Gay Charlotte and LGBTQ Carolina News, Arts & Entertainment
Equality North Carolina has announced their selection of eight LGBTQ youth from across the state to participate in the foundation’s inaugural Rural Youth Empowerment (RYE) Fellowship.
Metropolitan Community Church Sacred Journey has initiated a new support group for caregivers as part of its ongoing outreach to the community, and the Lady Trailblazers of NC Meetup group is heading to the Great Smoky Mountains in early September.
AIDS Leadership Foothills-Area Alliance will celebrate HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day on June 5, a Metropolitan Community Church Sacred Journey yard sale has been rescheduled for June 23 and a fundraising Full Moon in June benefit is being held for Aura Home Women Vets on June 29.
Flat Rock/Hendersonville PFLAG will hold their upcoming meeting on April 9
Black Star Line Brewing Co. will no longer operate at its downtown Hendersonville location.
An African-American queer woman has opened a brewery; a lesbian group is heading to the lanes; and PFLAG Hendersonville is holding a fundraising barbecue.
Aaron Sarvar will speak at PFLAG and the women are dancing the night away.
“The Sunday Sessions” is screening at MCC Sacred Journey, a candidates’ forum is happening and women gather to sing in a circle.
Author Sarah Prager will be holding a talk about queer history, as well as a reading and signing of her book “Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World” on Sept. 21, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) of Flat Rock/Hendersonville and the Henderson County High School Gay-Straight Alliance will hold a car wash fundraiser on Sept. 16, the LGBTQ Elder Advocates of Western North Carolina are holding their Pride 2017 Family Picnic on Sept. 27, Blue Ridge Pride Center, Inc. and Michael-David Entertainment will present the 9th Annual Miss Blue Ridge Pride Pageant on Sept. 28 and “A Midsummer Night’s Second Chance Prom” was held on Aug. 26 to benefit the Lauren Jaquays LGBTQ Youth Alliance.
