For years, North Carolina’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) had the most restrictive eligibility level in the nation. This critical program is designed to make sure that low-income people living with HIV get the medicine they need to stay healthy and significantly reduce the risk of transmission. [Continue Reading...]
Lately it seems no more than a couple of weeks go by without another story of the horrible consequences of school bullying hitting the news. The latest is the story of a 13 year-old boy in Tampa, Florida who was repeatedly bullied and sexually assaulted with a broom handle and a hockey stick. He finally found the courage to come forward after weeks of harassment and ask his teachers for protection. [Continue Reading...]
The 2009 legislative session has just begun and our state faces huge challenges: rising unemployment, a growing budget shortfall, crumbling infrastructure, and a broken mental health system, to name a few.
So what does NC House Republican Leader Paul Stam spend his time worrying about? Creating jobs? Repairing bridges? Helping those who’ve lost everything in the downturn? [Continue Reading...]
Lawrence King was 15, and he was different. He was gay, and sometimes he expressed his gender differently from the other boys in his school, wearing makeup and jewelry. Some of the other kids bullied and harassed him because he was different. [Continue Reading...]
By Ian Palmquist, Equality North Caolina Earlier this fall I met an incredible woman. Elke Kennedy approached me at an event. She was friendly, but I could see a sadness in her eyes. Elke’s son Sean Kennedy was murdered on May 17 this year in Greenville, South Carolina. He was targeted because he was gay. [Continue Reading...]
By Ian Palmquist, Equality NC “My Saturday interview went well, however, I do not think the ‘dynamic’ he will bring will fit in at this time. Which is a shame [because] he has customers and carriers and experience. . . that could be helpful… but he is openly gay.” That’s a real comment in an [Continue Reading...]
