Personally, I don’t think LGBT people need participation trophies to justify their lifestyle choices. It’s who they love, so people need to accept it. But when you award the “Harvey Milk award” to a convicted sex offender, we have problems. In Charotte, North Carolina’s own version of San Francisco, Charlotte Pride awarded the Harvey Milk award to someone accused and convicted of molesting a 16 year old boy.
An LGBT festival that runs from August 19-20 in Charlotte, North Carolina, has conferred a top award to a convicted sex offender.
Charlotte Pride, which is sponsored by Bank of America, McDonald’s, Bud Light, Lowe’s, NASCAR, and a host of other ESG-captive corporations, has given its 2023 Harvey Milk Award to Chad Sevearance-Turner.
According to the event’s site, this award is given annually “to an individual to honor exceptional leadership, service to the community, and those who champion LGBTQ causes that impact the Charlotte community and beyond.”
Sevearance-Turner was apparently awarded for his work as president of the Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce — a role in which he has overseen the chamber secure “valuable partnerships with prominent organizations like Fifth Third Bank, NASCAR, Duke Energy, Wells Fargo, Sonoco, and Novant Health.”
WBTV-TV reported that Sevearance-Turner had previously served as the president of Charlotte’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce but resigned after his track record with young boys had been flagged as a possible discredit to any future work conducted by the group. At the time of Sevearance-Turner’s resignation, the group had been pushing to allow transvestites to use women’s bathrooms.