Opinion

Charlotte is asking and telling
Editor's Note

March 6th, 2010 Comments (0)

For a year now, I’ve been involved with a newly established LGBT grassroots group in the Queen City. The Charlotte [...]

Joint crusade
General Gayety

March 6th, 2010 Comments (0)

Online readers of Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper spotted an apparent show of brotherhood, a photo of a Christian leader and [...]

Why ENDA matters…revisited…again
T-Notes

March 6th, 2010 Comments (1)

My experiences have not been unusual. Sadly, they are more common, by far, than those whose personal experiences have not [...]

Christian Panhandling League
Editor's Note

February 19th, 2010 Comments (2)

Keep your friends close and your enem…I mean, friends with whom you simply disagree…closer. How many anti-LGBT groups’ email lists [...]

Matching the words with the LGBT world
General Gayety

February 19th, 2010 Comments (0)

The Word Warriors website, a project of Wayne State University, aims to retrieve expressive English words from obscurity. Hoping to [...]

Hope in Hickory, and for the nation
Editor's Note

February 5th, 2010 Comments (0)

In small town America the LGBT community isn’t often given the chance to see its stories and lives held up [...]

Talkback: Pride Charlotte and Flip Benham
Letters to the editor

February 5th, 2010 Comments (0)

Letters to the editor and comments from goqnotes.com. Web comments are not edited for grammar or punctuation.
As a past Task [...]

When things go bad
General Gayety

February 5th, 2010 Comments (0)

I spent an hour in the dentist’s chair yesterday, getting shots and enduring drills.
I’d rather do that again today than [...]

What being transsexual means to me
T-Notes

February 5th, 2010 Comments (0)

I think one thing many will agree upon is the critical need for change — personally, publicly, politically and socially. [...]

LGBT community helping Haiti
Editor's Note

January 22nd, 2010 Comments (1)

It’s hard to miss the aid commercials from the First Lady, television networks and other companies and non-profits. Relief for [...]

The day things change
General Gayety

January 22nd, 2010 Comments (0)

If you follow the news, you know that Jan. 1 was a big day in New Hampshire.
That’s the day recreational [...]

Charlotte leadership: Curiously silent
Editor's Note

January 7th, 2010 Comments (12)

Curiously silent. That’s what describes the Charlotte LGBT community’s official response to Republican Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James — the [...]

Homo stupidicus
General Gayety

January 7th, 2010 Comments (0)

You’ve heard of Peking Man and Java Man. Now meet Mecklenburg Man.
This prehistoric specimen, Bill James, is a Mecklenburg County [...]

Transgender, Transsexual and Intersex
T-Notes

January 7th, 2010 Comments (4)

Regarding the issue of nomenclature and labels, there are many opinions on this particular subject. Invariably, few agree. I suggest [...]

Resolutions and well-wishes
Editor's Note

December 26th, 2009 Comments (0)

Another year has come and gone. A new year and a new decade are upon us. How appropriate a time [...]

The rainbow and TV icons
General Gayety

December 26th, 2009 Comments (0)

Meredith Baxter’s announcement that she is a lesbian has put a — you should excuse the expression — kink in [...]

I should have been a lawyer
Editor's Note

December 12th, 2009 Comments (0)

Politics has always interested me. So has the law. Ask any of my friends and they’ll tell you I’m quite [...]

The turkey count
General Gayety

December 12th, 2009 Comments (0)

It’s that time of year when we think about turkey. Or, in my case, turkeys. In honor of the season, [...]

I hardly knew her
T-Notes

December 12th, 2009 Comments (0)

As I write this, it’s Saturday of Thanksgiving Day weekend — the so-called beginning of the holiday season. People are [...]

Hot guys, lesbians and football
Editor's Note

November 28th, 2009 Comments (0)

Sports. Not really my thing. I don’t understand any of the games or their rules. I don’t know what shot [...]

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