Columbia - South Carolina
South Carolina Black Gay Pride | June 24-26, 2011 Join other LGBT people of color and allies for South Carolina’s annual black LGBT Pride festival in Columbia. Attracting a couple thousand people each year, SC Black Gay Pride events feature forums, a festival, parties and more. Various events, locations and [...]
Promoters for the 6th Annual South Carolina Black Pride, “Mind, Body, & Soul,” have announced that they still have space in their event guide for advertisers. Deadline is June 17.
One of South Carolina’s largest counties unanimously passed a new, LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination ordinance on public accommodations and housing at their meeting on Tuesday, June 7.
About 2,000 people marched in Upstate Pride’s parade and took part in their festival yesterday. Spartanburg Herald Journal‘s Jenny Arnold has more… Exuberance, a statue of a woman at the entrance of Barnet Park, stands with her head thrown back in joy. On Saturday, she held two bunches of rainbow-colored [...]
Pride comes to the Upstate for the third year in a row. Barnet Park, 248 E. Saint John St. Festivities begin at 10 a.m. and run through 5 p.m. with the march beginning at 11 a.m. Speakers and performers during the festival include: SC Equality’s Christine Johnson, Pastor Ra’Shawn Flournoy, [...]
In April, the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment surveyed 1,100 people on their use of social media. The results, released this week, show an amazing high usage of social media. More than 82 percent of respondents — almost exclusively Duke Endowment grant recipients and other leaders from non-profit organizations in the Carolinas [...]
Legislators and representatives from civil rights groups in South Carolina announced at a press conference this afternoon the introduction of a hate crimes bill that would protect victims on the basis, among others, of race, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity.
Organizers of a local Pride festival in the Upstate of South Carolina have been denied their request for an official proclamation from county leaders.
Two Carolinas cities held Pride festivities over the weekend. In Charleston, community members gathered for their second annual Pride parade and festival, where 4,000 supporters showed up and no protesters. Charleston’s Post and Courier has more… In Raleigh, local residents staged their first-ever local Pride event. The LGBT Center of [...]
The story of QNotes’ history is about more than its own achievements; it’s about the community — the people, places and pride of the past 25 years of Carolinas history. People like community leader and QNotes’ first editor Don King, whose Closet Buster Productions helped to herald new eras of LGBT awareness and public engagement in Charlotte. Places like Charlotte’s Lesbian & Gay Community Center or Raleigh’s LGBT Center and the decades long push for community organizing for spaces to call all our own. Pride, like the series of statewide and local Pride festivals and parades that have grown and spread like wild kudzu across the state since 1981.
Charlotte news station WBTV reported Monday that a gay teenager who was the victim of a brutal anti-gay attack in April was assaulted again in Sunday’s early morning hours.
Police in the Upstate of South Carolina are investigating a second assault and alleged hate crime following April’s reported beating in Rock Hill.
SC Equality, the Palmetto State’s LGBT advocacy group, will meet in Aiken, S.C., tonight with U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles, FBI officials and local law enforcement. From the group: On Wednesday, SC Equality joins US Attorney, Bill Nettles, FBI and local law enforcement for a free and open to the public [...]
South Carolina-native Zeke Stokes begins work as new communications director for Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), a national legal services and policy organization that for nearly two decades advocated for the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT). SLDN also provides legal services to those impacted by or fired under the statute.
Furman University will host a presentation of the award-winning “Vagina Monologues” on Marc 3 at 7 p.m. at 3300 Poinsett Hwy.
Yesterday, we published a story on South Carolina Equality’s recent survey of 1,000 LGBT residents in the Palmetto State. The survey found that 48 percent of respondents had experienced bullying or harassment in South Carolina’s public schools. SC Equality Director Christine Johnson (pictured right) says her group will be pushing [...]
South Carolina Equality has released a landmark survey of 1,000 LGBT residents. The survey exposes several needs and challenges currently facing the state’s estimated 117,000 LGBT citizens, advocates say, particularly among LGBT youth in the state’s public schools.
USA Network has selected Elke Kennedy, activist and mother of 2007 hate crime victim Sean Kennedy, for their 2010 Character Unite Award.
LGBT community mmebrs and leaders across the Carolians share their New Year resolutions, personally and for the community.
The top LGBT political and community news of the Carolinas in 2010, from HRC’s move to Raleigh and ASO funding to community leadership changes and midterm elections.