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Leaders want trans education, begin renewed push for Charlotte non-discrimination ordinance

Equality NC's Crystal Richardson at podium and leaders with a local coalition in favor of Charlotte's LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination ordinance pictured here at a March 2, 2015, morning press conference on the day City Council later rejected the proposal.

LGBT community groups in Charlotte and North Carolina are renewing their lobbying and education efforts on a package of local non-discrimination ordinances voted down by City Council in the spring.

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Poll data hints that Charlotte Republicans have gotten more, not less, anti-LGBT

Mark Harris, one-time Republican Senate candidate and pastor of First Baptist Church, speaks at a rally opposing Charlotte's proposed LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination ordinance before its hearing at City Council on March 2, 2015. Photo by Matt Comer.

This year’s failed LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination effort was among the questions asked of voters in a Charlotte Observer poll — and the responses highlight and confirm the contention and division we saw over the effort earlier this year.