When Greensboro Convention and Visitors Bureau President Henri Fourier got the news Monday that Boston had canceled its show in the Gate City, he said, “I thought, 'Oh boy, here we go again.’ You know the CVB and the hospitality partners in this community work very hard on getting meetings and events to come here. It's very disheartening to see them leave one, by one, by one."...

Between Bruce Springsteen, Cirque du Soleil and Boston canceling their shows, the coliseum lost nearly $200,000 in revenue....

"Our preliminary numbers, we're probably up to the $6 million in business loss, just here in Greensboro,” Fourrier said. “If you talk to the hotels in the community, that number is going to be a lot higher."

"Our mayor is president of a gay rights organization. That speaks volumes as to who we are and who we want to be, but unfortunately, we're being labeled under the state as a whole,” Fourrier said. “We have the moniker on our state that we're biggots (sic)—and that's so not North Carolina."