Community members and patrons of an uptown bar where a fatal stabbing incident on Sunday left one woman dead and another jailed on murder charges gathered at the business Wednesday night to show their support for the establishment’s owners.
The steering committee for North Carolina’s annual Human Rights Campaign fundraising dinner named the recipients of their 2012 awards today.
Updated: The owners of the uptown bar where a woman was fatally stabbed early Sunday morning are speaking out for the first time since the deadly incident.
Updated: North Carolina’s capital city on Tuesday became the latest in a string of local governments taking a stand against an impending anti-LGBT constitutional amendment.
This morning, qnotes published an open letter criticizing Democratic Mecklenburg County Commissioner Harold Cogdell, Jr., for his political gamesmanship and partnerships with Republican board members, including Bill James. Other Charlotte media have also weighed in. The Charlotte Observer‘s Peter St. Onge wrote this morning that “Harold has sold his soul.” [...]
New members of city council were sworn in Monday night in an event marked by historic change as the city welcomed District 3 Democrat LaWana Mayfield, its first openly gay or lesbian elected official.
Harold Cogdell wants the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners’ chairmanship, but his apparent willingness to partner with board Republicans, especially Bill James, is stunning, shameful and embarrassing.
A longtime LGBT community volunteer, straight ally and local church will be honored tonight at a special awards ceremony presented by the Charlotte Business Guild, the city’s LGBT business networking and support organization.
The Raleigh City Council will consider a resolution opposing an impending anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment banning recognition of marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships for same-sex couples. Last week, Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker said he was opposed to the amendment and urged the city council to vote for the proposed [...]
Anti-gay organizations promise a constitutional amendment campaign on a “positive note,” but do past efforts by extreme partner organizations foreshadow a more negative experience?
The manager of the Coalition to Protect NC Families, a statewide campaign formed to oppose an impending anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment, will speak at the LGBT Community Center of Charlotte on Monday evening.
CHARLOTTE — History will be made tonight when the new city council is sworn in at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center and the city welcomes its first openly gay or lesbian elected official. Democrat LaWana Mayfield won election in her District 3 seat in November after defeating four-term incumbent Warren Turner [...]
Police have charged a woman with murder for a stabbing that left another woman dead in the early morning hours of Dec. 4 outside of Hartigan’s Irish Pub, a local gay and lesbian restaurant and bar in Uptown at 601 S. Cedar St.
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a national anti-gay organization enlisted to support a new anti-LGBT amendment referendum committee on Thursday, is raising eyebrows in the Carolinas and nationwide. Its past challenges to several states’ financial disclosure laws is prompting concern on whether similar challenges will be issued in North Carolina.
Republican Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James announced Friday that he intends to seek a ninth term on the board. James and other commissioners are up for reelection in 2012.
Belk, Family Dollar and Lowe’s are among the several national companies named in this year’s “Naughty or Nice List” compiled by the right-wing American Family Association. The group says some companies aren’t mentioning the word “Christmas” enough in their holiday season advertising.
Yet another North Carolina Republican has admitted the anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment approved for the May 8, 2012, ballot by lawmakers in September makes him uncomfortable.
A referendum committee formed by several anti-gay religious groups is among the latest official campaign organizations set up for an impending ballot initiative on an anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment banning marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships for same-sex couples.
Volunteers and staffers with the LGBT Center of Raleigh announced today that their annual OutRaleigh festival will be held on May 5, 2012.
National gay media group In The Life Media announced today a series of three web videos they plan to run as online and TV advertisements in North Carolina and across the nation. Their ad campaign, “Marriage Matters,” seeks to start a conversation on marriage and what it means to same-sex couples.
