News Briefs for 10.02.20
Beyond the Carolinas
News briefs from across the globe for 10.02.20.
News briefs from across the globe for 10.02.20.
Today, Biden for President NorthCarolinaannounced its has put together a LGBTQ Leadership Council, a part of the national OUT for Biden program. The Council will work to elevate the diverse voices of the LGBTQ community across the Tar Heel state.
I started the Blue Chronicles to share what I’m learning in my pandemic readings with my friends and family. Frankly, I’ve been a little surprised by the reaction to the inaugural video.
North Carolina residents and married couple Brian McCann and Tom Costales know first-hand how devastating the impact of COVID-19 can truly be. Both men became infected and extremely ill, were hospitalized, fought the illness and have lived to tell their stories.
On July 22, 2016, Donald Trump accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in Cleveland. In his speech that night, Trump pledged to “do everything in [his] power to protect our LGBTQ citizens.”
This is a troubling year for the American people. In addition to struggling through a pandemic, racial unrest, economic depression and climate disaster, these dis-United States of America are more divided than at any time since the Civil War (1861-1865).
North Carolina had a record-number of 18 LGBTQ delegates representing the state at this year’s Democratic National Convention.
Tony Green is a gay Republican from Dallas who spent months calling the coronavirus pandemic a “scamdemic” and making fun of people who wore masks. Then he and his entire family got coronavirus, some had to be hospitalized, and one died.
The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) stated in a press release announcing that their NCTE Action Fund had endorsed Joe Biden for president of the United States.
Former Vice President (and likely Democratic presidential nominee) Joe Biden won New Jersey’s Democratic primary as he continues securing his formal nomination scheduled to take place at the party’s convention in August.