Gay Charlotte and LGBTQ Carolina News, Arts & Entertainment
Laws around equal access and treatment of LGBTQ individuals, including same-gender couples, continues to evolve and change, some for the better, and some for the worse.
These four useful resources assist seniors who may be starting to experience physical challenges to remain in their homes longer.
It is very easy in today’s complex multi-cultural world to inadvertently offend someone.
…there has been a significant increase in senior housing options that are more affirming of LGBTQ people as we age.
I wanted to focus on an enterprise that has a wonderful outreach to the LGBTQ community.
I was thrilled to see the positive coverage and celebration of our out gay Olympians.
Fighting for equality and dealing with gross inequities in human society has been a hot subject from the distant past through today, and it will no doubt continue far into the future.
Opening up new possibilities for acceptance broadens world view
The Triangle Business Journal, the very widely-read and respected weekly business newspaper for the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area of North Carolina, holds a quarterly “Power Breakfast” featuring an area senior leader with a few hundred local business leaders. The Spring 2017 breakfast held April 6 featured the newly elected N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper. Gov. Cooper is quite unique, as he was the first challenger to defeat a sitting governor in our state since 1850.
As a quick refresher, North Carolina’s HB2 law, passed last spring, dictated that transgender people must use the restroom corresponding to the gender on their birth certificate in public facilities, and that municipalities may not pass legislation protecting its citizens from discrimination beyond that already described at the state level. The result has been a huge departure of convention, sporting and entertainment events, as well as potential major business expansion, from the state.
