Q-Notes / Pride Publishing & Typesetting Charlotte, NC 28222 PO Box 221841 Telephone: 704-531-9988 Fax: 704-531-1361
Q-Notes is published every other week with a print circulation of approximately 11,000. It is distributed every other weekend in all major cities in North Carolina and South Carolina and by subscription. The paper covers news, politics, opinion, entertainment, art, lifestyle and other topics. It is the largest LGBT news publication in the Carolinas.
The paper is distributed in major cities and small-to-medium sized cities and towns in the Carolinas including Charlotte, N.C., where the paper is based; Asheville; Chapel Hill; Charleston; Columbia; Durham; Greensboro; Greenville, S.C.; Raleigh; Wilmington, Winston-Salem and more. The paper also has distribution points and subscribers in Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia.Origins
Q-Notes was originally started in 1983 as a monthly newsletter, printed on 8.5×11 paper and distributed by the now defunct Queen City Quordinators, a local non-profit LGBT community organization. The newsletter ended with the closing of QCQ, circa late 1984. In 1986 Q-Notes was reborn under the auspices of C.A.N. (Charlotte Advocacy Network) Inc., a for-profit corporation formed expressly to produce the publication as a monthly tabloid newspaper. The first issue of the revised newspaper was distributed in June 1986. Jim Yarbrough, the owner of Pride Publishing and Typesetting, Inc., bought the publication from C.A.N. Inc. in December 1989. In 1996, Q-Notes began distributing every other week.
