NC House approves bill banning gender-affirming surgeries for trans youth, despite concerns for mental health. #TransRights #LGBTQ #NorthCarolina
North Carolina advances a bill that could harm the mental health and safety of LGBTQ students in schools. Critics are speaking out against the bill's limitations on instruction on gender identity and sexuality #NorthCarolina #LGBTQ #MentalHealth #TransRightsAreHumanRights
North Carolina Republicans push for "Parents' Bill of Rights" restricting teaching of sexuality and gender identity in K-4 schools. Critics warn of increased bullying and discrimination. #NorthCarolinaControversy #EducationMatters #LGBTQRights
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Division of Motor Vehicles has now OK’d more than 200 phrases that had been blocked from being affixed to vanity license plates, including some related to sexual orientation.…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Survivors of mass shootings targeting U.S. LGBT nightclubs detailed the violence they endured and criticized inflammatory political rhetoric in a congressional hearing on Wednesday. “We are being…
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — As shootings at two electrical substations cut power to thousands of central North Carolina homes last weekend, they also sparked widespread speculation that the days-long blackout might be the lates…
The Southern Baptist Conventions’ top administrative body voted to cut ties with two congregations on Tuesday — an LGBTQ-friendly church in North Carolina that had itself quit the denomination decades ago and a New Jers…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina “Parents’ Bill of Rights” measure pushed by Senate Republicans but condemned by LGBTQ activists and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper may not get a final vote in the House before this year…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper said Wednesday that Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson “does not speak for North Carolina,” a reference to comments that Robinson made about sex education in public schools…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Janice Covington Allison, a transgender woman who became a strong Democratic activist on behalf of LGBT rights in North Carolina, has died at age 74. Allison died Friday at Atrium Health Mercy hos…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A gay substitute teacher was wrongfully fired by a Roman Catholic school in North Carolina after he announced in 2014 on social media that he was going to marry his longtime partner, a federal jud…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A transgender teenager from North Carolina was ordered to undergo a strip-search at an airport after she registered a “false positive” at a security checkpoint, according to a lawsuit filed by her m…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Five years after North Carolina blocked an expansion of Charlotte’s nondiscrimination ordinance, prompting a backlash that cost the state billions of dollars, the city council unanimously approved…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee was hit Tuesday with a second legal challenge aimed at overturning a slate of bills targeting transgender people that Gov. Bill Lee signed into law earlier this year. The federal lawsui…
