Politics
On Sunday in Charlotte, the emerging campaigns around North Carolina’s proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage skirmished along a three-mile front.
The Vote Against Project will be taking to the super slab during the next few months to photograph participants who wish to defeat the anti-gay amendment on the May 8 ballot.
Organizers of the effort to defeat North Carolina’s proposed anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment officially kicked off their campaign this week at a press event at the North Carolina General Assembly. In addition to traditional campaign organizing, the activists also plan to take their message directly to the people starting this month.
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 Friday, Jan. 20, 7-9 p.m., the Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte Adult Religious Education/Spiritual Development program will be screening the documentary “Ballot Measure 9.” Ballot Measure 9 was an anti-gay amendment proposed to Oregon voters in 1992 by the conservative group Oregon Citizen’s Alliance. This documentary goes behind the [...]
The North Carolina Psychological Association released an opposition statement on the Defense of Marriage amendment in September. Equality North Carolina lauded the position.
Three… two… one… Happy New Year! Yes, it’s time for well wishes, resolutions and new beginnings. I do it. You do it. We all partake in the annual wish-making and dreaming that is New Year. With a new calendar comes hopes for change, progress and success. And, as much as we each wish better for ourselves, here’s to new hopes that our community and world experiences better days as well.
Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Francis George ignited a firestorm when he compared advancing LGBT equality to the Ku Klux Klan in a television interview with Fox Chicago a few days before Christmas. Cardinal George said: “You don’t want the gay liberation movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism.”
LaWana Mayfield’s election to the Charlotte City Council this fall was unusual in that she knocked off a long-serving incumbent. It was historic in that she became the city’s first openly gay council member.
Happy holidays! We hope your Christmas and Hanukkah weekend went by as smooth as ever. Folks are still celebrating Kwanzaa and New Year’s is just around the corner, but we’re back here at qnotes, ready to get down to business as the days slip by toward 2012. With holiday break over and [...]
Bells will ring, candles will be lighted and champagne will be toasted and plenty of folks will wish they could forget many of the days gone by this year. Yes, the economy still sucks. Yes, politicians still have no answers. Yes, Congress is still deadlocked. But, don’t be fooled: Lots of good things happened this year, too.
LGBT advocates and grassroots activists knew they were up for a challenge the moment election results started rolling in November 2010’s midterm elections. Control of the state legislature had been returned to Republican hands for the first time in over a century. It was time for the longtime minority to have its way on Jones St. and Republican leadership wasted no time getting to their decades-long pent-up agenda.
For her persistent commitment, intelligence, zeal and passion for this city’s LGBT community, its equality and the welfare of the city at large, qnotes is proud to name LGBT activist and civic leader Roberta Dunn our 2011 Person of the Year.
I give Jane Schmidt a world of credit. The Iowa high school student held her own in an exchange with Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann. At Schmidt’s age, shaking a candidate’s hand was enough to make me forget my name.
Working Films has joined the battle against the North Carolina anti-gay amendment on the ballot on May 8, 2012, with its addition of Reel Equality.
The Coalition to Protect NC Families’ Campaign Manager Jeremy Kennedy is asking supporters to contribute monies toward its efforts to defeat the anti-gay marriage amendment which will appear on the ballot on May 8, 2012.
At the beginning of the month, we reported on a new pro-LGBT equality ad campaign that would be hitting The Charlotte Observer‘s website this month. We noticed this morning that the ads had finally appeared. Screenshot below, click to enlarge. Article exploring the ads here.
North Carolina-based LGBT advocacy group Faith in America is criticizing Cisco Systems and Charlotte-based Bank of America for their decision to rehire an anti-gay activist known for his extremist views on LGBT people.
A writer for Politics365.com, a politics and policy news website for communities of color, says Charlotte City Councilmember LaWana Mayfield’s election as the city’s first openly gay or lesbian elected official is a good sign for Charlotte and the South. Matt E. Stevens writes: In a moment possibly indicative of [...]
A former Mecklenburg commissioner has filed a grievance against fellow Democrat Harold Cogdell, saying he should be stripped of any position in the party after working with Republicans to be elected chairman of the county board.
