Archives: Charlotte

Less than two weeks before trial, charges have been dropped against a leading Charlotte Uprising activist.

The Charlotte RNC host committee isn’t publicly committing to LGBTQ vendor inclusion.

By Calla Hales count, more than 18,500 protesters showed up at her [abortion] clinic last year alone. Each weekend, the numbers average more than 200 individual protesters in a day.

Dexter Jordan is having a moment, and it is hard earned in more ways than one.

When Joseph Quisol picked up a guitar at 17 and began teaching himself to play with the aide of YouTube videos, he didn’t have a grander vision of where it might take him.

Planned Parenthood South Atlantic has announced that its Standing Strong Charlotte event will be held on Oct. 4, the Charlotte Pride Festival & Parade will return to Uptown Charlotte Aug. 18-19, the 22nd Anniversary Mass of Celebration for LGBTQ Catholics, Their Friends and Family will be said on Aug. 17 and the Human Rights Campaign Charlotte will hold their Beers 4 Equality on Aug. 12.

For months, Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles pursued hosting the 2020 Republican National Convention with the backing of 10 of 11 City Council members.

After a rancorous meeting lasting more than three hours, the Charlotte City Council voted Monday afternoon to host the Republican National Convention in 2020.

Charlotte B-Cycle’s Executive Director Dianna Ward left her imprint on a news story by Carolina Public Press about bike-share programs across the state.

Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte executive director Chip Decker said, “We put everything we could think of out into the universe,” including connecting with a support group for parents of trans youth.

“So that impossible standard, I can’t give to other people. I just have to love them for who they are, at that moment.”

Alex Aguilar commits, not only in his role as the larger-than-life, fantastical Merperson in David Valdes Greenwood’s “The Mermaid Hour,” but in all his endeavors.

Charlotte Black Gay Pride returns for another year of week-long events from July 24-28, with special guests including Stonewall veteran Miss Major and FOX ‘Empire’ star Terrell Carter.

Heading into the final match with several injured players taken out, our boys left everything they had on the field as they played their toughest match of the weekend.

Patients, healthcare providers, community leaders and advocates gathered on June 12 for HIV Speaks on Jones Street 2018, Equality North Carolina (ENC) has announced that Bree Newsome has accepted the invitation to be the keynote speaker at the NC Faith Forward “Uniting For Our Future” summit on July 14 and Charles Durrett of McCamant & Durrett Architects, Village Hearth Cohousing (Durham, N.C.) architect and pioneer of senior cohousing in North America, will host Study Group 1 Aging Successfully (SG1) Online Facilitator Training.

An estimated 4,000 people who ate at a Hardee’s restaurant on Little Rock Road in mid-June are at risk of contracting Hepatitis A, and should get a vaccination “as soon as possible.”

Wednesday marks the annual National HIV Testing Day, and local groups are using Tuesday to gear up for a day of prevention and awareness.

In a courtroom usually set aside for the violence adults unleash on each other, the names of two dead children hung like ghosts. Then detail by wincing detail, a Mecklenburg prosecutor brought Drakeford Watts and Mariya Owens back to life as he told the public for the first time how they died.

Local leaders have not focused on those with the highest need, primarily people and families and the lowest end of the economic spectrum.

Stonewall Sports Charlotte has announced that it has launched its inaugural Stonewall Rainbow Run on Sept. 8, Retiring One Voice Chorus Artistic Director Gerald Gurss has received a Special Judges Citation from The American Prize in Composition and the Charlotte LGBTQ/IGLA Swimming Club has announced it’s gauging interest in the development of an International Gay & Lesbian Aquatics team and Stonewall Sports league