[2][3][4] Founded at the 1993 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's (NGLTF) Creating Change Conference in Durham, North Carolina, SONG integrates work against homophobia into freedom struggles in the South.

[1] Together with Matt Foreman, then executive director of NGLTF, Carter was one of the two gay and lesbian people to speak at the 2003 Lincoln Memorial Rally for the 40th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

[2][5] She sits on the boards and/or advisory committees of Durham's Ladyslipper Music, Equality Michigan, Vermont-based Kopkind Colony,[1] and Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance.

[6] In 2012, along with Chicana historian Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez and peace activist Matt Meyer, Carter co-edited We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America, which Maya Angelou called "so needed...in this age and this climate of political posturing and posing.

"[7] Carter was given the 2006 Spirit of Justice Award from Boston's Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) for her work on LGBT civil rights in the United States.