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On Jan. 3, QNotes announced the resignation of editor Matt Comer, who stepped down from his position after more than four years of service on Jan. 20 to pursue new opportunities with local, statewide and national LGBT communities.
SC Equality, a statewide LGBT education and advocacy group, announced on Wednesday that state motor vehicle officials would begin offering a specialty plate themed with SC Equality’s name and logo.
On Tuesday, QNotes announced the resignation of editor Matt Comer, who will be stepping down from his position on Jan. 20, 2012, to pursue new opportunities with local, statewide and national LGBT communities.
Across the Carolinas, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals constantly search for options for support and socializing. Some enjoy the bar scene, while others would prefer gathering together to do social action projects. But, the one consistent theme that they all share is a need for connecting with like-minded people. [...]
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.
It’s a Thanksgiving to remember for staffers and board members at the Harriett Hancock Community Center, the non-profit that provides a variety of services for the Palmetto State capital’s LGBT community.
Wake Forest University investigates racist, anti-gay vandalism Officials at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., are investigating six separate instances of racist and anti-gay vandalism on campus. The messages, some of which contained racist language and all of which contained anti-gay language, were scrawled on the doors of six of [...]
South Carolina Pride held a week-long slate of events leading up to their Sept. 3 march and festival in the state’s capital.
The Christian martyr Saint Sebastian is a complex figure in Western art. He’s been a religious martyr, a patron saint of athletes and of soldiers — and what might arguably be history’s first recorded gay icon.
South Carolina Pride 2011 will take place on Sept. 3 in Finlay Park, 920 Laurel St.
The wedding announcement of William Hasty III and Gregory S. Smith was published in The State after from their New York nuptials. Their marriage was on July 26 at Town Hall in Mamoroneck, N.Y. This is a first and a significant moment for the South Carolina paper, which in 2006 ran an editorial endorsing the state’s anti-LGBT constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
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.
For a second year, QNotes is reporting on the financial health and well-being of a host of community non-profit organizations. The data and other information has been collected from the paper’s second annual Community Assessment Survey, a tool designed to gauge community organizations’ financial health and measure their commitment to transparency. This year’s survey responses, however, are less than appealing — more than half of the groups asked to participate declined.
Several community organizations participated in QNotes’ 2011 Community Assessment Survey and provided commentary about their groups’ biggest needs, items on their wish lists and their perceived strengths and weaknesses. Top among organizations’ many concerns were needs for increased volunteer engagement, donor support and technological improvements.
This issue, qnotes publishes the results of its second Community Assessment Survey, an annual project we began last year as a tool to gauge community non-profit organizations’ financial health and commitment to transparency.
On May 24, Criminal Domestic Violence Prosecutor Nicole Howland was suspended due to a violation of sheriff’s department policy 1.12: Treatment of Person in the Performance of Duty.
Advocates from an array of LGBT community organizations in North and South Carolina attended the White House’s Pride Month reception on Wednesday with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden.
The Myrtle Beach Gay Days 2011 is trying to set a Guiness Book of World Records by building a human rainbow flag on Aug. 13 from 1-2 p.m. in front of the SkyWheel
Don’t miss these two great events on Saturday, June 25: June 25 • Charlotte Stonewall Party The LGBT Community Center of Charlotte hosts a commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Riots. Join community members for free hot dogs and hamburgers and games outside the center. Inside, watch the documentary “Before Stonewall.” [...]
Several community leaders from the Palmetto State have received and accepted invitations to an LGBT Pride Month reception at the White House hosted by the president and first lady.