Tag: North Carolina

A prominent Republican compared his opposition to LGBTQ equality to saving Jews from death during the Holocaust. North Carolina Senator Dan Bishop (R) is best known as the architect of HB2, the 2016 bill that banned cities from protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination and required transgender people to use public restrooms associated with the sex on their birth certificates. In newly uncovered emails between Bishop and the SPLC designated hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) discussing the religious exemption they wanted...

A customer at a Shelby, North Carolina, Denny’s called police to report a 22-year-old trans woman who used the same bathroom as his wife. When police arrived, they said she hadn’t broken any laws. In response to the incident, the national restaurant chain announced that all of its bathrooms are open to trans people, regardless of local laws or biases. After the man called the cops on the trans woman, the woman and the man got into a dispute which gradually...

Well, this is embarrassing. It turns out former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory lost out on a position with the Department of Energy because Donald Trump found him too problematic. Newly leaked documents detail problems in McCrory’s record which blocked him from gaining higher-level positions within the government. Chief among them: the former Governor’s signing of a bill that stripped cities of their LGBTQ protection ordinances, and that forced transgender individuals to use the bathroom of their assigned birth sex. McCrory...

A Black transgender woman was found murdered in North Carolina this past Wednesday. Chanel Scurlock, 23, was found just after midnight when Robeson County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived after receiving reports of gunfire in the area. She had been shot. Police said that her car was missing at the time of her death but that it was found later in the day. They did not say where. The police, local media, and Scurlock’s mother identified her as a gay man, misgendered her,...

Craig Northcott, image via screenshotCraig Northcott, a district attorney in Tennessee’s Coffee County, recently said that he wouldn’t enforce the state’s domestic violence laws in cases of abuse between same-sex spouses because he doesn’t believe in same-sex marriage, according to NBC News. In a recently unearthed 2018 video, a constituent asks Northcott how Christians should react to the Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage. His response was shocking. Referring to the makeup of the Supreme Court, Northcott said, “Five people in black dresses...

A conservative LGBTQ organization just held a fundraiser for several anti-LGBTQ politicians last week. The $250 per person fundraising event, hosted by the leadership of the American Unity Fund (AUF), was held last week at the D.C. office of Hogan Lovells, a law firm. AUF is an organization “dedicated to advancing the cause of freedom for LGBTQ Americans by making the conservative case that freedom truly means freedom for everyone,” according to their website. Three U.S. Representatives and three U.S. Senators were...

Earlier this week, out politician Jerry Windle abruptly resigned from his seat on the Morrisville Town Council in North Carolina halfway though his four-year term, claiming he was sick and tired of being bullied by his homophobic colleague while his other colleagues did nothing to stop it. In an emotional statement given at a town hall meeting on Monday, Windle, who was first elected in 2017, told his fellow council members, “I cannot in good conscience serve on a council...

A local politician from North Carolina abruptly stepped down from his post this week after he claimed he could no longer stand the bullying he’s been suffering at the hands of one of his colleagues. Jerry Windle is, er, was a member of the Morrisville Town Council in North Carolina. That is until earlier this week when he announced his immediate resignation halfway though his four-year term. In an emotional statement given at a Town Hall meeting on Monday, Windle, who was...

A man who was choked and slammed by a police officer outside a Waffle House says he was also called gay slurs by the staff. News is circulating about 22-year-old Anthony Wall. Right now, everyone’s trying to figure out if race and sexual orientation was the cause of Wall’s arrest and if it even matters at all. On May 4, Wall had arrived at a Waffle House in Warsaw, North Carolina. He had just gotten back from taking his little sister...

A disturbed man pulled out a handgun outside Ruby Deluxe in Raleigh. An armed man was arrested Monday night after spewing homophobic slurs and brandishing a handgun outside a gay-friendly nightclub in Raleigh, North Carolina. Grayson Pittman was carrying a backpack containing a gun, a knife, and a Taser, when he approached Ruby Deluxe, a two-year-old bar on Salisbury Street. The 27-year-old reportedly got into an altercation with the door man, and pulled his firearm and went on an anti-gay rant...

Union County magistrate Gayle Myrick resigned rather than officiate same-sex weddings. A former North Carolina magistrate has won a $300,000 legal settlement from the state after claiming she was forced to resign because her religious beliefs prevented her from marrying gay couples. Union County magistrate Gayle Myrick resigned in 2014 after federal courts ruled that North Carolina’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. Myrick initially asked if she could be allowed to stay on without having to give marriage licenses to...

'There is still a lot of work to be done' Harrison Wilkerson grew up in North Carolina and loved competitive gymnastics. He started playing soccer and football as a kid but said he never lost his passion for cheerleading. Wilkerson told GSN: ‘I was always interested in the tumbling and stunting aspects of cheering but never had the opportunity to pursue these interests further until college.’ When he got to high school, he made the football team as a kicker. But he says...

A North Carolina restaurant fired a server after he shared a photo of a homophobic message left on a receipt by a customer. The message read: “Our gay waiter made me wanna throw up my food! “Ruined my experience tongt. Will not be back!” According to the Charlotte Observer, the message was left by a patron on Nov. 30, at the Hickory Tavern’s Wesley Chapel location on Old Monroe Road in Indian Trail, Union County. In response to the server's firing, another patron uploaded...

"It could be a case of mistaken identity." The Providence Baptist Church in Vale, North Carolina was set on fire early Monday morning, but locals think the arsonists mistook it for another church in the area. At the scene of the fire graffiti was found spray painted on the church and the surrounding sidewalk which read “Anti-Gay Hate Group.” https://twitter.com/CarolineHicksTV/status/929995621506912256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newnownext.com%2Fchurch-fire-providence-baptist-vale-north-carolina%2F11%2F2017%2F The problem is that the church isn’t anti-LGBT. “All are welcome,” Pastor Ernie Richards told local news station WBTV. According to WBTV there is...