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When I would ask him about Charlotte, Nashville, Raleigh, Richmond. as not only THE hot places for gays to move to in the SE but among the only places. Atlanta was in the ranks of South Beach, New Orleans. I can remember being in Atlanta a decade ago, visiting a friend. Statistics arent everything and many people behave one way in the voting booth and another way in private. One needs to talk to the locals who are of a similar walk of like to get perspective. ***Here's my main point: Too many people use the red state/blue state (or county) concept to determine whether they will fit in or not, but its far more complex than that in real life. How any of this applies to the Charlotte region I'll leave up to the locals to determine since they know best. *Ive seen environments among macho straight guys where they'd be far more accepting of a guy they knew were gay but was also into sports, cars, hunting, than they would an eccentric intellectual straight guy who was into Opera and organic food. *Theres more to a person than their sexual orientation, in one town a person may be far less likely to be given a hard time for being "gay" but even more likely to be looked down on for some other reason like maybe social class. *There are many people who are "anti-gay" but due to their polite upbrings they'll live by the "I don't have to like a person in order to respect them" I'm openly gay and had this experience many times. *Not all religious conservatives I've met are anti-gay, and I ve also met many who either think homosexualuty is sinful or in the case of conservative Catholics, disordered, but they'll still respect the gay person and even be friends with them, treating them better than some non-religious people would (love the sinner hate the sin). I think most of those who do the harassing do it based on machismo rather than religion. Sometimes it's just gay or eccentric lifestyles fit into some cultures better than others. *Not all people who are homophobic are that way for religious or ideologial reasons. (Many old generalizations have thruth but also have notable exceptions and contradictions) Sometimes the places where Christianity is most prominent are the places where you run into the most trouble.Īlthough I cannot speak for Charlotte, some interesting things I've observed over the years: I just want to be a part of a community in which people respect each other for who and what they are. I am not into public displays of affection, from gay or straight people. It's strange to still have to ask questions like this in today's day and age, but unfortunately there are still lots of places where to be gay means having to afraid of the consequences. Others might have a different take on it, though. But if your perception of tolerance is like how most people act in a business environment, then that is definitely Charlotte. If your perception of tolerance is something like Amsterdam, where everything goes on in public, and no one minds. At the same time, I think it is extremely uncommon to see couples (gay or straight) being affectionate in public.
Does that make sense? It would be extremely inappropriate to make racist or sexist or homophobic remarks at work, and so people act the same way out of work.
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People tend to act in a manner than would be appropriate at work in a professional business environment. Personally, I don't know one way or another, and I'm also not sure in comparison to other cities.Ĭharlotte, in general, though, has a culture that is very business-like. Hit PLAY on the video above to remember Hicks and her music.Since no one is answering your question, I'll give it a shot. Unfortunately, Hicks’ AGT journey was cut short by the judges - Howard Stern, Heidi Klum, Mel B and Howie Mandel - before she made it through to the Season 8 live episodes. “Music helped me let out all of the emotion that was building up inside of me.” “That was a really difficult time for me,” she said of her father’s death.
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Hicks went through the audition process for the NBC competition series in 2013 when she was just 14 years old, famously performing an original song titled “Second Chance,” which she wrote about her late father. “I can’t possibly put into words how broken-hearted I am.” She recalled her sister’s “ability to create music that inspired thousands of people.”
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“My super beautiful, extremely talented, hilarious free spirit of a sister left this world to be with Jesus,” Hick’s sister Breelyn wrote in a Facebook post about her passing. Hick’s mother Jodi tells TMZ that her daughter was found lifeless at a friend’s home in Liberty, S.C., on Monday. Skilyr Hicks, a singer-songwriter who appeared in the eighth season of America’s Got Talent, has died at the age of 23.