The LGBT Democrats Caucus Executive Committee will meet briefly before the beginning of the upcoming SEC meeting and recess after determining the best time and place to meet during the SEC meeting. Look for signs near the check in table to direct you to the location of the meeting.

Notice:
LGBT Democrats Caucus Executive Committee Meeting
Date: February 2, 2012
Time: 10:45am
Place: Durham Convention Center

Join the LGBT Democrats of North Carolina for our Second Annual State Convention held in conjunction with Asheville Pride and the NC Democratic Party’s Western Gala.

Date: 10/6/2012 Time: 4:00PM – 6:00PM

Location: Grove Park Inn, Roosevelt Room
*This is not a ticketed event, there is no charge for attending. If you wish to join the LGBT Democrats membership dues are only $10.00 and you can join at the event or online at: LGBTdemocrats.org.

Also: Please join us at our table at Blue Ridge Pride earlier that same day from noon until 4:00pm at Pack Square Park If you would like to volunteer to staff our table please email us at: ryan@ryanbutler.net For more info go to: http://eepurl.com/pptQz

Grove Park Inn 290 Macon Avenue, Asheville, North Carolina 28804 View Map · Get Directions

August 31, 2012 – 8pm Convention Kickoff on the campus of UNCG – Old Town Draught House [1205 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro, NC 27403]

7pm Executive Committee Meeting in Room 202 of the School of Education Building [1400 Spring Garden Street], UNCG

As a gay man and first-time delegate, Ryan Butler is looking forward to showing his support for Obama – the first president to endorse gay marriage.
Butler, 33, and his partner tied the knot in a Canadian ceremony six years ago.

“The Democratic Party is the party of inclusion,” said Butler, a Greensboro attorney who is also president of the LGBT Democrats of North Carolina. “It’s always been a big-tent party. When you look out at the convention, you see people from all walks of life, all different sexual orientations.”
Earlier this year the state party approved, for the first time, a LGBT auxiliary. It joins other such subgroups, including the Young Democrats, Senior Democrats, Democratic Women of N.C., the African American auxiliary and the Hispanic auxiliary.

Read more here!

Thanks to the hard work of our Executive Council and Executive Committee members, some of whom just accepted their positions at the Auxiliary meeting preceding the full SEC meeting. We have a Chair and a Vice Chair in each of the 13 Congressional districts. We are now in equal standing with many other states, and the reply I heard from most SEC members yesterday was, “well, why shouldn’t we do this? It only makes sense!”

Also passed without dissent was a resolution in opposition to the anti-marriage, anti-family amendment scheduled for the May primary ballot.

From Action NC:

Every February, thousands of North Carolinians assemble on Jones Street for the Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HKonJ) march and rally. This annual event allows all of us to lift our voices for freedom, democracy, shared prosperity and progress for all North Carolinians. We march as a broad coalition, united in our work for justice and equality, and in solidarity with HKonJ’s 14-point agenda.

As a proud HKonJ partner, Action NC is asking our members and supporters to join us and our coalition  for the 6th Annual Historic Thousands on Jones St. People’s Assembly Coalition Mobilization on Saturday, February 11, 2012 at Shaw University in Raleigh, starting at 9:30am.

Click here to RSVP for this important and exciting event!

If you believe in justice for people not corporations, if you believe in good jobs and workers rights, if you believe in equal protection under the law as the foundation on which our country stands, then come out for HKonJ!

Please join us and support public jobs, public service, and social justice. This rally will declare North Carolina to be in a state of emergency. Right wing extremists have seized control of the North Carolina legislature and have declared war on working families, the poor, minorities, seniors, and children. We need to hold them accountable and be remind them who they work for!

My 2¢ worth: FOLKS – Rev. Barber said it all at the ENC conference. The NAACP stands with us against the NC Constitutional Amendment… we should make every effort to turn out as some of the thousands [K] on J