Cover Stories
When the Human Rights Campaign Carolinas Gala comes to Raleigh on Feb. 26, they’ll bring with them a home design hottie, an actress and singer known for her work with the best divas of the past half-century and the mayor of the largest city ever to elect an openly gay executive.
With everyday conversations in which references to TV moments seem to outnumber recollections of actual memories and YouTube allusions usually overtake verbal attempts to share real experience, it’s easy to feel swept away in the fast pace of the moving media world.
Queen City Theatre Company (QCTC) will present the Carolinas regional premiere of Shores’ “Southern Baptist Sissies” (SBS) on Jan. 21 (a day before this issue’s street date). The performance continues through Feb. 5 at Duke Energy Theatre at Spirit Square in Uptown Charlotte.
LGBT community mmebrs and leaders across the Carolians share their New Year resolutions, personally and for the community.
Let’s face it: Beauty pageants are a joke. Some would even argue such contests are sexist. Fortunately for us sane folks, we can indulge in “Pageant: The Musical,” a hilarious and satirical spoof on this strange, albeit popular, world of beauty pageantry. Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte will stage the show in January.
When jolly St. Nick wraps up his Naughty and Nice lists this year, he’ll be including some names familiar to the LGBT community. Unfortunately, a lump of coal is the only thing some of them will find in their stockings.
Although it’s an accepted convention that sometimes opposites attract, resulting in dichotomous pairings like liberals with conservatives, matinee idols with car park attendants and Carolina fans with Duke fans, for the most part this hasn’t been the case with HIV-positive and HIV-negative people.
Don’t miss our annual gift guide, out on newsstands this Friday and Saturday, with great features like our Ultimate Guide to Gay Gift Giving, Books, Music, Pets, Southern Christmas Show and so, so much more!
For the Oct. 30, 2010 print edition cover story, editor Matt Comer shares his thoughts on bears, modeling trends and ‘Average Joe,’ and speaks to members of North Carolina’s bear community.
Famed comedian and actor Lily Tomlin heads to Charlotte on Oct. 24, performing at Blumenthal’s Belk Theater. We got some of her thoughts on her upcoming show, Hollywood and entertainment culture and reality TV, along with her thoughts on the recent reports of gay teen suicides across the nation.
Hot Works has a reputation of organizing some of the best art shows in the country, bringing world-renowned and local artists’ works to the public. The group’s Orchard Lake Fine Arts Show in West Bloomfield, Mich., has been voted three years running as one of the top 100 art shows out of at least 3,000 in the country, and they are once again bringing the same high quality to Charlotte.
North Carolina Pride Parade and Festival organizers are hailing new local partnerships and anticipated entertainers as they wrap up their final plans for this year’s 26th annual events.
The 2010 Pride Charlotte festival is slated for Oct. 2 and organizers of the event say attendees can expect new changes, better entertainment and cooler weather than past years’ events. These changes, they say, were the result of community feedback solicited through surveys after last year’s festival.
“Go Fat Camp!” someone exclaimed from a car driving down Central Ave. To the side of the street, I stood in the parking lot of Grand Central with local indie rockers Lee Grutman, Adam Phillips and Phil Shive. The unexpected showering of fan praise is a testament to their local [...]
From the Triangle to Columbia, qnotes explores the best of this fall’s upcoming arts and entertainment offerings: ON STAGE musicals, plays, theatre DANCE art in motion FILMS/DVD dvd and theatrical releases COMEDY artfully humorous MUSEUMS/GALLERIES on display plus… Songs of hope, with One Voice Chorus, Gay Men’s Chorus of Charlotte [...]
In the Aug. 7-20 print edition, qnotes explores local and independent LGBT media: Film company explores story, character Chapel Hill grad student takes on HIV/AIDS Leaps and bounds: Local artist was once center of controversy Plus, intern Tyler DeVere explores LGBT representations in TV media and recent rankings by GLAAD
To prepare Julianne Moore for her role as a lesbian parent in “The Kids Are All Right,” out director/co-writer Lisa Cholodenko gave her some critical materials to study: gay porn. “Yeah!” Moore laughs, discussing the film in Manhattan’s Waldorf Astoria hotel in late June 2010. To explain: Moore and Annette [...]
After the passage in 2008 of California’s Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that banned recognition of same-sex marriage there, the nation’s LGBT community experienced a reawakening. For the first time in years — at least since the time of ACT UP — massive numbers of LGBT people took to the [...]
A AIDS — The AIDS Crisis of the 1980s shaped and molded our community in ways that continue to impact us today. Prejudice and stigma, political awareness and organizing and so much more can be traced to that mysterious, “baffling illness” that took the American community of gay men by [...]
Lonnie Green, a new member of One Voice Chorus, says that joining and singing has been a great experience for him. Green says that the chorus is a “very warm, friendly, cordial” environment for LGBT people as well as for people who have no musical experience. According to their website, [...]
