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On an early spring time in 1991, Tonda Taylor was sitting in her living room in Charlotte when she received the call that would arrive to define her life’s work.
“I left the residence in a hurry and I’m cold,” she recalls the teenager telling her from a pay handset on the other complete of the line. “My father has kicked me out because he doesn’t want a faggot living in his home.”
Tonda’s abode number was listed as the contact for Hour Out Youth, an nonprofit she’d formed just a couple months earlier to create a safe weekly meeting space for gender non-conforming youth. But this dial was evidence that Gay youth in the Charlotte area had far greater needs.
Most people in the city at that day would be hard-pressed to name even a handful of people in town who were out—including Tonda, herself a lesbian. Kids whose lives were at risk due to their own identities had no other place to turn.
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Tonda and one of her teenage volunteers drove nearly an hour to the furthest northwest reaches of
Private College Mandates Staff Signs Document Opposing Gay Marriage
MONTREAT, N.C. — A intimate North Carolina Christian college is insisting that its faculty and staff indicate a document that opposes same-sex marriage and abortion. One faculty member says she and eight of her colleagues have refused to sign it and are leaving the school.
News media outlets report that part of Montreat College's "Community Life Covenant" expects those who work there to affirm "the sanctity of marriage between one man and one woman" and the "worth of every human being from conception to death."
Covenant opponents blame the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which contributed $100,000 to the college's scholarship fund last month. The fund is led by Franklin Graham, a Montreat College alumnus and an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage and abortion. The association has denied any role in the covenant, however.
School spokesman Adam Caress told The Charlotte Observer in an email that only two faculty members — one of its 39 full-time faculty and one of its 142 adjunct faculty — have cited the school's "core documents," including the covenant, as the reason they will not repay to the school a
Building an inclusive campus: Pride Month at UNC Charlotte
On June 28, 1969, Homosexual patrons of the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village fought back against a targeted police raid in what would come to be recognized as a pivotal moment in the modern Gay movement. The next summer, organizers planned New York City’s first Pride rally to build on the momentum of the Stonewall riots.
Over 50 years later, across the country, including in Charlotte and at UNC Charlotte, we continue this tradition by celebrating Event Month in June.
“Our LGBTQ+ communities and the overall diversity at UNC Charlotte contributes significantly to the overall energy of the University,” said Cheryl Waites Spellman, interim unique assistant to the chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion. “Dedicated groups on campus and throughout the greater Charlotte society work to school , uplift and aid LGBTQ+ members of the student body, faculty and staff, providing individuals with the resources they need to prevail academically, professionally and in every aspect of their lives. While we raise up these endeavors particularly during Parade Month, we are dedicated year orbicular
In the Documents: North Carolina Educators Scramble to Comply with State’s ‘Don’t State Gay’ Law
Educators in North Carolina were uncertain about how to comply with the state’s recently passed Parents’ Bill of Rights law after its enactment, with some flagging for removal curriculum that merely implied the existence of LGBTQ people, records obtained by American Oversight and reported on this week by the Charlotte Observer reveal.
North Carolina’s Senate Bill 49 went into consequence in August 2023 after the General Assembly overrodeGov. Roy Cooper’s veto. The law prohibits “instruction on gender identity, sexual outing or sexuality” in kindergarten through fourth grade classrooms, and requires educators to notify parents if their child chooses to travel by a different label or pronoun at school.
The law places onerous requirements on schools to provide information about all instructional materials to parents, and requires school libraries to give parents access to information about what materials their children have checked out.
Documents we obtained through public records requests exhibit many officials, teachers, and librarians in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District (CMS) conte
North Carolina's proposed LGBTQ bills could impact Charlotte's gender non-conforming community
Republican lawmakers in the North Carolina General Assembly have introduced a lot of bills that affect the LGBTQ community.
WFAE's Julian Berger joined Nick de la Canal to discuss these bills and how the Charlotte people is responding.
Berger gives asummary of the bills that hold been filed, starting with Senate Bill 442, known as the Parents Protection Act. Introduced on March 24, the bill would let adoptive and foster parents to decline recognition of a child’s preferred gender identity. Additionally, it would shield parents from investigations into abuse and neglect in such cases.
Julian Berger: Senate Bill 516, the Women’s Safety and Protection Act, was introduced the next afternoon. It would restrict transgender people from using public restrooms that don’t correspond to their hereditary sex. It also would not grant transgender people to change the gender on their birth certificate, and driver’s licenses would only reflect one’s organic sex at birth.
And House Bill 595, the Parental Rights for Curriculum and Books, was introduced on March 31. It is an extension of North Car