/Matlemal Holocaust Month
north
& south
Carolina
Q'Notes
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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
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Queer as Folk
Six Feet Under
Will & Grace
Sex&TUeCity
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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
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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
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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.
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