RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ Still working toward substantial victories at the ballot box and the legislature, demonstrators opposed to Republican policies within North Carolina demanded again Saturday that laws be repealed that they say harm the sick, the poor and minorities.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Three gay-rights advocates are charged with damaging property after confronting protesters outside a North Carolina fundraiser celebrating same-sex marriage and other social changes.

(AP) Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford says the conference is likely to move its football championship game out of Charlotte, North Carolina, again if a state law that limits anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people is not repealed or adjusted.

RALEIGH (AP) — Lawyers for several gay couples say in a legal filing that North Carolina’s Republican legislative leaders shouldn’t be allowed to appeal rulings that legalized gay marriage in the state.

On August 24, over 100 national and local LGBTQ, immigrant, and civil rights organizations urged President Obama to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from considering the Adelanto Detention Facility as a center to detain transgender immigrants.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch says North Carolina’s law restricting restroom access for transgender people amounts to “state-sponsored discrimination.”

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton turned an 11-hour congressional grilling into a campaign call to action on foreign policy, using a make-or-break appearance before the Republican-led Benghazi committee to display a commanding, presidential presence under a barrage of questions.

(WB) The anti-LGBT law in North Carolina barring transgender people from using certain restrooms consistent with their gender identity will cost the state $3.76 billion as a result of economic boycott over the course of a dozen years, an Associated Press analysis has found.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Gay marriage is front and center on this year’s first real work day at the North Carolina General Assembly.

(AP) Stagehand Kery Eller doesn’t own any Bruce Springsteen albums, but he would smash them if he did.

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — At eastern North Carolina’s premier election-season barbecue, Republicans revved up thousands of conservatives before U.S. Senate candidate Thom Tillis took the stage by reminding them the state’s gay marriage ban they approved two years ago has been struck down.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Congressional candidate Clay Aiken says voters in North Carolina are getting a different look at him from his “American Idol” background.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Charlotte has narrowly rejected a measure protecting people from discrimination because of their sexual orientation.

After Charlotte’s failed vote on LGBT ordinances, attention and debate turns to transgender inclusion, community education and fall election.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Christian conservatives who helped pass a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in North Carolina are gathering again in Raleigh to try to keep the prohibition defended in court.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Singer and actor Clay Aiken is now officially making the switch to wear the hat of a North Carolina congressional candidate.

ERWIN, N.C. — Eleven years after becoming a national TV sensation, Clay Aiken still attracts a crowd in central North Carolina. In an hour he could only get a block or so down the street during an old textile town’s fall festival while fans stopped to talk and take pictures.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Democratic congressional primary race between former “American Idol” runner-up Clay Aiken and textile entrepreneur Keith Crisco remained very close and without a clear winner.

Jim Fahy was tragically killed before the parade at this year’s Stonewall Street Festival in Wilton Manors. 

(WM) Domestic violence protection orders issued by North Carolina judges to keep apart people in abusive or frightening dating relationships must be granted in same-sex cases as well, a divided state appeals court panel ruled Dec. 31.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ Singer-songwriter Clay Aiken doesn’t have a problem with name recognition. But that doesn’t mean voters in North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District will send the “American Idol” star to Washington to represent them in Congress.

An elderly gay couple from Australia was ordered to take down a rainbow gay pride flag from their home after officials from the organization that owns their apartment threatened legal action.

(AP) North Carolina’s next Democratic governor has seen a deal he helped broker to repeal the state’s law limiting LGBT protections fall apart and had several of his powers stripped away by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature. And he hasn’t even been sworn in yet.

This week read about a church in Georgia hosting a drag show, and Theresa Manzella of North Carolina claiming LGBT people live a “perverse lifestyle.”

A judge in Oregon ruled against LGBT university students, and a DMV in North Carolina is now allowing LGBT phrases on vanity plates.

This week read about North Carolina’s Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson calling the LGBT community “filth,”andFormer California Officer Jay Brome winning a lawsuit for enduring homophobic abuse at his workplace.

Cuba now allows same-sex marriage, and an LGBT march took place in South Africa despite terrorist threats.

This week read about Sen. Tammy Balwin urging the FDA to end the blood donation restrictions for gay men in Wisconsin, and Andrea Jenkins elected as council president in Minnesota.

LGBT group leaders skipped Virginia’s governor Pride event, and a pastor in Texas called for homosexuals to be “put down” during a sermon.

Public schools in Durham, North Carolina, added a policy that will help LGBT students, and Texas had the most protests against drag shows this year according to GLAAD.