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The Adam Foundation will host it’s 2nd Annual Holiday Social on Dec. 1, 5:30 p.m., at Finnigan’s Wake, 620 N. Trade St.
When one thinks about the Planned Parenthood organization, it’s usually associated with birth control and women’s healthcare. Well, it’s no longer the family planning clinic that it once was and it’s a step ahead of the game in providing for the LGBT community.
Speaker: ‘Don’t blame me for amendment’ Meeting with constituents in Boone, North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) said citizens shouldn’t blame him for the passage of the anti-LGBT constitutional amendment to be considered by voters on May 8, 2012. Other members of the House, he said, pushed hard for [...]
Over 400 community members from across the state gathered on the campus of the University of North Carolina-Greensboro on Nov. 12 for a day-long conference on LGBT education, advocacy and organizing.
The Transgender Day of Remembrance will be held on Nov. 20 across the globe. The annual celebration allows the community to pay respects to those who have lost their lives to bigotry and hatred. It was spearheaded by Gwen Smith and is in its 13th year.
Tomorrow is the day! Equality North Carolina and its supporters from across the state converge on Greensboro for a day-long conference tackling some of the most important issues facing Tar Heel LGBT communities today — everything from local and grassroots activism to the amendment fight.
Equality North Carolina, the statewide LGBT education and advocacy group, says Tuesday’s landslide election victories for openly gay and lesbian candidates across the state represent a “turn in the tide on LGBT discrimination.” The group hailed the election victories of Chapel Hill’s Mark Kleinschmidt and Lee Storrow, Carrboro’s Lydia Lavelle [...]
Gay and lesbian candidates across North Carolina sailed to victory in their races for local office on Tuesday.
Polls across the state opened this morning at 6:30 a.m. On the ballot are dozens of city and county races. In Charlotte, voters will pick their choices for city council and three at-large seats on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education. The fate of openly gay candidates there and elsewhere will be decided today.
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 [...]
Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance, 1047 W. Northwest Blvd., will hold a fundraiser for the Adam Foundation on Nov. 19, 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. and on Nov. 20 at 5:30 p.m.
Community members took to the streets of downtown Winston-Salem on Saturday, Oct. 15 for their inaugural, locally-produced LGBT Pride festival and parade. The events were a first since the Twin City hosted the statewide NC Pride in 1996.
An impending ballot initiative considering an anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment on marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships will serve as the backdrop of a documentary currently in the making.
The Equality Conference & Gala will be held on Nov. 12 in its fifth year celebration.
Statewide LGBT advocacy group Equality North Carolina today announced the recipients of their 2011 Equality Champion Awards. The honors will be presented at the group’s annual gala dinner on Nov. 12 in Greensboro.
The statewide LGBT advocacy group Equality North Carolina announced Tuesday that state Rep. Marcus Brandon (D-Guilford) will be honored as their “Legislator of the Year” at their November gala dinner in Greensboro.
You can’t stop Pride. Don’t even try. Human dignity and determination of spirit can’t be overshadowed by hate and prejudice. That’s exactly the message sent by the thousands who attended Pride Charlotte on Aug. 27, the same day hundreds of anti-gay protesters from Charlotte’s radical, religious right made a show of desperate force in an effort to stymie progress and turn back the clock on LGBT equality.
Washington Blade political reporter Chris Johnson reached out to the White House following today’s passage of an anti-LGBT constitutional amendment in the North Carolina Senate. White House spokesperson Shin Inouye issued a statement to the D.C. newspaper. Johnson reports: “The President has long believed that gay and lesbian couples deserve [...]
Members of the North Carolina Senate barely passed a motion to place an anti-LGBT constitutional amendment on the ballot in May 2012. The body began debate shortly after noon and ended at 1:22 p.m. The final vote tally, 30-16, barely met the three-fifths majority needed for the measure to pass. The measure gained prior approval in the state’s House on Monday.
Six business leaders from across the state joined Rep. Marcus Brandon (D-Guilford) at a press conference this morning at the North Carolina Legislative Building. They outlined their business-minded argument against a proposed anti-LGBT constitutional amendment that would ban marriage, civil unions, domestic partnerships and other relationship recognition for same-sex couples.