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Local Officials Denounce Violence Against LGBTQ+ Community

Posted by Madison Ward | Dec 15, 2022 | Local Government, State

On November 14, over 125 elected officials and organizations in North Carolina crafted and signed a statement denouncing violence and hateful rhetoric against the LGBTQ+ community.

Downtown Chapel Hill To Diversify Pride Flags, Will Add Lesbian Flag

Posted by Ava Pukatch | Jun 10, 2022 | Instagram, News

At the start of Pride Month, downtown Chapel Hill is decorated with all the colors of the rainbow. Pride flags hang throughout town representing different factions of the LGBTQIA+ community. But, community members noticed the pink, orange, red and white of the lesbian flag is missing.

Supreme Court Takes Up Cases About LGBT People’s Rights

Posted by Associated Press | Oct 8, 2019 | World

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard highly anticipated cases on whether federal civil rights law should apply to LGBT people, with Chief Justice John Roberts questioning how doing so would affect employers. In the first of two...

N. Carolina Governor Moves to Block Conversion Therapy Funds

Posted by Associated Press | Aug 2, 2019 | State

North Carolina’s state health department is barred from allowing public funds to pay for conversion therapy for minors, a controversial practice aimed at changing young LGBT people’s sexual orientations, under an...

Big Business to Supreme Court: Defend LGBTQ People from Bias

Posted by Associated Press | Jul 2, 2019 | World

More than 200 corporations, including many of America’s best-known companies, are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that federal civil rights law bans job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender...

50 Years After Stonewall, LGBT Rights are a Work in Progress

Posted by Associated Press | Jun 17, 2019 | World

They didn’t set out to change history; they weren’t the first LGBT Americans to mobilize against bias. Yet the June 1969 uprising by young gays, lesbians and transgender people in New York City, clashing with police...

Bills Opposing “Conversion Therapy,” HB2 Remnants Filed

Posted by Associated Press | Mar 29, 2019 | State Government

Gay rights advocates and their supporters at the legislature said Thursday that expanding antidiscrimination laws and repealing remnants of the North Carolina “bathroom bill” will make clear that LGBT people in the...

United Methodist Delegates Reject Recognizing Gay Marriage

Posted by Associated Press | Feb 27, 2019 | World

The United Methodist Church, America’s second-largest Protestant denomination, faces a likely surge in defections and acts of defiance after delegates at a crucial conference voted Tuesday to strengthen the faith’s...