S.C. ranked high for rate of rape, abuse in juvenile justice system
June 11, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
A new U.S. Department of Justice survey has found a high rate of rape and sexual abuse in the country’s juvenile justice system.
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June 11, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
A new U.S. Department of Justice survey has found a high rate of rape and sexual abuse in the country’s juvenile justice system.
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Matt Comer
June 7, 2013 in A&E / Life&Style, Cover Stories, Featured Stories by Matt Comer
The world was an unfriendly place for LGBT people in June 1969. Late that month, some folks were fed up with how they were being treated.
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June 7, 2013 in A&E / Life&Style, Cover Stories, Featured Stories by QNotes Staff
The birth of our modern-day LGBT civil rights movement is largely credited to the spontaneous riots at the Stonewall Inn in June 1969 and the resulting media coverage and community galvanization it spurred.
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Maria Dominguez
June 7, 2013 in A&E / Life&Style, Cover Stories, Featured Stories by Maria Dominguez
All across the region and the U.S., Pride season takes off with a flourish of events to satisfy everyone’s palette.
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Maria Dominguez
May 14, 2013 in News by Maria Dominguez
Several LGBT community groups based in North Carolina and South Carolina were able to raise more than $25,000 in a single 24-hour national day of philanthropy last week.
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Matt Comer
May 1, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
The former owner of the popular NoDa restaurant Fat City Deli has been arrested and charged with four counts of solicitation for prostitution.
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Matt Comer
April 26, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
A bill protecting all workers from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity will be introduced in the South Carolina House of Representatives next Tuesday.
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Matt Comer
April 15, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Starting today, qnotes will feature more in-depth profiles of the 18 leaders featured in our April 12, 2013, print edition cover story, “Out for Change: Young LGBT Professionals Making a Difference.” Today, we start with O’Neale Atkinson, director of youth programs at Time Out Youth, vice president of the Charlotte Business Guild.
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Matt Comer
April 10, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
A coalition of groups with Tell Them SC and The New Morning Foundation are advocating for updated changes in South Carolina’s more than 20-year-old comprehensive sex education law, citing updated medical and scientific accuracy, teacher training and accountability.
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Matt Comer
April 9, 2013 in Blog by Matt Comer
South Carolina Equality, a statewide LGBT advocacy and education group, is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its organization’s official, state-issued license plates.
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Matt Comer
March 26, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Nearly 200 or more community members in Charlotte attended a vigil tonight to mark the beginning of this week’s historic U.S. Supreme Court cases challenging anti-gay marriage laws.
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Matt Comer
March 26, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Fourteen vigils were planned across North Carolina and South Carolina over the weekend and through this evening, including events in Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Columbia, Charleston and elsewhere.
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Matt Comer
March 12, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Colleen Condon, a Charleston County council member, has announced that she is a lesbian, The Post and Courier reported.
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Matt Comer
February 28, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Four LGBT education and advocacy organizations in North and South Carolina have signed on to a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting full marriage equality.
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Matt Comer
February 15, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
As many as 10 percent of people in Washington, D.C., and 3.5 percent nationally identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender according to a new Gallup and UCLA Williams Institute survey.
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Matt Comer
January 31, 2013 in Blog by Matt Comer
A hat-tip to The Charlotte Observer‘s religion reporter, Tim Funk, who brings us this tid-bit of news: The American Bible Society has released a ranking of the most “Bible-minded cities” in [...]
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Matt Comer
January 26, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Organization staffers, community members, activists and organizers from both North Carolina and South Carolina came in force to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s Creating Change conference this weekend.
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Matt Comer
January 14, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
LGBT alumni from two of the oldest state-supported military colleges in the U.S. have now consolidated their outreach efforts, aiming to increase communication and support.
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Matt Comer
January 9, 2013 in Blog by Matt Comer
The Advocate released their 2013 “Gayest Cities in America” today. The annual listing has plenty of fans and its fair share of critics, especially considering the publications sometimes humorous and self-admittedly “totally subjective and constantly changing” criteria.
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Matt Comer
January 9, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Non-profit staffers, students, activists and other community members across the Carolinas are preparing to attend this month’s Creating Change, the annual conference of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force.
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QNotes celebrates National LGBT Pride Month! Explore local Pride events happening across the Carolinas, region and nation, plus: Pride organizers talk about the meaning of Pride and we explore the history of Pride in the Carolinas.
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