Our People: Ames Simmons
Policy Director, Equality North Carolina
Ames Simmons is a queer, transgender white man who serves as the first-ever director of Trans Policy at Equality North Carolina, a statewide LGBTQ advocacy organization.
Our People: Tina Wright and Nikki Lynn Thomas
King-Henry-Brockington Archivists
Tina Wright and Nikki Lynn Thomas are both archivists at J. Murray Atkins Library at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) involved with the King-Henry-Brockington Archive, a collection of materials relating to LGBTQ history in Charlotte.
Sexual Assault
Legal Eagles: How LGBTQ Victims Can Seek Justice Through Civil Litigation
People who identify as LGBTQ are statistically more likely to experience sexual assault. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40 percent of gay men have experienced sexual violence, as opposed to 21 percent of heterosexual men.
Howard Brown helps launch advisory network for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Health
Beyond the Carolinas
Howard Brown Health announced its participation in an innovative community-led research advisory network that will support the development of patient-centered research projects focused on addressing the health needs of transgender and gender non conforming people.
Living life on campus as a trans person can be a real challenge
Post Two Thousand: A New Column for LGBTQ+ Youth
Just like finals and hysterical religious protestors, awful roommates are a fact of life on college campuses. … At some point in any undergraduate’s career, they will be paired up with somebody who fundamentally grinds their gears, typically out of difference in personality or habits. Unless you’re transgender.
Photo projects explore gender, couples
Carolinas News Notes
Two photographers, one from Virginia and one a former Charlottean, have embarked upon projects that focus on the LGBTQ community from two perspectives.
How four gender-nonconforming youth made their stage debut
My play ‘The Mermaid Hour’ asks theatres to cast only trans or gender-nonconforming performers in the lead role. Here’s how they, and the teens, including one from Charlotte, rose to the occasion.
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.
