Community
The Regional AIDS Interfaith Network will welcome Bishop Gene Robinson to Charlotte on Feb. 10 for an exciting and intimate evening filled with hope and compassion. The event will kick off the year-long celebration of RAIN’s 20th anniversary. Charlotte’s only HIV nonprofit providing direct client services was founded by The [...]
WILMINGTON — Veteran activist and community leader William Franklin Harr, known to friends as “Frank,” passed away May 8 at the age of 56. Harr leaves behind his life-partner of 32 years, Ken Cox. The pair were mainstays of the local LGBT community. Both men were founding members of Gay [...]
SALISBURY, N.C. – PFLAG-Salisbury chapter will play host to the national organization’s North Carolina/South Carolina Leadership Conference this week. On Saturday, April 26, more than 50 participants, as well as PFLAG national officers, will descend on this sleepy hometown of regional grocery store giant Food Lion. The event will be [...]
The Alliance for Full Acceptance (AFFA), a Charleston-based organization focused on promoting LGBT “Acceptance Without Exception,” has been extremely active the last year. Aside from building coalitions with the NAACP, Camp Hope (a program for at-risk children), the S.C. Progressive Network and the Unitarian Universalist Church, AFFA grew 12 percent [...]
