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Letters to the editor and comments from goqnotes.com.
Letter: City council candidate LaWana Mayfield will be a fierce and tireless advocate not just for our community, but for the community as a whole.
Readers respond to Matt Comer’s April 2 column, “Marching backward to the beat of a despotic drum.”
Readers respond to our ‘gay disease’ commentary and Brett Webb-Mitchell’s column last issue.
Readers respond to our article profiling John Stolter, new chair of Charlotte’s Lesbian & Gay Community Center.
Tolerance at NCSU In response to our article on N.C. State University’s Free Expression Tunnel (goqnotes.com/9052), a reader says: The younger generation is much more tolerant of our community and I applaud them for that. However, we CANNOT mistake this tolerance for universal acceptance. Incidents like the outing of the [...]
Readers respond to complaints of discrimination in Raleigh and to the rainbow light theme on Charlotte’s Duke Energy Building on National Coming Out Day
Readers respond to stories on bullying, free speech, Fred Phelps, Pride Charlotte and new Charlotte Lesbian & Gay Community Center leadership.
Thank you, Lady Gaga I was lucky enough to go see Lady Gaga in concert in Charlotte, front row! Never have I had more fun or been so personally moved at a concert before. So many will hate on her for her outrageous costumes or attack her for her personal [...]
From the editor: Following the publication of of our July 24 print and online editions, qnotes received several comments regarding Trinity’s advice column “Drag queens, cross dressers and trannies…Oh, my!”. Our readers were upset with the use of a word they consider offensive and derogatory. qnotes wants to apologize to [...]
Letters to the editor and comments from goqnotes.com. Web comments are not edited for grammar or punctuation. As a past Task Force member for the years 2006-2008, I must point out an error in your article in the current qnotes where it stated the Pride Charlotte Festival was “forced to [...]
Letters to the editor and comments from Q-Notes Online. Web comments are not edited for grammar or punctuation. Bold legislation Contrary to your editorial on the Healthy Youth Act (HYA) (“‘Compromise’ bill leaves much to be desired,” Editor’s Note, May 2, 2009), I believe firmly that it will directly improve [...]
Letters to the editor and comments from Q-Notes Online. Web comments are not edited for grammar or punctuation. Ted Haggard If Ted Haggard had not been “outed” by the one with whom he spent his time and to whom he gave money fresh from the collection plate, he would still [...]
Letters to the editor and comments from Q-Notes Online. Web comments are not edited for grammar or punctuation. HRC and local funding First of all, I would like to thank Shane Windmeyer, Monica Simpson and Pamela Jones for their truly heartfelt and significant posts and commentaries in print and via [...]
Letters to the editor and comments from Q-Notes Online. Web comments are not edited for grammar or punctuation. HRC article: Missed points Great piece on HRC and I thank you for the balanced points of view. Three quick points: 1. We do have a statewide LGBT political presence via Equality [...]
Let the struggle continue We are writing to you in disagreement with your editorial calling for a backing off of the marriage equality struggle (Editor’s Note, Jan. 24, “Revisiting our past could help us now”). We remember the formation of Anita Bryant’s group, “Save the Children,” which was in response [...]
A couple issues ago, we asked readers in Charlotte where they go out, especially after the close of Velocity. Here are the results from our online QPoll, with web comments. When we are in Charlotte, we usually hit up Hartigan’s and Liaisons. Kameela Vose, Nov. 30, web …Velocity had bad [...]
Letters to the editor and comments from Q-Notes Online. Web comments are not edited for grammar or punctuation. [Ed. Note — This is a response to the Nov. 1 QLiving feature, “Veterans’ Affairs.”] While I don’t want to take anything away from Albert’s and Robert’s service to our country, I [...]
Letters to the editor and comments from Q-Notes Online. Web comments are not edited for grammar or punctuation. Op-ed not full story on ‘Crisis’ I was a little surprised to see you publish the October 4th guest commentary (“Ignoring the crisis at home?”, Brandon Greeson) suggesting I am “ignoring the [...]
Letters to the editor and comments from Q-Notes Online. Web comments are not edited for grammar or punctuation. HIV violations I know several transexual’s in the Raleigh area that have been doing the same thing . one I know was on her death bed and refused to give names .. [...]
