Author Archives: Matt
Matt, 22, is an LGBT journalist, activist and youth advocate currently living and working in Charlotte, N.C., where he serves as the Editor of Q-Notes, the Carolinas' LGBT news source. A native of Winston-Salem, N.C., Matt attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is still continuing to pursue his bachelors degree. He is the Owner & Editor of InterstateQ.com and has been active in LGBT advocacy work since the age of 14.
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Updated 6:00 p.m. EST, 10/14/2008
The first thing I thought... "They're kidding right?"
Evidently, twisting the Grace and Love of God in order to inflict pain and shame on gay and lesbian youth isn't the only think ex-gay advocates like Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX) is good at. It ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, Ex-gay, Politics, United States | 3 Comments »
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
From The LA Times:
The food fight is over.
Nearly a month ago, opponents of Proposition 8 -- which would amend the state Constitution to ban gay marriage -- started a "soft boycott" of Bolthouse Farms, among the largest producers of fresh-cut carrots in the world and the maker of juices and ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Civil Rights, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Politics, United States, Western U.S. | No Comments »
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
From The Charleston City Paper weekly blotter (h/t Gay Charleston):
A 19-year-old traveling home from a local gay bar raised an officer’s suspicions because there was an open box of wine and two empty bottles of Smirnoff Ice in the car.
I'm sure that whatever party he was heading off to sorely ...
Posted in Misc | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
I was reading one of the hundreds of blogs and websites I check out each week and ran across this blog by a gay parent working and living in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Discussing how his high school-aged son told him about a few of his acquaintances attending the NC Pride Parade ...
Posted in High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, Sexuality | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Posted in Voices from the Right | No Comments »
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Famed singer and conservative talking head Pat Boone has written a curious commentary at the rabidly anti-gay "news" website WND.com. In the "exclusive commentary," entitled, "Are you ready for a gay America?", Boone laments the loss of what he sees as his traditional America and the forthcoming "breakdown of society," ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Boy Scouts, Civil Rights, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Politics, Religion, Sexuality | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
A New York third party has laid out a bailout plan that would benefit all Americans, not just the Wall Street investors, financiers and bankers who got us in this mess to begin with.
I'm not a Wall Street or economic expert, but unlike John McCain, I at least know something ...
Posted in Democratic Party, Politics, Republican Party, United States | 7 Comments »
Friday, September 19th, 2008
My attention was drawn to an article from a Kansas TV station this morning while browsing The Washington Blade's website. A teen in a small town of about 800 people was severely beaten inside his home by a classmate who had heard rumors he was gay. The rumor was false. ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Hate Crimes, High School, LGBT, LGBT Youth, United States | 2 Comments »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Yeah... a once Raleigh native told Washington, D.C.'s Metroweekly magazine that he felt safer in Raleigh, as well as in Boston:
At the same time, Mark Hayes, another local gay man, was finding himself similarly fed up. While Perry is a Washington native, Hayes came to the District about five years ...
Posted in Anti-LGBT, Hate Crimes, LGBT, North Carolina, Politics, Raleigh, United States | No Comments »
