Posted: February 03, 2009 Matt Comer Flag for review

I really identified with the character Sam. In the last vignette, Sam's story is fully told: "My mom doesn't know I'm gay." The new friend I met, Glenda, urged me to speak about our conversation after the film. I sometimes feel as though Charlotte's civic/government, social and religious leaders and institutions are kind of like Sam's mom; they don't know Charlotte has a gay community. As big a city as Charlotte is, one would think we'd have at least one openly lesbian gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) elected official. We don't. The City doesn't include sexual orientation or gender-identity in its non-discrimination policy; the County doesn't include gender-identity. Neither the County nor the City currently offer domestic partner benefits to same-sex partners of LGBT employees (although the County has finally begun to officially discuss it). The region is still very conservative on religious issues. The only institutions who recognize LGBT citizens is the business community. Our city won't grow unless LGBT citizens are fully accepted and given their full dignity and worth as valued people and community members.

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For some reason, the site censored the word l - e - s - b - i - a - n. All those symbols before the word gay should be that word. Sorry.

Matt Comer Posted: 3 yearss ago
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Hey Matt! We're reviewing the list of words that get flagged automatically so that this doesn't happen again. Thank you for pointing that out.

Tracy Russ Posted: 3 yearss ago
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Thanks for putting us on this map, matt. I was hoping someone would do that.t of the

William Sims Posted: 3 yearss ago
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