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PAGE 6 Q-Notes ■ September 1986 QCQ: Striving For Major Success By ROBERT SHEETS President, aCQ So many people have asked QCQ people, bar people and others what QCQ is that the board ot directors has decided it's time tor a run down. A little history, first. QCQ was formed in 1981 by gay ac tivist Don King and lesbian activist Billie Stickell to help fund Charlotte's early ac tivist organizations by holding events in Sheets bars and other places. Since then, the group has also sponsored — at one time or another — plays, a large Pride Week news paper ad, Q-Notes, Pride Week ac tivities and "Cabaret," a night espe cially for live performances by les bians and gay men before their peers. Current members of the QCQ board — except for myself — have been sitting only since March of this year. In these six months, the board has rewritten the bylaws from three pages to 26 articles, many of which are up to two pages long; incorpo rated; secured the regional prelimi nary for the national Mr. Drummer Contest; held an all-night dance re lated to the contest; reestablished, revamped and more widely distrib uted Q-Notes after an absence of 18 months; raised $3,500 (with three bar fund-raisers and three skating parties) to present Carolina Drum mer '86; staged extensive Pride Week activities; chose the first win ner of the Carolinian Of The Year award; tested the waters twice for Sunday afternoon tea dances; held the Mr. Charlotte preliminary to the Mr. Hotlanta Contest; instituted a QCQ Financial Statement Prepared By QCQ Treasurer Jim Yarbrough Description Income Expenses ProtiULoss Assets' Cash Balance 3/11/86 $ 612.62 - - - Carolina Drummer 3,703.75 3,556.27 147.48 107.54 Mr. Charlotte 636.00 584.77 51.23 - Pride Week 1,168.25 845.88 322.37 73.42 Q-Notes 1,809.00 2,429.55 -620.55 250.00 ’87 Women’s Music Festival 263.62 -263.62 - Other Future Events - 347.00 - 347.00 Miscellaneous^ 2,465.25 1,458.97 1,006.28 203.95 Donations: Switchboard - 373.15 - - AIDS Vigil - 200.00 - - Gay Parents Coalition - 50.00 - - Subtotals 10,394.87 ... 10,109.21 Cash Balance 8/24/86 285.66 TOTAL ASSETS In Cash And Property $1,267.57 NOTE 1. Assets include on-hand items such as a microphone, a banquet table, a telephone answering machine, Q-Notes paste-up sheets and picnic supplies. Under future events, assets include five deposits to locations such as Park Center, Spirit Square and the Unitarian Church for future events. NOTE 2. Miscellaneous income from events such as skate parties, Wearin’ O’ The Green, spring auction at Brass Rail, Western Night at Tags, the Boom Boom Roast and tea dances. Miscellaneous expenses include expenditures for those events and items such as phone expenses, postage, T-shirts for event workers, office supplies and the QCQ Logo Contest. FROM THE TREASURER I am proud to say that after six months starting out with $612.26, the current board of directors of QCQ has made donations of $623.15 to gay organiza tions and has produced severai cuiturai and sociai events. QCQ is aiso pro viding a free form of communication — Q-Notes — for the gay community. The board members are now in the pianning stage for future events to raise the sociai conscience of our brothers and sisters, i would like to thank all of you who have supported QCQ in the past six months. I took forward to seeing you at future events. Jim Yarbrough funds allocation process; reestab lished Q-Notes; held three commu nity leadership meetings; and laid plans for the 1986-87 year. Further plans include establishing by men 1 Ik for men 1708 South Boulevard Charlotte, N.C. Phone 704/333-3859 Open 365 Days A 24 Hours A Year Day Rooms, Lockers, Sauna, Steam Room REMODELED FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT! a bowling league in September; bringing a gay/lesbian chorus to Charlotte for a concert in October; encouraging the establishing of a Charlotte gay/lesbian chorus; and making plans for a regional women's music festival in 1987; and planning Carolina Drummer '87. All this has been totally accom plished a volunteer board of direc tors who also have to work to make a living and find time for personal recreation, It has not been easy. But it would have been impossible with out the magnificent cooperation of Dennis Carey and his entire staff at Brass Rail, Steve Freeman at Cha rades, Oleen Love at Oleen's, Danny Follis at Tags and Marion Tyson at Scorpio, and a host of volunteers who have worked often thankless hours at many of the events. We've just finished an exhausting month going through budget re quests from other organizations and QCQ's financial planning for the coming year. From this, the board of directors has offered to allocate on a monthly basis funds for the Gay/Lesbian Switchboard, the Met- rolina AIDS Project hotline and risk reduction program, all contingent on funds available. We could not guarantee funds for all three without the “contingent" clause because, technically, QCQ as a corporation would cease to exist if funds were to be exhausted. With the women's music festival and Carolina Drummer '87, there would be a period of a month or two in which funds available would be tight. It is the board's intention to insure that these payments would be made even if made late. Be cause of this clause, neither the Switchboard nor MAP have offi cially accepted the allocation. Funds allocated and accepted: ■ $200 to the AIDS Vigil for Prayer conducted by New Life MCC to help inform the Charlotte community of the problem of AIDS and the ser vices available locally through MAP. The Vigil will also help to raise funds for MAP. ■ $150 for rental of a site for the Gay Parents Coalition to hold a re gional conference for gay and les bian parents in the spring of 1987. For QCQ events, deposits have been put down on Park Center for Carolina Drummer '87, for Entertain ment Place at Spirit Square for the Cabaret in November. Earmarked and in the bank for a deposit on a place for the women's music festival is $550. We've also allocated $100 to secure Roll-A-Round Skate Center for the September skate party, and that will be left on deposit with the skate center for each succeeding month. Other immediate expenditures will be a deposit to the Unitarian Church for. the concert with the At lanta Chorale in October and a con cert by the Charlotte Lambda Cho rus in December. One of the major expenses for the year was the approximately $552 for insurance required by the city for rental of Park Center. We finally got it just 10 days before Carolina Drummer after having worked 2'/2 frantic months just trying to line it up. It made us very aware of what people are talking about when they mention an insurance crisis. We've established committees and committee chairs that will oper ate through the end of June, 1987: ■ Women's festival committee with Billie Rose. ■ Carolina Drummer '87 commit tee with Butch Stevenson. ■ Athletic committee with Tim H. that includes bowling, skating par ties and next spring a regional soft- ball league. Interest has already been expressed by Asheville, Hick ory and Greensboro in participat ing. ■ Pride Month committee with Jim Y. ■ Rule committee with Dean Gas- key. ■ Q-Notes committee with Dean Gaskey, QCQ has been considered to be the gay United Way, but we did not collect at the office. We rarely col lect even at the bars. To do all the items the board would like to, while at the same time being able to fund Charlotte's gay organizations so that they can concentrate their efforts on doing their jobs, we need to have a continuing source of funds. I'd like to ask you who are reading this free paper provided by QCQ to contrib ute $12 — a dollar a month — to help make our community a better place for us to live. The board of the reorganized QCQ is a very prudent group and seeks only to spend funds wisely within our community. They are dy namic individuals who are not rub ber stamps for anyone. TTiey have a sincere and obvious interest in im proving conditions for all of us. You have an interest in what we are doing and have the right to vote in the election of the board for 1987 in the January meeting. You also have the right to attend any meet ing held by QCQ. It is an open organization with no secret meet ings at any time although we some times make decisions almost any time if enough board members are present — simply to make sure pro jects work in a timely fashion. We welcome questions about every thing we do at any subsequent reg ular board meeting. Please join us. And we thank you for your support. The board of directors of QCQ wishes to express that the partic ipation of Robert Sheets and other members of the board in One Nation Indivisible is their choice as individuals and not as members of QCQ. QCQ is a nonprofit fundraising organization and the policy of the board is that publicity for its functions will only be within the gay/lesbian community.
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