Archive for the ‘LGBT’ Category


Pride Charlotte this weekend. Party time baby.

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Originally posted at Q-Notes' InsideSource blog Pride Charlotte is this weekend. The Q-Notes staff and I are expecting to see you at the day festival on Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Uptown's Gateway Village. But did you know the weekend was full of partying, too? Friday night beckons the beginning ...

DADT flashback: Greensboro 2006

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Today Congress will hold the first hearing on the anti-gay "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy since its passage in 1993. The hearing is at 2 p.m. and can be watched live via the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network website. Until then, let's take a trip down memory lane, to Sept. 21, 2006, Greensboro, ...

More details in ‘S.C. is so gay’ ad controversy - Brit execs say state officials are lying?

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Yeah... it pretty much sounds as though British advertising execs Ian Johnson (Out Now Consulting) and Andrew Roberts (Amro Worldwide), who've spoken extensively with Q-Notes, are calling South Carolina government officials liars. According to Q-Notes, Johnson and Roberts say that South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism (SCPRT) officials made ...

Ripped to shreads: Renzi gets Crain’d

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I've always had a good bit of respect for Chris Crain, former Washington Blade/SoVo editor and partner in Window Media. Of course that isn't saying I've always agreed with him, but I have had admiration for the part he played in creating a power-house of a media company. Back in May, ...

BREAKING: S.C. Gov. issued directive for “SC so gay” ad cancellation, Brit ad exec speaks to U.S. media

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

QNotes (Charlotte, NC), the Carolinas' LGBT multimedia news source (disclosure: I'm employed as editor) is reporting that the directive to cancel the "South Carolina is so gay" London gay pride advertising campaign came straight from the office of S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford: When South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford learned that his ...

Denver Daily offers follow-up on anti-gay hit piece

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

I posted yesterday about The Denver Daily News' hit piece on gay parents and their kids. Denver's gayzetteblog.com has done a great job covering the news. GLAAD and other gay groups jumped on it quick too. From the follow-up article: Denver psychologist Dr. Vivian Schaefer, who works closely with gay patients and ...

NC & GA on SC ’so gay’

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Spagnola, a conservative blogger from Greensboro, NC, with whom I often have my disagreements, had a hilarious post on the "South Carolina is so gay" ad flap: I can see North Carolina calling up Georgia right now: NC: "I heard that South Carolina stopped whistling Dixie and started singing Liza Minelli tunes." GA: ...

Denver Daily publishes hit piece on gay parents, kids

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Via gayzetteblog.com (Denver) we learn of an absolutely ludicrous, radical right agenda-laden hit piece on LGBT parents and their kids. Entitled, "Gay parents = gay kids? Study: Kids raised by gay folks more likely to grow up gay," The Denver Daily News article states: As many as 21 percent of homosexually parented ...

Mass. moves to open marriage, Radical Right flips

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Minutes after the Massachusetts Senate voted to repeal a 1913 law that would open same-sex marriage to out-of-state couples, the American Family Association's OneNewsNow posted an Associated Press article detailing the legislation's passage. They changed the headline (and all the words "gay" to "homosexual") to read: "BREAKING NEWS: Out-of-state homosexual 'marriages' ...

Anti-gay bi man gives it up

Monday, July 14th, 2008

David Benkof/David Bianco, who recently made waves with a string of anti-gay op-eds in gay and mainstream news publications, has decided to give up his alliance with anti-gay, radical right activists. “I no longer feel comfortable being allied with the people running the Prop. 8 campaign, and the same-sex marriage movement ...