Tag: NBA

The Other Shoe Drops In North Carolina

In a previous posting about North Carolina’s discriminatory House Bill 2, I wrote about the NBA’s decision to move the 2017 All Star Game out of North Carolina because of the newly-enacted law that removed local protections for LGBT people. That posting hit da… Continue Reading “The Other Shoe Drops In North Carolina”

The NBA is Moving the 2017 All Star Game out of Charlotte

  Four months ago, the State Legislature in North Carolina passed the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, commonly known as House Bill 2. The bill nullified the City of Charlotte’s newly-passed ordinance forbidding discrimination against LGBTQ citizens, mandated that transgendered people use the… Continue Reading “The NBA is Moving the 2017 All Star Game out of Charlotte”