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“It’s hard to imagine, now, to the degree back then that gay and lesbian people simply were not spoken of.”
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“Drag is just basically performance art. It’s just, you know, someone dressing up in character."
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"A house mom usually refers to an elder in the community who takes in young people experiencing unstable housing or shelter, and guides them."
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Shenna, a local mother, looked back on memories of raising her child, and she wrote a letter addressed to herself after giving birth with advice.
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Jermaine Nakia Lee says there’s something he came to realize with his co-leaders in Charlotte Black Pride.
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About 15 percent of LGBTQ Americans reported postponing or avoiding medical treatment due to discrimination, according to the Center for American Progress.
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In 1973, Charlotte’s Myers Park Baptist Church welcomed its first openly queer minister to address the church. By the late 1990s, MPBC was considering the inclusion of LGBTQ+ people within the church.
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It’s a common scene around town, the sound and sight of a cornhole bag hitting the wooden board at a brewery.
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For decades, many in the LGBTQ+ community found belonging in so-called “gayborhoods” across the country. But today, there may be a new gayborhood in town.