Equality Advocates Make Big Statement in Small Tar Heel Town

Less than an hour over theÂ border intoÂ North Carolina sits the small town of Hendersonville, and a new billboard exposing the Tar Heel State’s new anti-LGBT law. The folks at Planting Peace have launched another billboard for equality, this time focusing on North Carolina instead of Mississippi.

“Welcome to North Carolina,” the billboard reads. “Due to our stance on LGBT rights, Please Set Your Clocks Back 100 Years,” it snarkily suggests.

The comment perfectly encapsulates GOP Gov. Pat McCrory‘s new anti-LGBT law, HB2.

Last week, Planting Peace unveiled an electronic billboard near the state capitol in Mississippi.Â “Guys, I said I hate figs, and to love thy neighbor,” it read, with an image of Jesus holding his head in shame. Love was spelled with a heart.

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“Laws such as HB2 are not about bathrooms. They are about discrimination,” Aaron Jackson, Planting Peace‘sÂ President told NCRM in an email statement Monday. “They paint a negative picture of the LGBT community and in doing so make LGBT children feel they are somehow broken or less than. This has a hollowing effect on young people, as evidenced by shockingly high suicide rates among transgenders. Nearly half of transgender youth are reported to have contemplated taking their own lives. We must continue to rise to the challenge of the anti-LGBT movement. If you believe in equal, fundamental human rights for LGBT people, then it’s time to be vocal. Let it be known.”

The group recentlyÂ traveled to Antarctica and planted LGBT equality flags in the snow, among penguins, artfully declaring it the first LGBT-friendly continent.



HB2 has fostered national outrage, and is the direct cause of Bruce Springsteen canceling his concert in Greensboro last week. The new law has also cost the state well over 1000 new jobs, from companies like Paypal, Lionsgate Studios, and local North Carolina based internet marketing firm Red Ventures, to name a few.

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Images via Planting Peace