North Carolina state Sen. David Hoyle (D-Gaston) announced Dec. 9 he’d step down at the end of his term in 2010. Hoyle, chairman of the Senate’s Finance Committee, had been considered the third most powerful member of the Senate’s leadership, after President Pro Tempore Marc Basnight and former Majority Leader Tony Rand.
One advocate thinks the [...]
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Anti-gay pol to step down in N.C.
New Media: Moving small and regional LGBT news-media outlets forward
It has been a year, this month, since my day job, Q-Notes newspaper, upgraded its website from a mis-matched collection of simple, static HTML pages to a fully automated content management system (CMS). In the year since, I’ve learned a lot about new media and how it complements and improves traditional news-media, including the gay [...]
Anti-gay marriage forces set sights on NC
I knew it wouldn’t be long. North Carolina’s the only Southern state without an anti-gay, anti-family constitutional amendment on marriage. We’re a sitting duck; a big glaring hole in the religious right’s sea of hate and control… Just as in the image to the right, from the NC4Marriage website (PDF).
The anti-gay marriage movement in North [...]
Inadvertent anti-gay discrimination
Every so often we’re reminded why equality for LGBT people and recognition of same-sex couples is important outside of the civil arena.
In Raleigh, a lesbian couple with children was almost denied entry to a preview sale at a popular children’s consignment fair (Raleigh News & Observer):
Kids Exchange is having a sale this weekend, where people [...]
N.C. officials go after Raleigh male ’sex club’
Concerns over non-profit management and regulation in North Carolina are being raised after a supposed “sex club” for men registered as a non-profit. The North Carolina Secretary of State has jumped into the fray.
Secretary Elaine Marshall says the state has no power to regulate non-profits, unless they receive state grants or other monies, and that [...]
CRISIS and the N&O
Great feature piece on Mitchell Gold and “CRISIS” today in Raleigh’s News & Observer.
A self-made entrepreneur accustomed to making his way in the world, Gold recently launched an educational campaign called Faith in America to combat religion-based prejudice. The newest element of the broader campaign is a book, just published, that tells the stories of [...]
Racist graffiti at NC State University
NC State will never live down its horrible reputation as the most backward, most hate-filled college campus in North Carolina. If they were located in South Carolina, their only competitor might be Bob Jones University.
In case you haven’t heard about it yet, four NC State students have admitted to painting violent, threatening and racist graffiti [...]
Raleigh safer than D.C.?
Yeah… a once Raleigh native told Washington, D.C.’s Metroweekly magazine that he felt safer in Raleigh, as well as in Boston:
At the same time, Mark Hayes, another local gay man, was finding himself similarly fed up. While Perry is a Washington native, Hayes came to the District about five years ago, having lived in Boston [...]
