director David Weissman — whose credits include the 2000 film “The Family Man,” 2001’s “Evolution” and 2010’s “When in Rome” — releases his “We Were Here,” a documentary profiling the earliest days of the Crisis at its epicenter, San Francisco.
The new documentary, “We Were Here,” takes audiences on an emotional journey back to 1981, when gay men in San Francisco’s Castro district came to the horrifying realization that a cluster of unexplained deaths was the start of a viral epidemic. A look at key facts and figures from where we were in 1981.
See all coverage in our 2011 “Life, Positively” special section… CHARLOTTE — The issues faced by people living with or affected by HIV and AIDS are often boiled down to faceless, emotionless medical stats and numbers. The Regional AIDS Interfaith Network (RAIN) hopes to change that this World AIDS Day [...]
North Carolina is blessed to have a plethora of community resources and programming for those living with HIV/AIDS. Several groups throughout the state work to keep the public educated, provide testing and counseling and support and case management to those who test positive.
A new study shows dramatic improvement in the ability of those with HIV to control virus resistant to older antivirals.
Each year, QNotes honors one brave or talented soul in our local LGBT community as our Person of the Year. The person honored has contributed to the community, worked for its benefit and raised awareness on important issues.
N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis has, for the most part, been a statesman and spoken, at least publicly, with respect, care and diligence, especially on LGBT issues. Yet he is wrong on one important issue: Despite his claims to the contrary, marriage is a constitutional right.
[Ed. Note -- This poll question was updated on Nov. 27, 2011, to include another response: "I plan on doing all three above."] How do you plan on being personally involved in the campaign against the anti-LGBT amendment? I’ll be pledging to vote against the amendment and will turn out [...]
I appreciate and can understand editor Matt Comer’s views as expressed in his Nov. 12 Editor’s Note. However, I wish he had called on me to clarify my comment or at least ask why I had called on people to be thankful for his service.
The National Enquirer claims in a Nov. 14 cover story that Chaz Bono will die within four years due to his gender transition. The corpse-to-be is perturbed. His lawyer sent a cease and desist letter to the tabloid, accusing it of defamation and demanding a printed retraction and apology.
A new Williams Institute study released Nov. 18 finds there are more than 28,500 binational same-sex couples in which one partner is a U.S. citizen and one is not and nearly 11,500 same-sex couples in which neither partner is a U.S. citizen.
