Brandon files for 12th District
May 15, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
State Rep. Marcus Brandon (D-Guilford) has formally announced his decision to run for North Carolina’s 12th Congressional District.
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Matt Comer
May 15, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
State Rep. Marcus Brandon (D-Guilford) has formally announced his decision to run for North Carolina’s 12th Congressional District.
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Matt Comer
May 9, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
The North Carolina Senate today approved a bill that would allow student groups on college and university campuses to discriminate in membership and leadership.
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Matt Comer
May 8, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
A bill restricting teenagers’ access to medical and mental health care initially scheduled for a floor vote on Wednesday was instead taken off the calendar and sent back to the North Carolina House’s Judiciary Committee.
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Matt Comer
May 8, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
North Carolina’s statewide LGBT advocacy and education group is asking community members across the state to join them in commemorating the one-year anniversary of Amendment One today.
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Matt Comer
May 2, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Constituents of an eastern North Carolina state senator say his legislative assistant crossed the line when she said two weeks ago that LGBT equality was not a civil rights issue and said the devil had tormented a mother’s deceased gay son.
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The Charlotte Observer
April 24, 2013 in News by The Charlotte Observer
Is Anthony Foxx headed to Washington? If there’s anything to the chatter at the N.C. General Assembly, he is.
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Matt Comer
April 16, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
An effort to pass non-discrimination legislation designed to protect North Carolina public employees and teachers will face an uphill, if not impossible, battle in the legislature this year.
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Matt Comer
April 15, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Citizens from across the state will head to Raleigh on Tuesday to participate in a lobby day planned by Equality North Carolina, a statewide LGBT education and advocacy organization.
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Lainey Millen
April 12, 2013 in Carolinas News Notes by Lainey Millen
A recently introduced bill in the General Assembly has students and faculty at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) buzzing.
Tags: Charlotte, Legislative Watch, Print Edition 2013-04-12
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Matt Comer
April 11, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Gov. Pat McCrory’s office took no position Thursday on a set of bills that could expand workplace non-discrimination protections for state employees and teachers.
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Matt Comer
April 10, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Four Democratic lawmakers have introduced a new state employment non-discrimination bill. Unlike a similar bill introduced in late March, the bill introduced Tuesday would also extend protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity to teachers and other school staff across the state.
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Matt Comer
April 4, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
Meeting in a rare joint session on Wednesday morning, members of the North Carolina Senate and House of Representatives approved a slate of six nominees to the state board of education, including anti-gay Forsyth County school board member A.L. “Buddy” Collins.
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Matthew Burns
April 3, 2013 in News by Matthew Burns
Three freshmen senators said Tuesday that they want to head off a policy that would allow students of the opposite sex to start sharing bathrooms and common living areas in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus housing suites and apartments next fall.
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Matt Comer
March 29, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
State lawmakers introduced bills this week that would extend non-discrimination protections to LGBT state employees.
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Matthew Burns
February 28, 2013 in News by Matthew Burns
In addition to several other bills on fracking and workers comp, the North Carolina Senate passed a funeral protest on Wednesday. Gov. Pat McCrory has said he supports the measure, made in response to funeral protests by groups like Westboro Baptist Church.
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Matt Comer
February 15, 2013 in Featured Stories, News by Matt Comer
Staffers with North Carolina’s statewide equality organization were in force at this year’s Creating Change, the annual conference of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
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Brett Webb-Mitchell
January 18, 2013 in On Being a Gay Parent by Brett Webb-Mitchell
One of the adages I’ve passed on to generations of students I have taught since 1989 is this: All education is continuing education.
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Matt Comer
January 10, 2013 in News by Matt Comer
North Carolina’s new General Assembly convened for their new session on Wednesday, bringing with them an historic dominance of Republican control not seen in the state since 1870.
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The Charlotte Observer
January 9, 2013 in News by The Charlotte Observer
When North Carolina’s new General Assembly convenes Wednesday, Mecklenburg County will enjoy its greatest influence in years, if not ever.
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Matt Comer
December 26, 2012 in News by Matt Comer
The Huffington Post posted their top 50 LGBT stories of the year on Dec. 24. News from North Carolina made the list, in not-so-pleasant ways — despite our state’s best efforts to remain the sole progressive voice in the South.
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