Gov. Roy Cooper

The NBA has awarded the 2019 All-Star Game to Charlotte despite a state law forbidding cities from protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination.

Gov. Cooper explained his decision to compromise on an HB2 repeal that left many anti-LGBTQ policies in place after campaigning on a full repeal.

The bank announced 1,200 more jobs for its North Carolina hub in exchange for more than $40 million in tax breaks and their LGBT employees’ dignity.

The democrat is trying to ease frayed relations with gay supporters still angry over a lack of anti-discrimination protections and a fake repeal of HB2.

Hours after the NCAA announced that the fake repeal of the state’s anti-LGBTQ law was good enough for games to resume in the state, legislators are at it again.

The sporting organization says the law’s repeal “meets the minimal NCAA requirements” to allow the state to host games again.

Fellow democrats, businesses, and progressive groups are angry that Governor Roy Cooper’s “compromise” still allows for discrimination against LGBT people.

The North Carolina Sports Association estimated the state risked more than $250 million in economic impact if event bids submitted to the NCAA are declined.

Admitting this bill does not “fully correct” HB2, the Democratic governor told reporters he took the best deal he could get from Republicans.

How can you tell it’s a bad deal? Former Gov. Pat McCrory came out in favor of it, while LGBTQ groups and allies are sounding the alarm against it.

No comment yet from North Carolina’s Democratic governor, Roy Cooper.

The drive supporting a new proposal to repeal North Carolina’s HB2 is stuck in idle.

A statewide association told lawmakers “our state’s sports tourism industry will suffer crushing, long-term losses and will essentially close its doors to NCAA business.”

Only 12 of 50 state senators and 40 of 118 current House members said they support abolishing the law, nearly all of them Democrats.

“When a law attempts to make any North Carolinian less in the eyes of their fellow citizens, I will fight it. I will stand up for you if the Legislature cannot or will not.”