Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week’s QWeekly! My name is Taylor, and I am here with this week’s headlines.
This morning, I am recovering from Taylor Swift’s new releases (including her 2 a.m. surprise double album drop), and needless to say, I am obsessed. I’ve already listened to it twice (I’m on my third play through at the time of writing this newsletter), and right now, my favorite tracks are Down Bad, I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) and I Can Do It With A Broken Heart. If you want to hear more of my Taylor Swift takes, you can follow me on Twitter/X @HeedenTaylor.
On a more serious note, a Monroe restaurant — East Frank Superette and Kitchen — is counter-suing against a group of Union County residents who sued the restaurant after the eatery’s social media page featured photoshopped pictures of protestors outside of one of the restaurant’s all-ages drag shows.
“We’ve gotten death threats, we’ve gotten violent threats, via email, Facebook comments, we had another local business in town provoke people to go on a hunt, you could say, of people that were in LGBTQ or communities that supported drag,” Carley Englander, co-owner of East Frank, told WBTV. “As family people that we are, we have kids, we don’t want to subject them to this.”
You can read more about the East Frank counter suit below.
Monroe’s East Frank Superette and Kitchen files countersuit against against right-wing protestors
In a move to defend its reputation, East Frank Superette and Kitchen’s owners have filed a lawsuit in response to months of threats received over the drag shows the restaurant has hosted. “We started doing drag shows that just give people around here something to do. That’s different. That doesn’t happen in Union County.” […]
MORE HEADLINES
Durham Main Library’s ‘Rainbow Story Time’ faces bomb threat
By Taylor Heeden
When most people go to a library, they expect a calm, peaceful, quiet environment. At the Durham County Main Library on April 13, however, it was anything but calm. At around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Durham police officers responded to an alleged bomb threat on the 300 block of N. […]
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New data: LGBTQ+ Community continues to face financial challenges compared to hetero peers
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