Archive for the ‘Charlotte’ Category
Monday, February 25th, 2008
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) profiled Greensboro, N.C.-based Replacements, Ltd. in an article Sunday.
Replacements, a glassware, china and dinnerware specialty company, is one of many businesses nationwide scoring a perfect 100 score on the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index. CEO Bob Page, his partner Senior Vice President of ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
The last couple days have been so hectic. It is funny how life has a tendency of just dumping everything on you at once.
On Monday evening (my birthday) my old Cadillac broke down. One of the transmission lines burst and had to be fixed the next day (we also had ...
Posted in Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, Politics, United States | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will formally introduce tonight a new bullying policy that expands protections to LGBT students.
From The Charlotte Observer:
Few dispute the need to rein in bullying in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. But a policy that will be formally introduced at tonight's school board meeting has touched off a debate over homosexuality, ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Charlotte, Charlotte/Metro Area, High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, North Carolina, United States | No Comments »
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Every year, conservatives in and around Charlotte, N.C., get their panties in a wad over big business sponsorships of events like the Human Rights Campaign Carolinas Gala and Pride Charlotte (see also this DVD set, "Homosexuality, The Church & Society").
They say that Corporate America has given in to the demands ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Charlotte, Charlotte/Metro Area, LGBT, North Carolina, Politics, Republican Party, United States | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Whew... It really has been a crazy past few days (almost a week to be exact), but I'm back in Charlotte now. Lots of things have happened and I haven't really had the time to keep up with everything.
Two important updates:
HRC Carolinas Youth Scholarship: Youth! Don't forget about the HRC ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
I'm sure we have all heard of the "theory" that says all people are connected to each other within six degrees of separation.
From Wikipedia:
Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that, if a person is one "step" away from each person he or she knows and two "steps" away ...
Posted in Charlotte, LGBT, North Carolina, Religion, United States, Winston-Salem | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Myers Park Baptist Church has published audio of its Sunday morning forum on their expulsion from the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.
On Sunday, Nov. 18 at 9:45 a.m., before 11 a.m. worship, Myers Park Senior Pastor, the Rev. Shoemaker led a forum allowing members of the convention to discuss ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Meeting in Greensboro, the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina has voted overwhelmingly to oust Charlotte's Myers Park Baptist Church over that church's public stand for the dignity and respect of LGBT Baptists.
Myers Park is the first church to be booted under a policy attacking gay-friendly Baptists passed by the ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Charlotte, Greensboro, LGBT, North Carolina, Religion, United States | 12 Comments »
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
On Monday, I posted about the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. Writing about an article in the Greensboro News & Record I said it seemed as though the convention was finally moving on to something else other than us ho-mo-sek-shuls.
I was wrong.
Reader Big Daddy Weave pointed out that, once ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Charlotte, Greensboro, LGBT, North Carolina, Religion, United States | 1 Comment »
Monday, August 20th, 2007
Now in its second year, the Lesbian and Gay Community Center's Pride Charlotte is slated for this week, culminating in Saturday's Pride Charlotte day festival at Gateway Village. Expecting anywhere from 7,500 to 9,000, the event will surely be the festival's largest in its entire, more than week-long schedule and ...
Posted in Charlotte, Community Events, LGBT, North Carolina, Pride Central | 2 Comments »
