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In a move to defend its reputation, East Frank Superette and Kitchen’s owners have filed a lawsuit in response to months of threats received over the drag shows the restaurant has hosted.  “...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/monroes-east-frank-superette-and-kitchen-files-countersuit-against-against-right-wing-protestors/

HIV/AIDS walks are held across the country to help raise money for awareness organizations, including ones like House of Mercy in Belmont. While there is still no cure for HIV, treatments are now...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/house-of-mercy-annual-aids-walk-set-for-may-4/

On April 3, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC), the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, released a...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/new-data-lgbtq-community-continues-to-face-financial-challenges-compared-to-hetero-peers/

There’s no question that non-profit organizations often face challenges when it comes to finances. Never-ending struggles to capture funding from donors and grants can leave organizations in a ...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/continuing-changes-at-equality-nc-raising-questions/

Summer Lucille wasn’t always comfortable in her own skin.  She graduated from college with a degree in computer science and worked at Bank of America in Charlotte. On the outside, it appeared ...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/juicy-body-goddess-goes-viral-on-tiktok-for-empowering-plus-size-women/

About four decades ago a music teacher and a substance abuse counselor had a lovely baby girl.  Today, she’s all grown up and goes by the name Luvleeh, though her parents named her Leandrea Ju...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/luvleeh/

The North Carolina Constitution guarantees residents’ rights to a free public education, stating “The General Assembly shall provide by taxation and otherwise for a general and uniform system...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/with-michele-morrow-it-wont-be-a-brighter-tomorrow-for-north-carolina-schools/

Andrew Douglas Tench was known to friends and family simply as Andy. The Charlotte Metro area gay men vanished during the evening of March 24 or in the early morning hours of March 25, a few hour...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/missing-charlotte-metro-man-reported-as-dead/

Vice president Kamala Harris apparently likes North Carolina and it appears a lot of voters in the state have reciprocal feelings. She’s been to Charlotte three times this year with previous vi...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/vice-president-kamala-harris-visits-charlotte/

A new study has revealed that North Carolina is the fifth kinkiest US state, and fleshlights are the most searched-for sex toy in America. Sex toy review platform Bedbible.com analyzed the number...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/north-carolina-named-fifth-kinkiest-state/

In a social media account, Andy Tench readily identifies as an openly gay man. A native of Gaston County, he has called Belmont – a prominent Charlotte suburb – home base for most of his life...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/where-is-andy-tench/

There are several LGBTQ+ inclusive events happening across North Carolina, from the Triad area to the communities surrounding Mecklenburg County. Pride Winston-Salem is one of the organizations p...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/winston-salem-and-union-county-pride-organizations-hosting-events-through-april/

For the second week in a row, Vice President Kamala Harris is headed back to North Carolina. Harris will be in Charlotte April 4 to open a field office in the city, which will be one of 10 the ca...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/vice-president-kamala-harris-heads-back-to-charlotte-april-4/

Spring has officially arrived, and with the season comes fun events for folks of all ages. From Winston-Salem to Raleigh, there’s something for everyone regardless of identity or background. Qn...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/happenings-across-north-carolina-in-april/

Come join in on the fun as Carolinas CARE Partnership, which now includes Transcend Charlotte, sets up for its second ever annual 18+ Queer Prom. The event will kick off at 7 p.m. on May 18 at Re...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/transcend-charlottes-queer-prom-to-return-to-the-queen-city/

A crowd gathered inside the Dowd Center Theater in Monroe on Friday evening, March 22, to see an encore presentation of “Hello Daddy.” The dramatic musical/comedy one-person stage show is the...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/town-of-monroe-protesting-drag-and-twisting-lgbtq-culture-again/

Singing sensation and Huntersville native Renée Rapp received the outstanding music artist award at the 2024 GLAAD Media Awards on March 14. Rapp, who identifies as lesbian, rose to fame for her...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/huntersville-native-renee-rapp-wins-glaad-media-award/

Charlotte Pride is bringing back the annual scholarship and summer internship program, which was made possible with support from the Principal® Foundation. The program, “aims to improve econom...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/applications-open-for-charlotte-pride-scholarships/

If it’s true that church is a like a hospital providing help and healing to the needy, then Justin A. Holmes, the current Senior Pastor of Rehab Church Charlotte is well on his way to assisting...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/our-people-justin-a-holmes/

North Carolina is one of those rare states that includes multi-climate growing zones. From one end of the state to the other there are three separate zones that allow different kinds of plants to...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/visiting-north-carolinas-leading-botanical-gardens/

The Young Affiliates of the Mint announced they were seeking art submissions from artists based in the Southern United States for the Mint Museum’s third presentation of the “Coined in the So...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/mint-museum-calling-for-submissions-for-coined-in-the-south-exhibit/

Democratic strategists say Democratic voters were punishing longtime Mecklenburg County Commissioner Pat Cotham for her daughter’s high-profile party switch when they ousted her from office on ...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/did-tricia-cotham-party-switch-sink-pat-cothams-campaign/

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools recently ended their use of a popular library app that gave students access to more than 40,000 books, due to a controversial state law. The change comes in response...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/charlotte-mecklenburg-schools-changes-e-book-app-over-parents-bill-of-rights-concerns/

The spring season is fast approaching and with it comes a wide range of events happening across North Carolina in venues as large as Bank of America Stadium or as quaint as a local night club. So...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/a-guide-to-spring-arts-entertainment-at-small-venues-across-north-carolina/

Twenty years ago, a young boy from Anson County was spending most of his free time (summer vacations, holidays and long weekends) in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Charlotte is where his family is ...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/our-people-jamie-hildreth/

Charlotte-Douglas International Airport will receive millions in federal funding from a program designed to improve passenger experiences. The airport, one of the busiest in the country, is set t...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/transportation-secretary-pete-buttigieg-visits-charlotte-announces-airport-to-get-27m-for-improvement-projects/

On February 27, the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute and Loyola Marymount University published a report summarizing the results of a nationwide survey of Black LGBTQ+ political candidates. A follow-up to...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/lgbtq-victory-institute-announces-findings-of-the-experiences-of-black-lgbtq-candidates-report/

The LGBTQ+ Victory Institute is bringing its signature Candidate & Campaign Training to Charlotte April 11-14 as part of its efforts to train a diverse pipeline of LGBTQ+ leaders to run for offic...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/lgbtq-victory-fund-to-hold-training-in-charlotte/

This past September, Charlotteans had the opportunity to be transported back to Harlem, New York, during the days of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston when Jermaine Nakia Lee’s musical ‘...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/charlottes-jermaine-nakia-lee-to-host-immersive-for-the-love-of-harlem-event/

The Mecklenburg County chapter of LGBTQ+ NC Democrats announced the results of its county commission scorecard, where candidates for local office were asked to fill a questionnaire regarding thei...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/mecklenburg-lgbtq-democrats-announce-results-of-county-commission-scorecard/

Beyond a wall of glass and just off the elevator on the tenth floor of the J. Murray Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte, you will find the Dalton Reading Room, a semi-circular space lined with rare ...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/a-visit-to-the-archives-at-unc-charlotte/

The year is 2014: Josh Burford was working to co-curate an exhibit at the Levine Museum of the New South in Uptown Charlotte. The exhibit focused on LGBTQ+ perspectives on equality, and while wor...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/queer-history-south-comes-to-charlotte-for-its-third-conference/

L’Monique King is a native of New York. She was born in New York City and later made a move to Brooklyn, before spending much of her young adult years in Jamaica, Queens. She eventually moved t...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/our-people-l-monique-king/

The local LGBTQ+ choir One Voice Chorus of Charlotte is scheduled to perform at the 2024 GALA Choruses Festival this July.  “This is like the Olympics but for queer choirs,” stated OVC Execu...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/one-voice-chorus-of-charlotte-to-perform-at-gala-2024-national-festival/

This past June Qnotes reported on an incident that occurred at The Bar at 316 that involved verbal harassment of a local drag performer, Shelby Savage, by the club’s owner, Jeff Edwards.  The ...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/update-on-incident-at-the-bar-at-316/

If there’s a most controversial aspect to the new wave of abortion bans that have swept much of the nation in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 reversal of its Roe v. Wade ruling...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/sexual-assault-statistics-show-impact-of-state-abortion-bans/

The Black church has a long and spirited history of providing comfort, a place of refuge and a breeding ground for social justice, since its early beginnings when enslaved Africans established an...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/our-people-rayvon-moore/

We seem to keep hearing about how 50 is the new 40 and 40 is the new 30 and so on. Perhaps the point might just be an attempt at halting a level of ageism that fails to honor and benefit from an ...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/zami-noblas-growing-nc-chapter/

For Valentine’s Day, Qnotes asked local Charlotte couple Brad Gorman and Trevor Hoppe to tell us about their date night out as inspiration for those in search of an interesting and entertaining...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/for-valentines-day-date-night-in-charlotte/

Following authentication by Campus Pride board members of leaked documents dropped off anonymously at the Qnotes/ White Rabbit location, social media exploded with reaction to the organization’...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/the-continuing-saga-of-campus-pride-and-shane-windmeyer/

In this third and final installation of our three-part series for Valentine’s Day, we’re wrapping up our dive into aspects of the annual romantic celebration. While Valentine’s Day is often...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/valentines-day-for-girls-gays-and-theys-the-history-of-flirty-fun-and-sex-toys/

Macy Alexander, a prolific and much loved drag performer in the Carolinas and the southeast passed away at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, January 8, aged just 58. Her career spanned from Charlotte to Atlan...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/southeastern-drag-performer-macy-alexander-long-popular-in-the-carolina-drag-scene-passes-away-at-58/

LGBTQ+ folks have continued to fight for representation across all forms of media — from books to television, movies, music, sports and more. Today, there are even more “out” queer identify...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/north-carolina-queer-icons-10-lgbtq-identifying-media-trailblazers-from-the-tar-heel-state/

Somewhere in North Charlotte sits a journalist who eats, sleeps and breathes investigative reporting. He has a razor-sharp wit akin to Kelsey Grammar’s Frazier character, he’s tall, and has a...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/our-people-david-aaron-moore/

The late ‘90s and early 2000s saw the rise of the classic teenage, high school-esque storylines in film. Movies like “10 Things I Hate About You” and “Clueless” became instant classics ...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/with-more-lgbtq-representation-mean-girls-movie-musical-provides-a-fetch-take-on-the-original-film/

Equality NC has named a new interim executive director: Eliazar Posada, who was the first openly gay Latino to win office in North Carolina history. This comes after five-year-long director Kendr...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/eliazar-posada-named-interim-executive-director-of-equality-nc/

Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most influential Civil Rights leaders of his generation. His use of  civil disobedience as a way to show the world about unjust treatment of Black Americans ...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/celebrating-his-american-dream-martin-luther-king-jr-day-across-north-carolina/

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to visit Charlotte on Thursday, January 11 and talk about how to reduce gun violence in the United States. Harris is one of several high-profile political figur...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/vice-president-kamala-harris-will-visit-charlotte-january-11/

The first weeks of December marked the filing period for those interested in running for office in North Carolina for the 2024 election. Several LGBTQ+ people made their way to their local Board ...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/north-carolina-lgbtq-candidates-running-for-office-in-2024/

Founded originally to fight against North Carolina’s Crimes Against Nature Law (also referred to as a “sodomy law”), Equality NC (ENC) has never wavered in the continuing equality fight for...

https://qnotescarolinas.com/equality-nc-looks-to-the-future-as-it-searches-for-its-next-executive-director/