Police Brutality

SFC Supervisor Seeks to Preserve Icons Home

Beyond the Carolinas

Lainey Millen on October 16, 2020

District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman introduced a resolution to designate the former home of pioneering LGBTQ and civil rights activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin as a local historic landmark.

Speaking Out: Cancer, Voting

Letters from the Editor

QNotes Staff on October 2, 2020

Voices from our readers…on fighting cancer and queering the vote.

N.C. Reparation Efforts Focus on ‘Generational Wealth,’ Avoid Direct Payments

Cities Explore Ways to Right Age-Old Wrongs

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez and Anton L. Delgado on August 19, 2020

The approval of reparations for Black residents in Asheville this month is being followed by similar demands in other North Carolina cities.

For the Benefit of Mr. Kight

Jesse’s Journal: A New Biography of Morris Kight

Jesse Monteagudo on July 24, 2020

High among those individuals was Morris Kight. In 1957 the Texas-born Kight moved to Los Angeles, where he made a name for himself by assisting gay youth with financial, health or legal problems.

Court Blocks Enforcement of Graham’s Protest Ban Ordinance

Carolinas News Notes

Lainey Millen on July 10, 2020

In response to a lawsuit and motion for a temporary restraining order filed on July 3 by civil rights groups, a federal judge granted a consent temporary restraining order on July 6 following an agreement reached by the City of Graham, the Alamance County Sheriff and plaintiffs.

Protected by a Temporary Restraining Order, Activists Return to Graham

Student-Led Sit-In Calls for Right to Peacefully Protest and the Removal of Alamance County’s Sheriff

Anton L. Delgado on July 10, 2020

The familiar cries of “no justice, no peace” returned to Graham on the afternoon of July 9 as more than 30 people gathered in front of the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office.

‘It’s All Of Us Or None of Us’

Black LGBTQ Community’s Call To Action

Tonya Jameson on June 29, 2020

Members of Charlotte Black Pride and representatives from nearly 40 other gay organizations gathered at Camp Northend to celebrate gay Pride with a call to action to the larger gay community — Black Lives Matter.

Voting in America

How LGBTQ Organizations have Mobilized the Community

Chris Rudisill on June 12, 2020

The Stonewall Riots were a response to police brutality and a system of oppression against LGBTQ people that had gone on for years. It was sparked by the bravery of black and brown young people and became a pivotal moment of visibility launching the modern gay rights movement and bringing our community out of the shadows and the closets that had been built around us

Black LGBTQ rights group calls for resignation of mayor, officer in N.C. town

Town of Warsaw has been at center of controversy over violent arrest of a black gay man early in May

Matt Comer on May 25, 2018

The National Black Justice Coalition, the largest LGBTQ civil rights group representing the black community, has released a strongly worded statement condemning the actions of a small North Carolina town’s mayor and a police officer at the center of a violent arrest.