Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you’ve had a great week so far. Welcome to QWeekly — I’m Taylor, and I’m here to bring you some of the latest headlines from Qnotes.
A new edition of Qnotes has hit the stands, and we took a look at some of the hardest deaths of LGBTQ+ icons we’ve experienced in the last year. The piece was written by our own David Aaron Moore, who was featured in Our People for this edition of Qnotes.
There is also a list of 10 different LGBTQ+ icons who hail from the Tar Heel State — including Reneé Rapp (one of my major celebrity crushes, I won’t lie), a Huntersville native who is also one of the stars of the new Mean Girls movie. And yes, we have a review for you in this edition of Qnotes.
You can read all of that and more below.
Remembering those we lost in 2023
Statistically speaking, we lost far fewer LGBTQ+ and allied notables than in recent years past. Not sure why exactly, but the most obvious contributing factor could be a lessening impact of COVID-19. […]
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MORE HEADLINES
North Carolina queer icons: 10 LGBTQ+ identifying media trailblazers from the Tar Heel State
By Taylor Heeden
LGBTQ+ folks have continued to fight for representation across all forms of media — from books to television, movies, music, sports and more. Today, there are even more “out” queer identifying people in media than ever before, and some of the most famous hail from North Carolina. […]
With more LGBTQ+ representation, ‘Mean Girls’ movie musical provides a ‘fetch’ take on the original film
The late ‘90s and early 2000s saw the rise of the classic teenage, high school-esque […]
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IN SOUTH CAROLINA…
South Carolina Moms for Liberty chapter opening a tax-payer-funded charter school
South Carolinian taxpayer dollars will soon be going toward opening a Moms for Liberty-endorsed public charter school in Charleston. The Ashley River Classical Academy is currently slated to open for the 2024-2025 school year, and its leadership has been found to be intertwined with the Charleston chapter of Moms for Liberty. […]
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Mark Robinson rally moved after LGBTQ+ affirming church cancels his reservation
Crossroads Church — a LGBTQ+ friendly church in Fayetteville — was initially scheduled to be […]
Eliazar Posada named interim executive director of Equality NC
Equality NC has named a new interim executive director: Eliazar Posada, who was the first […]
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