RALEIGH, N.C. – The North Carolina House of Representatives passed today, 75-42, a proposed anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment that would ban marriage, civil unions, domestic partnerships and other relationship recognition [...]

Though he didn’t ask for the privilege, Marcus Brandon has been the de facto face of the anti-LGBT amendment debate for many at the legislature and across the state. Colleagues are looking to him for his guidance and LGBT citizens, both from within and outside his district, see him as “their” voice in Raleigh.

Negative consequences of a far-reaching anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment remain very real possibilities, statewide equality advocates warned Saturday. Equality North Carolina Interim Executive Director Alex Miller said his group finds leaders’ newest efforts unnerving.

Leaders in the North Carolina Senate have apparently attempted to sneak in a hearing of a proposed anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment when they open their special fall session on Monday.

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina House Majority Leader Paul Stam (R) on Tuesday likened gay marriage to incest and polygamy, and announced that the state legislature aims to approve a ballot initiative seeking a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

The leader of a religious cult in Durham, N.C. murdered his 4-year-old step son because he thought the child might be gay, according to prosecutors in a court hearing on Friday.

A North Carolina woman and gay rights supporter has been charged with assault after kissing an anti-gay preacher at a pride event in North Carolina last weekend.

It's almost all bad news this week, with an anti-gay measure gaining ground in Minnesota, slow progress in New York, a resignation in North Carolina, and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker staking out a position against LGBT hospital visitation.

A bill aimed at establishing a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage was introduced in the North Carolina House of Representatives this week.

CLAYTON, N.C. -- A fire that gutted the home of a gay couple who had been victims of harassment for more than a year, is being investigated as arson, and possible hate crime.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- A religious coalition known as the "People of Faith for Just Relationships" are pressing the city to do more for LGBT equality. The group of 25 local religious leaders led by the Reverend Joe Hoffman, has released a resolution calling for four specific protections.

A North Carolina state representative has said that HIV treatment should not be funded by the taxpayer for people who live “perverted lifestyles."

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Commissioners in North Carolina's Mecklenburg County will consider a resolution against sexual bias after one of their own referred to gays as "sexual predators" in an email made public last week.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Mecklenberg County Commissioner Bill James, who recently described gays as “sexual predators,” now claims that gays prey on young men at YMCA’s, according to a new post on his website.

A North Carolina County Commissioner known for his outspoken anti-gay views, has called gay people "sexual predators" in an e-mail to fellow Mecklenburg County Commissioners.