Redemption: Healing from our checkered past
Staff Commentary
We’ve all got a past — some mostly good and some not so great. It’s what happens to us as we grow up and begin to take on the mantle of adulthood.
Veterans Day 2015: Red, white and blue embraces rainbows, finally!
Long overdue, LGBT military personnel are coming into their own
Today, we celebrate Veterans Day across the U.S. On this day we recognize all of the veterans of all of the wars fought on behalf of our great nation. Those who have given of themselves, even be it life or limb or more, are owned a great deal of gratitude for their service. They served bravely.
After Charlotte rescinds domestic partner benefits, Mecklenburg County can still make right decision
Editorial: City of Charlotte wrongly rescinds benefits, but Mecklenburg County still has option to retain, expand to more households
City officials should have kept and expanded domestic partner benefits to include more households not based on marital status. Mecklenburg County has time to avoid the city’s mistake.
The Charlotte that is, not the feel-good myth we wish to see
Editorial: A progressive city that isn't nearly as progressive as we thought
We tell ourselves we are a progressive, can-do, forward-thinking city that comes together to amicably solve our problems. It is the Charlotte Way, we exclaim. It is a lie.
Joel Ford places personal religion before rule of law
Editorial
North Carolina Sen. Joel Ford’s vote for Senate Bill 2 was a vote for a return to old, embarrassing days of widespread discrimination.
Charlotte: Ignore voices of division, pass LGBT-inclusive protections
Editorial
City leaders should ignore voices of discrimination and division and instead witness the wisdom of commonsense public policy and pass LGBT-inclusive protections.
QNotes responds to Charlotte Catholic diocese objections to report on fired gay teacher
QNotes, the Charlotte-based LGBT community newspaper of North Carolina, is publicly responding to several objections to our reporting made by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte.
Campus Pride’s commitment to transparency
In reference to your recently-published Community Assessment Survey of local LGBTQ non-profits, I wanted to thank you for providing transparency to the Charlotte LGBTQ donor community on the financial security of the organizations we love and support.
Don King’s 1987 commentary: Let’s work toward a community center
‘Let’s Work Toward a Community Center in 1987’
In the January 1987 issue of QNotes, then-editor Don King penned a commentary outlining his wishes for the new year. Though the commentary is nearly 30 years old, you, as I did, might notice some still-common themes, concepts and ideas with which Charlotte’s LGBT community still struggles.
Charlotte has many reasons to be proud
Editor's Note
This issue, through the generous support of the Hearts Beat as One Foundation, The Bar at 316 and Charlotte Business Guild, qnotes publishes its annual LGBT newcomer and community resource guide, “InFocus: Charlotte.”
