Happy Friday, everyone! We made it through the first full week of 2024, and it was a wild news week for us a Qnotes. My name is Taylor Heeden, and I’m here to bring you the latest headlines of the week.
This week’s biggest headline started with a mystery: an anonymously dropped envelope was found on the front counter of White Rabbit Books on Friday, December 15. Inside the manila mailer: a collection of documents that included email exchanges, excel spreadsheets of financial activity and two legal documents.
Copies of emails contained names of board members for Campus Pride, attorney Lee Robertson and Campus Pride CEO and one of the original founders, Shane Windmeyer, also known in Charlotte and throughout the southeast as drag performer Buff Faye.
According to the text in the copied emails, Windmeyer readily admitted he had made a number of bookkeeping errors in 2023 and was requesting help from his current board of directors, most all recently appointed, to rectify the situation.
You can read more about that below.
Misuse of funds and the end of a career at Campus Pride
People have taken to social media by storm to give their opinions on the situation, including a Nancy Grace-inspired drag queen doing their own “investigation” into the information regarding Buff Faye. We’d love to see more of your response to this. Please feel free to send your thoughts to us at taylorheeden@qnotescarolinas.com or send a message to our Facebook page! Your response may be included in a future story…
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