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.ki; L >1981 — New rules
Jrint? Point, N.C.,
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unmarried
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&P"Wic housing.
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^ a/or f ' parade in North
P'urham attends.
^idan graduate student at N.C.
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Appointed council position.
it tts A?*riy of South Carolina in
it/repo "^iation.
CVfaciA^°"®“riaffling illness”
imnuijo in the Chapel Hill area.
idPrteH „®riciency, at the time,
n4nts^rionwide.
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REaiO«ALCQtnESt.BA!«¥ , —
Drummer Weefend Coming
is held in Durham for the second time ever in 1986.
photo by Jenny LaBalme.
cial recognition from the university. The complaint is filed as a
civil rights violation in U.S. District Court. A federal judge later
rules in favor of the organization and they are granted official
university recognition.
March 27,1983 — Nineteen Democratic Party activists gather in
Chapel Hill to establish the group, Lesbian and Gay Democrats of
North Carolina.
June 28,1983 — On the 14th anniversary of the Stonewall
Riots, The Front Page newspaper’s entire front page of news, for the
first time, is devoted to coverage of the AIDS outbreak. At the time,
13 cases has been reported in North Carolina, including seven
dead victims of the disease, and three cases had been reported in
South Carolina.
July 12,1983 — A second issue of The Front Page devotes its
entire front page of news to “The AIDS Crisis,” the first time the
phrase appears prominentlyjn the newspaper. The paper
includes an eight-page Charlotte Observer “special report” on
AIDS as an insert. The reported number of cases nationwide -
rises to close to 2,000.
October 1983 — Q-Notes,
at the time a newsletter of
Queen City Quordinators,
reports on the first case of
AIDS in Charlotte.
Nov. 7-11,1983 — News
station WECT-TV broadcasts
a five-part series on
Wilmington’s gay community.
December 1983 —
New Life Metropolitan
Community Church in
Charlotte is established.
February 1984 — UNC-
Chapel Hill’s student govern
ment passes a resolution call
ing for a ban on discrimina
tion on the basis of sexual
orientation in the activities
of student organizations.
April 10,1984 — The
Front Page continues its coverage of the growing AIDS Crisis, as
South Carolina ranks seventh and North Carolina ranks eighteenth
in AIDS cases nationwide.
May 1984 — Joe Herzenberg, a formerly closeted Chapel Hill
Town Council member, is elected as an openly gay delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.
August 1984 — A Naval Investigative Service inquiry in
Charleston leads to possible infiltration of gay clubs and bars.
NIS requests the membership roster of Charleston’s Metropolitan
Community Church. The pastor refuses the request.
September 1984 — An openly gay Republican running for the
Washington, D.C., City Council withdraws from the race after the
Gay Activists Alliance declines to endorse him. A primary reason
in the endorsement decision is the Republican’s backing out of a
gay speaking engagement in North Carolina, due to pressure
from the Republican National Committee.
Fall 1985 — Six gay men found Metrolina AIDS Project in Charlotte.
see History on 20
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of (7-/Votes, June 1986.
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