Local Incidents Part of Broader Attack on LGBTQ Community, Pride Events
The LGBTQ community is being targeted across the state and country by violent, radical groups, politicians, and traditional and social media.
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The LGBTQ community is being targeted across the state and country by violent, radical groups, politicians, and traditional and social media.
This week we talk about the NHCS finalized budget for the upcoming school year and how it affects TAs, Pride Boys at Pine Valley Library, and we meet someone new from Columbus County.
On Tuesday evening, the Pride event for young kids at the Pine Valley Library was interrupted by protestors, including members of the local Proud Boys group. Officials say there was no disturbance and participants were never in danger — but advocates for the queer community describe the event differently.
On this episode of the newsroom, conversations about two very different issues that both challenge our regionFirst, Caroline Morin, director of the LGBTQ Center of the Cape Fear Coast, talks about her work, the rise in attacks on her community, and the particular flavor of bigotry in the coastal south. Then, Evan Folds, with the New Hanover Soil & Water Conservation District, gets into our county’s looming landfill crisis, and some innovative ways to solve it.
On Tuesday evening, the Pride event for young kids at the Pine Valley Library was interrupted by protestors, including members of the local Proud Boys group. Officials say there was no disturbance and participants were never in danger — but advocates for the queer community describe the event differently.