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Wheel Windshield Wiper Blades Fuel Injection Service * Coolant Flush 14 JUNE 27.2009 JUNE 2 7 - 2 8, 9 6 9 S T O N = A two-part history timeline of the LGBT by Matt Comer . Q-Notes staff exclusive Carolinas I he history of the LGBT community is a tough subject ' to study. The community has been oppressed and maligned for so long, that much of thehistory is for gotten. In most schools, LGBT youth never learn about the legendary events and people who helped to shape the queer community, the entire nation and its political and social landscape. The story of LGBT people is nothing less than a truly American story — it is a part of the fabric that makes this nation great. And, it shouldn’t be forgotten. From archived issues of The Front Page, Q-Notes, Lambda and other sources, Q-Notes staff compiled this two-part Carolinas LGBT history. Part One, below, traces our community’s successs, setbacks, sorrows and joys from 1971 — two years after the Stonewall Riots — through 1986. Part Two, to be published in our July 11 print issue, will explore history from 1987 to the present. 1971 _ North Carolina native Bob Bland moves back to his home state from New York and founds the Triangle Gay Alliance. He and others rent a home for the group, which acts as an early social, activism and support organization for LGBTs across the state. Fall 1973 — Concerns about the growing organizing by the “Gay Liberation Movement” by students on University of North Carolina- Greensboro campus prompt the chancellor to seek advice on the matter from the UNC System president. 1974 _ Phillip Pendleton and Jim Baxter, future Front Page editor and publisher, establish the Guilford Gay Alliance on the cam pus of Guilford College and an off-campus group, the Greensboro Gay Alternatives. February 1974 — The Carolina Gay Association, the gay student group at the University of Capt. Coronado Fishta Firal Round Take Me Home! The first issue of The Front Page published on Oct. 25, 1979. North Carolina-Chapel Hill is established. It is the first such group in North Carolina and among the oldest LGBT student organizations in the nation. November 1974 — Students at the UNC- Greensboro organize a gay student organization unaffiliated with the school. 1975 - North Carolina’s first gay news paper, The Free Press, is published in Charlotte. 1975 — The first gay church in Charlotte is ■ formed by a non-parochial Catholic priest. Friar Bruce Wood. 1976 - St. John’s Metropolitan Community Church in Raleigh is founded. April 1976 — The first annual Southeastern Gay Conference is held by UNC-Chapel Hill’s Carolina Gay Association. ' • August 1976 — The first issue of Lambda, the newsletter of the Carolina Gay Association at UNC-Chapel Hill is published. It is the nation’s oldest, student-run, LGBT publication. 1977 _ A local chapter of Dignity, a gay Catholic organization, is formed. Later, the group morphs into the more inclusive Acceptance. 1978 _ The Gay Academic Union, a social and professional organization for LGBTs in Greensboro is established. October 1979 — The first meeting of the fully-University-affiliat- ed Gay Student Union is held. Alumni and students protest the school’s decision to recognize the group through virulently anti-gay letters to the university and letters to the editor in the daily Greensboro newspaper. Oct. 25,1979 — The first issue of The Front Page is published in Raleigh. Dec. 9,1979 — Thirty-five men and women meet in Raleigh for the first-ever meeting of the TriW^ . Communication and Planning f December 1979 — A group lS lesbians meet in Winston-Salem ^ ^ organize a gay support group. 1 May 1980 — The Raleigh chap^' National Organization for Womei’' ' back and present a resolution o”?! statewide Democratic convention'’ ^ never presented. March 31,1980 — LGBT coiiVj ™ and members of the Metropolita" , Falwell’s “I Love America” rally'" ' June 2,1980 — The White Hoif ’ a torched after receiving harassing P ' days prior. The bar had only bee" P Fall 1980 — Students at West^ Cullowhee establish their Gay St"^ ® after they battle their student go''^ ' organization funding. 1981 — Queen City Quordio^^ “ members and leaders in Charlof^^jj' King and lesbian activist Billie S" • 1981 — Metropolitan ye founded in Charleston, and Chafl%, April 15,1981 —One manislJj'^j in a gay bashing at a popular tion on the Little River near arrested and charged with """ I >sla What You Need To Know • A mmM WiMWt M MM. taMfM M this «()0rl Ma fsi: tjf'c liierc ((Pg ■Jui The Front Page cover on Carolina, is held in Durham. Th^7^] Aug. 25,1981 — Bob Hoy,^d State University, announces his Council. He is later defeated in cent of the vote. ilj J1 September 1981 — Charlestf^ legal referral and social o'rganiz^ fj Oct. 1,1981 — The first issii' women is published in Durham’ Oct. 2,1981 — Openly gay wjer, ■Openly gay fVr, Chapel Hill Town Council. His j the time and is seeking re-elec^. Both are unsuccessful in t Winter 1981 — Students at" Columbia establish their Gay Sty, rg Sept. 28,1982 — The Front Crf; primarily affecting gay men amnu Known as GRID, or gay-related vt( more than 500 cases had been' Dec. 8,1982 —use’s Gay 5'
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