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The Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners split along party lines at their meeting Dec. 15, approving domestic partner benefits for same-sex couples 6-3. The county joins six other local North Carolina governments offering similar benefits. Several members of the public spoke on the domestic partner plan prior to the board’s [...]
On Sept. 12, 2009, Q-Notes traveled to Columbia’s Finlay Park for the 20th anniversary SC Pride festival and parade. Speaking to several LGBT leaders in the Palmetto State, we were also present for SC Pride President Ryan Wilson’s proposal to his boyfriend Shehan Welihindha! See photos from SC Pride
Q-Notes speaks to 2009 Don King Award winners at the Sept. 15, 2009 awards dinner of the Charlotte Business Guild.
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The Carolinas Black Pride Movement presents the play, “Before It Hits Home,” during the National Black Church Week of Prayer for HIV/AIDS in Charlotte, NC. Q-Notes takes a behind the scenes look with some of the cast members and director Jermaine Nakia Lee.
Members of the transgender group TransCarolina protested the Human Rights Campaign Carolinas Gala on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009. Members of the group say HRC sold them out when negotiating the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in the fall of 2007. Q-Notes Editor Matt Comer spoke to TransCarolina’s Janice Covington and the Charlotte [...]
Q-Notes traveled to Salisbury, N.C., to report on the passage of the first anti-gay marriage resolution making its way through local county and municipal governments across the state.
Q-Notes editor Matt Comer speaks with the director Glenn Griffin and actor Kristian Wedolowski of Queen City Theatre’s production of “Dangerous,” an all-male, gay version of “Les Liaisons dangereuses” (“Dangerous Liaisons”). Comer, Griffin and Wedolowski discuss Charlotte, Southern culture, gay life, sex and art. The play will debut in Charlotte [...]
CHARLOTTE – Following sold-out performances during the National Black Church Week of Prayer for HIV/AIDS, the Carolinas Black Pride Movement (CBPM) has announced it will produce a special, one-night encore performance of the acclaimed hit “Before it Hits Home.”
Originally published: Feb. 16, 2009, 9:44 p.m.Updated: Feb. 17, 2009, 8:20 a.m. SALISBURY, N.C. — More than 100 people turned out to the Monday, Feb. 16 evening meeting of the Rowan County Board of Commissioners as elected officials took up the issue of same-sex marriage.
For their upcoming anniversary performance of the musical “Bat Boy,” Q-Notes had the opportunity to sit down with the some of the cast and the director for a conversation about their work, the musical, the theatre and how it relates to the world around us today.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A play featuring anti-gay and “ex-gay” religious themes will be showcased at Winston-Salem State University by a traveling, Atlanta, Ga.-based Christian production company headed by an African-American minister and his wife. The duo claims a person can be healed of HIV/AIDS through prayer and say an associate [...]
