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N O R T H C A R O L I N A
North Carolina News Notes
by Lainey Millen . Q-Notes staff
Charlohe
8 AUGUST 9.2008 *Q-NOTES
Local bar sued
CHARLOTTE — The Garden & Gun Club,
which is scheduled to open this summer in the
NC Music Factory complex, has been served
with a lawsuit, alleging trademark infringe
ment.
According to The Charlotte Observer, the
dance club’s owners TwoDalGals received notice
that a charleston, S.C.-based lifestyle magazine
filed a suit on July 28 in state court, but was
removed to federal court the following day.
Garden & Gun magazine is arguing that
they hold the trademark on the name as an
assignment by parent company Evening Post
Publishing Co. The publication is now a year old.
In the documents filed, the plaintiff assert
ed that they had spent several million dollars
in development, publication, advertising solici
tation as well as shaping an online presence.
The publishers selected the name to mirror
the “gentility yet strength” of the South.
The club’s name was found during a rou
tine web search.
Evening Post said it was concerned that the
name usage would lead to a notion that both
were related.
Garden & Gun is seeking more than $75,000
in relief as docurhented in court papers.
Pride seeks feedback
CHARLOTTE — Pride Charlotte 2008, a
project of The Lesbian & Gay Community
Center, is asking everyone who attended the
event to take a short survey to help give viable
information for next year’s steering committee
for planning purposes.
This online survey only takes a moment to
complete. The data provided will help in future
development to ensure that Pride Charlotte
2009 will be even bigger and better.
Be sure to share thoughts and comments
freely.
To participate, visit www.eSurveysPro.com/
Survey.aspx?id=bc9d7d5b-b76d-454c-b367-
854a39f49a27.
Local author releases novel
MOORESVILLE — Frances Richter has
recently released a new novel, “Friend of the
Firm: a Sheldon Bailey Mystery.”
This book is the first in a series about les
bian attorney Sheldon Bailey.
Richter has spent her entire life in the deep
South, most of it spent in the Charlotte area. She
takes an interest in child welfare issues, and vol
unteers her time and talents working in the
community for neglected and abused children.
She will have an official release and book
signing at Four Corners Framing and Gallery
at 162A N. Broad St., on Sept. 12 at 7 p.m.
To order a copy of the books or for more
information, visit www.francesrichter.com.
Time to ‘turkey’
CHARLOTTE — PrideSisters is looking for
interested individuals to form a bowling team
for the upcoming Queen City Rollers gay bowl
ing league season which starts Sept. 8 at 7:30
p.m. at Carolina Lanes.
The season lasts 24 weeks. Teams consist of
four and allows for substitutes for game play.
Cost is $14 per week and includes three
games per week,
end of season ban
quet, team and individual awards, bowling
balls and shoes.
Kick-off meeting will be held on Aug. 25 at
7:30 p.m. at Carolina Lanes in Matthews.
For more information, email
pridesisters@yahoo.com.
Center needs stuff
CHARLOTTE — The LGBT Community
Center of Charlotte is seeking donations of the
following items: ping pong table, corn toss sets
and portable basketball pole/hoop.
The Center is a 501(c)(3) non profit, so any
donations are fully tax deductible.
Interested parties wishing to donate these
items (or donate half and sell half) should
email honginot@yahoo.com.
Campus action group makes mark
CHARLOTTE — National transgender
advocate"and educator Donna Rose was hon
ored on July 23 by Campus Pride’s Summer
Leadership Camp with its first-ever Voice
Action Award. Rose was a featured guest speak
er at the Closing Dinner Graduation Ceremony
on the host campus of Towson University
Rose delivered her keynote “Pathways to
Equality: Frontiers of LGBT Advocacy” to 60
LGBT and ally student leaders from across the
United States and Canada.
The Voice Action Award will be given
annually at the summer camp and recognizes
a national leader in the LGBT and ally move
ment who has made exemplary contributions
in the fight for equality and believes in the
mission of Campus Pride — “to give voice and
action in building future LGBT and ally stu
dent leaders.”
“Donna Rose is well-deserving of this
honor. She embodies inclusion and diversi
ty. . .and has utilized her voice to build
bridges, ignite change and create dialogue
inside our movement, which will only serve to
make us stronger,” said Shane Windmeyer,
executive director of Campus Pride.
The Campus Pride Summer Leadership
Camp is the only one of its kind in the nation.
The five-day camp experience blends tradi-
. tional camp activities with a core curriculum
of skill building in leadership development,
social justice and civic involvement.
For over six months. Campus Pride coordi
nated a team of higher education professionals
and experts to plan and implement the camp.
In addition, various sponsoring national
organizations were also invited to conduct
skill-specific workshops including the Gay and
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
(GLAAD), Soulforce Q for Young Adults, Out for
Work and the Human Rights Campaign. Other
camp sponsors included Cargill, Ernst Young,
LLC, Chartwells, the Matthew Shepard
Foundation, the National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force, Towson University Honors College,
Campus Life, Center for Student Diversity and
LGBT Student Development Program,
OUTmedia, Charlotte Lesbian and Gay Fund,
Wesley Mancini Foundation, Tyvola Design,
Dick Walker Memorial Trust and Marc Walters,
Consortium of Higher Education LGBT
Resource Professionals, Point Foundation,
National Lesbian and Gay Law Association,
The Trevor Project and Public Identity.
For more information, email info@campus
pride.org or visit www.campuspride.org.
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