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Sept. 29, 2018 is a big day for the LGBTQ community in North Carolina with three Pride events all taking place on the same day.

Rosedale Medical, a longtime leader in HIV/AIDS treatment and care, has opened a new clinic in Uptown Charlotte at 321 W. 11th St.

Triad Health Project (THP) has announced that it named a new executive director, Mark Cassity, to lead its efforts in providing access to care and prevention of new HIV infections in the community.

Time Out Youth Center, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Office of Identity, Equity, and Engagement and Equality North Carolina will hold the sixth annual Carolina Conference on Queer Youth on Oct. 19.

The Laughing Gull Foundation (LGF) has announced the approval of $3,895,000 in grants to be awarded from 2018 through 2020 to 24 organizations supporting the LGBTQ community in the U.S. South.

The National LGBT Cancer Network has become the newest recipient of a $2.5 million five-year award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to expand resources for their grantees serving LGBTQ people at risk for tobacco-related cancers.

Lesbian Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library Service Specialist Angelise Ramos has started the Read The Rainbow Bookclub at the Independence Regional Library branch.

News briefs from across the Carolinas and beyond for 09.21.18.

“A new report from the University of Connecticut and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation reveals some of the factors behind the elevated suicide rate among LGBTQ youth.”

In its recent survey, Adameve.com asked over 1,000 adults if they thought that gay and/or bisexual men should be allowed to donate blood if they have had sex with another man in the past 12 months.

The LGBT Center of Raleigh will celebrate area superstars when it welcomes attendees to its upcoming Annual Awards Dinner & Gala, #10Years10Reasons, on Oct. 5.

The Freedom Center for Social Justice will hold its inaugural Liberating Theologies Conference on Oct. 6.

The Campaign for Southern Equality has announced that is has launched a Southern LGBTQ Health Survey in order to better understand the health care needs of LGBTQ Southerners.

News briefs from across the Carolinas and beyond for 09.07.18.

Both branches of Aldersgate — the Continuing Care Retirement Community and sibling Asbury Health & Rehabilitation — have earned top platinum status from SAGECare.

On an unusually warm night in February, 13 students squeezed into a small study room in the Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) for what would be the first meeting of the UNC Charlotte LGBTQ+ Coalition.

Measuring an institution’s commitment to equality for its LGBTQ students and staff is no easy task. There is no shortage of top-10 rankings or attempts to apply star ratings.

Charlotte heated up this summer with the Charlotte Black Gay Pride celebration and the Charlotte Pride Festival & Parade.

The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation has announced the launch of its Inclusive Public Art initiative, one of three that the foundation is supporting.

A new public opinion survey data released shows that only a small percentage of North Carolinians have ever heard of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP.