/Matlemal Holocaust Month north & south Carolina Q'Notes ^ lUNE 86 \ JUNE 01 / noted . notable . noteworthy GLBT issues OUT OF THE PAST • see page 3 1993 • NC wants AIDS reporting • ENDA introduced in US Senate • SC AIDS volunteers die in crash A sculpture at Yad Vashem (Hand of God) — the Israeli memorial to the Holocaust ‘The Reel Exchange:” De Colores • APRIL 16 Underwritten by Q-Notes OfJtCharlotte Film Series ends^APRIL24 CharlottePride 2002 arranges Gay Day at Carowinds 'jn\in -ji ',7',7v;.'i -not:.' What is your favorite gay-themed TV show? choose one: Queer as Folk Six Feet Under Will & Grace Sex&TUeCity QueerDuck VOLUME . ISSUE 24 SINCE 1984 WWW. q-NOTES. COM APRIL 13 .2002 A community gathers to eradicate HIV/AIDS Join community, regional and national participants as they focus on HIV/AIDS issues. CHARLOTTE, NC — Last November, representatives of 19 different faith, arts, social service and health organizations came together to discuss the possibility of fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the African- American community. Artists, service providers and ministers shared the table. Many meetings and conversations since then resulted in a planned series of events under the banner. Artists & Community — Fighting for the Eradication of HIV/AIDS, to be held April 17-24. Six community partners, with the support of many other organizations, have planned a town meeting, health fair, poetry slam, workshops, film showings and theatre per formances. The Afro- American Cultural Center, The Guerrilla Mail Project, Nubian Rootz Cultural Center, OutCharlotte, Present Day Cares and Unity Fellowship Church Charlotte. OutCharlotte encouraged arts par ticipation. “We have lost many creative voices to this disease. Artists have found wonderfully creative The Adodi Muse from Atlanta ways to communicate the impact of the disease, and ways in which all of us can be moved to action,” said Joanne Stevenson, an OutCharlotte board member. “We have to change the way we talk about HIV/AIDS if we are to stop the damage this disease is doing to members of our community,” Gerry Chisholm. Director of Nubian Roots Cultural Center. “Only by working together can we begin to honestly take stock of what our health care providers, churches and government agencies must do to intensify the fight against this disease,” said Rev. Tonya Rawls, pastor of Unity Fellowship Church Charlotte. Present Day Cares, Inc. is a non-profit community-based organization whose see ERADICATE on 31 NC leaders in Out & Elected in USA touring exhibit CARRBORO, NC — The Carrboro Arts Committee and the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission will host a nationally touring photo exhibit at the Carrboro Century Center. Out & Elected in the USA features sixty photographic portraits and their own words of openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans who have served or currently serve in elected office throughout the country. The Carrboro Century Center is the new exhibit’s first stop on its nationwide tour. Out & Elected is a remarkable and thought- provoking body of work,” says Carrboro Mayor Michael Nelson, now serving his fourth term. “It documents, in black and white, a significant emerging trend in US political history. We’re very excited at the prospect of helping introduce it to a national audience.” The Out & Elected collection covers 30 years, featuring subjects from 30 of the 33 states where openly gay and lesbian candidates have been elected. Nelson shares this distinction localfy with Joe Herzenberg, Mayor Mike Nelson former Town Council Member and Mayor Pro-tern of Chapel Hill. In 1987 Herzenberg became North Carolina’s first openly gay elected official. Nelson became our state’s first openly gay mayor in 1995. Both leaders are among the 60 featured in the exhibit. Exhibit creator R.S. Lee says, “ While the collection focuses specifically on the Joe Herzenberg collective experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender political candidates, ultimately it reflects the courage of all people who hold themselves up to the scrutiny of the electorate. They care about their communities and want to make a difference.” Out & Elected in the USA was see ELECTED on H May 12: To eradicate breast cancer, "Sing for The Cure" CHARLOTTE, NC — “Sing for the Cure” is a 65-minute song cycle exploring the experiences of breast cancer patients, their friends and loved ones. The work was commissioned by two large, primarily gay choruses in Dallas, Texas, commissioned by the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in June, 2000. The Foundation is dedicated to “eradicating breast cancer as a life-threatening disease by advancing research, education, screening and treatment.” The Women’s Chorus of Dallas and Turtle Creek Chorale are both large, world- renowned choruses who are leaders in the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (GALA Choruses). The collaboration is Susan B. Komen Foundation celebrates with breast cancer survivors remarkable. And result is riveting. Ten American composers created music to accompany these stories. All proceeds from the event go to fight breast cancer in the Charlotte area community through the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. “Consistently, the Foundation’s expense to income ratio is 15% to 85% . Seventy- five percent of the donations to this event stay in the Charlotte area for breast cancer screening, awareness and treatment. T\venty-five per cent goes to the national Foundation for research, said Penelope Wilson, Executive Director of Susan G. Komen Foundation-Charlotte. Wilson came to Charlotte in 1993, having lost her partner the year before to breast cancer. see SING on 11

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