Tag: Charlotte
Equality Advocates Condemn North Carolina Legislative Sneak Attack Doubling Down on HB 2
Today, Chad Griffin, President of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Chris Sgro, Executive Director of Equality NC, and Mara Keisling, Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), responded to media reports that a small group of extreme lawmakers in North Carolina are preparing to double down on the discriminatory HB 2 law in another legislative sneak attack hashed out in a backroom deal.
Maroon 5 Cancel North Carolina Shows Due to ‘Bathroom Bill’ (HB 2)
Maroon 5 have announced that they will be canceling their upcoming shows in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina because of the recent passage of the HB 2 legislation.
Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas Cancel North Carolina Tour Dates Over Law Called ‘Anti-LGBT’
Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas have decided to cancel the North Carolina dates on their upcoming “Future Now” tour in response to the state’s controversial “bathroom bill,” which critics believe is anti-LGBT.
TLDEF Condemns North Carolina Law Striking Down LGBT Protections and Targeting Transgender Students for Discrimination
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) condemns a new law passed by North Carolina lawmakers and signed by Governor Pat McCrory, which will ban transgender students in schools and all transgender people in public buildings from using bathrooms and other facilities that match who they are as male and female. The law also strikes down non-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in municipalities throughout the state and bars their future passage.
NC Gov. Signs Radical Bill Into Law Attacking Transgender Students & Overturning LGBT Protections
New law not only rips away local non-discrimination ordinances and writes discrimination against LGBT North Carolinians into state law, but it also puts the state’s public schools at risk of losing $4.5 billion in critical federal funds under Title IX.
Gov. McCrory and Legislature Begin Costly Special Session to Overturn LGBT Equality Measure
At $42,000 a day, anti-LGBT NC Gov. Pat McCrory and conservative state lawmakers are hell-bent on burning tax dollars and stripping local control from Charlotte’s elected leaders.